would somebody be able to help me i need a really funky highlight bar for my new theme and when i've finished i would like to publish it.

i don't want to steal somebody else's highlight bars as i don't feel that's very fair. i've seen some cool round edged ones. it would be nice to finish it so i can get rid of my htf theme i've only made it on saturday but i'm fed up with it already.

I could make something for you, but I have to know what theme it is, what colors are on the images, etc.

thanks honey the theme is doug hyde's paintings

the painting i need the highlight bar for is called boys will be boys

were do i get the basic highlight bar shapes from (it would be nice to learn how to do different shapes?)



P.s. seeing as i only learned how to my signature and avatar on sunday in a 10 minute session i was proud of what i'd done, but i may start co-ordinating the sig and avatar with my phone theme hahaha. i know very girlie.

shelleeson - what graphics application are you using?

here's some photoshop tutorials :
http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorials/11

i've seen some really cool transparent buttons but i can't do that with my software.

ulead photo express 3 se

If I can recommend anything for you it would be Corel (formerly Jasc) Paint shop pro 9. You can try it for 60 days free. It will cost you $129 to buy it.

Free programs that are worth anything are hard to come by, but one is Gimp and can be found here:
http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/

So download away and make some transparant buttons!

thanks doc i appreciate it

right ok this is where i get all but do i neeed to have windows first

what are you running now? mac? linux? unix?

yes

You don't need Windows for Gimp. It works with Unix, Mac or Windows.

All versions here: http://www.gimp.org/

Paint shop pro requires Windows.

i couldn't get the stuff to work properly on my computer don't ask why. believe it or not i had already got a piece of software on my computer that was not only free but sophisticated enough to do what i want. hoorah. i 've finished the theme.

http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/Software/...us/download.asp.

what was it?

some of doug hyde's paintings
boy's will be boys, the family, love is all around etc.

too scared to post them now though.

You should never be scared, to post a prev! You can only learn from the discussions about your theme!

ok how is it looking.if there's anything i can change let me know.

well it isn't as bad as i thought it would be
just kidding

i don't see anything wrong with it, there are little improvements that can be undertaken, although honestly these will be filtered through experience.

a few pointers:
-the status for the desktop and other screens, seems out of place, it looks okay on the desktop screen, but a little outof place on the rest.
-blurring or fading the desktop background, could help bring out the icons more, and help for visibility issues.

apart from those two issues, the rest seem fine to me

only thing you need to do is make your previews a bit bigger for us to see

only thing you need to do is make your previews a bit bigger for us to see

well i've at least done this bit (i edited my previous post).

do u guys have tutorial for using gimp...its kinda cool but i don't know how to use it....how i envious those softbutton frame...

well if you can get it to work good luck i gave up on trying to install it after the first 4 times