Hi There....

I have been making themes for a while now,
but i havent learn myself to make bars 'n lines so good yet.
So i just wondered if there was any good themers out
there who could help me with this task?

I just wanted to make a theme with fresh and clear
bars, lines etc. So i need help with ALL these bars n lines,
the pictures i fix myself, below is a preview of how
i wanted the bars/lines, i want them all blank and shiny
I really hope someone could help me
Hope it isnt so much to ask for

Waiting for answers

well i'm no mod , but i'll help ya out ok.
btw this following info only aplies to photoshop software , if you have something else sorry i can't help ya.

Ok so lets begin then shall we , this will be short and sweet and is not at all hard to acheive.

1- create a new document - with bg white or foreground clour. size is softkey size- 176x26
2- hit ctrl- a , and select new layer.
3- now using your paint fill tool , fill in the new layer with white.
4- now go to blending options - gradient overlay.
5- either select a suitable gradient from your selection , or make your own- now in gradient options - tilt the direction stroke to face horizontial - this will afde the colour across ways , as your pic is.
6- ok so now in our selcted layer we should have a gradient faeing from left to right, in what ever coulours it is you chose.
7- ok so now for the hl shine.
8- open new layer again but this time only make the layer half the hieght of the first and again ctrl a , on it.
9- right this time go to the side left tools menu and select your gradient fill tool.
10- set it to the second across gradient or in otherwords the one marked transperant.
11- double click on the gradient to open it in a new window , giving you the options to make your own graient.
12- ok now click in side the colour boxs they'll be one on the bottom left and one on the bottom right.
13- make both of these white.
14- make sure the transperancy is set to 100%on the right- and 0% on the left
15- now apply the gradient from the top of your new layer and drag to the bottom.
16- cool now you will see your softkey has a shine on top of it.
17- final step ok , easy one - open the layer options for the shine layer and reduce the transprancy to 50% .



Now then before merging the layers save it first as a psd format , this way you'll have a ready made tut to follow for the future.
then merge the layers and save as png , this is to achieve best contrast on the phone img wise, also it's a smaller file than jpg or bitmap.

hope that sees your dream realised , if have probs pm me. or replie to post here.
sorry oif sounds hard but it isn't at all, it's just hard to explain in words.

@BBT
Good one!

@Daniboy
Good to see you want to move along with your themes! If you use PSP, here's my old tut for softkeys: http://www.skorpan.dk/tut/softbar.html
If you want solid bars instead of buttons just change the selection in the beginning accordingly.

And there was he,expecting to post and receive some ready made bars.


Begin working on bars now..........you must.
Theme making skills depend on it.....they do.

.. Much better off this way though..
BTW have you been watchin star wars..??

No,but yodas way is just a more polite way of telling someone to do something.

Thanks, but i couldnt work it out
I suck in things like that, is there any chance that you could make them and add them just this once time?

sure i could do that danny , might take me 5minutes to design you some bars like what ya want , btu then it wouldn't be your theme would it

it would become my theme , instead how about posting which step you got stuck on , hell pm me your msn email , and i'll talk you through it , i just don't want to take something away from you which your soo very close to earning yourself, an yes danny you will feel very proud of yourself , sorry if i sound like a wierd school teacher , but these are the facts , however if your replie to this post of mine is still hopeless then ok , i'll make the bars for you

this post is not to anger you or do anything to you other than maybe empower you to improve yourself, as you said you wish to take your theming to the next step, well danny only you can do that , i can help as can others but you will not trully start to improve yourself until you make the decission to try things yourself, trial an error is a good learning process , trust me it works....looking forward to your replie.

DaNiBoY-SE

take these advises

and BBT offer... YOU GOT a BEST "teacher" in the World

in him... (this is not a compliment- this is a fact, imo)

Happy could I be if got one like this when beggining !!!

Good luck !

Its not too late.

Whats your problem then??
If you dont interested to help, zip it then, dont make fun of people
whoes ask for something, im sure you wasnt the biggest guy yourself at the beginning. I just thinks its so annoying when people behave them self at that way.
Im just a newbie at this theme creator thing... And was hoping some tips and backup from the people... It all was just a question

Elton's just kidding! On the expense of zjurina I might add, not you Daniboy!

I can explain my position in this. I won't make you those bars because I think that's your work and if we make you a set of bars, what next time? And the next.. If you intend to keep on making themes there's no shortcuts really. You HAVE to do it yourself and I would take the advice you've been given and be thankful for it.

About 50 minutes after BBT posted his help you posted that you couldn't make it work.. I can't even guess how long it took me in the beginning. It takes time, mate. And you have to realize that.

I really hope you keep on theming because you've got lots of potential, but I think you have to spend some quality time in the graphics software you're using. If this was no help to you use google and search using these words like "tut", "tutorial", "photoshop" / "psp".

Good luck, mate! And if there's any questions, there's some really helpful souls right here at M9.

A newbie when it comes to jokes too i see.

And you got them.......Bbt had already given you all the tips you could need....what more could i say?
I am always interested in helping anyone,but by the time i got here,you had already been helped with step by step instructions and a link to a tutorial.