Another one.... tips wanted! :) ... "Chrome Claw"....

[-=RoNtZ=-]

Hey guys ..
it's been a while since my last skin, and now i've got a new concept ...
but just a concept. i neither have any idea how the buttons will look like, nor do i have any clue where to put them. any ideas?
pleaaassee help me! *g*
sure, other tips/CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICS are welcome,too!!!


[edit] The display is blue for now, but there gonna be several color themes! [/edit]

That's an awesome start. I really like the design of it, it's nice and clean. You should consider putting the play buttons beneath the display, and the secondary controls on the lefthand side, next to the display. I'd hate to see that cool exterior blemished by buttons though. You should get really crazy and design some animated layers to cover the buttons, like Frisbee did with soundwave. (That's if the reviewers decide to allow it despite the hidden buttons) That'd be a cool, original idea.

C'est un début impressionnant. J'aime vraiment la conception d'elle, elle est gentille et propre. Vous devriez considérer mettre les boutons de jeu sous l'affichage, et les commandes secondaires du côté à gauche, à côté de l'affichage. Je détesterais pour voir qu'extérieur frais endommagé par des boutons cependant. Vous devriez devenir vraiment fou et concevoir quelques couches animées pour couvrir les boutons, comme le frisbee a fait avec le soundwave. (qu'est à dire si les critiques décident de le permettre en dépit des boutons cachés) That'd soit une idée fraîche

Der ist ein ehrfürchtiger Anfang. Ich mag wirklich das Design von ihm, ist es nett und sauber. Sie sollten die, Spieltasten unter der Anzeige und die Sekundärkontrollen auf die linke Seite, nahe bei der Anzeige zu setzen betrachten. Ich würde hassen, zu sehen daß das kühle Äußere, das zwar durch Tasten verunstaltet wurde. Sie sollten wirklich verrückt werden und einige lebhafte Schichten zu entwerfen, um die Tasten, wie Frisbee zu bedecken tat mit soundwave. (das ist, wenn die Rezensenten entscheiden, es trotz der versteckten Tasten zu erlauben), ist That'd eine kühle, ursprüngliche Idee.

[thepyr0x]

First, that bevel is quite high....think ya might wanna tone it down some?

Second, there is seemingly a border around the bevel....looks tres bad

[chiquita chad]

learn how to crop your images

That's cute, flatnick, but I'd imagine that everybody here already knows about translation websites. Nice though, I love being internationalized. You should consider hiring yourself out as a translator for ppl. Just follow them around on threads and translate their posts. You'd make a killing, right along with the battery guy.

[-=RoNtZ=-]

the pyrox: i'll try to tone the bevel a bit down, but to be honest, i like it as it is at the moment. and the border... i just can't get rid of it... i really tried hard, but that is the best result I could geet out of this... (i don't say it wouldn't be possible!)

chiquita chad: what do u mean exactly? i wasn't sure what crop meant, so i tried google again... and he tells me the german word for grain.. very usefull *g* ....perhaps it means sth like cut out? do u mean the borders,too?

i think i gonna redo the whole thing perhaps. in a higher resolution... and scale it down later...

[thepyr0x]

To kill the border, try doing load selection on the main layer, then select > contract; contract by 1 or 2 pixels, then select > inverse and push delete

[-=RoNtZ=-]

yes, that would be no prob, i know, but i want it there, but i want it clean. then it'd look cool, i think.

[-=RoNtZ=-]

ok, figured out some styles... what do u guys ALL think??

[PhotoFx]

the upper right i like the best.

as for the buttons, i'd try and see if you could make a lcd pannel somewhere (possibly retractable) for them... i don't think they'll show up well on the metal surface.

[Dynamik]

Very nice, Would be nice if you had a way to change the styles like color themes! play Buttons should be in the display w/any other buttons you need to add functionality to slide out on a drawer or somethin.

[-=RoNtZ=-]

Originally posted by Dynamik
...Would be nice if you had a way to change the styles like color themes...

i'll do my very best ... i hope that i'll get it.

Originally posted by Dynamik
...play Buttons should be in the display w/any other buttons you need to add functionality to slide out on a drawer or somethin.

had that idea, too, but i don't know if that's really such a good idea... but i'll try

[PJay Tycy]

I like the upper-right the most

I think you should make the corners rounded at the right side.

[-=RoNtZ=-]

hey guys! what do u think about the second display and the rounded corners?

[VooDoo`]

woooow, i like the crome

[thepyr0x]

-=RoNtZ=-...this looks really nice

try to take this as objectively as possible though

could you really see yourself using this skin day in and day out on your desktop?

[-=RoNtZ=-]

Vodoopower: *g* .. i have a mostly finished chrome-skin on my page

Originally posted by thepyr0x
-=RoNtZ=-...this looks really nice

try to take this as objectively as possible though

could you really see yourself using this skin day in and day out on your desktop?

dunno *g* ... perhaps... the matter is how the buttons look later...

the lower right version is the best i think ...

[-=RoNtZ=-]

anything else? i think, i gonna kill that ring below the lower lcd. just not looking good.

[iPlayTheSpoons]

that would be my suggestion...its too thin for the effects youre using, better to just get rid of it. but its really slick looking and the display has huge promise

[qlimo]

Hi! That's a really good theme for a skin, like that. Although, the name claw fits to the design, and the effort to make a minimalistic skin is evident, it is small a bit. I'd change the shape a bit and find the place for the control elements, play a bit with the LCD. Btw, the idea of the drawer is nice . Good luck! qlimo

[-=RoNtZ=-]

hey guys!
small update ... the button on the right is for the drawer.
hm.. qlimo, i plan to put the controlbuttons in the drawer...

[-=RoNtZ=-]

whooopsie!forgot the attachment!

[iPlayTheSpoons]

...but, maybe redo the shine on the drawer? looks kinda wierd

[-=RoNtZ=-]

hm... what do u mean exactly? the "glass-reflection" or the lover shine in the glass?

[iPlayTheSpoons]

the reflection...the one on the main part looks really good, but the drawer shine looks off

[-=RoNtZ=-]

"...as u wish, master!" ... *g*
better now?

[thepyr0x]

Originally posted by chiquita chad
learn how to crop your images

[iPlayTheSpoons]

haha, shape fits btter....maybe blur the edges a bit more? eh, im tired

[-=RoNtZ=-]

hehehe... which edges? reflection or whole shape?

@ all who mean i should "learn how to crop my images":
perhaps u should FIRST explain, what u mean with "crop" as i don't know the word. i hope i don't have to tell that one more time again. i thought the first time should have been enough.

[thepyr0x]

ah, sorry

yes by crop we mean take out the borders

these images you are posting are like these really big pictures, and half of them are just some texture you like to put the skin over. Not the most welcome thing for us on dialup.

[-=RoNtZ=-]

*g* ok.. thx a lot! .. gonna remember that in the future

[qlimo]

Well, it would be very nice (in my opinion) if the claw was a bit more compact, I mean if the LCD was not cut into it but if the claw was nice rounded wit some glass covering it (LCD) to make it look like a compact claw with a built in LCD, he?

[-=RoNtZ=-]

now, i'm totally puzzled! i didn't get what u mean at all! *g*

[qlimo]

He, sorry... Leave it as it is. I'll inform you when I will be able to express my feelings in a more understandable way .
In any case, if you want to put your control elements into the drawer, try to play with its shape a bit, because now it looks like an ordinary Thinger or EQ drawer. E.g. I'd change its background to make it look different than the LCD ...
P.S.: Forgive me my undesribeable ideas . Good luck!

[Asseman]

Can't help wonder if i perhaps inspired you to the claw idea with my zectichoplayer Claws rule!

[-=RoNtZ=-]

nope, u didn't .. claw was as far as it is at the moment, before i saw zeti... (what's its name again.. funny difficult *g*) .. btw way... what about the coding now?

hey qlimo.. evrything's cool .. thx for support! hm.. don't wanna change the shape though... and that's why i gotta put my playcontrols in the second lcd

[-=RoNtZ=-]

Oookkk.. i'm redoing this skin now.
but i have a prob: i included rpc's opacity-changer-script and finally got it workin'.the prob is: everytime i close the skin, it gives me a failure-notification and the skin isn't the actual skin when u open wa3 again. any ideas?
(sorry for my bad english.. i'm VERY tired!)