This is a call to the whole community. I'm a graphic designer and really wanted to make an apple theme for my f700. I'm slowly changing images in the image.res folder. Instead of doing it all myself I thought it would be great if everyone pitched in and shared their work. I'll upload all I have so far, the most notable change is the ipod wheel. I'll be glad to share my PSD's to anyone who is interested.
screen shot please?
installing the emulator, if i don't get it tonight i'll take some shots in my car tomorrow
I'm a designer too, I saw your ipod wheel, will put it into my image.res to see how it looks. So far looking pretty good, like what you did with the contact icons. I'm not a huge fan of the "apple" theme although it looks good, and looking at your settings icons gave me the idea of putting the "floor" fading reflection on all of the icons, you should try that specialy on the main menu ones.... will look very OSX maybe try and putt an apple background and the icons on a dock like on OS. I'll be happy to help you just for fun, and maybe I'll end up liking the theme enough to putt it in my 700BT.
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I wish i could take credit for the contacts, that's from someone else's theme that i just replaced mine. The floor should have been in the first images.res i uploaded somehow it didn't make it.
I'm not too keen on the dock, and i was going to put a black to light gray gradient but the lcd doesn't handle that too well as i found out by using too much gradient on the ipod wheel.
what emulator are u using??
i'm excited for a complete working theme! =)
it really is looking good, noticed the floor on the main menu, do you mind updating the image.zip file on the first post for the one you are showing with the floor reflection on the main menu???? thanks...
Very nice work! It shows that you know what your doing with creating the images!!!
My only suggestion (its actually a request...) is that as you work on this, you do a full theme. SO many of the themes I have found have a few icons here and there, and use most of the stock ones.
I spent almost two weeks working on my silly Iron Man theme, but I changed every thing that could possibly be changed. When I went back and counted them, I had changed nearly 100 images.
it really is looking good, noticed the floor on the main menu, do you mind updating the image.zip file on the first post for the one you are showing with the floor reflection on the main menu???? thanks...
I tried uploading the new one last night but it kept saying "tried to upload empty file".... any suggestions, I'm at work now so I'll give it another shot when I get back home.
Very nice work! It shows that you know what your doing with creating the images!!!
My only suggestion (its actually a request...) is that as you work on this, you do a full theme. SO many of the themes I have found have a few icons here and there, and use most of the stock ones.
I spent almost two weeks working on my silly Iron Man theme, but I changed every thing that could possibly be changed. When I went back and counted them, I had changed nearly 100 images.
That's my goal is to change everything, but it's a really big undertaking for one person to get everything looking really spot on, which is why any help would be great, even if it's identifying which bmp does what.
what emulator are u using??
http://avic411.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18137&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=8
these are the only screens you can see in it.
Ok.. I've done some searching and I haven't turned up what I am looking for. Can someone help me out here? I too am a graphic designer and want to attempt this theme thing. I don't have a problem creating the graphics but I can't for the life of me figure out how to decompress and recompress the .res file. Can someone point me towards the application they are using to open this file so I can get to the images?
Thanks in advance.
jreimers, you have to download a program called 7zip, then you can compress files in .res format.
imBasketCase, try posting the attachment in a new post, I guess that will work.
Thank you!
this looks sharp i am highly considering this...but the system has a windows system operating it... thats probably the only thing really holding me back.. haha...
however great job anyways!!! a+++
sorry guys i have no idea what's going on, still say "tried to upload empty file"
i've tried different browsers, different compressors, different operating systems and got nothing
i'll keep everyone posted as an update
746_32K_MN-001_24b.bmp = top menu - top bar
746_32K_MN-002_32b.bmp = top menu - illumination bottom bar
746_32K_MN-003_24b.bmp = top menu - bottom bar
just a few things i discovered that weren't apparent, i can't find the background for the phone and settings buttons
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Looks good so far. Try to replace the dock with a Leopard Dock and possibly glowing blue dots under the apps (like in leopard) Maybe A Leopard Aurora wallpaper in the background.
That would complete the theme IMO. Something similar to the image I quickly put together in photoshop without the black surrounding the icons. I don't have the skills to remove the black background in photoshop.
Try this one I almost sure it will let the background show, Let me Know if it works and I will do the other 2.
In the file there also a .PSD so if it works you can see what I did Different.
if it doesn't it's just a matter of lining them up.... i'll give that a shot, i really like that if the lcd can handle the gradient
don't think there's a way to change to background... if anyone else knows a way to let me know.
I have not tried this but from looking at some other image file you might have to put the background on foreground images instead of making their background transparent, if that makes sense. Or maybe I'm misunderstanding the problem.
Like this:
I have not tried this but from looking at some other image file you might have to put the background on foreground images instead of making their background transparent, if that makes sense. Or maybe I'm misunderstanding the problem.Like this:
If possible it would be easier to make the foreground transparent. It'd be a pain to try and match up the 2 pictures, no?
Also I've tried making the foreground transparent, but on the avic it only comes out white, what settings do you have to save the .bmps as to keep the transparency?
If possible it would be easier to make the foreground transparent. It'd be a pain to try and match up the 2 pictures, no?
That's what I understood the problem is. They could not get the background to be transparent.