Themes questions, legality, and needing some help finding pics

[nintari]

I've been toying around with modifying one of the themes I like and kinda making my own theme. I found a bunch of nice high quality pics of consoles and handhelds but still missing some like the Sega Game Gear, Saturn, Virtual boy, and a few others (but those are the troublesome ones right now. I can find some decent pics but nothing like the ones I have for other systems that are nice and clear and crisp. Granted some systems I prob won't really emulate or may not be emulated but wanted to kinda get a complete set of pics to include just incase.

Then I also got to thinking.... some of the pics I didn't check on copywrite or etc.... I mean yeah for now this is for my personal use but if I did want to share this theme I dont want to get anyone in trouble if the theme gets hosted or etc.... yeah I'm sure I would have bigger problems than copywrite of pictures lmao, but not going to start a legal argument thread lmao SO DONT RESPOND TO THAT! roflmao

anyway I attatched two pictures of what I have done with the theme so far (no it doesn't show it all but all the console pics show up just as nice and clean as the n64 pic does)

I have another one I am going to make if this one comes out well and found some cool looking pics of consoles done in vector art, almost look liek they are cell shaded kinda lol... but sadly only have a few consoles in that group

anyway back to modifying my theme, if you know of a site with nice high quality pics and logos let me know, I found a ton of logos but still some I am searching for and some I would like to have cleaner!

[nintari]

actually should say looking for nice PNG files that are already cropped and cut out. it is a HUGE PITA to take a JPG and cut it out and all that

here is a neat site BTW that has a lot of great pics and info

http://www.vidgame.net/

most of the pics have a copywrite watermark on them of course lol

[greatflash]

actually should say looking for nice PNG files that are already cropped and cut out. it is a HUGE PITA to take a JPG and cut it out and all that

here is a neat site BTW that has a lot of great pics and info

http://www.vidgame.net/

most of the pics have a copywrite watermark on them of course lol

see if these are any help!

[greatflash]

and saturn.

[nintari]

cool thanks

I did find a gamegear one late last night but it was a JPG and I have been working on chageing the perspective to match and getting rid of the fuzzy edges

the SNES one I found I think I am going to try to replace... Originally the console had a yellow tinge to it and I edited the pic and removed yellow from it but now the console is two shades of gray lmao

right now I'm just doing this all by hand swapping stuff out on the theme I liked, but when I get done swapping stuff out I am going to try to play with the theme editor and change fonts move stuff around and etc.

I need to be careful though lmao I have spent too many late nights doing this was up till 4 am one night and looked at the clock and sait oh $#17 I need to get to sleep

[greatflash]

Virtual Boy

[nintari]

beautiful!

I actually found most of these were in another front ends theme pack but virtual boy wasn't in there! Thanks!

I'm having a fun time playing around with the GIMP well as much fun as excruciating pain can be lmao. I'm not a graphic artist by any means and the whole transparencies thing in GameEX is throwing me off. I made a nice Exit sign and the transparancy came out really freakin dark

but hey it's something to do and I will certainly enjoy the end result!

[greatflash]

beautiful!

I actually found most of these were in another front ends theme pack but virtual boy wasn't in there! Thanks!

I'm having a fun time playing around with the GIMP well as much fun as excruciating pain can be lmao. I'm not a graphic artist by any means and the whole transparencies thing in GameEX is throwing me off. I made a nice Exit sign and the transparancy came out really freakin dark

but hey it's something to do and I will certainly enjoy the end result!

You need to make sure you either have a true black surround for the transparency or have a transparent background (save as png is best).

GIMP is a great substitute for Photoshop.. But Photoshop is a better tool with a steeper learnig curve though

[nintari]

yeah I have been trying to save with completely transparent backgrounds but the drop shadows on some items are getting me

I just now tried to make a couple menu selection bars for the heck of it and found that transparent backgrounds wont work, either that or the bar has to be filled to the brim exact sizekinda thing

just tinkering for now but fun none the less

need to find some tutorials lol

[headkaze]

yeah I have been trying to save with completely transparent backgrounds but the drop shadows on some items are getting me

I released a program called FixColorKey yesterday for just this problem.

[greatflash]

yeah I have been trying to save with completely transparent backgrounds but the drop shadows on some items are getting me

I just now tried to make a couple menu selection bars for the heck of it and found that transparent backgrounds wont work, either that or the bar has to be filled to the brim exact sizekinda thing

just tinkering for now but fun none the less

need to find some tutorials lol

GameEx will not work correctly with drop shadows or other blending effects. GameEx sadly does not support Alpha channels that are needed to provide these functions. GameEx only supports Transparency functions.