vizo

Join Date 01/2003

Skinning methods ...or ... How do you grow a skin?

I'm curious about the methods you use to skin.
For example one thought would be to develop the whole idea for a skin using drawing or a graphics program from a preconceived thought or idea. Another method might be to start with a single graphic image and build on that. Yet another could be just open a basic skin and start messing around in your favorite graphics program till you get something that looks good.
Also, what about designing all or most of the graphic images before even opening SkinStudio vs. making each graphic 1 at a time while building the skin.
What about it? Any skinners want to chime in?

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WOM

Join Date 01/2002

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I start with a good size Cat fish and an imported skinning knife. Some start messing around in there graphics program till they hit on something they like and go from there. I don't think I would approach this like I was designing a building. Any way you do it would be fine.

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WOM, would that be a channel cat or possibly an appaloosa?

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WOM

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Channel. Used to catch them all the time.

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mmm, I hand draw everything, actually, I go a bit to far with it too. All you need really is a sketch for a layout on paper, you can actualy break graph paper down into pixil groups so you have a good idea of exactly where what goes on the screen by pixel count...

probably over kill though

There are a couple of good books on GUI design and theroy...

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trotline or rod & reel?
I prefer channel cat myself but ate a lot of appaloosa back when my grandfather was fishing the river all the time. (that's Neches river here in Texas)

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oh we get Sail Cats

real white flaky meat, big too, though if they pop you with a fin, ouch! Kinda like a stingray stickign you.

WOM has got to vacation down here so we can go Red, Gator Trout and Snook fishing

Oh and Dolphin lay up under the Skyway bridge also, Mahi Mahi !!

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overkill? I've found myself doing some graphics pixel by pixel when I 'just couldn't quite get it right'

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WOM

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Trout line isn't fishing. Thats cheating or commercialism. Rod and reel.

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Abu-Baitcaster

6 - 10 lb line 30 - 40 lb hand tied leader depending on the critter 38 inch Snook is great but those gill plates shread line

M/H Glomus stick with Fugi Stainless eyes

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Hey I learned to trotline (I know, I called it trotline. That's what everybody down here calls it) before I ever started using a rod and reel. It's pretty common here or at least was back when I was growing up. Maybe it's a Texas thang

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WOM

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They call it that here too. Like I said thats cheating unless your doing it to feed your family.

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cheating the fish?

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it's a multi hook hand line?

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down here in FL they call em Sabiecie rigs, use them for white bait, little gold hooks no bait neede to catch bait. Personally I throw a 12 foot net, well I used to throw a 12 foot net, now I watch

Everyone used to sit around and wait for my brother and I to fill the bait barrels because we grew up throwing pancakes.. WHich was ok, but got upsetting when you went to get bait 5 hours into fishing only to find out someone or a couple had been freeing bait all night not hooking em up right.... "Oh you need to throw the net again, both barrels are empty and the down buckets are getting there fast"

grrrr

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LMAO, it went from asking for a method of creating graphics to something about the correct way to fish. I think lack of sleep or lack of caffine messes with the mind a little

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~it's a multi hook hand line?~
It's usually fixed on one end near the bank with the other end in deep water anchored a couple of feet off the bottom. Usually about 50 hooks baited with live bait, catalpa worms are good; so are goggle eye, at night. You run it the next morning and if the cats are feeding and some troller didn't hook your line and cut it, you load em up and you got fish for dinner.

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oh yea this was about skinning

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WOM

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vizo, I hope that wasn't for me. I'am here in Texas. Know all about them. I'd be boating up a stream and my motor would get caught up on them. Needless to say they got cut.

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WOM, no not at all. If your motor got one, somebody didn't know how to set a line properly. It wouldn't catch too much being that near the surface. I'd say they hopefully learned a lesson.

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BoXXi

Join Date 03/2001

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I asked "The Master" how he did it,(Treetog) and I follow his teachings......
I make a basic frame with buttons and scrollbars, slice it up while still in photoshop and then throw that into skinstudio. I then make the rest of the graphics for the skin on the fly, so to speak.
If it's good enough for "The Master", it's good enough for me!

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Thanky BoXXi

Now I think I am going to be playing in Photoshop and Imageready all day tomarrow

Is it the same with DTX and OB ?

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Oh and fishing

its a passion, I wade fish late at night and into the morning and even if I don't catch anything, it is the best night of my life everytime

Stars clear and bright, shooting stars and such of all colors, Cruise ships with all their lights on miles off shore, Porpise playing, Manatees lunking around munching on sea grasses and slipping up near you to hang out for a while and just watch. clouds blowing by at 30 knots on a mid air current shifting colors as they pass over lights and under the moon...

anway...

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BoXXi

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IPlural: DesktopX is a different animal altogether. I find it easier to make a DX theme than a WB skin, but the hard part is coming up with a good design for a DX theme in the first place!

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Kind of thought so, but was holding out with a smidg of hope it would be the same

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My method of skinning is to use gas mark 5, and remember to baste the skin before putting it in.

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