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posted on 2-13-2007 at 06:45 AM
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I attempted to make an alternate pop-up case for your skin Pirk and think it turned out really well. It looks best in action so give it a try and let
me know what you think 
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posted on 2-13-2007 at 12:40 PM
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Well I would say that is your interpretation of my color scheme.. the ejukebox logo is well visible, but I don't think the background needs to be
inevitably red-blue! That is to much red-blue. I think maybe a luminous golden background would be better.
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posted on 2-13-2007 at 07:36 PM
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Pirk here are a couple more attempts with gold in them. The other color is the purple from the songlist not blue. It would be nice to get a hold of
your skin as I really have no clue how these things will look. Let me know what you think!
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posted on 2-13-2007 at 07:36 PM
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Another with eJukebox indented.
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posted on 2-13-2007 at 08:52 PM
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rllercstr7, Thanks again, but I forgot to say you a little thing: I don't like much this kind of photoshop criss-cross pattern! And also as my frozen
texture is already diagonally striped..
However I like the corrugated "eJukebox" text in your last image.
I know that to find a good background image for my frozen skin is a challenge! I would prefer something more random. Until now the famous Norwegian
plastic bag remain the best.
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posted on 2-13-2007 at 11:11 PM
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I tried again and replaced the images in the last couple of posts with the new ones. They are not real random, but I kept with the same corrugated
look and made the background gold and black. The text that looks chromish can easilly be changed to something else.
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posted on 2-14-2007 at 12:42 AM
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rllercstr7, your "Golden Indent" image works rather good!
If you could make exactly the same, but without the roughcast texture. Just keep the black-golden shading.
The indented ejukebox logo is perfect in grey, don't change it (just remove the rough texture in it too).
And if you could also make another version with the shading in golden-black (instead of black-golden), maybe that will look better in my skin.
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posted on 2-14-2007 at 01:07 AM
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Here ya go!
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posted on 2-14-2007 at 01:10 AM
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Otherwise guys, I've started to arrange the skin directory, it is now reduced to only 5 Mo.. 
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posted on 2-14-2007 at 01:14 AM
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And here is the second one you requested.
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posted on 2-14-2007 at 01:33 AM
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Thank you very much rllercstr7!
Here is how that looks:
What do you think?
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posted on 2-14-2007 at 01:36 AM
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Wow! that looks really cool streaking eJukebox like that behind the songlist. Looks great. I'm glad I finally came up with something that worked
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posted on 2-14-2007 at 01:45 AM
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Yeah! This is your work man! I keep it. The skin will be finished soon..
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posted on 2-14-2007 at 02:02 AM
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Pirk I found one more little thing in the skin. It looks like you hit the songlist top boarder with the eraser or something and a little gouge is
missing.
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posted on 2-14-2007 at 12:42 PM
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No rllercstr7, it's deliberate!  This is a field separator!! I've just
keep this one because the others field move and so they look bad.. Well rather the songlist moves compared with the header.. The album field is the
only one which is perfectly stable.
Now you know what it is, I hope you will like it!
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posted on 2-14-2007 at 06:48 PM
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Here is a golden cd you can use for the nocover.jpg image that I have been using a while. It might look good.
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posted on 2-14-2007 at 06:50 PM
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Would be even cooler if the (white) background was transparent?
Pirk, very nice work!
Have you considered to use other playicons in the playlist? Also, the play icons in the songlist could be made more explicit? As a new user I am not
sure if I would have thought "aha, this button plays songs" right away. I think I would have used a more 'cdplayer-alike" playbutton, which
blended more into the blue background. Would make the skin look less cluttered and more streamlined as well?
Also I do not like the orange hightlight color used in the artistlist. I would have used a more neutral color here as well. Maybe this is a matter of
taste. I tend to enjoy dark and discreet interfaces.
Finally, I would have changed the style used for the buttons in the albumlist (refresh, options, etc.). I think the style used in arctic skin (don't
remember the name) looks a little smoother and more like things that are pushable
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posted on 2-14-2007 at 07:57 PM
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rllercstr7, thanks for your no cover cd. I will try it.
Fishy, I will consider your remarks concerning the orange color.. But as it's a lot of work (for a poor graphic artist like me), probably that will
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posted on 2-14-2007 at 09:04 PM
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Fishy I tried to get rid of the white by saving it as a png image, but ejukebox looks for the exact filename nocover.jpg so it wouldn't work with
another file extension and I don't know how to change that.
I can see where Fishy is comming from when he says a first time user may not know that the little CD is to play the song now, however I really like
that symbol and thing it is original. If anything is to be changed I say do it in a later version and just concentrate on getting this one out.
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posted on 2-14-2007 at 09:11 PM
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You should use transparent .GIF images for transparency. PNGs only works if you have IE7 installed. So just save it as a GIF (only supports 256
colors) or you can save it as a JPG and fill in the transparent parts with the now playing background so you have full color for the gradients.
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posted on 2-14-2007 at 09:59 PM
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Hmm.. All my images are png! I hope you have ie7 installed guys? 
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posted on 2-14-2007 at 10:00 PM
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Hmmm,
The image looks pretty bad and develops readlly jaged edges when I save it as a gif unfortunately. I dont have the gradient you are using Pirk, but
here is the psd where it has a transparent back if you would like to play with it.
Attachment: nocover.psd (1.8mb)
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posted on 2-15-2007 at 12:46 AM
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I can't blend your cover with my background directly because the nowplaying background is resized differently than the nocover image.. but it's
still possible to add a background to your cd image:
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posted on 2-15-2007 at 12:53 AM
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This one is a bit textured and transparent..
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posted on 2-15-2007 at 01:04 AM
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How it looks in real situation:
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posted on 2-15-2007 at 01:58 AM
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If other parts of your skin use png images why don't we just use one for the no cover cd too?
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posted on 2-15-2007 at 12:27 PM
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If other parts of your skin use png images why don't we just use one for the no cover cd too?
I agree that would be great, but only Audiosoft could allow the png extension because as the "nocover.jpg" image name is not specified in the
nowplaying.dis file we can't change its extension in our skins.. Currently eJukebox just search for a nocover.jpg file in the skin folder, a
nocover.png image is ignored!
Audiosoft, maybe could you allow the PNG file type for the nocover image?
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posted on 2-15-2007 at 08:33 PM
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eJukebox currently can use nocover.gif or nocover.jpg. I will think about adding support for nocover.png but I am reluctant to do so because if the
user only has IE6 then the transparent parts will show up solid white.
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posted on 2-15-2007 at 09:12 PM
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Hmmm,
What is the downside to that since Pirks skin will probably need IE7 anyways Audiosoft? Even for those with IE6 the nocover image would look similar
to the one that exists now that in fact does have a solid white background. It would be nice for those of us with IE7 and virtually no change for IE6
users. I could maybe understand more if IE was something you have to pay to upgrade to but since its not I don't quite understand the logic.
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posted on 2-15-2007 at 10:22 PM
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OK I will make nocover.png work for the next version of eJukebox. The only thing is: the skin that first time users see must look good on IE6 (so that
it works on a fresh Win2k/XP install)...that means no PNG's (except for the song change album popup png) in the startup skin but I can still include
Pirk's skin in the eJukebox installer if he wants.
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