Skinning methods ...or ... How do you grow a skin?
Wednesday, March 5, 2003 by vizo | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
I'm curious about the methods you use to skin.
For example one thought would be to develop the whole idea for a skin using drawing or a graphics program from a preconceived thought or idea. Another method might be to start with a single graphic image and build on that. Yet another could be just open a basic skin and start messing around in your favorite graphics program till you get something that looks good.
Also, what about designing all or most of the graphic images before even opening SkinStudio vs. making each graphic 1 at a time while building the skin.
What about it? Any skinners want to chime in?
For example one thought would be to develop the whole idea for a skin using drawing or a graphics program from a preconceived thought or idea. Another method might be to start with a single graphic image and build on that. Yet another could be just open a basic skin and start messing around in your favorite graphics program till you get something that looks good.
Also, what about designing all or most of the graphic images before even opening SkinStudio vs. making each graphic 1 at a time while building the skin.
What about it? Any skinners want to chime in?
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vizo
Reply #2 Wednesday, March 5, 2003 11:10 PM
Reply #2 Wednesday, March 5, 2003 11:10 PM
WOM, would that be a channel cat or possibly an appaloosa?
IPlural
Reply #4 Wednesday, March 5, 2003 11:16 PM
Reply #4 Wednesday, March 5, 2003 11:16 PM
WOM!
mmm, I hand draw everything, actually, I go a bit to far with it too. All you need really is a sketch for a layout on paper, you can actualy break graph paper down into pixil groups so you have a good idea of exactly where what goes on the screen by pixel count...
probably over kill though
There are a couple of good books on GUI design and theroy...
mmm, I hand draw everything, actually, I go a bit to far with it too. All you need really is a sketch for a layout on paper, you can actualy break graph paper down into pixil groups so you have a good idea of exactly where what goes on the screen by pixel count...
probably over kill though
There are a couple of good books on GUI design and theroy...
vizo
Reply #5 Wednesday, March 5, 2003 11:17 PM
Reply #5 Wednesday, March 5, 2003 11:17 PM
trotline or rod & reel?
I prefer channel cat myself but ate a lot of appaloosa back when my grandfather was fishing the river all the time. (that's Neches river here in Texas)
I prefer channel cat myself but ate a lot of appaloosa back when my grandfather was fishing the river all the time. (that's Neches river here in Texas)
IPlural
Reply #6 Wednesday, March 5, 2003 11:20 PM
Reply #6 Wednesday, March 5, 2003 11:20 PM
oh we get Sail Cats 
real white flaky meat, big too, though if they pop you with a fin, ouch! Kinda like a stingray stickign you.
WOM has got to vacation down here so we can go Red, Gator Trout and Snook fishing
Oh and Dolphin lay up under the Skyway bridge also, Mahi Mahi !!
real white flaky meat, big too, though if they pop you with a fin, ouch! Kinda like a stingray stickign you.WOM has got to vacation down here so we can go Red, Gator Trout and Snook fishing
Oh and Dolphin lay up under the Skyway bridge also, Mahi Mahi !!
vizo
Reply #7 Wednesday, March 5, 2003 11:20 PM
Reply #7 Wednesday, March 5, 2003 11:20 PM
overkill? I've found myself doing some graphics pixel by pixel when I 'just couldn't quite get it right' 
WOM
Reply #8 Wednesday, March 5, 2003 11:27 PM
Reply #8 Wednesday, March 5, 2003 11:27 PM
Trout line isn't fishing. Thats cheating or commercialism. Rod and reel.
IPlural
Reply #9 Wednesday, March 5, 2003 11:32 PM
Reply #9 Wednesday, March 5, 2003 11:32 PM
Abu-Baitcaster 6 - 10 lb line 30 - 40 lb hand tied leader depending on the critter 38 inch Snook is great but those gill plates shread line
M/H Glomus stick with Fugi Stainless eyes
6 - 10 lb line 30 - 40 lb hand tied leader depending on the critter 38 inch Snook is great but those gill plates shread line M/H Glomus stick with Fugi Stainless eyes
vizo
Reply #10 Wednesday, March 5, 2003 11:33 PM
Reply #10 Wednesday, March 5, 2003 11:33 PM
Hey I learned to trotline (I know, I called it trotline. That's what everybody down here calls it) before I ever started using a rod and reel. It's pretty common here or at least was back when I was growing up. Maybe it's a Texas thang
WOM
Reply #11 Wednesday, March 5, 2003 11:36 PM
Reply #11 Wednesday, March 5, 2003 11:36 PM
They call it that here too. Like I said thats cheating unless your doing it to feed your family.
IPlural
Reply #14 Wednesday, March 5, 2003 11:50 PM
Reply #14 Wednesday, March 5, 2003 11:50 PM
down here in FL they call em Sabiecie rigs, use them for white bait, little gold hooks no bait neede to catch bait. Personally I throw a 12 foot net, well I used to throw a 12 foot net, now I watch Everyone used to sit around and wait for my brother and I to fill the bait barrels because we grew up throwing pancakes.. WHich was ok, but got upsetting when you went to get bait 5 hours into fishing only to find out someone or a couple had been freeing bait all night not hooking em up right.... "Oh you need to throw the net again, both barrels are empty and the down buckets are getting there fast"
grrrr
Everyone used to sit around and wait for my brother and I to fill the bait barrels because we grew up throwing pancakes.. WHich was ok, but got upsetting when you went to get bait 5 hours into fishing only to find out someone or a couple had been freeing bait all night not hooking em up right.... "Oh you need to throw the net again, both barrels are empty and the down buckets are getting there fast"grrrr
Weaksid
Reply #15 Wednesday, March 5, 2003 11:54 PM
Reply #15 Wednesday, March 5, 2003 11:54 PM
LMAO, it went from asking for a method of creating graphics to something about the correct way to fish. I think lack of sleep or lack of caffine messes with the mind a little
vizo
Reply #16 Wednesday, March 5, 2003 11:58 PM
Reply #16 Wednesday, March 5, 2003 11:58 PM
~it's a multi hook hand line?~
It's usually fixed on one end near the bank with the other end in deep water anchored a couple of feet off the bottom. Usually about 50 hooks baited with live bait, catalpa worms are good; so are goggle eye, at night. You run it the next morning and if the cats are feeding and some troller didn't hook your line and cut it, you load em up and you got fish for dinner.
It's usually fixed on one end near the bank with the other end in deep water anchored a couple of feet off the bottom. Usually about 50 hooks baited with live bait, catalpa worms are good; so are goggle eye, at night. You run it the next morning and if the cats are feeding and some troller didn't hook your line and cut it, you load em up and you got fish for dinner.
WOM
Reply #18 Thursday, March 6, 2003 12:03 AM
Reply #18 Thursday, March 6, 2003 12:03 AM
vizo, I hope that wasn't for me. I'am here in Texas. Know all about them. I'd be boating up a stream and my motor would get caught up on them. Needless to say they got cut.
vizo
Reply #19 Thursday, March 6, 2003 12:07 AM
Reply #19 Thursday, March 6, 2003 12:07 AM
WOM, no not at all. If your motor got one, somebody didn't know how to set a line properly. It wouldn't catch too much being that near the surface. I'd say they hopefully learned a lesson.
BoXXi
Reply #20 Thursday, March 6, 2003 12:52 AM
Reply #20 Thursday, March 6, 2003 12:52 AM
I asked "The Master" how he did it,(Treetog) and I follow his teachings......
I make a basic frame with buttons and scrollbars, slice it up while still in photoshop and then throw that into skinstudio. I then make the rest of the graphics for the skin on the fly, so to speak.
If it's good enough for "The Master", it's good enough for me!
I make a basic frame with buttons and scrollbars, slice it up while still in photoshop and then throw that into skinstudio. I then make the rest of the graphics for the skin on the fly, so to speak.
If it's good enough for "The Master", it's good enough for me!
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Reply #1 Wednesday, March 5, 2003 11:04 PM