Bishop Bacon

This theme would have taken a considerable amount of time to complete. It has excellent little details like the indented select tabs in the status area.
a very nice work indeed, and a very well deserved first place for me this week.

Gault

This week I see some very nice improvment in your work, better details, good coloring etc, so yea well earned second place.

Tyronne

really good work on this, good wallpaper, great color scheme, good barwork, and very nice placement of graphics.

Zjurnia

Whats not to like , in this display of glass and gloss, great details, and some very original ideas used in this, very nice indeed.

Shalu2173

detail detail detail :D though certain areas are not even close to being pixel perfect, I still adore this theme from you, so clever is the use of the textures, very good work, well done.[/i]


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Next weeks topic should be " Transport " no special rules, just has to be based on some form of transport.

Hard week to vote.

@bishop bacon - I just like this theme, you choose a very good, attractive wallpaper, and use matching colors. (But its a Nokia theme, which I know nothing about.)

@tyronne - again perfect design and my best combonation of colors, the onlything I can say that I would choose a bright green-yellow color for the highlight text. (But its me ofcourse, the theme overall has a very good balance)

@ rjd - Perfect design and color combination. One of my favorites of the week although the wallpaper doesnt mean anything to me.

@azyrash - Nice colors, when you use a image on the highs be careful about the readibility. In your theme the image prevents reading where the text is long.

@cute heart - I see some improvement, but why the title text on the desktop screen is diff. then the others? Keep up.

@stealthassasin - very promising design, I like it a lot. The only thing is the text color. I would have preffered a diff. color for the text. Nice theme.?

@bmrpeal - very different, and nicely done. Overall I like it a lot but I have a feeling that you modified the preview, so I am not sure how exactly it will stay on the phone. Nevertheless its a new breath, and a very good design. One of the best of the week.

@ shalu2173
I love this animation and colors are great

@zjurina
it's just great

@bmrpeal
this theme is fresh and interesting

having some problem with uploading my file.. ..getting ""Required field is empty"" message although I've completed all the areas

i think i should go and vote

EDIT: i voted

comments:
bmrpeal:
i love the theme. it is totally innovative and creative. pleasant to look at, fun to use, and funtional as well! everything that a theme needs to be!

tyronne:
i particularly love the bars and highlights. the background is cool as well. beautiful like any tyronne theme

bishop_bacon:
i had forgotten how beautiful red can be until i saw your theme! the images are so clear and uncluterred

Zj:
nice colors....and lovely highlights. great animation as always

longhairsteff:
totally functional...very neat work...

My Vote in ,
Best Of Luck To All of you ,

No long list of comments from me this time, but would mention some of you, guys and girls... first of all, Longhair, you did an amazing job, with great couloring and details, your theme is one of my favourites, shalu, the same as Longhair, plus an absolutely amazing animation, and BB and BBT, simple and neat, yet very effective, just as usual... also something simple and clean, well done NVDVS... bmr, you brought some fresh ideas, and that's nice... Azyrash, I like your colour scheme and contrasts (there are couple of functionality issues tho, in the navigation screen and highlights) and your_mother, your theme is pretty unusal, but in a nice way, and so is yours stealthassasin (would like to see popup and activity screens done in the same way as inputs and those eyes on the sofkeys animated)... the rest of you made a great progress or remained as good as usual... all in all competition fool of quality work, improvements and positive vibrations, keep them all up... and not to forget, great come back for you, Tyronne...

I don't feel good because couple of great themes had to stay without my votes...

Just voted, best of luck for all!

voted..

good luck to all.

edit: mani's comments sent to TMC manager by PM...

must be a temporary problem...

@Azyrash:
I like your color scheme and texture used, but the image you chose should be use only in standby screen, because it conflicts with text in other screens.
@ajna:
A less bevel highlights will well match with the whole theme. And you should use other effects instead of blurring background
@cute_heart:
You need consider more on color to achieve the balance.
@sam1374:
This time your theme is too pale and dim for my taste, especially icons.
@bmrpeal:
An lively, strange and unique theme! However, irregular shapes are not my favorite.
@longhairsteff:
Very very good Nokia S6 theme. But your JPG preview doesn't look very sharp or I have problem with my eyesight.
@BBT:
I love almost parts of your theme. Only "tab select" is a bit simple, even it looks quite effective.
@zjurina:
Great theme! I also see innovation in your bar's style.
@your_mother:
Your red and yellow theme reminds me of the Chinese Lunar New Year, which was also celebrated in my country - Vietnam, last month.
@NVDSV1:
Very nice theme. But why don't you use glassy style for your softkey, like in your highlight and icon?
@Gault:
Just say: You are improving sooooo quickly!
@stealthassassin:
Nice and color balanced theme! Single and double title bars should be raised some pixels to fit title text.
@angelnaina:
I love overall look of your theme, but the grey metal texture should be soften a little, so that text can be more readable.
@Bishop_Bacon:
Your Nokia S4 theme looks impressive. But the softkey and grid highlight lack some details, in comparison with your previous entry.
@shalu:
Nice textured theme. But you shouldn't use thick border for bars, because in some case they are stretched unproportionally
@rjdsouza:
Nice backround manipulation and bar design, but red texts are unreadable in some screens.
@daisy:
Nice black and gold theme. But bevel style bars don't match with the whole theme.
@Tyronne:
I would say: Great great come back!
@rhtz:
Red-black stripe background seems to be of low resolution. And the whole theme is a bit busy for my taste.

my suggestion for tmc topic: lego



This is tough - wanting to be fair & provide feedback on everyone's theme. But there just isn't enough time. So will do the best I can for the ones that I think this may be more helpful.

@Azyrash
Nice fresh colour scheme and blending technique in the titles, bars, input & popup screens. But major readability issues of white text over background graphic in navigation, tab screens & calendar. I like very much the highlight bars treatment with the little icon & purple streaking but in the 2nd row of tab highlight, text is difficult to read over the icon. Softkey effects are really cool & would like to see more of this in future themes.

On a note (not related to the actual theme but may have bearing on votes) - More care should be taken when creating the screen preview


@ajna
Nice soothing colour scheme & beautiful standby animation - good effort on the whole but there are major readability issues that effect this theme


@cute_heart
It is really good to see you take part again this week. I think your entry is an improvement from last tmc but you still need to be more careful when using background images in areas where text is suppose to be read. Text in all areas are more-or-less readable except for the navigation screen. Should have tried a darker version of input 1 for navigation screen background - it would have improved overall readability. I like your effort with the animated standby but should have tried animated flames instead


@sam1374
You've picked a great image as your theme base but the background should have been made darker to improve readability. Also, icons used, I feel, are too light - should have been colour adjusted to stand out more on the screens.


@bmrpeal
This is a very fresh looking theme. I like how you've broken the shapes of the bars & highlights. You have the leaves as a consistent element on all screens. But should have done likewise for the wood in the standby. Also I feel the jaggy leaf in the standby is out of place there


@angelnaina
Nice status & softkey detailing but you may have overdone it with the icon in the highlights - it blocks some longer text strings. Some of the background textures also comprimising readability. Grey-blue is a great colour scheme though.

I'm really sorry, but I didn't sleep last night and I'm just way too tired to leave any comments! Great work everyone!

next topic?: love

bmrpeal....excellent theme....i just loved it
Longhairsteff...its looks cool...like an ancient times theme
BadBoyThemer...i love red n black...nice work

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@Tyronne Love the background and the nice bars, softkeys
@BadBoyThemer Very sharp as a knife
@Bmrpeal - You must have done 100 themes before this
@Zjurina - What can you say..He's the master of animation
@Bishop_Bacon - Very nice theme. Done by a pro...But i don't liked the yellow highlights..thinks is to bright yellow
@your_mother - Very bright theme. Very good


Could gladly pick 5 more...Very nice themes overall

Just voted...

Very nice entrys by all...Good luck to you all

I have SE phone so my comments on other models will be only based on previews. I was looking for something original and functional with nice color scheme. It was very hard, harder than usual

Azyrash
Nice color scheme, color combination and on the first sight, pretty functional. The only thing that I don't like are bars. They are too short so text overlap with details.


ajna
Nice theme, beautiful animation. I like monocromatic themes the most. On the preview it doesn't look functional on all screens. I don't like emboss look of bars, somehow they don't fit to theme imo.


cute_heart
Theme looks ok, it looks functional but combination of colors it's not perfect. I think that those bars would fit with some other color better. It's only my opinion.


sam1374
You should work more on functionality. I think that this white text is not readable at all


bmrpeal
I didn't see such theme for a long, long time . Very unique, excellent idea and realisation, functional, great color combo, details... perfect in any way.


Longhairsteff
Another excellent theme with nice touch. Only one remark, if you low down opacity of white color on titles it would look much better. The way it is now, it those titles looks very fat and as different style comparing to images.


BBT
Clean, functional and nice color combo. I only don't like barwork. In some part, text overlaps with end of highs and titles.


zj
You finaly change color of your theme Usually your themes looks somehow ungainly (nezgrapno, on croatian) because of lot of details you put in every theme. But this time you did it just enough. I like color combo, too. But bars are too short for my taste, cause longer text exceedes highs.


your_mother
Double highlights is too small, text on some screens begins at almost first pixel.


NVDS1
I would like to see bars in the same style on the whole theme. Other than that, ok.


Gault
Nice design on the whole theme except too much dots for my taste (that dirty pink somehow doesn't fit to rest of colors)


stealthassassin
Nice color scheme. I like softkeys very much.


angelnaina
I like that techno style very much. Really refreshment. You should make that orb on the highs in some darker color. The way it is now it makes text on that part bit unreadable. But it's very different from other themes and very well done

Bishop_Bacon
Simple and nice as always.


shalu2173
It looks functional but very busy at the same time. I don't know why.


rjd
Nice as always. Activity menu too small for my language Other than that, very lovely.


daisy06
Very nice. No objection


Tyronne
Perfect


rhtz
Very nice. The same thing goes to you. Detail you put on highlights is very big and overlaps with the text which is the same color. Other than that, ok.

Tyronne
What can I say... flawless, great shading and glass effect, just beautiful.

zjurina
Also very well executed, with quality 3d-barwork, a little additional colour touch would have been fine.

rjdsouza
There it is, the continuity in the barwork I missed in your last TMC theme. Really fills me with joy seeing how your entry turned out this time. Very nice colour scheme and background image manipulation. Lady in the inputs would look better if she would completely overlap the input frame instead of being cut by it. And I'd still push the rims' yellow tone a bit more to the orange-ish side, but that's nitpicking.

bmrpeal
Everytime I think I've seen everything that can be done on an SE phone, there comes something like this. Fancy! Loads of points for you in the "something different" category. Love the row of leaves used for the highlights. A pity that some elements (especially the leaves in the softkey) are unsharp.

Longhairsteff
I tested this theme on my old S60 handset and from my own experiences with Carbide I can imagine how much sweat it cost you. It was a pleasure to click through the menus and find more and more nicely customized details (the analogue clock, calendar panes, tabs, focused list frames, volume staples, music player background...).
What bugs me is that the popups suffer from distortion, especially when appearing in big sizes. But then, I know the problem with Nokia themes: either you
- follow the perfectionist and detail-lover in you and decide to set an image as popup and risk distortion
or you
- create a "simple" (uni-colored or colour gradient) popup which won't look distorted but isn't as fancy

In your case I think the latter would have been perfectly ok as the design of the wallpaper/submenu is so strong that the theme can easily bear a "simple" popup. In fact, it's one of the most ambitioned background designs for S60 I have seen in the last few months.

(A little info for themers who are not familiar with Nokia theming: In S40 as well as in S60 themes, there are many elements that come in three or four different sizes, e.g. popups, list highlights, grid highlights, etc. The disadvantage is that those sizes can't be edited separately. Instead, you have to e.g. edit the biggest popup and then it will be automatically scaled down by the phone to get the other sizes. This means, if you use an image as a popup, it will be distorted due to the scaling process, which generally looks very bad. This is the reason, why many Nokia themers avoid using images for popups or putting watermarks on list highlights, etc.)

The ochre icons (bluetooth, memory card...) are a bit hard to read on the upper, white part of the status area, black would have been a better choice there.

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shalu2173
As much as I'm aware what can be done with Carbide, I'm a bit lost when it comes to commenting o_wnskin themes, because I'm not sure to which degree o_wnskin theme creator actually allows customizing.
I tested your theme on my S60 phone, too. I very much like the subtle colour scheme and delicate pattern you used for the idle screen and submenues. Had to smile when I opened the notepad and that little orange butterfly appeared.
I noticed some usability flaws (and write them down with reservation; if the flaws are caused by o_wnskin restrictions, just blame it all to o_wnskin ):

- the popup image is noticeably distorted which makes it a bit hard to read the text on it
- the black text on the input frame is hard to read
- the text colours for "active tab" and "passive tab" are the same which makes it hard to see which tab is actually selected and which not

rjdsouza
see above

daisy06
Another one for my old phone :-) An elegant, easy-on-the-eye beginner's theme. Suffers a bit from popup-distortion, too, but I think that's an o_wnskin "trademark". (As for the icons: can you upload your own icons in the o_wnskin or do you have to select prefab ones from the o_wnskin site?)

Congratulations winners!

Tyronne (10 pts.)


zjurina (8 pts.)




bmrpeal (5 pts.)


Public Votes



Overall Votes (Public & Judges)



Note: stealthassassin & angelnaina also got the votes from one of the judges, but unfortunately didn’t make in top 5 of the judges votes...

Congrats to the winners, especially bmrpeal for his first TMC podium and many thanx to everyone who participated... great competition indeed...

Congratulations to the winners!

Was great fun voting, with so many nice entries.

Congratulations to all winners

Thank you very much!! The preview is exactly a screen capture of the phone, using bluetooth and the "Display Reader" software ;-)



Thanks so much! This "jaggy leaf" it's only because the "Display Reader" i used to make the screen capture, is lower than the animation, and doesn't capture the entire frame of the flash animated wallpaper ;-)



LOL! Yes, i'm making themes since the Sony Ericsson T630...

@Tyronne: Congratulations! Yours is an awesome theme ;-)
@zjurina: Very good looking theme, congratulations!!

For zjurina, daisy06, Tryonne, NVDVS1, Gault, Stealthassassin, ajna, boxieblue, jasnato, hungnc, sam1374, sedma, Bishop_Bacon, jasnasto... THANK YOU very much! For the comments, and for the support! It was my first TMC, and my first podium! I'm very glad with my bronze medal ;-) For all the rest themers, really good competitors, and very hard job.

Cheers!

[quote name='Sedma' date='Mar 2 2009, 08:56 PM' post='553451']
cute_heart
Theme looks ok, it looks functional but combination of colors it's not perfect. I think that those bars would fit with some other color better. It's only my opinion.

thank you ' sedma ' for your nice advice ,

congratulations!!!

thank you very much nice advice

YAAAAAWW ww

WHAT A COMP ! ! !

Simply Fantastic!

That s the ones which I like the most

CONGRATS , no, no BIG, BIG CONGRATS to my Podium Fellows ! ! !

_______________ * Ty *___ and ____ * bmrpeal * _______________


__ . * . __


Both deserved this Pod!

Ty, with that so vibrant colours and fabulous Soft-Status-Highs-Tabs execution
(only little objection i had had were this light blue, as I said, but some could like more...)

bm..& (hey my tongue knob to spell ...hahaha... mmm sorry...)
big refreshement - and as i estimated and said too :
"...All these colours goes so well together,
and also First place for Creativity!"

Very attractive theme! and vivit !
______________________________

I am a bit desapointed by not being here at least as one "tied up",
my personnal week Champion - rjdsouza
I hoped him on da Pod...
______________________________


And finnally big thanks to all who voted my theme !

And once again big congrats to all participants being a part of this great Competition
_________ and also such rising a quality !

Yey! i won!

Vs and Zj - thanks for the tip. yeah. you're right guys. i was having doubts about that highlights color from the start. Zj, congratulations!

bmrpeal - you said my theme looks awesome on phone? you tried it? thanks! Congratulations on your first pod.

daisy and shalu - "clean on eyes" and "vibrant theme" . thank you!

Gault, stealth and BBT - thanks! i really had a hard time figuring out what to design as softkeys..

Boxieblue - tyronne theme huh? hehe. thanks. that made me smile.

Jas, mani, Hung - thanks.. yeah, it is a great comeback.. coz i won. and it is overwhelming!

Longhairsteff - thanks. i also had a hard time deciding what to use as wallpaper. im glad you liked it.

Sedma - perfect? thank you so much! it means so much to me.

Bishop Bacon - flawless? i wanna kiss you and Sedma for that. hehe.


To all participants.. thank you and see you again next TMC..

by that, i guess i don't want to be one of the judges.. it's too troublesome. hehe.. could i just participate again next tmc? im enjoying more creating themes than judging. hehe.

Oh, if i will to choose the next TMC topic.. then let it be .... i can't think of any. haha. OPEN TOPIC again, i guess. i read somewhere that open topic is highly encouraged. let it be OPEN TOPIC then.

Well done everyone.
Congrats to the winners, and to everyone participated.
I am very happy to see 20 participants for every TMC. There are some new faces every week and some of them are really good.
Congratulations Tyronne, for the first place.
Zj, great job mate. But I really wonder how you find so much time to make those themes.
Bmrpeal, congratulations for the first pod. (As long as I remember)

That makes my life more difficult. Of course you can participate again in next TMC. The topic is already out too, faster booked a position there. Huge congrats mate on the top podium finish! Can't think of any better ways to make a come back in 2009.

@Zj
Congrats master Yoda.

@bmrpeal
Big congrats for the first trophy in your first TMC. I'm sure this is just a start and you will get many more trophies in your trophy cabinet. Certainly very refreshing and now everyone agree Natura was indeed a very radically different theme.

@all participants
As mentioned, thanks for making this TMC such an enjoyable event to be part of, even merely as an observer.

grats winners

@Tyronne - " Vs and Zj - thanks for the tip. yeah. you're right guys...." - Allways welcome my friend!

@vswindtalker - Thanky Vs.

".... But I really wonder how you find so much time to make those themes. " .. - must be joking... hahaha... Two weeks?

Had forgot, that my "training" was "timed" on One week? ...



@ArthurWill - Thank you AW !

CONGRATZ TO THE WINNERS

Congratulations for the winners, and thanks for who voted me!

And thanks for the comments.

cogratulation to winners and to all participants..

big thanks for judges who like my theme

Congrates Tyronne, zjurina & bmrpeal on your 1st pod - well done & another great tmc

great job everyone & many thanks to all who took the time to provide feedback

@zj - thank you for the kind words. will try to make my next one even better
@bmrpeal - thanks. was living on the edge with the red/yellow combi
@angelnaina - thanks
@shalu - thank you too
@stealthassassin - glad you like the style. i ted to get carried away sometimes though
@vswindtalker - thanks. will try to make more meaningful walls in future
@manitaaan - thanks. my specialty is the input screens
@hungnc - thanks very much
@Sedma - thanks. will work on activity menu
@Bishop_Bacon - thank you very, very much for the nice feedback. will do it better in future

Congratulations to all the winners!!

Thanks a lot for the comments n suggestions. I shall surely work on them ..They r the road to improvments!!

























@shalu:
Nice textured theme. But you shouldn't use thick border for bars, because in some case they are stretched unproportionally







shalu2173(@Sedma)
It looks functional but very busy at the same time. I don't know why.




shalu2173 ( @BB )
As much as I'm aware what can be done with Carbide, I'm a bit lost when it comes to commenting o_wnskin themes, because I'm not sure to which degree o_wnskin theme creator actually allows customizing.
I tested your theme on my S60 phone, too. I very much like the subtle colour scheme and delicate pattern you used for the idle screen and submenues. Had to smile when I opened the notepad and that little orange butterfly appeared.
I noticed some usability flaws (and write them down with reservation; if the flaws are caused by o_wnskin restrictions, just blame it all to o_wnskin ):

- the popup image is noticeably distorted which makes it a bit hard to read the text on it
- the black text on the input frame is hard to read
- the text colours for "active tab" and "passive tab" are the same which makes it hard to see which tab is actually selected and which not



The time n effort to review the theme n posting comments is highly appreciated.Thanks a lot once again n heartiest congratulations to the winners!!

congrats to the winners...

especially Bmrpeal for his first entry and first podium...

congratulations to the winners...tyronne,zjurina and bmrpeal....all well deserved

Congratulations to Tyronne, Zjurina and bmrpeal

Thanks for ALL lovely comment on my theme. Made me very happy

Special thanks to @Zjurina @Jasnasto and @Manitaan

@Bishop_Bacon - Thanks for your kind words and good advices. And yes it cost me a lot of sweat and some tears..

Thanks for a awesome community and good tmc

Congrats to the winners!!

grats to the winners [=

erm the readability thing of my theme?
erm i use it since it was done, and dont have any problems but hey /care