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bignadad 10-02-2009 09:38 PM

Re: How to Edit your TF3D images in Photoshop using a Manila Editor
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by chuckz07 (Post 1210397)
That's where manila get a little tricky with the images. IDK exactly, yet, but that background may be controlled by a very small image. say 1x1, or 3x3, etc pixels but it is tiling it. The slider background kinda works that way. The image file is not the width of the screen. Make sense? Be back after I look at your file.

yeah, makes sense. i found that out with the weather 4 day background. it was a a pixel or two wide, just duplicated across the screen. i am going to start a search for that slider background.

**it will have to be transparent right? even if it is a couple of pixels.

chuckz07 10-02-2009 10:06 PM

Re: How to Edit your TF3D images in Photoshop using a Manila Editor
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by bignadad (Post 1210401)
**it will have to be transparent right? even if it is a couple of pixels.

Correct.

Here is a screenshot of you file. Looking at the dotted lines you can see where your shadows are. Left side of the 0 is cut off because it is outside the main area. The second image is yours that I quickly edited and made the shadow smaller. Only for the visual reference and not to pick. I learned the hard way awhile back about the shadows and spent weeks trying to get it right, just to find out the shadows were causing my havoc.

http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/t...ur_shadows.png

http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/t...anila_test.png

Herbal954 10-02-2009 10:11 PM

Re: How to Edit your TF3D images in Photoshop using a Manila Editor
 
sticky?

bignadad 10-02-2009 10:27 PM

Re: How to Edit your TF3D images in Photoshop using a Manila Editor
 
just updated my settings tab layout... removed black buttons around icons for each setting. it was very easy. if you want to know, just let me know

http://www.bakerabilenemachine.com/screen13.png

chuckz07 10-02-2009 11:30 PM

Re: How to Edit your TF3D images in Photoshop using a Manila Editor
 
Looks good!

bignadad 10-02-2009 11:31 PM

Re: How to Edit your TF3D images in Photoshop using a Manila Editor
 
i changed the font and the outer glow to a white. i feel like it cleaned up the darkness/lines around the numbers, but they still appear a little jagged. i tried using a shape tool for the "0" and it appeared a lot clearer than the acutal font. it would be a little tough to do all numbers with shapes though.

http://www.bakerabilenemachine.com/screen14.png

i went into the tabstackandampm (4e670504_manila) and cleanup up the top portion of the flip clock. going to do the bottom tomorrow. oh wait is tomorrow.... well later. i realy like it being "crystal clear"

http://www.bakerabilenemachine.com/screen16.png

chuckz07 10-02-2009 11:32 PM

Re: How to Edit your TF3D images in Photoshop using a Manila Editor
 
Now that is what I am talking about! You're doing good for just learning how.

purian23 10-03-2009 09:18 AM

Re: How to Edit your TF3D images in Photoshop using a Manila Editor
 
Great thread Bignadad, Great support from Chuckz07 .. Both of you thanks a lot.~!

bignadad 10-03-2009 12:33 PM

Re: How to Edit your TF3D images in Photoshop using a Manila Editor
 
i got the numbers clean and clear, well almost. it does look a lot smoother.

don't know why i didnt think of earlier. just converted the font to shape!!

look at the difference it made.. still a little rough though.

http://www.bakerabilenemachine.com/screen17a.png
http://www.bakerabilenemachine.com/screen17.png

BTW... Do you know you can do the same thing with the windows taskbar. it works a little different, but you can customize ANY way you want. here are 2 threads that i used to figure it out. they can be a little hard to follow if your not familiar. if i get some request i will do a "how to" on customizing the windows taskbar for TP2.
the possiblities are unlimited when you edit this way.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=437307
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=54514

MrGoodCat 10-04-2009 01:29 AM

Re: How to Edit your TF3D images in Photoshop using a Manila Editor
 
bignadad:

not sure if you ever found the "bit" settings, but the are under image>mode, toward the bottom of the mode list you should see 8, 16 and 32. i am gonna start messin around with manila soon. thanks bignadad and chockz07, you guys have been very helpful with all this


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