Hooloovoo

[~Supey]

bleah

this is a new skin...
zowwee

it's blue
and metally

there's something about ti I don't quite like, but I dunno what it is...

any suggestions are welcome

btw if you don't know what a Hooloovoo is, it's a super-inteligent shade of blue. go read The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series by Douglas Adams

oh yesh...there are a few bits of transparency at the top

[Atmo]

Looks good supey...i think the grey (rock??) area needs texture tho...

[~Supey]

I had texture on them, but I decided I like it cleaner better

[nøva]

I like the design, but the colors really stand out from each other. I guess its alright, but in my messed up eyes they dont look right together. But good work, maybe if you made the blue a bit darkerish, and the grey (as surgested) with a darker texture, it mite look better. But then again, its fully up to you, its your skin!

[nøva]

My bad, i looked at it again, and its not the background blue, that looks cool, its the bright blue in some areas. it just shines into my eyes. i think its too bright for that skin. maybe make it a bit dimmer? but whichever, my input

[~Supey]

I wasn't sure I liked the bright blue, and the more I look at it the more I don't like it...so I'm going to change it

[nøva]

Alright cool. I think it would fit in great if its a dimmer blue. Glad you like my idea tho. And btw... if i ever make a negativish comment about your skins, it doesnt mean i dont like em, just saying my prospective on how to improve them. But dont get mad or anything, do as you like, its your skin, your imagination, and i guess you wouldnt post your works in progress if you arnt ready to recieve a little critisims from me hehe, dont mind me...
and plz post an ss when u got that fixed, this skin i like

[~Supey]

Originally posted by Nova3d
this skin i like

that's never happened before...there must be some sort of problem...eddies in the space time continuum or something (hey! where'd that Chesterfield sofa come from?). don't worry tho, if we ignore it it will go away eventually and everyone will return to hating my skins

I took out the bright blue and added some more cracks
I'm pretty much hating the top right now...I think maybe if I yell and stare at enough it will go away...
until then, any suggests to make it go away faster?

[nøva]

Lets see...*rubs chin* ... i like the blue much more now... doesnt kill my eyes no more...and fits in with the rest. But i do have one sudgestion... the dark blue/purplish background downt exactly blend together with the rocks... the colours are just too far appart to match... if you think so too here are 2 solutions: easiest one:: change the color to a greyish blue, or arround the grey rock shade it from grey to the purple/blue. so its a smooth gradient. Either that, or go Grey for the top layer, and then a blue, with blackish shadows from the rocks... otherwise, looks good. But, thats what i would do... your choice what u wana do...

PS: i got the main done for my 2nd skin. Its darker, and in no way at all resembles the default skin expecting to post it for checking by my hero atmo later next week...hehe

[~Supey]

I don't really understand what you mean...

in the bottom left there's a darker blue outlline, kidna like a drop shadow, around the rock/metal/whatever thing...I was gonna do that everywhere else, but I forgot. I'll do it tomarrow...I'm tired...*looks at clock* no wonder I'm tired. good night. *falls over onto keyboard, asleep*

[Spectrus_Wolfus]

the idea looks great but maybe some drop shadows on from the rock to the blue and a concrete style of textur to the rock would make it stand out a little less and give it a 3d style of effect so that it isn't just sitting on the blue its above the blue sort of thing and looks less like brand ne concrete and more weathered as the cracks in it would imply.just my 2 cents worth but if you was going to make the concrete look older you might have to roughin up the blue a bit to make it looked aged as well.
what programe are you using for your graphic work ?

[nøva]

Hey supey, trully sorry, but im not very good with describing my imagination. Here is what i meant by my idea:



:: Description ::

Here is what I think you should do with the blue. Make it a fairly dark blue, I used '0,1,93' in my example. Then the farther from the 'rocks' the blue gets, the lighter it becomes. The lightest my example was is '4,0,181'. Then use the smudge tool, or if you use MSPain-in-the-ass[t], try make a smooth gradient. Ofcourse this is just a sudgestion of mine witch i think would greatly improve the skin and give it a good defining depth. As i noted before, a third dimension, or anything that resembles it in a skin will get bonus points from me . Your should also work a bit on the rock. The only reason im giving you so much advice is because i think this is seriously my favourite 'main' design. If you could give it some depth, and nice color gradient with all the colors matching up, and finish the rest of the skin with the same design, it will for sure be in my top 10. Dead serious I really hope you finish it and dont skrap it.

G/L Finishing it up!!

piece out!

[skinme!]

Nice skin here, Supey - one of your better ones in my tastes. I like the sensible use of transparency and the clean looking design.

[PeaceMaker]

this isn't really concerned about your skin, but mspaint skins doesn't really grab much attention [to me], there's something that says words along the lines of mspaint is much like skinner skins, most are.... keep up ur good effort though.

[bobo]

i like the metal parts. not sure i like the "hooloovoo" tho maybe i will eventually so um, good skin

[StillWater]

Originally posted by ~Supey
I had texture on them, but I decided I like it cleaner better

If you don't have texture on the rock, then I think you should at least put anti-aliasing on the cracks. I think that sort of jaggedness is a large part of the reason that people like Peacemaker don't like MSpaint skins.

[Cleanup]

Well, I'm an MSPaint skinner... I don't try to do hard things like curves and circles, whatnot. I've tried manual anti-aliasing before by studying the skin Genesis upclose in Photoshop. I'm not very good at it, yet, I stick to my strength - MSPaint. I'll keep getting better at it, and soon enough I'll make a skin that'll look like it was made in Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro.

[PeaceMaker]

yeh painfully slow is mspaint, which leads to boredom quite easily. esp. doing anti-alias work. and in the end, really nothing too flash, so it seems like a long time for nothing much at all. but some people i guess like the old mspaint.. so its not worth argueing about such a small topic.

[StillWater]

Yeah, well my first skin was made in Mspaint, and the second partly in MSpaint but mostly in Ultimate paint (which is similar anyway). What shits me about Mspaint is that, when it comes to computer image creation (gee what an exciting term) I cut my teeth on Deluxe Paint 2 - back in the days when 386s were the thing. And it sucks, almost a decade down the track, using something (MSPaint) which is much worse than DeluxePaint was. I did many of the gradients in Saturn in the Wintertime *cough* *link below* *cough* *click the link!* *splutter* by hand in these programs. It's a damn lot of work, and most people would not have the patience for it. That's what separates me from most people, devotion and...no wait, that's not it, it's my sheer idiocy, and their lack of it. I'm moving on to PSP.

[Nini]

aaaah! so many posts to read...






Supey, it looks the cracks (do you call them so?) look great...





I only would say that it needs a bit more metal in the titlebar...that's too flat imho..

Cleanup:

Well, I'm an MSPaint skinner... I don't try to do hard things like curves and circles, whatnot. I've tried manual anti-aliasing before by studying the skin Genesis upclose in Photoshop. I'm not very good at it, yet, I stick to my strength - MSPaint. I'll keep getting better at it, and soon enough I'll make a skin that'll look like it was made in Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro.

you're crazy. did I already mention that?

It's *much* easier with ps/psp...



LOL If you ever decide to become a 'designer' - you'd be probably the only one with ms paint skills... lol

[Cleanup]

If I switch over to Photoshop, I'm going to have to learn everything all over again. My creativity is with Paint.. I know what I can do with Paint, and that's what I do. If I switch to Photoshop, I'm going to have to think of new ideas, new styles and new things to make... and an entirely different method of creating skins.

[Atmo]

Cleanup if you learned photoshop i think you'd pick it up fairly quickly...2 skins and i'd learned psp's ins and outs so it doesnt take long..

By the way your skins rock, regardless of what program u've made them in..

[~Supey]

Originally posted by Nini

I only would say that it needs a bit more metal in the titlebar...that's too flat imho..

Ti'd noticed that too...I'm making the outer border up top with metal/rock/whatvever

Originally posted by bob
not sure i like the "hooloovoo" tho maybe i will eventually

it's from the book...the one with the title that I don't feel like retyping that I posted up somewhere at the top but it would be faster to retype it than to type all of this

I'm going to anti-alias the cracks, I just didn't feel like it at the time I made them, so I'll do it later

ss soon

[~Supey]

ss

haven't anti-aliased the cracks yet

don't have time to do anything else right now

[Atmo]

Looks better supey..

Will be interesting to see how this turns out...

[~Supey]

kinda antialiased the cracks...

I was going to ask suggestions about something, but I forgot what is was...

so, any suggestions in general?

[_Blackdog_]

looks pretty good, but how do you anti-alias in paint?

[Atmo]

I think it looked better with the cracks like they were before, they didnt jump out as much, but it still looks ok..

The cbuttons look a little small to me now for some reason or another..

Will be interesting to see how you keep the rock theme going through the eq and playlist...

[~Supey]

it's easy...basically just make a gradient of one pixel between the colors you want to anti-alias

sometimes with colors that are way far apart tho it's still jagedy so you either have to make a it more pixels or find a color that works somehow

[~Supey]

ekwaleyeser

havn't done the krakz yet

suggestinos?

bleah I'm tired

[nøva]

Really like the sliders, good idea, but you still gota work a bit on the rock

[Atmo]

But the eq looks a bit too uniform, like its more machined than the main...still nice tho..

[Forevever]

wow! that really jumped out at me - I love the concept of this one - don't add too many cracks - its quite elegant the way it is

[~Supey]

Originally posted by Atmo The Freak
But the eq looks a bit too uniform, like its more machined than the main...still nice tho..

with the way the EQ is structured it's quite dificult to make it not look uniform

btw, I'm going to get a picture from the book and put it in the blank space between the preamp and other bars

[nøva]

sorry, i may have missed sumthin, but what book?

[Atmo]

Originally posted by ~Supey
btw, I'm going to get a picture from the book and put it in the blank space between the preamp and other bars

Which book??

[edit] oh ok...The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series by Douglas Adams....*slaps forehead* [edit]

[skinme!]

I think the cracks looked better before. To me the style is of an early 90s side-scroller - nice.

The EQ is too uniform and what is going on the rock near shuf/rep?

[nøva]

...still lost, atmo, u just dug a deeper hole for me with that quote...

[Atmo]

Originally posted by Nova3d
...still lost, atmo, u just dug a deeper hole for me with that quote...

LOL...Look at the first post in this thread nova...

Dont worry, it had me stumped too...

[~Supey]

Originally posted by skinme!
what is going on the rock near shuf/rep?

huh?

yes, now go read the books. you will thank me for it later

eq with krakz and piktcher. it's the kewlist littul piktcher ever

sorry, but the eq's staying how it is. I can't make it any less uniform than it is without changing the slider style and I really like them and I don't want to change it anyway

bleah, my computer works as well as a piece of flying crap