{How To} Edit your TF3D Manila Images to Have Exactly the Design You Want

[bignadad]

Originally Posted by chuckz07

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]

Originally Posted by bignadad

**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.

[Herbal954]

sticky?

[bignadad]

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

[chuckz07]

Looks good!

[bignadad]

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.



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"

[chuckz07]

Now that is what I am talking about! You're doing good for just learning how.

[purian23]

Great thread Bignadad, Great support from Chuckz07 .. Both of you thanks a lot.~!

[bignadad]

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.




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]

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