[quote who="Uvah" reply="24" id="2950237"]That is some wall. Could not have easy to make this one I bet.[/quote] Agreed! If those little capsule shaped buttons with the appearance of translucence are eye candy, then this is the most complex of Belgian chocolates or Trappist ales. It's really quite stunning, Jafo. Do you remember how many layers it took to make? peace, Mally
Ha; that is funny! I've read a lot of you all's posts, but I'm not on the inside yet. It wouldn't be cool if I were quite so informal yet. I mean, I'm just starting, none of y'all know me yet. I look forward to reaching that kind of friendship that develops over time. I like everyone I've met so far. Norway, eh? I've heard nothing but good things about your peninsula. I should like to visit your part of Europe some da
Excellent, Jafo! That's a lot for the help. It's exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. peace, Mally
[quote who="Uvah" reply="8" id="2949939"]Do this. My latest upload, Tewel Lagatter by Country Yokel. There are docks, tiles, a sysmetrix and a rainy. [/quote] Hi, Uvah! Nice to see you are so active on this forum. I have to admit, though, that the terms in that I don't understand in the context in which they're used here. [quote]If you use either one of these programs find the folder, open it and inside you will see a PM from Country Yokel giving me permiss
Excellent. Thanks, DrJBHL! I should have said earlier, but I still use XP Pro and it seems the snipping tool can be installed on the TabletPC version on XP, but not on the regular desktop version like I'm using. If you or anyone knows otherwise, please let me know. Looks like a neat tool, but I can get by just fine with the Print Screen key on my keyboard, and pasting the clipboard contents on a new PSD document. peace, Mally
I didn't find either a file with the name permission(s) or a .TXT file of any sort. I've started one of my own already which looks like this: Start Menu Stretchable Layer Group Brush Name - Creator - URL Texture - Creator - URL Tileab
I knew you all would be able to make this stuff clearer to me. I didn't know about the permission.txt file, for example. I looked in several skins for the permissions.tx t file, but am not finding one. I presume that this is something a skinner provides to the moderators, but is not made public? Is there a mock-up or template of one available so as to see a typical format? If so, please point me to it, or send it to mallymcg
Hi, all; I don't ever want to look back at my work because someone has suggested I borrowed something from their work without permission. I know many of the rules when writing a paper about how to avoid plagiarism. Don't quote someone else's work as though it were your own. If quoting someone else's work, cite the reference in your annotated bibliography at the end of the paper, or at the lower portion of the pages. Scholarly works often tell y
[quote who="Uvah" reply="59" id="2949279"] It sounds tempting Mally. But right now I've got my hands full. Perhaps when I'm done.[/quote] I hear ya, Uvah. I remember thinking that I could make a skin in just a week or two. Then I started reading. By the time I made up my mind about which direction I was gonna head software-wise, I was well into my 3rd week, and hadn't even made a single graphic yet. Only thing that was clear in my mind is what
[quote who="Uvah" reply="55" id="2949256"]You're braver than I are Mally. I took one look at SKS and ran the other way. Maybe one of these days.lol[/quote] Not brave, Uvah, just a tad off my rocker is all. [e digicons]o_O[/e] Come on, it'd be a whole lot of fun to have someone work with me learning beside me. You'll ask questions I haven't thought of, and maybe visa versa. peace, Mally
Time for a rehash of all my graphics and approach to this. I know more this time. Anyone know how I can put my trial software on pause? [e digicons]:time:[/e]
[quote who="neone6" reply="45" id="2949146"]100 Pts for helping him Xiandi !! [/quote] Amen, and amen.
[quote who="vStyler" reply="44" id="2949142"]Cyndie, ur such a class act [/quote] Yes she is, vStyler. Seems to be a contagion of class acts around here.
[quote who="Xiandi" reply="42" id="2949096"]First thing to do is this: In the extras tab for each image, you need to add the dimensions of the image. If you've cut your images right, this should correct most of what you are seeing.[/quote] I didn't do that. I will the next time. [/quote]To delete a layer: Select the layer you want to edit, and just click the minus button.[/quote] This seemed kind of intuitive to me, but it d
[quote who="vStyler" reply="41" id="2949093"]I think the wood needs to be grunged up a bit i perhaps.. isn't that one of the trademarks of steam punk?[/quote] That's a good observation. I'm gonna mull that over and try to find a way to do that, but that won't interfere with my old eyes' ability to read it. Some grunged backgrounds are very difficult to read, and they cause a lot of eye strain. [quote]Also are u making ur images urself, gauges, p
[quote who="2of3" reply="40" id="2949086"]Looking at your screeny, I'm firstly curious as to: 1. Why you have your image count set to 2 frames.[/quote] I was taking a stab in the dark. I saw that the image count layer was a variable, and I thought since I was using two layers at each part of the whole start menu, this looked like the most likely place to make that setting. [quote]2. Why you have the stack vertically box checked.[/quote] For t
Here we go with a couple of what I'm sure will be many questions...more at the beginning, I hope, than later on as you kind folk help me to progress. Here's my stretchable layer in PS just prior to cutting the pieces using the colored sections as a template. By switching layers in my PSD, I also cut the tileable layer into same sized pieces.* [IMG]http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn314/Pwy/Startmenu2LayerswTemplate.png[/IMG] <p styl
In Post #5, neone6 suggested I'd need to use "painting margins". This seems to have been confirmed by Empress Zenia in post #18. In a v.6 tutorial , I found a reference to that tab near the bottom of the page, under "Vertical Taskbar", but nothing in the v.7 tutorial by Vampothika. I'v
Isn't she, RedbeckDude? She's all knowing, and all seeing, too. Empress Xenia, You beat me to it. although you caught some things I hadn't noticed. I had some layers out of order when I put them in groups, and then there was the drop shadow issue I hadn't noticed. They looked fine on the grey checkered transparent background, but I hadn't studied how those bits looked against a white background. I moved around a couple of other things whi
I've decided to take Xiandi's direction, and make my start menu (see post #2 of this topic) with 2 cut layers or 10 pieces. (2 layers x 5 pieces per layer = 10 pieces). They look like these two images: [IMG]http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn314/Pwy/StretchableLayersGroup.png[/IMG] & [IMG]http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn314/Pwy/TileableLayersGroup.png[/IMG]. The first image is stretchable, the second is tileable with a small area near the
I hear a new apprentice you have, Emperess. Or should Jedi Xiandi I call you? Powerful you have become, navigatsio. The light side sense I in you.
[quote who="DisturbedComputer" reply="19" id="2946764"] these might be of help Skin Studio 7: The Tutorial Skin Studio 7: The Tutorial, Part 2<
Hi, Xiandi & Disturbed; Your tutorials will come in very usefully, I'm sure. Thank you for posting them here! I did send you an IM, Xiandi, as suggested by 2of3 in his post #11. I'm glad that you stumbled on this thread instead, though. In that same post, Tim was explaining about using SKS Layer Function, and at the same time he was writing that, I was asking if such a thing were possible (post #12). I've worked with graphics enough to know t
[quote who="2of3" reply="14" id="2945903"]It`s also good to say which OS you are skinning. XP and Vista/Win7 act very differently[/quote] I only own a copy of XP Pro SP3. I'll have to learn yet how to optimize it for Windows7 & Vista.
[quote who="2of3" reply="11" id="2945897"]When using PS, saving it as a .tga or .png will be just fine. Don`t bother your head about alpha channel (it`s in there) [/quote] Cool. That's good to hear. Thank! [quote]Wild design, bud! You`re not making it easy for yourself on your first skin! You are going to have to use the sks layers function to pull it off, I think. I would suggest getting in touch with a skinner named Xiandi here on
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