wanted: help handcrafting images for woodgrain theme - Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

ok, i thought id take a shot at this because i really dont want to do this all by myself. i'm considering undertaking a theming project that will include woodgrain graphics all over. im not talking about anything cheezy looking thrown together like a 2-year-old, im looking to go all out on this and its gonna be a nice, elegant, darkish theme such as the inside of a bmw with black leather. the wood? maybe something this shade or a little darker...
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anyway post in the thread if you think you can help. i'll be assigning images to work on so dont worry about actual "theming" know-how. ps move this if you dont think its in the right place.

Sounds like a great idea. Best of luck on this theme. I would rock it on my phone.
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This could be interesting.. I've always been a fan of the dark woodgrain tho, like the dark greyish blues with some cream highlights or somethin? Maybe a dark woodgrain status bar with a creamy looking lockscreen? I dunno but I'm intrigued and will check back. Sorry I'm no themer or dev but would I'd flash it and leave feedback for ya when it was done.
Edit: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=608607&page=2
I'm sure you can do a google image search of woodgrain, but came across this on XDA.

I think this would be awesome and have considered it myself but I anticipated distortion problems would arise with the stretching of .9.png images. As for images try searching google for woodgrain textures for use in 3d renderings. There are lots of free ones available for public use and its easier then creating from scratch or trying to modify a photograph. Good luck I'm curious to see your results.
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I think this would be awesome and have considered it myself but I anticipated distortion problems would arise with the stretching of .9.png images. As for images try searching google for woodgrain textures for use in 3d renderings. There are lots of free ones available for public use and its easier then creating from scratch or trying to modify a photograph. Good luck I'm curious to see your results.
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Yes we will have to have horizontal grain.. I think that'll help the skewing.
cd's or tapes?

Feel free to PM me a couple of ideas that you would want worked on and I will see what I can come up with. Are you looking for everything custom like wallpapers and icons?

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Feel free to PM me a couple of ideas that you would want worked on and I will see what I can come up with. Are you looking for everything custom like wallpapers and icons?
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That stuff can totally come last. Framework and twframework will definitely be priority.
cd's or tapes?

Just a headsup... adw theme already exists. And so does beautiful widgets and its all embossed so it looks slick.
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yeah ive seen them both man i love those programs. just need some slick framework to go with them. im gonna get started on this soon.. just have to get some kinks worked out with gingerbread on my phone.. might just wait till official drops, as i really dont care to run the leak for testing, i need overclocking for emulators.

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[Theme] Prissy Pink

This is a theme i made for my wife figure ill drop it for the lady's who rock G1's. Ill be dropping this in a few days.
Read:
Inside the zip there is a folder and inside that is the theme and the wallpaper. The update is already named update so put it on your S.D and i hope you know the rest.
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My sis would love this theme! I just need to get her "Androided" first.
thats what i was thinking mannyb, my lil sis has a G1 as well.
my girlfriend loves this theme ! LOL.. i was going to actually make one for her after i got done with my windows 7 beta 3.0 release.. but since u made that ..you have deffintly saved me ALOT of time so thank you !! lol.. even tho shes still gonna want her own custom one to be different .. but for now she can use this one
Possible Theme ?????
hey manup idk if this is the right place to ask this but i recently found out 1st hand that i am horrible at creating themes lol...i tried to follow the directions but i have failed miserably and basically i have given up the frustration has came to a head. Yet, I would like to know, only if you have the time, if you could create me a non wipe rc 30 theme, again im jus asking if its not too imposing on you. The theme i would like for you to make is sport based for my favorite team the st. louis rams maybe with a different color task bar up top and rams logo as the logo for the tab at the bottom...thnx in advance....
Hmmmm, where have I seen this theme before? Hmmmmm.......Looks great man, always turning out A+ work ya are.
Stericson
I Like!
Hey nice theme! My wife would like this and I am going to mod her G1 so let me know when you drop it so i can load it. good job
Thanks,
Aaron
not keen on colours too bright
I like it too and can't wait until you drop it.
i would love to have this theme
Hopefully he will post it soon!
Any new news on this one? Have my friend's wifey stopping by with her G1 tonight and would love to be able to load this up for her
well i have it but there is still some work maybe ill post a BETA RC30 tonight give me a few.
manup456 said:
well i have it but there is still some work maybe ill post a BETA RC30 tonight give me a few.
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Sweet... honestly she isn't looking for everything to be perfected. Hell, she doesn't even know you can change the theme
Theme Posted enjoy.
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Theme Posted enjoy.
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Sweet thanks!
Thank you so much for posting this. Now I can't wait until I get home tonight so I can try this out.
thanks my wife loves it but the pictures app keeps crashing when scrolling. hope you can fix it, blue star 5 had the same issue but he fixed it. Once again thanks so much the theme matches her g1 cover.
Picture problem fixed post #1 has the updated version.
despite it being a girly-looking theme, the icons are looking pretty sexy. Great looking theme
kudos to you!

[Theme] Code_Name_Ninja RC33_V1.42 Released

This is a preview to see what i am doing.
I want take this space to thank all the theme designers on the site for keeping me motivated to keep making themes with your GREAT! work. Special thanks to
Stericson who is the major reason we can even do this also JF for the awesome work hes doing and all the guys working on creating themes,builds etc.....keep up the good work.
Oh also special thanks to damnitpud for the guide and letting us know the icons needed to be compressed to work with RC33.
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I just added the White Notification.
Code_Name_Ninja_JF_RC33_V1.42_Version Link:http://www.4shared.com/file/88568229/e3a79513/RC33_V142_Code_Name_Ninja_Final_11.html
Thats pretty sweet man, i'd probably use it when it's released.
Them stars better not cut my finger!
I like!
WoooHoooo, Lookin Sharp!!
Looking badass!! Def. dig the shurikens!!!
Dude that sword background is the ish!!! Can't wait to get my hands on that!
HAHA... shinobi son!!! Great work so far manup. This will definitely be added to my collection.
Thanks guys i just added new pics i changed the battery the clock and you can see the dial pad i am going to use,this theme should be out soon for testing.
SWEET!
I think this might be one of your best ones yet dude...
I have a feeling this will be my favorite... I'll beta test this one for sure.
That's awesome.
You should do the clock numbers in Japanese or something.
Looks great so far, only thing I don't like is the IE FF forever lol!
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That's awesome.
You should do the clock numbers in Japanese or something.
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pure genius.
maybe even the dialer!
OOOOOOoooooo nice touch! The reflection you provided the battery is perfect for it to bask in it;s digital glory.
Manup you never fail to impress! Looks great good job!
ninja!
I like it, but can we get some icons or something for it? that IE icon just doesnt fit in
I am glad everyone likes what i am doing i just posted all new pics with shots of most of the icons,I say like in two more days this will be out for BETA testing.
I posted new pics of all the icons i will be using for this theme let me know what you guys think.
looks really nice, can't wait for tihs to come out, i really like blue, so between this and Fade to Blue, which damitpud is doing a great job with fixing things, it might be a close race to my phone. will deffinately install this as soon as it comes out
damn, always quality work. gonna use your screen shot as my wallpaper
I changed the internet icon and i posted pics of the Zoom in an out and the music player i did something different i want to know what you guys think.

[Theme] *** FLUX *** wip

This is my first try at a theme... Made some icons myself, others grabbed from various sites, but the whole undertaking is a bit more than I expected, so I'll be at it for a while...
So please offer your best or worst criticism... I can take it... OH Yeh, the clock hands are not like that for real, I was too tired to sign the last update It'll be fixed in the next post with some other screen shots
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Nice! I really like it. The artwork around the clock is part of the bg or part of the clock itself? Cuz I often thought that someone should do something like that. Nice start tho : D
nice icons i used them on one of of my earlier themes... lookin good, thought of doing that to tha clock 2... glad to see ideas come to life
Lookin good, cant w8 for it.
Very sharp! Keep it going, it looks great so far.
RainCrow said:
Nice! I really like it. The artwork around the clock is part of the bg or part of the clock itself? Cuz I often thought that someone should do something like that. Nice start tho : D
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That's part of the clock... I may change the background though, this is just a first draft...
Nice work! Don't give up....I'm working on my first theme.... there's a lot more than I expected....but when I release it will be worth it! Keep up the good work man!
Aim=dead2hill <--- be my theme teammate lol, seriously....... I think it would be cool to have teams one could work on half and the other the other half....would push out themes faster and quicker updates...... I really don't know what I'm talking about...just a tad bored.....lol
Good work man!
I see a lot of images that look like .gif images,bro if you need any help with this theme let me know. Looks good great start.
Sweet I like it.
I first saw the title I thought it might be FLUX CAPACITOR like in Back to the Future. But it is still good.
Someone should make a BTTF theme lol.
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I see a lot of images that look like .gif images,bro if you need any help with this theme let me know. Looks good great start.
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Yeh bro, I can use all the help I can get... I'm working with .PNGs though, Do they seem a bit rough aroung the edges?
Paint.NET has a very powerful editor that allows you to edit individual pixels... Not sure if that's a big deal for you guys but that blew me away, haven't used anything like it before.
I like it! specially that clock (like everyone else)
Only drawback would be the color around the upper right digital clock, it's my personal pet peeve with some of the themes, when I'm doing something and want to check the time, a dark back ground on black text makes it hard.
but i think it's sweet

[Q] [bcparker] Minimal Elegance E4GT

I don't know if any of you have been around Sprint Android long enough to remember me, but I was one of the more active themers for the Samsung Moment before I switched phones. I have my Epic Touch coming tomorrow, and I was thinking about remaking one of my most popular themes for the Moment: Minimal Elegance, and I was wondering if anyone would be interested in trying it out once its finished. I basically want to know if I should even bother, because it would take a while, I'm very curious though. You can see screenshots from this old theme attached below.
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Thats sexy
i would like to see it ported
Go for it. With more variety we will get more innovation.
go for it! I know i'll be using it.
Ultra sexy. We already have one minimal theme but the more the better!
yeaa buddy. im always up for something new and this looks promising. pm me if you need a tester
id definitely take a stab at it
That elegance is minimal
Please remake it for the ET4G. That's the kind of theme I would use for a long time!
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THIS
I would like to see this come to pass as well. Very sharp. Appreciate u coming in.
I think white small icons are elegant and the total black backgroud is just exact theme suitable for SA screen.but if the dialer pad is pure black with white color number would be more perfect.
Old Moment owner here...please do. That preview graphic brought back memories...most bad, but nostalgia none-the-less. This phone is light-years beyond the moment....would love to have a theme like that now, especially with no data lockups, lol.
Doesn't it take only two hours to make a full theme like that?
Old SDX/Moment user here, and I'm sure you could pump out some pretty cool themes
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Doesn't it take only two hours to make a full theme like that?
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It would take me longer, for one I am very rusty, being out of the game for about a year, and then other complications I'm anticipating:
-going from mdpi to hdpi. Some of the elements that I made from scratch were made for the moment screen, so I would have to redo them, and with .9.pngs, it would be a process making them bigger.
-going from stock 2.2 to 2.3 with Touchwiz, the Samsung framework stuff will probably cause some stuff I haven't had to run into before.
-the same stuff goes for not only the framework-res files but also the themed apks, I like to put out a complete product, so hopefully patience will be key.
As for the comment about the dialer, that dialer was only ported because of the ugly (imo) dialer of stock android 2.1. But yeah, I'll give it my best shot, but I have to wait until I get my phone tomorrow and get rooted and all that jazz. Is there a stock deodexed theme template around here? I did a quick search and couldn't find anything.
I see you made the upgrade too. I look forward to your themes again. Have you looked into theming for CM? Maybe I should finish the Ubuntu theme for the Touch.
Minimalistic is my style. Would love to see this on the Epic Touch
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Would definitely rock a theme like that. We could use more minimalist options for the E4GT.
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I see you made the upgrade too. I look forward to your themes again. Have you looked into theming for CM? Maybe I should finish the Ubuntu theme for the Touch.
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mrbaker, its good to see you again, man! I wasn't aware there was a CM build for the E4GT, am I missing something?
Always liked your Moment themes! Good to see you here.

Was bored, so i photoshopped a Sense UI for the HOX

Disclaimer: I will not be held accountable for any form of blindness, eye cancer or damage caused to your eyes by viewing the images below. By looking any further you agree to the terms above and yeah whatever /end sarcasm
Haha! I'm not sure how most of you react to this, i wasn't really planning to share it either. Just thought i'd fire up photoshop a bit since i enjoy doing that every once in a while. But I thought meh, it won't hurt.
This concept is far from done, for instance the battery icon, the text message menu and a few other things i'm personally still not satisfied with. I was even planning to design my own imagination of an app drawer. If i had the skill to implement this UI to a rom i'd probably spend a few days trying to hit the nail perfectly, but guess what? I have not the slightest clue of anything to do with a rom other then flashing.
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EDIT: I was in the process of replacing the text in the menu bar to icons, but yeah! I'll fiddle around with that later.
What do you guys think? Haha!
Looks good, what got me was the carley ray jepsen bit lol
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Looks good, what got me was the carley ray jepsen bit lol
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Ah! so it's "rae" and not "jae". I hate her name i have a hard time recalling it.
shadehh said:
Ah! so it's "rae" and not "jae". I hate her name i have a hard time recalling it.
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I don't have that problem, her name and that song have been forcibly rammed into my head. I think I'll be forever traumatised.
JJbdoggg said:
I don't have that problem, her name and that song have been forcibly rammed into my head. I think I'll be forever traumatised.
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Think she wants to be called "Maybe" from now on lol!!!!:silly:
You should check out my color screen for some inspiration:
http://mycolorscreen.com/popular/
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You should check out my color screen for some inspiration:
http://mycolorscreen.com/popular/
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Haha! The things over there are beautiful. As much as i like the things there, i find things like this need to be implemented into a rom to have the full feeling. When you click it, it just doesn't give the level of satisfactions without a proper animation. This, of course, is just my opinion.
I remember designing my own homescreen using the apps and what ever else methods they had over there, i loved the design itself but when clicking an icon it just fell so dull. It would open up regularly. If the icon would bounce off the screen or if the animations are tuned(implemented). I believe that would not only give a good design it would make it feel good too.
Very cool idea with that text thing :good:
Looks like winmo on the HD2 hahaha
Allright but needs a lot more work.
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Seems like a strange mix between Sense and Metro.
I don't think this would work.

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