I installed it! Looks great. Thank you

looks great man, i just copied over the image.res and i love it. it was the perfect addition to Alex mod. i love the contacts photo. thanks a lot Abb.

looks great man, i just copied over the image.res and i love it. it was the perfect addition to Alex mod. i love the contacts photo. thanks a lot Abb.

Glad that you like it! It took me forever to complete with the limited time that I have, so the compliments are well worth the effort.

I do not have XM Radio, HD Radio, nor have I tried it out using a CD. If anyone can give me feedback on how those work or if there are any problems with these, please let me know. Thanks, and keep the input coming I really appreciate it

Glad that you like it! It took me forever to complete with the limited time that I have, so the compliments are well worth the effort.

I do not have XM Radio, HD Radio, nor have I tried it out using a CD. If anyone can give me feedback on how those work or if there are any problems with these, please let me know. Thanks, and keep the input coming I really appreciate it

cant help you there, I do not have XM Radio, HD Radio, and i have not used a CD in i cant tell you how long. LOL

what tools do i need to edit the image.res? you guys are way past me but i have photo shop and such i would like to be able to edit the icons

Photoshop is all that anybody uses on an amateur level or professional level. I have been using PS for years to change and alter photos and pictures.

Good job, well done. Is there a way to change the tabs in the ipod, I am talking about playlists, genres.artists, albums, podcasts JON

Photoshop is all that anybody uses on an amateur level or professional level. I have been using PS for years to change and alter photos and pictures.

i have used ps a lot too, to edit photos but i can't get it to open the image.res.

a (very) brief how to, maybe?

Photoshop is all that anybody uses on an amateur level or professional level. I have been using PS for years to change and alter photos and pictures.

 

i have used ps a lot too, to edit photos but i can't get it to open the image.res.

 

a (very) brief how to, maybe?

Just use 7-zip to extract the file into your prefered area of your pc.

You should be able to open that file with photoshop and make changes.

Once done making changes go back to 7-zip and find the two files, Abbs original file and the file you extacted and made changes, and just cut and paste the new file to the original file.

I am using gimp to edit the images, not photoshop and that has been the easiest way for me to do it without creating unwanted subfolders.

Just use 7-zip to extract the file into your prefered area of your pc.

extract which file? i am trying to edit the image.res. Alex said this was the file with the icons and top menu images.i can't extract it,it isn't zipped.what am i missing ?

i have the file extraced to my desktop but i get a photoshop error"cannot complete request because it is the wrong kind of document.

i have the file extraced to my desktop but i get a photoshop error"cannot complete request because it is the wrong kind of document.

I am using GIMP for my image editor. I don't have any experience with photoshop.

Maybe Abb will chime in.

Sorry

i have the file extraced to my desktop but i get a photoshop error"cannot complete request because it is the wrong kind of document.

Hmmm, when you extract the .res file, you should have an 'image' folder. In tha folder you have four subfolders, 'Main', 'AV', 'Tel', and 'Common'. All your images that you want to alter, replace or change are in the 'Common' & 'AV' folders. They are in '.bmp' form which PS can open.

It is best for you to do a search. There is a tutorial about opening the image.res file using 7z and then repacking it again. I read it but I forget what it was called or what the topic was. It is in here somewheres though. Good luck

ahh.. got it. i didn't realize the .res file was zipped. i was thinking that once i extracted the image.res file PS would open it, now i see i have to extract it also. i use winrar and it does not see this as a zipped file. once i set default to open with winrar i was able to extract and now see the 4 folders. thanks for the help guys. this is what i have been looking for. i will burn the wee hours on this.

thanks for all answers.

It looks so cool. I put the res file on my f90 when I had 2.006. Will this work the same now that I have updated to 3.0?

I'd love to use this again, just nervous. The res file shouldn't affect anything else, right?

It looks so cool. I put the res file on my f90 when I had 2.006. Will this work the same now that I have updated to 3.0?

I'd love to use this again, just nervous. The res file shouldn't affect anything else, right?

This mod is FOR the 3.0, so yes, it will work. The only difference in the AV / Main section is the telephone box.

Hello. First off LOVE the theme. But i wanted it in Blue. So i decided to practice my photoshop skills and redid all the icons with blue. For my first atemp at anything like this i am happy.

BUT----

When i load it onto my unit it sticks at the boot screen. After a little trial and error i realized that If i take the original RedBlast Image.res unzip it and then turn around and rezip it It then it no longer works on my F90. I am using 7zip and i tried saving it as Image.zip then renaming it to Image.res and i have also tried just setting 7zip to save it as Image.res. Whats the deal. Could some one tell me there settings for 7zip?

Thanks

Michael

Hello. First off LOVE the theme. But i wanted it in Blue. So i decided to practice my photoshop skills and redid all the icons with blue. For my first atemp at anything like this i am happy.

 

 

BUT----

 

When i load it onto my unit it sticks at the boot screen. After a little trial and error i realized that If i take the original RedBlast Image.res unzip it and then turn around and rezip it It then it no longer works on my F90. I am using 7zip and i tried saving it as Image.zip then renaming it to Image.res and i have also tried just setting 7zip to save it as Image.res. Whats the deal. Could some one tell me there settings for 7zip?

 

 

Thanks

Michael

Save it as 7z, and then just change it to image.res

Hello. First off LOVE the theme. But i wanted it in Blue. So i decided to practice my photoshop skills and redid all the icons with blue. For my first atemp at anything like this i am happy.

 

 

BUT----

 

When i load it onto my unit it sticks at the boot screen. After a little trial and error i realized that If i take the original RedBlast Image.res unzip it and then turn around and rezip it It then it no longer works on my F90. I am using 7zip and i tried saving it as Image.zip then renaming it to Image.res and i have also tried just setting 7zip to save it as Image.res. Whats the deal. Could some one tell me there settings for 7zip?

 

 

Thanks

Michael

Using 7Zip and zip it to Image.7z before renaming it back to Image.Res.

On another note, BMP modified by PS should be instructed to keep the original size, color dept and file size.

There is already a blue theme made by Abb. Search for it in this forum.

Thats right.... Image.7z then rename to .res

Its starting to come back to me. have not uploaded any thing to my unit or changed anything in a year so i am quit rusty

Yippy!

It works Or it works for now and i might find something wrong with it later.

I did see the blue theme abb has up but i liked the looks of the "clouds/haze" the top and bottom bars have in this theme. The only thing i might change will be the main menu buttons. but that is a little later down the road

if anyone wants a copy of my image.res let me know and i can post it. But bewared something might be wrong with it I was confident with it until i read the post from Chuck

"On another note, BMP modified by PS should be instructed to keep the original size, color dept and file size"

All i did was open it use the color replacement tool and re saved it. it took about 2hours to redo all the images

thanks for the help

Michael

Yippy!

 

 

It works Or it works for now and i might find something wrong with it later.

 

if anyone wants a copy of my image.res let me know and i can post it. But bewared something might be wrong with it I was confident with it until i read the post from Chuck

 

"On another note, BMP modified by PS should be instructed to keep the original size, color dept and file size"

 

All i did was open it use the color replacement tool and re saved it. it took about 2hours to redo all the images

 

thanks for the help

Michael

Hey Michael,

I have been alerted by one post in this forum, saying that when modifying the main menu images (3x2=6 of them), be sure to retain the 240x240 dimension, the color dept of 24 bits and the file size, hence my note. This is however defeated yesterday since I got a theme to work after changing some images's color dept and file size, with the bmp dimension remaining the same, of course.

So your theme might just work fine .

Gotch ya!

I was sure to keep the size the same but i was unsure about the bit value . I did not know color depth referred to the bit setting. Thanks for the in site on that! I saved them as 24bit just because it was the middle ground figuring i might get lucky. LOL

thanks for the reply and explanation.