NOOB = What technology do I need to use in order to Accomplish this?

Hi Guys,

I've never done any graphics programming but I'm thinking about making a home screen editor for my Motorola Q. I've attached a .gif file of what the screen looks like. There are 27 different color values that the user can choose for their theme. So, obviously, if they change their font color or their button colors, I'd like to update the preview of the home screen and just color the regions they have specified.

My question is: What technologies do I need to learn in order to accomplish this? I don't have any DirectX experience. I would assume that I should be able to chop up that homescreen picture into 27 other pictures and isolate just the regions of the color I want to change. Then I would process the image substituting the user selected color for the region specified.

I hope this makes sense.

i would guess j2me with midp 2.0

No, this will be a windows app. I'll be using .net.

What I meant was... what do I need to lookup in order to show a preview of that screen as the user changes the color values. Is it alpha blending? How do I define what part of the picture I want to change (color) and then how do I accomplish that.