Help naming new skin

[WulfTheSaxon]

Hi,

I could use some help naming my new (not to mention first) skin...

Any ideas? I was thinking of something like At The Beach or Seashore.

[Dark Ninja]

a little more work on the buttons and stuff and that could be a nice skin WulfTheSaxon,
it`s lookin good

could allways try coming up with a weird name like Kerplingy,
but dont use Kerplingy cause thats allready taken but you know what i mean,

[Mr Jones]

YABSR

Yet Another Base Skin Re-colour.

[Dark Ninja]

he he
yeah,it does need more work...

[WulfTheSaxon]

Originally posted by Mr Jones
YABSR

Yet Another Base Skin Re-colour.

Yeah, it's my first skin and I'm really just trying to figure out how it all works.
+ The whole thing is made in MSpaint :P

It still looks cool though, right?

Besides, you guys did such a great job on the base skin, who could even come close to making a better one?

[Wildrose-Wally]

code:


[Text]

Normal=#00FF00 //Color of the regular text (Playlist). 

Current=#FFFFFF //Color of the current track text (Playlist). 

NormalBG=#000000 //Background for normal text (Playlist). 

SelectedBG=#0000FF //Background for the selected text (Playlist) 

MbFG=#00FF00 //Text color in thestatus bar. (video / MiniBrowser) 

MbBG=#000000 //Text background in the status bar. (video / MiniBrowser) 

Font=Arial //Font face that's used in both windows

Bad to comment the pledit text.

[WulfTheSaxon]

Originally posted by wildrose-wally

code:


[Text]

Normal=#00FF00 //Color of the regular text (Playlist). 

Current=#FFFFFF //Color of the current track text (Playlist). 

NormalBG=#000000 //Background for normal text (Playlist). 

SelectedBG=#0000FF //Background for the selected text (Playlist) 

MbFG=#00FF00 //Text color in thestatus bar. (video / MiniBrowser) 

MbBG=#000000 //Text background in the status bar. (video / MiniBrowser) 

Font=Arial //Font face that's used in both windows

Bad to comment the pledit text.

huh? I never touched the config files... those are the originals.

[StillWater]

Originally posted by WulfTheSaxon
Besides, you guys did such a great job on the base skin, who could even come close to making a better one?

You've gotta be joking!

The base skin is ugly. And just about anyone can make a more aesthetically pleasing skin if they have an ounce of creativity. Unless they just make a re-coloured version of it, of course.

To give credit where it's due, this is one of the better re-coloured base skins I've seen - the colour scheme you are using is quite nice. However, since there are still plenty of unchanged base skin elements in it (numbers, pledit area, many of the buttons), it suffers from the Frankenstein disease, as do most such skins.


Don't get me wrong, I'm all for fiddling with the base skin to learn the skin engine, as long as it's only a means, and not an end

[El-ArGeNtO]

hehe.,...is the file the original skin turned into the negative colours?? I mean he used that kind of effect??

[WulfTheSaxon]

To a certain extent, yes.
I was looking at the base skin and decided to see what it would look like inverted, so I tried it, and it looked good
For most of it though, I have had to edit it myself, the inversion was just the inspiration...

[StillWater]

hehe, I didn't even realise it was just inverted
Keep playing, though let me suggest that you drop the base skin and start playing with Skinner's Atlas instead - it's a template that all of us use to start skins from:
http://www1.1001skins.com/skin_details.html?id=2499

[Doggy Dog]

Hah, I did exactly the same thing 6 years ago. Then scrapped the sking because I thought it looked like crap.

I was 12 then.

[WulfTheSaxon]

Well, however I made it, I think it looks cool, and this is a good time to release it (first days of summer, and the skin looks like a beach)

[Dark Ninja]

i cant use skinners atlas it puts me off,
i just usuaally start with a black rectangle of the same dimensions then do somethin cool and i take it into photo shop add a layer copy and paste skinners atlas main and then just move stuff a little

btw,how do you get the damn .ZIP off the end of the finished .wsz file,
stupid xp

[Mr Jones]

Originally posted by WulfTheSaxon
Well, however I made it, I think it looks cool, and this is a good time to release it (first days of summer, and the skin looks like a beach)

Make sure you don't submit it to winamp.com it'll be rejected, we are no longer taking base skin re-colours.

[WulfTheSaxon]

Originally posted by Mr Jones
Make sure you don't submit it to winamp.com it'll be rejected, we are no longer taking base skin re-colours.

Where else can I submit a skin?

[k_rock923]

and good luck submitting it at 1k1

[StillWater]

Originally posted by Dark Ninja
btw,how do you get the damn .ZIP off the end of the finished .wsz file,
stupid xp

I use XP, and I've never had that problem. Are you trying to create a WSZ file straight from Winzip? If so, don't - just create it as a ZIP and rename it afterwards.

[Doggy Dog]

I'm not sure if Devart would take it.....

Anyway, don't expect rave, or even good reviews wherever you submit it. And, on most sites, you shouldn't expect reviews at all, it'll most likely be ignored.

[El-ArGeNtO]

I'm learning to use the Skinners atlas Skeletons! It makes skinning so quicly(specialy with a program that works with layers...)

[StillWater]

Originally posted by El-ArGeNtO
I'm learning to use the Skinners atlas Skeletons! It makes skinning so quicly(specialy with a program that works with layers...)

I can't believe you never used it before It's the only way to skin

[El-ArGeNtO]

let me tell you that it's the first time I use it (now that 've learned to work with layers, pretty useful)