Workin On A Skin

[triton]

i decided i would try my hand at making a skin, man there are alot of different things to change! i ahve the main thing done so far, i like the way it looks, im gradually learning to use photoshop so i am not changing all the icons and stuff yet, mostly the backgrounds, only changes i did to the icons was change the color around them to a bluish color. here is a pic

 

[DoNsIkU]

i decided i would try my hand at making a skin, man there are alot of different things to change! i ahve the main thing done so far, i like the way it looks, im gradually learning to use photoshop so i am not changing all the icons and stuff yet, mostly the backgrounds, only changes i did to the icons was change the color around them to a bluish color. here is a pic

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Looks pretty nice but I would just put there a pic of me and my gf lol

 

[triton]

im working on makng new icons at the moment, i have the game one made, when i get the entire main page thing done i wil post a new pic, im makin the icons by hand with a combo of MSpaint and photoshop, paint for the basic stuff and PS for the rest

 

[Alex.]

Looks pretty nice but I would just put there a pic of me and my gf lol

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Cool, do you paste posters of yourself in your room, too?

 

[The2ndclory]

I did a little searching (couldn't find anything) and I would like to do some skinning myself but I haven't come across any guides as to how to do it and seen as your all gun ho about it triton I thought you could point me in the right direction, please.

Like how does the gp2x handle the skins? are the icons made individualy and automatically placed on a background by the unit? what format are the icons in?

 

[DijiTao]

Since all the cool kids are doing it --

Not sure if I'll finish it.

 

[FFNoir]

meh... someone needs to make a yaoi skin... with bishie sprites as icons... I guess it's up to me! TO WAL*MART TO PICK UP A COPY OF PHOTOSHOP!

 

[triton]

thats cool lookin! to start making skins get some good effect guides for photoshop or the gimp and download the skin previewer program from the gp2x fila archive. and what is up with you and yaoi?

 

[triton]

small update! sorry for double post. i have a full 3 icons redone! game photo and music! i am still tryin to decide on what to make the video icon, all the new icons were drawn by me in MSpaint and edited in photoshop! the SD sucks but oh well, the others are ok!

 

[g4m3r]

Cool buttons, need a little retouching but I think you know that

 

[triton]

hey, yea i know! but for drawing them in friggin MS paint they aint bad lol, me=sucks at photoshop! i literally just started using it today, did some tutorials to get used to stuff and stuff like that

 

[PSyMastR]

Since all the cool kids are doing it --

Not sure if I'll finish it.

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I love gnome

 

[DijiTao]

I figured since we basically have a KDE theme it was only fair if somebody did a Gnome one.

 

[Ferentix]

Um... can someone help me here? I got the skin previewer, and the Tux 'N' Tosh skin (to use as a template, since I don't have an actual GP2X yet ) but just to check the skin out, I used the skin viewer... and it errors!

Unable to init SDL: Couldn't open imgbattery/body.png

And yes, I copied all the files into the root directory of the skin...

Is that skin valid? Also, why are there mostly pngs (with new graphics) but also a few random bmps featuring the default skin? Please help here, this is somewhat odd... and I want to make a skin. I Have a few (very) vague ideas...

 

[efegea]

The Tux'ntosh zipfile doesn't provide that file. You have to get the one on the default skin.

 

[triton]

quick info update, i will post pics or membe the skin pretty soon, i have the first screen done except settings

 

[triton]

another update, i am having problims with my skin, whatever body.png i have in imgmovie shows up as the background in movie player and photos in the skinviewer, even if i have a different body.png in the imgimage file! why?!

 

[Drak]

another update, i am having problims with my skin, whatever body.png i have in imgmovie shows up as the background in movie player and photos in the skinviewer, even if i have a different body.png in the imgimage file! why?!

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that happened to me to. i had to re unzip the folders then it worked again for soem reason. lol

 

[Ferentix]

Is there anywhere I can download the full original skin as a base for my own modifications?

 

[Drak]

Is there anywhere I can download the full original skin as a base for my own modifications?

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http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,52,861

just replace the "Body.png" in each one with desired background and the same for anything else u want to use.