i made a theme last week, an anime one similar too my sig (if you know what i mean) . i'm now struggling to make a highlight bar that's good enought to go with my theme - help. i can supply details of shades and things and i would like a nice rectangular shape with round edges if anyone is willing to help.

You using photoshop? Just thinking, if we teach you how to do it then you can apply your knowledge for other things as well

Are S700 highlights like K700 ones where you have to leave a 3px clear boarder around the whole highlight?

what ya saying about me work vin

now i haven't brought photoshop yet i was going to see if i could get it cheap of ebay.

i'm using drawplus 4 which is really good and free too.

I you want to you can browse my thread and see if any bars match what you want, then I can give you the basic shape of it or you can use it as it is.

http://www.mobile9.com/invboard/index.php?showtopic=11856

guess i owe you one of these then doc, your an angel, i'll pm you a pic of what i've done so far.

shelleeson

You don't owe me anything. But I reluctantly accept it.. What makes M9 the best theme-community? (Aside from the stunning quality of themes of course) We help each other out!

isn't it colourful in here

i didn't save anyone the bars.

cry: where did they go.

ooops.. here you go again:

edit:removed once again...

hey dr that's the best medicine i've had in ages.

if you want you can remove them again i've got them all now.

hey people, i've upgraded my software. i've now got paintshop pro 8 but i don't know how to make my bars transparent. any ideas. the software is impossibly hard but i'm getting there.

Start by making a new image and choose transparent as background.

That will give you with a checkerboard-looking pic. Which is the default look of transparent pictures.

Just so that you can see the effect,
make a new raster layer and fill it with black.
Then create another raster layer and fill it with some other color.

Now take a look at this pic:



The sliders (marked 100) is the level of transparency for the different layers. Just adjust each layer as you please.

When you're done, save as png. And you should have a transparent or semi-transparent pic.

Hope I made it somewhat understandable..

And here's a layer-tut if you need it:

http://www.psphelp.com/v7_layers.php

sorry doc it's still not working even though this said it was psp7 i still tried it and couldn't get it to work eventhough it looked transparent in the application.

Then try this:

When you choose to save as png, just before you click the save-button, click options - run optimizer and check the transparency there. If the image looks transparent in the preview-window it will work, just click ok, then save.

I know I had to do this with PSP 7. With PSP 9 you don't. 8 might have the same "illness"..

thanks for the tip doc. i tried this and i could get the background to disappear but not the marbles (it left a white edge around the marbles too), but cause the suns shining right at the monitor right now i can't see the screen properly so i will make a fresh graphic and try it again.

thank you soooo much for the help i really appreaciate it.


edit
thanks doc it worked now i just have to get the colours right for the rest of the theme and then i'm done.