New skin help

[coffee]

Coffee,

Great job on the new graphics!! The only think that might look a little better is not having E-Touch on every button, takes away from the look, but great job. Can you look into possibly doing some graphical buttons like "Hot Hit" with fire, and some other graphical buttons. I think that would give a skin a cool look. Barry, how hard would it be to allow animated .gif images for button. A Hot Hits button with animated fire would look pretty cool.

Here is the link to the Black and Blue Popup skin I did awhile back

Black and Blue Menu Pop-Up

1024x768
http://www.iamkizer.net/freeboxjukebox/files/skins/V4skins/Updated Skins/Black_and_Blue_PopUp_V5_2 (1024x768).zip

I'm not sure if it will work 100% with the current version, but too much hasn't changed. It may give you an idea of what needs to be updated.

Hi Eist

Thanks for the link. Very good work. This is what I had in mind and it seems to work just fine.

Thanks again.
Coffee

[coffee]

Rather than changing the top left pixe i suggest putting at least a 1 pixel border around the button using a colour not used on the button. This gives a better look than just doing the top corner and also allows for non square buttons. Really you want the whole button background removed, these buttons will then look better (I.E. not have a black background) on the screens where fan art is used.

I don't know how to do it with a batch file though i'm afraid.

Hi Barry
I sovled my problem. I got a batch image overlay program and it did the trick.

Coffee

[Barcrest]

Excellent, saved a lot of work then 

[coffee]

Hi Barry

Excellent, saved a lot of work then 

You can't imagine. Making 201 buttons per skin and multiply that with 5 for the colours is no easy or quick task. I am so happy.

Coffee

[coffee]

Hi All

I'm nearly finished with the skins I'm doing. Here's a little taster.











Coffee

[fordman]

I really like them alot!

The only critique that I have is the 'E-Touch' on every button.

Other than that, I Think they look GREAT!



Fordman

[Novalak]

I sovled my problem. I got a batch image overlay program and it did the trick.

Coffee

whats that? details?

[coffee]

Hi Fordman and Novalak

I really like them alot!

The only critique that I have is the 'E-Touch' on every button.

Other than that, I Think they look GREAT!



Fordman

This is not new skins, they are only redos of the current skin with new graphics. This was only a trail for me as it was my first skins and the next ones won't have any E-touch logos on the buttons.

I sovled my problem. I got a batch image overlay program and it did the trick.

Coffee

whats that? details?

When I finished all the buttons I saw it didn't look very nice because I haven't changed the colour of the top left pixel. I got an images overlay program and overlayed a GIF images with a single pixel over all the buttons and it did the trick.

Coffee

[Novalak]

When I finished all the buttons I saw it didn't look very nice because I haven't changed the colour of the top left pixel. I got an images overlay program and overlayed a GIF images with a single pixel over all the buttons and it did the trick.

Coffee

what program?

[coffee]

Hahahahaha...... Sorry

Batch It Ultra v3.9891