Hi,

I'm trying to make a new skin for MOS. I've got a little problem with transparency. See this screenshot. The buttons in the screenshot are from the ImAZ skin, I'm gone make my own buttons.

The only thing i've done so far are the screenbar and window decorations. To do list: button's, colors, Mui prefs and more.

Hope you like it, suggestions are welcome

Cheers,
Toto

[ Edited by Toto on 2005/9/28 22:43 ]

[ Edited by Toto on 2005/9/30 19:30 ]

[ Edited by Toto on 2005/10/2 14:03 ]

Looks cool man. Be nice to have some contrasting Silver/white buttons so its not overall to dark. Thanks

magnetic

I like it so far!

(They're a lot more work than they look, aren't they?)

Quote:What format are your skins in? for transparency they should be pngs.
I think I state the obvious, but are you having trouble figurinig out how to add an alpha channel?

what are you doing, exactly

@cecilia

I'm using pngs, I made the skin in Photoshop. I guess I'm having trouble with alpha cannels then. Can you give me some pointers.

Thanks,
Toto

@magnetic

Thanks man, the white buttons klesterjr made do look nice with this skin. It's gone be a difficult to come up with something as good looking.

@klesterjr

Thanks, it really is a lot more work than I expected. Especially making the skin in different sizes. It's getting there, slowly but steady

In the mean time I got myself a butterfly and came up with a name for this skin, Carbonix

Here's a new screenshot.

Toto

Nice name nice look. However, I dont like the checkerboard background but the blue text is cool..


magnetic

VERY nice! BTW, there is a switch for rounded corners on the window titlebars in SkinConfig.

--Aaron

A hint to all skinmakers. It would be nice to have the skin in one or two other paletteflavours too. For example in my config dark grey is not an option, but the same skin in blue would suit just fine.

Maybe someone should create a small tool for this? Basicly with the following concept:

a) load skin
b) preview and adjust palette by RGB-sliders
c) save skin with new name

Hooligan

gr8t idea!

Rounded courners would be cool - one of the features of os 4 windows I like..

magnetic

i love this skin man ! i want it i want it i want it !

@ Toto

Quote:

"Window decorations" as you call them, must not have an alpha channel. You cannot define round window edges by making the corners of your window title bar graphics transparent in Photoshop.

In MorphOS 1.4.x and below, rounded window corners are defined in the skin configuration file. And while I am at it, window corners cannot be as round as in your screenshot either.

I've given up on round corners and alpha channels for now. You can download the first release here. And look
here for a screenshot. The archive also contains a mui preference file.

@hooligan
You beat me to it I allready planned different colors for my theme, it's very easy in Photoshop with Image Variations. That's how I made the active windows.

@klesterjr
Do you mind if I use the buttons from your ImAz skin? They really look good.

-toto

I've updated the MUI preference file, download here.

Do you like blue? It's a bit darkish, gone change that later.

Hallo toto,

the skin looks nice!

@angelos

Thanks man



A little update, I did some more work on my skin. There are now 6 different colors. Mayby I'll add some more colors next week. You can see a little preview here.

-toto





[ Edited by Toto on 2005/9/30 3:44 ]

Toto: could you put on the web these new colored skins?

yay!

cool - especially the crazy bright ones and the grey

magnetic

@scf
I'm working on the system colors and MUI prefs (see screenshot below). Once that is finished I'm gone release a complete package. If everything goes right it will be in a couple of days.

@magnetic
Thanks. I'm really having fun making this skin.

*

I've been experimenting with the red one and you can see a preview here and here (blue).

-toto

[ Edited by Toto on 2005/9/30 15:34 ]

You can download the first release here.

It's still not finished, but will do for now. There are 12 different skins in this release. Two versions of each color, one with standard system colors and one with matching system colors (like on the screenshots in previous post). All skins have matching MUI prefs, the CarnonixSTD prefs file can be used with the standard system color skins. Or try Carbonix.prefs wich is a bit darker.

Be carefull with the magenta and green skin, you'll only hurt your eyes! You are warned

-toto

thanks sooo much !! that's exactly the kind of skin i was missing, and i'm using it right now, i love it ! simple, modern and lovely, thanks again !

The skin is finished now, i've updated the archive with an installer and a preview pic.

Download