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RE: Photoshop IF Skin Helper

southbound — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:55:08 GMT

Hello everyone,

I would be very interested in this PSD helper or any themes you guys have created.

Thanks,

Chris Couture

http://www.pensacolafishingforum.com (just set up 4 days ago)

RE: Photoshop IF Skin Helper

Mr_Goonie — Wed, 03 May 2006 14:47:54 GMT

Very Very Helpful... for someone just starting to build forums.

thanks!

RE: Photoshop IF Skin Helper

Mark Christianson — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:15:44 GMT

Just extract to its own directory in the skins folder and you should be good to go.

RE: Photoshop IF Skin Helper

Maureen — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:04:22 GMT

Hi... we are very interested in using your Olive skin on our site... could you give us a couple tips as to how to get it in place? We are new at this.

Thanks so much!

RE: Photoshop IF Skin Helper

Bare — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:39:02 GMT

Speaking of the 4.1.2 to 4.1.3 upgrade... I'm just getting around to it...

I have 9 custom skins... this is not going to be fun... :crying:

Are the "CSS Class Name" changes really the only changes made to the classic skin? If this is the case, I'd much rather just rename my classes in my existing 4.1.2 skins... than to start over from scratch with all the color codes and image paths...

If there are more changes that just the class names then I suppose I'll have to start from scratch..

Anyone have any info on this?

thanks

RE: Photoshop IF Skin Helper

Mark Christianson — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 09:51:59 GMT

[quote][b]jus (12/5/2005)[/b][hr]I only had a brief play with it but I was wondering if you'd managed to set up the slices as well?[/quote]

Thanks.

No, I havent set any slices but considering there are only two (the gradients) in the main look/feel I dont know how much it would be helpful. I think the slices should be set in the ICONS psd files (hint hint Ryan) because I found the icons to be harder to deal with.

Let me know if you think that other things in the main look should be sliced.

RE: Photoshop IF Skin Helper

jus — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 14:07:30 GMT

Hi Mark,

I've downloaded and had a quick look at this, and I must say, you've done an excellent job. I only had a brief play with it but I was wondering if you'd managed to set up the slices as well?

thanks

justin

RE: Photoshop IF Skin Helper

Mark Christianson — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 18:42:45 GMT

If you'd like to download and test out my OliveDrab skin, feel free to give it a spin... just remember this is a 4.1.3 skin so unless you've upgraded... save yourself the headache.

RE: Photoshop IF Skin Helper

Mark Christianson — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 10:30:28 GMT

Here is a screenshot of the layers palette in Photoshop to show you what your getting into.

Photoshop IF Skin Helper

Mark Christianson — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 19:31:10 GMT

Ok, as Im getting into 4.1.3 and there are skin adjustments I had decided Id work on a new skin in brown tones. What I like to do is screenshot the forum and then bring it into Photoshop and then adjust the different colors until I get what I like, then I can pick the colors and grab the hex value and edit the css file as needed.

While I was doing this I got a little zealous and spent the greater part of 4 7 hours just building out this PSD file.

What I have Im making available to you in hopes it can help others.

Inside the PSD Ive broken out all the forum elements and ~~tried to group them by location~~ [Update: Now grouped according to thier css class]. ~~I debated doing it by color and I still might go through and name the groups by the CSS names which might then help everyone even further but for now~~. [Did it] this is what I have.

When you open it you'll have the layers [now named thier css class name] and all non text layers are just a fill color for the whole layer and Ive used a layer mask to fill the right areas. The nice part about this is all you have to do is FILL a layer and each layer is clearly a color which helps with identification.

Near the top of the layers is a HUE CHANGER layer, if you'd like to color shift the entire board look (quickly create the same look but in a different color) you can turn this on and adjust the sliders to whatever you see fit.

I'll be continuing to work on this as I do my own skins so it will likely be updated here and there as I find ways to make it easier... one thing I'll include soon are layers for all the other icons and elements from other pages. For now, this should get you started.

[Update: Major wiped out as its just after 1:30am but hell, this thing should help some of you skinners I hope. The new file has been uploaded over the old but I dont think anyone got to it before I updated anyway.]