New MOS skin (finished)
  • Order of the Butterfly
    Order of the Butterfly
    Toto
    Posts: 268 from 2003/4/20
    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 :-D

    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 ]
  • »28.09.05 - 20:41
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
    Yokemate of Keyboards
    magnetic
    Posts: 2129 from 2003/3/1
    From: Los Angeles
    Looks cool man. Be nice to have some contrasting Silver/white buttons so its not overall to dark. Thanks

    magnetic
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  • »28.09.05 - 21:57
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  • Order of the Butterfly
    Order of the Butterfly
    klesterjr
    Posts: 196 from 2005/4/1
    I like it so far! :-)

    (They're a lot more work than they look, aren't they?)
  • »28.09.05 - 22:15
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  • Order of the Butterfly
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    cecilia
    Posts: 459 from 2003/8/30
    From: universe, milk...
    Quote:


    Toto wrote:
    I'm trying to make a new skin for MOS. I've got a little problem with transparency. See this screenshot.
    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
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  • »28.09.05 - 23:15
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  • Order of the Butterfly
    Order of the Butterfly
    Toto
    Posts: 268 from 2003/4/20
    @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
  • »28.09.05 - 23:20
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  • Order of the Butterfly
    Order of the Butterfly
    Toto
    Posts: 268 from 2003/4/20
    @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.
  • »28.09.05 - 23:26
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  • Order of the Butterfly
    Order of the Butterfly
    Toto
    Posts: 268 from 2003/4/20
    @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 ;-)
  • »28.09.05 - 23:29
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  • Order of the Butterfly
    Order of the Butterfly
    Toto
    Posts: 268 from 2003/4/20
    In the mean time I got myself a butterfly and came up with a name for this skin, Carbonix ;-)

    Here's a new screenshot.
  • »28.09.05 - 23:34
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    magnetic
    Posts: 2129 from 2003/3/1
    From: Los Angeles
    Toto

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

    magnetic
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  • Acolyte of the Butterfly
    Acolyte of the Butterfly
    Aaron
    Posts: 127 from 2003/6/14
    From: Tucson, AZ
    VERY nice! BTW, there is a switch for rounded corners on the window titlebars in SkinConfig.

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  • »29.09.05 - 01:48
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    hooligan
    Posts: 1948 from 2003/2/23
    From: Lahti, Finland
    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
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  • »29.09.05 - 03:41
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    magnetic
    Posts: 2129 from 2003/3/1
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    Hooligan

    gr8t idea!

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

    magnetic
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
    Paladin of the Pegasos
    SoundSquare
    Posts: 1213 from 2004/12/1
    From: Paris, France
    i love this skin man ! i want it i want it i want it !
  • »29.09.05 - 07:09
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  • ASiegel
    Posts: 1369 from 2003/2/15
    From: Central Europe
    @ Toto

    Quote:

    I've got a little problem with transparency. See this screenshot.


    "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.
  • »29.09.05 - 07:50
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  • Order of the Butterfly
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    Toto
    Posts: 268 from 2003/4/20
    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
  • »29.09.05 - 13:43
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  • Order of the Butterfly
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    Toto
    Posts: 268 from 2003/4/20
    I've updated the MUI preference file, download here.
  • »29.09.05 - 14:12
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  • Order of the Butterfly
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    Toto
    Posts: 268 from 2003/4/20
    Do you like blue? It's a bit darkish, gone change that later.
  • »29.09.05 - 14:53
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  • Just looking around
    Angelos
    Posts: 17 from 2003/4/6
    From: Berlin
    Hallo toto,

    the skin looks nice! :-)
    Regards,

    Angelos
  • »29.09.05 - 17:26
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  • Order of the Butterfly
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    Toto
    Posts: 268 from 2003/4/20
    @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 ]
  • »30.09.05 - 01:43
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  • scf
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    scf
    Posts: 54 from 2003/6/3
    From: Ukraine
    Toto: could you put on the web these new colored skins?
  • »30.09.05 - 11:20
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    magnetic
    Posts: 2129 from 2003/3/1
    From: Los Angeles
    yay!

    cool - especially the crazy bright ones and the grey

    magnetic
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  • »30.09.05 - 12:00
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  • Order of the Butterfly
    Order of the Butterfly
    Toto
    Posts: 268 from 2003/4/20
    @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 ]
  • »30.09.05 - 12:31
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  • Order of the Butterfly
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    Toto
    Posts: 268 from 2003/4/20
    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
  • »30.09.05 - 17:23
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
    Paladin of the Pegasos
    SoundSquare
    Posts: 1213 from 2004/12/1
    From: Paris, France
    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 !
  • »30.09.05 - 22:15
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  • Order of the Butterfly
    Order of the Butterfly
    Toto
    Posts: 268 from 2003/4/20
    The skin is finished now, i've updated the archive with an installer and a preview pic.

    Download
  • »02.10.05 - 12:08
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