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[Psycho Reptile]

Do you use ImageReady to export all of your png's? It would be a really good tool I think, just created slices of all buttons on one big .psd file, and have different colours schemes on different layers of the .psd. As the "Export optimzed as" will let you choose all slices in a .psd. Or do you have a more clever/less elaborate way? It will be very interesting to get to try the end result of you efforts.

Actually I've got a single PSD for almost every gfx object. I'm no Photoshop guru and have never used ImageReady .
Using PS CS4 atm, I would appreciate any advice/help with regards to what you are saying about layers/slices etc. perhaps you could point me in the right direction... I'd like to have one PSD for the entire skin and use global styles and batch "slice" exporting, but I know nothing about it

You said you based Indigo around the MCE colour scheme and it does look very MCE 2005. It just seems a bit, well, bright and maybe a little dated?
I love the design but do you think you could maybe do something around Vista MC / Win 7 MC colour scheme i.e slightly darker blues, greens etc?

Totally agree with you on the dated/MCE 2K5/Microsoft comments about Indigo. Constructive critisim is not a bad thing It just started out that way... I'd like to change to the more updated MCE look (ie: Win 7) but I don't have acess to it. Perhaps someone could pm me some screen grabs that I could work from, maybe even a decent quality video of it in action

 

[CHli]

Hello Psycho Reptile,

I'm no Photoshop guru expert neither and I think there is now a better way to save all the layers of the document as separate pictures but my solution, that is still working today, was to do some scripting (can also help if you want to do some advanced stuff). Look at my signature and download the TV-Logo pack.

You'll find in the archive a script that you'll have to edit to your own purpose but it should help you to start.

My .psd document contains two layers groups, one group contains all the TV logos and one group is a choice of backgrounds. So to export all my logos with a different background I just have to select the background I want (make it visible) and then start my script that is disabling all the layers in the tv-logo group and in a loop enable logo i , save as NAME_OF_THE_LAYER.png, disable logo i, increment i.

I think this could also be used for you.

But maybe someone has a better solution, especially with slices (it could be useful for the new feature for buttons where you can have customized corners)

Regards,

Christophe

 

[emphatic]

I'm no Photoshop guru and have never used ImageReady .
Using PS CS4 atm, I would appreciate any advice/help with regards to what you are saying about layers/slices etc. perhaps you could point me in the right direction... I'd like to have one PSD for the entire skin and use global styles and batch "slice" exporting, but I know nothing about it

I'll see if I can whip up a little .psd tonight that you can open up in ImageReady that explains what I meant. But as all things has a learning curve, should it feel uncomfortable in any way, do what you like instead, as that's always faster in the end.

Emph

 

[joz]

Hey PS,

Your new designs look amazing! Keep up the good work.
Maybe you can use some of the xmls I did for 16:10 port such as videonews, htpcinfo (have a newer version here, pm me if interested), that's what I can think off atm

 

[wonkyd]

Totally agree with you on the dated/MCE 2K5/Microsoft comments about Indigo. Constructive critisim is not a bad thing It just started out that way... I'd like to change to the more updated MCE look (ie: Win 7) but I don't have acess to it. Perhaps someone could pm me some screen grabs that I could work from, maybe even a decent quality video of it in action

Theres a few on here mate Windows 7 Media Center screenshots

 

[emphatic]

Psycho Reptile: I did a little .psd that you can open in Photoshop as well as ImageReady to have a look at the slice functionality. It's just the one slice though, as I'm a bit stressed out today.

Emph

 

[ThaClown]

PR... Did you make a BACKUP this time? LOL
I use Dropbox.. its quite good.

Good to have you back!

 

[Psycho Reptile]

Need a little help with the new sliding menu...

Hi all, a release is basically ready... but... I'm having a problem with the new sliding basic home.

Basically, when the basic home loads the "Watch you MOVIES OR TV" button is the default control, when this control has focus all the other buttons slide out after half a second. Problem is that when ever this screen loads, all the buttons collapse on themselves. You can see what I mean when then basic home starts for the first time. once you start moving around it's ok. But when you go to another screen or press escape they collapse again

The other thing is the order that text is rendered on the home screen, the RSS ticker text always appears above the menus. I've even tried a simple label with a gfx over it and it still shows thru.

Skinners can test this by having a control move when a button is focused and having the same button as the default control.

Any help would be appreciated (Dev's/Skinners) ... it's all that's holding back the release

Thanks
Psycho

 

[Psycho Reptile]

Psycho Reptile: I did a little .psd that you can open in Photoshop as well as ImageReady to have a look at the slice functionality. It's just the one slice though, as I'm a bit stressed out today.

Thanks for that Emph, I've got PS CS4 and ImageReady doesn't come with it. How would I go about doing the same thing in PS... or do I need ImageReady specifically?

 

[joz]

Not that it would help PS but you should add a rememberLatsFocusControl in there. New 1.1 Feature. It will jump back to where you last clicked on.
The problem you have seems a bit weird, no answer here either.