The colors thread (show us your color themes) [Alaska only]

Juanflaco Wrote:Yes, at least for the themes I'm working on - the icons will be part of the theme so you don't have to manually replace anything.

Thanks to everyone for the feedback on my latest effort; I'm still plugging away at creating replacement icons for home 1 and 2 and have started looking into altering studio flags as well. I hope to batch process them so they'll match the stencil look of the home icons. The other flags were easy enough to do by hand but damn there's a lot of studios.

this way is better you dont have to manually change/choose the home icons when you change themes !

Juanflaco Wrote:Yes, at least for the themes I'm working on - the icons will be part of the theme so you don't have to manually replace anything.

Thanks to everyone for the feedback on my latest effort; I'm still plugging away at creating replacement icons for home 1 and 2 and have started looking into altering studio flags as well. I hope to batch process them so they'll match the stencil look of the home icons. The other flags were easy enough to do by hand but damn there's a lot of studios.

Can you give a guess when you are finished with this theme - cause I can't wait to use it

sonic00 Wrote:Can you give a guess when you are finished with this theme - cause I can't wait to use it

It'll have to be finished tomorrow night as I have some family stuff starting Saturday which will keep me occupied for a while.

Juanflaco Wrote:It'll have to be finished tomorrow night as I have some family stuff starting Saturday which will keep me occupied for a while.

Wonderfull! That theme looks really good. Can't wait to try it out!

Ok, here's another one to play around with. As always, big thanks to Hitcher for the inspiration and a great skin to work with, and the other helpful folks around here who helped me figure things out along the way.

Stencil













This one has replacement icons for Home 1 & 2 (and backdrops for Home 3) and a few other modified graphics, but I've left the flags alone for now.

Download the zip here and extract to your Alaska folder. This will merge Stencil.xpr into your media folder and Stencil.xml into your colors folder. Then select the Stencil theme from Settings > Appearance > Skin and the colors will automatically load along with the new icons and graphics.

I tried to make everything clean and readable with fanart enabled, but do let me know if you have any suggestions or notice any missing items, etc.

Enjoy!

edit: updated zip with fix for transparent panels which looked weird when stacked.

That's a nice one, Juanflaco. I just installed it and apart from the icons on my home 1 screen it works flawless. How do I get those fancy icons of yours?

superb theme, Juanflaco!

That theme is wonderful! Thanks for sharing it Juanflaco!

btw: do you have some sort of Photoshop Action for making the Home Style 1 icons?
I would love to make some of my own of movies I have in my collection.

Thanks again!

hcopp Wrote:Quick question about Blue Mosaic - and I apologize if I am just completely missing the boat on this one.

I finally got to updating my XBMC from Beta 2 to RC1 and subsequently updated Alaska - Now using the Blue Mosaic theme, the OSD seems to be very difficult to read - text is very light... if you were watching something wider than 16x9 then it would not be an issue, but if it is full screen it makes it extremely difficult to see.

Question is... Is this how it is supposed to be? My concern may be that I am not using a nightly build as it seems that xbmclive isn't updated nightly like others, and this is a side effect of not having the most up to date version.

I did that theme originally & it probably just needs some tweaking. I'll take a look at it over the weekend & see what I can come up with.

Juanflaco Wrote:Ok, here's another one to play around with. As always, big thanks to Hitcher for the inspiration and a great skin to work with, and the other helpful folks around here who helped me figure things out along the way.

Stencil

This one has replacement icons for Home 1 & 2 (and backdrops for Home 3) and a few other modified graphics, but I've left the flags alone for now.

Download the zip here and extract to your Alaska folder. This will merge Stencil.xpr into your media folder and Stencil.xml into your colors folder. Then select the Stencil theme from Settings > Appearance > Skin and the colors will automatically load along with the new icons and graphics.

I tried to make everything clean and readable with fanart enabled, but do let me know if you have any suggestions or notice any missing items, etc.

Enjoy!

Very nice theme, testing it right now. Only one thing I need to change in it, that is the dark gray font in the OSD which I find a bit hard to see. Otherwise, very very nice.