Topic: New Skin : No.4 (RC1) (Read 16571 times)

Beatnik62 · « **on:** August 11, 2007, 10:08:20 am »

I've got a new toy ... Photoshop CS3 and I thought, while playing around, it's time for a new mega-me skin for MC 12. After spending nearly two month of my spare time into it, it's now time to show it up here for beta testing. The name will be No.4, because it's my fourth try of creating a skin for MC. It's based on the skinning engine of MC 12.0.294. It may also run with MC 11.1.200, but MC 12 is recommended. Maybe you want it darker ? There is a secret in the skin directory ... have a look.

Comments are welcome.

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Have some fun with my new artwork.

Beatnik

Edit : Changed the subject.

Edit by JimH:

Quote from: 221bbs on December 20, 2009, 06:51:48 am

You can download this at the skins and plugins page. Here is a direct link

http://accessories.musicex.com/mediacenter/mc_data/plugins/823.mjp

Mr ChriZ · « **Reply #1 on:** August 11, 2007, 02:35:15 pm »

Been away and not on my own machine but pic looks nice Beatnik!

221bBS · « **Reply #2 on:** August 11, 2007, 04:05:59 pm »

Just Downloaded/Installed/Loaded it. Looks real nice

I notice that when my pointer is over a song in playing now, action window (Burn Disc, Rip Disc, etc..) and Horizontal/Vertical scroll bar that the color of the highlight is orange. Also the rating stars are orange.

221bBS · « **Reply #3 on:** August 11, 2007, 04:13:36 pm »

Here's a picture of what I'm talking about

JimH · « **Reply #4 on:** August 11, 2007, 06:49:59 pm »

Verrrry nice! Thanks!

JimH · « **Reply #5 on:** August 11, 2007, 07:03:10 pm »

Quote from: 221bbs on August 11, 2007, 04:05:59 pm

I notice that when my pointer is over a song in playing now, action window (Burn Disc, Rip Disc, etc..) and Horizontal/Vertical scroll bar that the color of the highlight is orange. Also the rating stars are orange.

It's different, but I like it.

221bBS · « **Reply #6 on:** August 11, 2007, 08:15:36 pm »

I'm not complaining

...thought it might be a bug since the skin seems to be in black, gray and blue.

Most likely keep this as my default skin

GREAT JOB!

datdude · « **Reply #7 on:** August 12, 2007, 01:46:17 am »

I really like it!!

3 Things I would change though:

1) As mentioned, the orange color seems out of place. (Maybe mix in some different shades of blue or even purple?)

2) The menu fonts should be a bit brighter.

3) I would make the grid lines more subtle, trending toward the lighter one.

Magic_Randy · « **Reply #8 on:** August 12, 2007, 10:29:06 am »

Nice

PeterS · « **Reply #9 on:** August 13, 2007, 10:09:31 am »

Pretty slick. You really are getting very good at this

I like the funky rating stars and the orange glow accents are a nice touch. Clever shuffle and EQ buttons too. Love the texture in the playerbar header.

The drop down menus could do with a little lightening though as they tend to merge with the player on my sub-par monitor. I tried the No_4 dark skin. Nice, but maybe a little too hard on the eyes for me.

Keep this up and we'll be giving Winamp and WMP skinners a run for their money.

PeterS

nathanchavez · « **Reply #10 on:** August 13, 2007, 07:49:44 pm »

This skin is just awesome. I'm not a fan of dark blue, so I have greyscale turned on, and this skin looks incredible. I have a new default skin. The only suggestion I have for you, and this is actually just a personal preference, is that you make the menus a bit more transparent.

Soul_Rvr911 · « **Reply #11 on:** August 15, 2007, 06:09:38 am »

Wow, I love this skin! I found that the regular (light?) version was a little too bright for my monitor - in fact, I even find most of the default skins FAR too bright... maybe it's just my monitor/eyes?? - but the dark skin looks amazing! I too have found a new default skin - thank you! I love the orange stars and the orange highlights, by the way - they stand out very well!

Beatnik62 · « **Reply #12 on:** October 17, 2007, 01:02:17 am »

Thanks for all your input and remarks. I've tried to optimize the skin to make it crisper. May be you will have another try of the beta version before I release the skin on the "Skin and Plug-in" page.

Comments are welcome.

Click here to zoom >> ::: Zoom ::: <<

Click here to download >> ::: Download ::: <<

Have some fun with my new artwork.

One tiny problem I couldn't solve so far. May be someone can help me with. How do I move the text and buttons (red box in the screenshot of MC in Display View Mode) a little bit up, without changing the position of the Close Display button ?

Beatnik

sbsp2 · « **Reply #13 on:** October 20, 2007, 07:50:02 am »

Nice skin!

One obvious bug:
The blue highlight bar in the left Tree pane does not change color (get lighter) when it is not the focused pane. So, when you hit Tab to tab back and forth from the left pane and the right List pane, you can't tell if the left pane has the focus or not. You can see the right pane change color when it gets/loses the focus (that is working correctly). Compare to Noire skin to see what I mean.

datdude · « **Reply #14 on:** October 20, 2007, 11:10:38 pm »

The menu's look nice, but grayed out items are virtually impossible to see (not that you need to see them).

I noticed you wrapped around the grayish border on the bottom of the player. To me that makes it look like there is another window underneath it. I would simply make it look like the top bar where it is just slightly beveled but with no border.

I would also maybe try to bevel the corners of the column and pane headers since they kind of run into each other and are hard to differentiate where one starts and ends.

I think this could be my new favorite skin!

sbsp2 · « **Reply #15 on:** October 22, 2007, 06:10:58 pm »

Quote from: sbsp2 on October 20, 2007, 07:50:02 am

Nice skin!

One obvious bug:
The blue highlight bar in the left Tree pane does not change color (get lighter) when it is not the focused pane. So, when you hit Tab to tab back and forth from the left pane and the right List pane, you can't tell if the left pane has the focus or not. You can see the right pane change color when it gets/loses the focus (that is working correctly). Compare to Noire skin to see what I mean.

I modified your Tree_Selection.png file to be like List_Selection.png (colorwise) and then I took the dark blue (active/selected) color and put a thin 'orange' ribbon (1-pixel thick) all the way around. If gives it a cool look (glow) and you definitely know what is active and selected. Also, this makes the 'under the mouse cursor' selection bar orange (consistent with List view and action window).

Beatnik62 · « **Reply #16 on:** October 24, 2007, 02:58:34 pm »

Quote from: sbsp2 on October 20, 2007, 07:50:02 am

One obvious bug:
The blue highlight bar in the left Tree pane .....

Well, it's not a bug ... it's a feature :-) ... I changed it in my current version of No.4. Please have another try.

Quote from: datdude on October 20, 2007, 11:10:38 pm

The menu's look nice, but grayed out items are virtually impossible to see (not that you need to see them).

Corrected ...

Quote from: datdude on October 20, 2007, 11:10:38 pm

I noticed you wrapped around the grayish border on the bottom of the player. To me that makes it look like there is another window underneath it. I would simply make it look like the top bar where it is just slightly beveled but with no border.

I will leave this in, because it's part of the design.

Quote from: datdude on October 20, 2007, 11:10:38 pm

I would also maybe try to bevel the corners of the column and pane headers since they kind of run into each other and are hard to differentiate where one starts and ends.

I've tried to find a solution for this, please have a look on the current version.

Click here to zoom >> ::: Zoom ::: <<

Click here to download >> ::: Download ::: <<

Have fun whit my artwork,

Beatnik

JimH · « **Reply #17 on:** October 24, 2007, 08:16:30 pm »

Beatnik,
Thanks! This has been my default skin for several weeks.

Jim

sbsp2 · « **Reply #18 on:** October 25, 2007, 09:17:08 am »

Here's a couple of screenshots showing the few mods I made (the ORANGE highlight bar is where the cursor is pointing currently, cursor itself did NOT show up...the colors don't show as vivid, free webhost recompresses the jpegs):

Tree pane active:

_:::Zoom:::_

List pane active:

_:::Zoom:::_

datdude · « **Reply #19 on:** December 15, 2007, 01:28:17 pm »

Quote from: JimH on October 24, 2007, 08:16:30 pm

Beatnik,
Thanks! This has been my default skin for several weeks.

Jim

Yes, amazing job. It still is my default skin!

tinear · « **Reply #20 on:** December 15, 2007, 10:17:48 pm »

Thanks for all the obvious (and not so obvious) hard work. Number 4 is a winner -- clean and great looking --- especially with the orange color set-off!
It's now my default....
Strong Work!
Cheers,

Fred

NoBS · « **Reply #21 on:** December 17, 2007, 06:34:29 am »

Beatnik62, thank you for sharing your Art and skill.
I raise a drink to you and yours and wish you a Merry Christmass.
May the New Year bring you good fortune, as Karma will dictate

Peace

thurston · « **Reply #22 on:** December 18, 2007, 02:36:30 pm »

Beatnik-
I'm going to try out this skin when I get home. Does the skin include those visualizations?

rjm · « **Reply #23 on:** December 30, 2007, 01:35:10 pm »

Very nice skin. Its my new default. Thanks!

mlagase · « **Reply #24 on:** January 19, 2008, 06:58:54 pm »

Sweet skin. Love the orange roll over effects.

Great work!!

mlagase · « **Reply #25 on:** January 19, 2008, 07:14:58 pm »

Unless I am doing something wrong, I can't seem to be able to resize colums with this skin enabled for Pane detailed views.

If I try to click and drag the column over, it brings up the edit menu.

If this by chance an autosizing column of some sort?

Mike

Beatnik62 · « **Reply #26 on:** January 20, 2008, 06:35:30 am »

Quote from: mlagase on January 19, 2008, 07:14:58 pm

....

If this by chance an autosizing column of some sort?

Mike,

I'm sorry, but this is not a feature of my skin, it's the way how MC is designed. You haven't the option the resize the pane columns itself in MC, only for the content of a view you could resize the columns.

Quote

Out of the manual :

Auto-size Columns
Automatically re-sizes the columns in the content pane to fit the longest item in each column. Tools > Options > Tree & View

However, I hope you anyway enjoy my skin No.4,

Beatnik

mlagase · « **Reply #27 on:** January 20, 2008, 12:48:22 pm »

That's cool. Either way, this is now my default skin and love it. Haven't seen any issues thus far.

Thanks again

thurston · « **Reply #28 on:** January 23, 2008, 06:03:31 pm »

Beatnik-
Thanks for posting this, it's definitely the best skin I've seen. Everything is easy to see (test against backgrounds, menus, etc)and crisp.

Another satisfied customer here...have you though at all about doing a Theater View skin? I'm dying to get a cool look for Theater View.

Thanks again!

JimH · « **Reply #29 on:** January 23, 2008, 06:31:14 pm »

It's my favorite, too! Thanks again.

221bBS · « **Reply #30 on:** January 24, 2008, 07:39:56 am »

I've been using this skin as my default since it first came out

I Love It!!

kurushi · « **Reply #31 on:** December 20, 2009, 05:44:11 am »

The links are dead please is it possible to reupload it?
Thx.

221bBS · « **Reply #32 on:** December 20, 2009, 06:51:48 am »

You can download this at the skins and plugins page. Here is a direct link

http://accessories.musicex.com/mediacenter/mc_data/plugins/823.mjp

kurushi · « **Reply #33 on:** December 20, 2009, 08:40:15 am »

Thx 221 BBs.
Very nice skin slim skin but there's no dsp shuffle ... buttons.

221bBS · « **Reply #34 on:** December 20, 2009, 09:37:58 pm »

It's to the right of the progress bar, left of the search box

kurushi · « **Reply #35 on:** December 21, 2009, 01:06:51 am »

Ooops u right i haven't seen them good placement!

JimH · « **Reply #36 on:** April 20, 2012, 10:47:32 am »

rjm · « **Reply #37 on:** April 21, 2012, 10:05:45 am »

Quote from: JimH on April 20, 2012, 10:47:32 am

bump

Yep, still my favorite skin.

MrC · « **Reply #38 on:** April 21, 2012, 11:47:45 am »

Here's a screenshot.

INTERACT FORUM

Author Topic: New Skin : No.4 (RC1) (Read 16571 times)

PeterS