Balatro

Balatro

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Create your own deck art for dummies
By SuddenDe4th
Balatro might not have a workshop with custom art for your deck of cards, but look no further. You can make it yourself! It's super easy, barely an inconvience.
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How to get started


To create your own fancy art of Waifu's we are going to need a few things:

1. 7-zip, a free archive extraction tool https://7-zip.org/
2. Image editing software that respects transparancy backgrounds like photoshop or Gimp
3. Very basic image editing skills, which could be supplemented by Youtube. Search for removing backgrounds.
4. Pixel art
5. Coffee

This Google search shows a few examples of instruction videos that will teach you how to remove backgrounds and copy your waifu's to another image
Extracting the necessary files
Navigate to your Balatro local files

Now right click on Balatro.exe and choose to open archive as a 7-zip archive

Go to folder Resources\Textures\2x (*)

Extract all the files to a temporary folder on your desktop where you will them
(8BitDeck.png is the main image that we are going to work with, but if you're ambitious you could also alter Joker or Tarot images, and basically any icon in the game)

* Check your settings in Balatro if you are using "Pixal Art Smoothing" if yes choose 2x. If no choose the 1x files
Thanks for User R, in the comment section, for pointing this out







Time to start editing

Open 8BitDeck.png and the pixel art file in your image editing software

Remove the background from your own art, select that layer and copy it to the 8BitDeck.png file

You have to delete the original art. Resize your own art in the available space for the each card


This is how it looks like before making any changes



This is what it will look like after removing the original art and placing your own. Use the numbers or letters of the cards to determine the maximum size of your art for each card




Replacing the original deck of cards with your own
Navigate to Balatro's local files and use 7-zip to open Balatro.exe as an archive just like step 1

Now copy your new made deck 8BitDeck.png to folder Resources\Textures\2x, replacing the original file

Close the archive and let's start up Balatro to see if it works. Just start a new run and open your deck preview in the bottom right corner.

(If you're unsure if you got the right file or are going the right direction, just change a color of 1 card from the 8BitDeck.png file and replace the original. Open Balatro and check if the color changed.)


And there we go



Congratulations!


Now that you know how, send me all your carefully crafted waifu decks!
41 Comments
12n00by21 4 Jun @ 2:16pm 
I did it as followed and it worked fine, but the top of the cards are all glitching out for some reason. Solution?
SeSebasti 31 May @ 1:35pm 
good tutorial, but you can also use Steamodded's [github.com] native Deck Skin functionality and not edit any of the game files. Also check out my Deck Skins List [docs.google.com], currently working on a video tutorial on how to install and create deck skin mods.
ARKYmouse 11 May @ 8:53am 
@TogaDella Provided you get the MacOS console version of 7zip, and have some kind of image-editing software, it should be doable, yes. So long as you know what you're doing with both programs of course.
TogaDella 3 May @ 5:48am 
is it possible to do this on mac?
Hithere 25 Apr @ 9:52pm 
Also- thanks for the cool guide!
Hithere 25 Apr @ 9:52pm 
I was gonna make a pitch meeting reference but I see a LOT of people have already beat me to it, so I'll need you to get ALL the way off my back about this.
Naradoxy 13 Apr @ 9:53am 
Works perfectly! Thanks! also I didn't know 7z could open exes like that lol
Kotik-Narkotik 10 Apr @ 1:01pm 
'merica moment
you balatro cannot be just "balatro", .exe is windows system file format for executable, it's can be just not showing up due to settings in your file explorer
graysonkarnell 23 Mar @ 3:52pm 
My balatro is not a .exe, its just "Balatro"
ElKoita 22 Feb @ 7:07pm 
Hello, I followed all the steps but when adding the modified .pngs, if I press the "Add" option I get the error "The operation is not absorbed for this folder" and it also does not let me drag the .pngs to their corresponding folders, how can I solve this?