OK BRANIAC NOW WHAT??

Published on February 5, 2007 By ToxicTranceChamber In WindowBlinds

K I downloaded it

so now what should I do?

Comments (Page 9)

121

ToxicTranceChamber

on Mar 13, 2007

do I have to save it as .skin or something to be able to open it in ss?

122

ToxicTranceChamber

on Mar 13, 2007

I had also made another one with rounded corners, well how do I cut it up w/o having some of the white background in it? The other one was easy b/c it did'nt have rounded corners...

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I.R. Brainiac

on Mar 13, 2007

save the individual pieces somewhere as separate images and open whatever skin you are working on and import your graphics for each section by browsing to them.

Rounded corners have to be magic pink for regular windows and translucent .tga's or .png.s for per pixel.(your pieces have to be on a transparent background...not white.

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I.R. Brainiac

on Mar 13, 2007

You can drop your image on a magic pink background and the corners will be pink.

Watch for antialiased corners on magic pink...you will get partially pink edges.

125

I.R. Brainiac

on Mar 13, 2007

You should always start any graphic on a transparent background...a layer by itself on the bottom...if you dont have one...add a new blank layer and drag it to the bottom of the layer list.

126

ToxicTranceChamber

on Mar 14, 2007

What r u talkin about pink?? lol

127

ToxicTranceChamber

on Mar 15, 2007

Ok I started over on a transparent background, here's the preview

I also saved each individual piece on a transparent background as a layer, is that right??

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I.R. Brainiac

on Mar 15, 2007

yes...put all the pieces in a skin and you have the beginnings of a start menu.

Magic pink is for non per pixel window frames...you will have to have them even if the main window frames are per pixel...but we are getting ahead of ourselves...Start menus can always be per pixel now.

129

ToxicTranceChamber

on Jul 19, 2007

Ok, I'm gonna try this again now that I have more time

Here's what I got now (its all merged here bc I made it a jpeg but I have another one saved in pieces)

130

ToxicTranceChamber

on Jul 19, 2007

Oh and what extemsion do I give them to be able to open them in ss?

131

2of3

on Jul 19, 2007

I'm keeping an eye on this post/tut for when I start on my next WB. I had to find out all this stuff by myself, and realize that I've been doing a lot of things the hard way! A great read for a WB newbie!

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I.R. Brainiac

on Jul 19, 2007

save the pieces as either .bmp,.png or .tga

Bitmap if the image is totally opaque or is using the magic pink for transparency.

png or tga(32bit)if the image needs translucency(like to be see thru or have a drop shadow)

133

ToxicTranceChamber

on Jul 23, 2007

Ok so I am still a little confused how many pieces should I have all together besides the ones in the pic?

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I.R. Brainiac

on Jul 23, 2007

thats all,except for the all progs arrow(a seperate 3 state image) and the menu mouseover(a 2 state image)

oh,and logoff/shutdown buttons

135

ToxicTranceChamber

on Jan 15, 2010

Wel its been a long time since I 1st posted this and got side tracked by college (graphic design) but due to that I think that I can better do this now I also noticed that SS is alot different now!

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