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4.2 Theory
The banner and Background should provide a similar feel to the one that the song creates. This provides greater harmony. No, I cannot describe how to do this, you just have to experiment to get it. This means don't photoshop some tie dye bullcrap for a dark song. Likewise, don't make a black BG for speedcore rave.

4.3 BG
Generally 640x480. The top and bottom 50 pixels or so are cut off by the top and bottom of the screen, so try to keep any text from drifting into that area unless you want it to be covered up after the bars come in.

4.4 Banner
256x80. Always have a banner, that way when people take screenshots it identifies your song. Also, always put the name of the song in the banner.

Uhhhh... I dont know how you get the BG and banner to work. I tried using add/edit bg change, that made it too small and it didn't appear right away. I tried editing the sm or dwi (or whichever has the bg/banner strings). Yet despite this, I have everything else. The pic's in the folder, yet it still continues to show the default stepmania bg. It should work, being a jpg file... I don't know what's wrong.