What are you all using to make 6.5 themes?
 

I want to make themes for my 6.5 rom but not having any luck in doing so. I tried the latest themegence but doesnt create the theme as i want it. any suggestions?

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hdwalls
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=503511

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i use that but doesnt give me the task and command bar effect i am looking for...nor does it allow me to create highlight color...anything else?

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you can't use a picture that suits your needs for the taskbars and replace them in place of the original auto created pieces of the original background pic before you create the cab?
so what I guess I'm saying is use an image that you like for your background and then mix and match other task and soft bar pngs to your liking also.
I'll go try it...

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it works

http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/5553/testar.th.jpg

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yes i know that works...just not the effect i am looking for...i am looking for glossy bars...not flat images

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Won't any 480x52 pixel png will work though, just rename them appropriately and replace them before you create your cab. Do you have a task and softbar that you do like? I suppose you could start from scratch to make it look 3d but it doesn't sound like that's the direction you're wanting to go.. Paint.net is a decent, free image editor.

As for the highligt color I have no suggestions.

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I know this version is a little rough, but with more work than the 10 minutes I spent you could have something nice looking...these bars I didn't overlay the shading on top of the original background images so the backround behind them appears black in the manila. I could have used the original files and just overlayed the shading on top of it to make them look more like the start menu. I used paint.net for these.
http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/2124/test2ar.jpg http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/7334/test2br.jpg

Re: What are you all using to make 6.5 themes?
 

I spent a little more time on this one, I think it looks pretty good. Are the highlight colors as important as the task bars? It actually looks like there are titanium style task bars on this hdwalls theme... Would you like the HDwallS cab and wallpaper-P for this one. It would run well on a 6.5 with 2.5 manila.

http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/8...reenshot1z.jpg http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/1...shot3oy.th.jpg http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/7...nshot2q.th.jpg

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i like this top an bottom bar, would you care to share

thanks, nice work

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I'll put it up in a bit. You do realize though that the top and bottom bars aren't transparent and they'll have the portion of my background permanently "showing" because it's all one image...I'll just post the png's and the cab and thumbnail for hdwalls. The cab will be for a 2.5 manila system though.

Re: What are you all using to make 6.5 themes?
 

ok, i see. how could i use your tb frame on my wallpaper? is that the png you were referring 2? and then use hdwalls to insert my wallpaper? sorry i tried hdwalls yesterday and i have to say i was a bit confused, lot different then what i used to do w/ my vogue! o and yea i'm on 2.5, love it now cant go back

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I've attached the pngs of the bars that the PC version of Hdwalls can use to include the bars in the cab it creates as the final product.
what you will need to do:
1. open HDwalls on your PC
2. click load in the portrait mode (the default screen that pops up when you launch the program)
3. navigate to the folder you create for your hd walls on your desktop or in your documents. (I create a new folder for each new background so because HDwalls creates png clips for the top and bottom bars, as well as the thumbnail...more on the thumbnail below)
4. select the background you are going to use
5. click on auto crop and resize.
6. press close (at this point it will ask you if you want to set the output directory to the folder you navigated to. Click yes....This is why it's important to create a new folder for each hdwalls wallpaper you create because it stores all of the new files that it's going to create and use for the cab in this folder)
7. click on the "create cab"
8. check the box that says "include portrait wallpaper"
9. set the thumbnail size percent to 100
10. press convert
11. wait for it to convert
12. in your PC's file explorer replace my pngs provided here in the folder that your project resides. it will overwrite the task and softbar pngs that it just created with mine.
13. On the "create cab" menu where you see "folder browser" renavigate to the correct folder with your project in it. (this will refresh the files it will use to create the cab so that my bars are there instead of the ones for your wall paper)
14 press create cab.
15 load the cab and the the thumbnail (which has the default name "mywallpaper-P.jpeg") on your phones sd card in a file on the root named HDwalls
16. the first time you open the hdwalls app on your phone it will ask you to navigate to the folder where all of your hdwalls cabs are located then it will shut down.
17 reopen hdwalls on your phone.
18 select the wallpaper you want to install and press "set wallpaper"
19. it will install and close.
20 soft reset or turn your phone off and back on.
21 everything will be as it should.

one second i need to zip up the pngs I can't attach them here on ppcgeeks:done

good luck.

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Hi. WESSCOGGIN, thanks for the tutorial. Although, I am having a problem. In my screenshot you'll notice that I can't get the softbar to line up correctly with my wallpaper. I'm doing what you say, but when I go to my scard to load, it's blank. I've been messing with this for a couple of days and just can't seem to get it. Thanks for any help...ROM and version are in my sig. M2.5 build 5.2.23518
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/h...7/Screen07.png
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/h...7/Screen09.png

Re: What are you all using to make 6.5 themes?
 

I'm not really sure how to help atm. I haven't run a 6.5.3 rom yet. I've been thinking about trying to shake things up a bit though. I'll let you know when I try it.

As for your cab preview screen in HDwalls, you need to place the "wallpaper-P.jpeg" in the same folder on your card as the cab is in. the wallpaper-P is the preivew that hdwalls uses.

If you want to provide me with the jpeg and your task bars I can give it a try and repost it here for you.

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Yeah, that's what I'm doing. Thanks, though. I've tried other wallpapers and it looks as though I can get the upper task bar to line up okay, but it looks like it is resizing the soft bar. Appreciate the help, but in all honesty, I haven't found that "ONE" wallpaper that I want to keep on the phone. So, I won't bother you with the jpegs. I'll just keep looking in on this post from time to time and keep playing around. Hope all goes well.=D>