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Major Dude
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finnaly going to make a winamp3 skin
this is my initial sketch for my first wa3 skin called eYe. if there are any elements i'm forgetting or something you think is missing tell me now so when i start to do this one in photoshop i dont endup redesigning it 20 time (though i fell like thats probably going to happen anyhow
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#3 |
Major Dude
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like everything i do, its been influenced be recent things i saw and thought. it happens to be that i saw a cool lookig mini-hifi in a magazin with an orange circuel as a lcd with a long fertical cd slot comming down form it. this was my first instparation to make this skin. second was hal 9000. cant say that i have sceen vags "macheye" but it could get hard to make compleatly unique skins around here with vag posting a new idea every week..lol
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#4 |
has no CT
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its too big for me. :-/
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#6 |
Major Dude
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dont worry, much smaller in actual fact, just a sketch remember..and its easyer freehand to draw technical things largly so it will be 50% of this size once i get my hands on it in photoshop
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#7 |
Major Dude
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i fell out of place here....
![]() well i'll get used to this new way of life in the fast lian. i=and if i feel home sick i always have the winamp 2 skin lovin fourms to go back to ![]() |
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#8 |
Major Dude
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Washington State
Posts: 1,133
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Looks like a real good design. I am curious what you can do in PS.
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#9 | |
Major Dude
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Quote:
![]() hey e-raser: welcome to the forums from my side, too! ![]() about the skin: i think, u don't really need the speakers. Frozen skins: Gravestone Betaskins: Mushroom ::-:: The Claw In development: TechnodropFinished: Draculas Helmet (<-- still waiting for some color themes!) ::-:: Hal's eye |
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#10 |
Major Dude
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Posts: 1,311
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"Just wellcome to the Winamp3 Skinning world."
I wait for the first digital Sketch of your skin befor i say something. my skins: Nokia 3650, Spiderman Freeform, M3 (Manual), Simpsons Freeform(Idea, Coding), Freeamp Metaskins: WooHoo-FER , Ar-7 |
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#11 |
Major Dude
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i agree, speakers would ruing the slick look of this baby. but i want some imput for where the eq/thinger can go? any ideas
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#12 |
Major Dude
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heres a better idea of what the skin will look like, this comp was done in illustrator
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#13 |
Major Dude
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Washington State
Posts: 1,133
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If the edges were rounded more i think that you would have a better feel to it.
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#14 |
Major Dude
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ummm, maybe, just how round can i get without losing the squareness aswell. ill play around with oit abit more
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#16 |
Major Dude
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also dont like the lcd.....i'm going to have to look at some tutorials on glass and things of that nature, anyone have a good totorial for a spherical glass?
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#17 |
The Shark
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This seems to be a good tutorial: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/114392
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#18 |
Major Dude
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like the effect but do you know anything with a hell of alot more shine
(interesting that it was made by regener8ed....just in he middle or remixing his skin for the 1001winamp skin contest ![]() |
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#19 |
Major Dude
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also what to start this on the right foot, for color presets, you obviusly need seprate lyers for the highlights and glass and anyhting that can have different colors from one and another. is it as symple as it there is a transperent "white-black gradient" shine on a metal backround and you change the b/w gradeent to color gradients in preset?
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#20 |
The Shark
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No, you can't really change the individual gradient colours, it basically flattens another layer at a choosable color over your layer.
http://robouk.mchost.com/tuts/tutori...al=smoothmetal |
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#21 |
Major Dude
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thanks for the info....will need more explaining on how then one goes ahead to designing color presets
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#23 |
Major Dude
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cool, so infact i should just make the skin, then make masks for the areas i want different colors for. this it?
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#24 |
Major Dude
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k, more info needed. i notice that there are translucent glass element put ontop of text and other images. is this simply a image i make the has transperency in it and save it as a png. or do i need weird masks and stuff to do this. also interested in graphicaly how i make sliding elements, are they just images which are place by layer (in the coding) under another image and by this they are hidden from sight untill called for?
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#25 |
Major Dude
Join Date: Jan 2002
Posts: 1,778
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With the glass effect, the transparency can ether be in the png file or you can use the alpha="0 to 255" tag in the code. With the transparency in the png file method, it can of course have alpha transparencie, and using the alpha tag you can affect it though code. You can use both, say use the alpha in the png file to make light shining effects since that requires different levels of transparency, and then you can use the alpha tag and some MAKI to let people tone down (or up) the amount of glass there is.
With sliding elements, yes they do work like that. Also, you can make them 'disappear' so that if it is bigger than you can fit under some other layer, you can sets it's alpha to 0, making it invisable, and you can set it's ghost to 1 making it unclickable. In both cases code wise you are just working with a layer, it's how you work with it that matters. ![]() ¯¯¯¯Joe Bloggs____ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ |
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#26 |
Major Dude
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great, i think i'm now ready to start making this thing....just have to finnish my remix skin and i'll be off into the wa3 world once and forall.
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#27 |
Member
Join Date: May 2003
Location: India
Posts: 98
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gr8 design and layout
infact the layout reminds me of some kinda MiniDv camera...isn't it? i think u should post some new screenshots of the progress. |
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#28 |
Major Dude
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well i'm all swamped workin on my winamp 2 skin for the remixing contest, which has a 400$ mp3 player for the grand prize so i'm sorta putting this on the side for now...i think you can all understand why
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#29 |
Major Dude
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i think i'll be done with that skin in a week, so i'll have some shots of this skin ready in about 2 weeks from now... stay tuned
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#30 |
Major Dude
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here is a small update, after thinking for awhile i realized why the hell should i make a glass orb from a tutorial, i have never comprimized my creativity befor, so here is what i came up with useing just different types of drop shadows and a bit of high light for the lcd
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#31 |
Major Dude
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here is some further work in the lcd area
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#32 |
Major Dude
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whoops, forgot the attachment
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#33 |
Major Dude
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i'm done for the night, just getting the finnishing tuches on the lcd area. here is where it all stands
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#34 |
Sunshine
(Major Dude) Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Brisvegas, Australia
Posts: 1,248
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to me the thing that lets it down is the area around the lcd. its too...plain and simple if u get what i mean. other than that i love it - if only i was that good.
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#35 |
Major Dude
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dont worry, more is along the way, its getting crazyer and crazyer by the min., there will be loads more in layers and effects and textures to come.
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#36 |
Banned
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 2,838
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Great lcd skin!
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#37 |
Forum King
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Nov 1978
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it almost looks like it wants to be some sort of neo-cathedral themed skin (that would be awesome)
Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny. All my skins: @ winamp.com @ 1K1WS @ Deviantart.com My latest Flash Project: BreathingEarth.net |
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#38 |
Major Dude
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being that i'm jewish i'm not sure it this is going to be making this into a cross
![]() on another note, cool idea. see the division in the lcd, well each menu will have the lcd slid away to show another layer beneath. top layer (show here) is the vis area, next in song info and track time, even though i have yet to post the alterations, below that it will slid away to exposs the eq area. cool ![]() boy i'm realy getting into this freeforming skinning stuff ![]() |
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#39 |
Major Dude
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![]() enjoy the progress, what do you guys think about a blue glow beneath the lcd area? |
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