Please Help

[zain88]

K sorry but, i'm a n000000b at making skins. I need some serious help. Anyways, I want to make the volume BUTTON transparent. I wanna make it transparent so I could see whats behind the button. So how do I do it?

Please go step - by - step.

Thanks
Help ASAP.

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[e-raser]

in the vol bar bmp the button apear on the bottom of the image.
all you have to do is crop the bottom of the bmp off, right where the buttons end. if you crop only half of the buttons off you get a cool effect where you see some of the button but also see behind in the lower half of the vol bar. hope this helps

[skinme!]

Step by step. Basically as e-raser said you want to cut the bottom off. Use your program to resize the image to 420 tall by 68 wide pixels. Note: do not stretch / squash the image, cut the bottom off. In PSP for example you would want the Canvas Resize tool not the Resize tool.

[zain88]

THANKS A LOT PPL...OMG I DONT KNOW HOW TO THANK YOU GUYS!!!

THANKS ONCE AGAIN.
U GUYS R THE BEST:up: :up: :)

[skinme!]

That's ok. We're here to help and to poke fun at each other. Welcome to skinlove / Winamp2 skins.

BTW, all caps is considered shouting and might give people the wrong idea. ;)

[zain88]

But wait, one more question poped-up in my head. And that is, how do I only make a PART of the volume button transparent?

Thanks.

[cyana]

This is a bit cumbersome but doable ;)
you must completely crop the volume button as skinme! and e-raser already mentioned. Then you paint the button into the animation frames of volume.bmp, slide by slide. The skin in my sig uses this technique, if you want/need to have an idea what I'm talking about

[zain88]

What....I dont get it.

So...like....what should i do....I'll give u a screenshot.

Note: I have croped the Volume Button.

[cyana]

not quite what I thought you have in mind ;) but yup something like that ... again, d/l this skin (http://www.winamp.com/components/detail.jhtml?componentId=83376) and look at volume.bmp and balance.bmp then you'll understand ;)

[zain88]

k, I downloaded the skin, and it downloaded as a winamp extension installation file...in othere words, when i downloaded it, the files didn't come with it.

[cyana]

you must rename the .wsz extension to .zip and unzip the file ;)

[skinme!]

Or if you have WinZip 8 or 9beta, they will recognise WSZs as ZIPs. How convenient. (Down with PKWare :D)

[J_Bloggs]

7-zip (http://www.7-zip.org/) does as well, and they have thier own compression format thats pretty damn good.

[Mr Jones]

Originally posted by skinme!
Or if you have WinZip 8 or 9beta, they will recognise WSZs as ZIPs. How convenient. (Down with PKWare :D)

I'll give you that, it is very convenient, they also take .wal's as well, but I still like to do that final compression with years old PKzip, always found it to give better compression.

What were we talking about again?

[StillWater]

Originally posted by zain88
But wait, one more question poped-up in my head. And that is, how do I only make a PART of the volume button transparent? I don't see why you would need to. Once you crop out the sliders, you can draw in the slider (or whichever parts of it you wish) yourself on the actual body of the volume.bmp

Also, when working with cropped sliders, it's a good idea to use the volume.bmp included in skinners' atlas - it shows you precisely where the slider is in all 28 frames - so you know where to draw your slider in: http://www.1001winampskins.com/skin_details.html?id=2499

If this doesn't make sense, then revert to one of the golden rules of skinning: if you don't know how to do it, but you've seen it done, open up a skin that does it, and see how they did it! simple - and if you still aren't sure, draw on the BMP of that skin and see how your drawing affects the skin.

[Mr_007]

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