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awsome themes!!!!! i like alot!!! i'm trying to create some themes but i'm having trouble with some things. mainly making the picture to fit the whole page. i'm bashing my brains in trying to figure it out but i can't. i'm told to cut instead of resize but i just can't get it:( i need serious help...please...



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[ This Message was edited by: scubyd002 on 2003-11-08 07:38 ]
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Posted: 2003-11-08 07:56:02
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Now everything's gone but i have only 660kb:-( probably stuff's hidden. How on earth did that guy manage 2 get 1098 kb? And another thing does doing the trick decreases battery performance? I read it in some thread of 610? This message was posted from a WAP device
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Posted: 2003-11-08 10:50:57
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On 2003-11-08 07:56:02, scubyd002 wrote:
awsome themes!!!!! i like alot!!! i'm trying to create some themes but i'm having trouble with some things. mainly making the picture to fit the whole page. i'm bashing my brains in trying to figure it out but i can't. i'm told to cut instead of resize but i just can't get it:( i need serious help...please...

@scuby, hope this helps http://members.lycos.co.uk/mosedrengen/tutorial/
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Posted: 2003-11-08 10:55:21
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The problem is if you only resize, the picture may be scewed because it doesnt have the correct aspect ratio. Therefore you will almost allways need to cut something off to make it the right size.

An example: you have a picture that is 208x320 pixels and you need it to be 128x160 pixels. If you go to resize and select height 160 then it will come out as 104x160 which doesnt work, if you select width 128 then it will come out as 128x197 which also doesnt work, but it works better because now you have the width and only need to cut off 37pixels from the top or from the buttom. This you can do in a number of ways, using the marque tool you can either set it to fixed size 128x160, marque and then copy the correct sized picture, or using the marque tool set it to fixed size 128x37 and then cut the unwanted part off.

Now depending on what graphics tool you are using there are many other ways to do it - some have better tools than others. For instance Im using photoshop (which is considered the best tool available amongst many - though pretty expensive) - it has a croptool that you can set at fixed size that will automatically both crop (cut) and resize the picture. This is by far the easiest.

First I load a picture that does not fit
Then I use the croptool and set it at fixed size 128x160



With the croptool I select the area of the picture I want to be 128x160 - one can resize the selection precisly - the tool will be locked at the correct aspectratio.



When Im satisfied with the selection I do the crop and end up with a finshed picture in the correct size 128x160 and the corret aspectratio.



And agin this is only one way of doing it - there are many ways to do it depending on which tool you have available.

Its very easy actually. If you have the correct tools and know their functions

Allways remember that good tools are half the work - if you have the correct tools and know how to use their functions - doing the actual work is the least part of it. Then the difficult part becomes being creative, getting ideas, and having an understanding of what looks good, which colors to blend or which effects to use etc.


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Posted: 2003-11-08 11:32:19
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Hey spawn,

I am assuming all these themes are for the T610 right???
If not how would i get them onto my T310???

Kind Regards
Twista
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Posted: 2003-11-08 17:16:56
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hey people, here is what my theme came out to look like. but i need to get the software (adobe photoshop7) to actually make things work like i want. thanks so much for your advice:) i greatly appreciated it:) i'll keep working on the themes as best i can until i get a new photo editor...



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Posted: 2003-11-08 19:02:58
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NICE ONE scooby! download link pls. first Dragonball GT posted on esato
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Posted: 2003-11-08 19:08:44
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hey everybody:) here's another i made but without adobe photoshop. i'm trying to get the hang of it so when i do get adobe i will hopefully be in the ranks of the top dawgs:) they're still not as cool but i'm trying really hard:) still learning how to post as well so bare with me:) once again thanks for all your help:)



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Posted: 2003-11-08 21:08:16
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@ scubyd002:
I'm not meaning to be rude or anything but why don't you open your own thread to post your themes in, please.


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Posted: 2003-11-08 21:15:11
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whoops i'm sorry, i guess i just got excited about learning how to post that i wasn't thinking
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Posted: 2003-11-08 21:50:57
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