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Problems with skinning?

By bulldog
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elwin
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Hmmmm... <BR>You&acute;ve probably anti-aliased the edges of the graphic. <BR>That is, your software blended the colors between the graphic itself, and the background. So in actuality,(in your case) you don&acute;t have true white surrounding your graphic, but probably varying degrees of very pale gray. <BR>It looks great when you&acute;re previewing it, but transparency demands an &quot;absolute&quot; color. Close isn&acute;t close enough. :) <BR>It takes some trickery to pull off without making the edges look jaggy when your finished, but I suggest you download a couple of beatnick skins that have some curves, and see how the author worked the pixels. <BR>Don&acute;t feel bad. It&acute;s a common mistake. Almost everyone I know has done it at one time or another. <BR>:)
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Oh, and in case I wasn&acute;t very clear, Russ Schwenkler, aka Dangeruss, has a tutorial on his site that explains it using illustrations. <BR>Go to the following site, and click the &quot;Tutorials&quot; link, and look at the &quot;Skinning Quicknotes&quot; section, and you&acute;ll see what I mean. This tip works for virtually every skinnable application you&acute;ll ever try your hand at. <BR>:) <BR> <BR>http://www.dangeruss-industries.com/
integer avatar
integer
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Listen to Elwin
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craeonics
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Yep.
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from Bulldog <BR> <BR>aka Dangeruss, says to use the greta pink shade. I tride this and pink halo <BR>thin appearde behind it. Also if I do not anti alias the image it looks horrible is theer anaother way around this because it include hydralics pipes, connector and stuff like that. <BR> <BR>Also do I have to include a transparent imagge and then add a the pink color <BR>can anybody help us:-)
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welcome to the wonderfull world of pixel by pixel manipulation. :evil <BR> <BR>After the antialising filter is applied there is not much you can do but zoom in and make sure that every pink square has a true RGB value of 255 0 255.. only those are counted as transparency regions, anything else even one point off like this 254 0 255 will show up as pink pixel in your image. <BR> <BR>
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Gregor Klevže
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or HEX: FF00FF :)
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craeonics
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I always make (or should I say: used to make) my skins on a black background, with anti-aliassing on. Then after it was done, I&acute;d select the black background (Magic Wand with a feather of 8, 16 or whatever works for you), create a new layer and fill up the selection with ff00ff and make sure it was ff00ff and no other colour. Works for me.
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zathrus
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or Octal: 377 0 377 <BR> <BR>;P
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jafo
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Listen to all of them....they are ALL right...;)
elwin avatar
elwin
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What? No binary? <BR>{:p
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What are all of you celebrating zathrus&acute;s Birthday in here, drinking? This thread is a month old, or have I had to much wine lol
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zathrus
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Elwin: &quot;What? No binary?&quot; <BR> <BR>&acute;cos it looks boring: 11111111 00000000 11111111 <BR> <BR>:P
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