Recoloring IP themes
Sunday, September 10, 2006 by jazzymjr | Discussion: IconPackager
Just recently (past couple of weeks), I have had some problems with recoloring some IP themes...specifically all of skinhit's themes, and NextOS. These are the only ones I have tried to recolor recently. What happens, Icon Developer goes all through the re-color process, then a window pops up saying "Out of Memory". Does anyone know what could be causing this? I am running Windows XP Home, SP2, have 1 gig of RAM, IP version: 3.11.104, Icon Developer version: 1.2.0, Build 1066.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
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47songs
Reply #22 Thursday, September 14, 2006 7:23 PM
Reply #22 Thursday, September 14, 2006 7:23 PM
I just added another word at the end. I cant even remember what it was for the first pack. It's rediulous that we have to rename the pack to recolor it. I just added gray, like you do for the second pack. The grayscaled pack is up at SA if you want to take a look or download it. Interesting note is that it didn't save any of the 256x256 sizes.
Anyways, before Rick told me about changing the name, I had just tried another way to recolor the pack. Instead of opening IP and then navigating to recolor, I opened Icon Developer, then file, then batch, and then 'recolor pack from folder'. You should get a box that asks you for the originating folder location that you want to recolor, and then a loacation to put the recolored icons in. I made a new folder with the new 'color' name and went from there. Is that anything you've ever tried? I mean going through Icon Developer first?
Anyways, before Rick told me about changing the name, I had just tried another way to recolor the pack. Instead of opening IP and then navigating to recolor, I opened Icon Developer, then file, then batch, and then 'recolor pack from folder'. You should get a box that asks you for the originating folder location that you want to recolor, and then a loacation to put the recolored icons in. I made a new folder with the new 'color' name and went from there. Is that anything you've ever tried? I mean going through Icon Developer first?
boss0190
Reply #23 Thursday, September 14, 2006 7:29 PM
Reply #23 Thursday, September 14, 2006 7:29 PM
I've used that method for packs of dock icons and it worked great. I imagine it would work the same for an IP theme also. Just different ways to try things..sometimes one works and another doesn't. 
47songs
Reply #24 Thursday, September 14, 2006 8:03 PM
Reply #24 Thursday, September 14, 2006 8:03 PM
I had actually given up on the way I was trying it when you had posted your way of changing the name, Rick. And that way WAS the charm! It certainly is easier your way! Thats the way I'll do it from now on! I can't thank you enough for that one! It's unfortunate that there are no instructions on changing the name for it to work. I guess thats one of the reasons these forums and our skinning comrads in arms are here for! 
I hope the way I suggested to MaryJane works for her.
I hope the way I suggested to MaryJane works for her.
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Reply #21 Thursday, September 14, 2006 7:01 PM
Donna, did you give the pack a completely different name, or just add to the name? What I have always done, was add the color I was making to the end of the name....for example, Silver Shine Brown (brown is the color I was making).