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Re: New Themes with D.P. 8

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Super happy for you: to talk about GIMP, I took time to understand his mode-operation .
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Re: New Themes with D.P. 8

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I use GraphicConverter and TextWrangler to apply three small tweaks to existing themes: increase the contrast for text in the TO column headers, highlight selected tabs, and blur the faders for muted tracks.
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Work in progress _ Image


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My Collisseum theme:
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My Fishy theme:
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Photos posted seem very extended, as well with Firefox or Safari !
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They are my new setup with the Consolidated Window extended across 2 monitors - it works really well for me. See new posted pictures above (worked out how to post pictures finally - thanks to MIDI Life Crisis again!).
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AHHhh, the view is much better now: a lot of good ideas in general small.
I've almost finished my next Themes: it only remains to find their names from the colors.
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I finally finished these three projects Theme characterized by the use of three colors: yellow, blue and green .
Instead of burying multiple photos, I have a little while superimposed or stacked for these three themes have in common .

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The ideal is to try to better assess what suits you . Click on the following images in the color you want .

_ GREEN TRICK _

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_ BLUE TRICK _

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_ YELLOW TRICK _

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Click on every pictures for access to every Theme _ 8)
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My Monet Theme - my themes are all for working with to suit my moods - this one was using photos I took at L'Orangerie in Paris when visiting the Monet Water Lillies room where they are displayed as Monet wished. I don't expect others to like them - but that is what customisation is all about.

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Original concept for the outgoing and truly off the beaten track .
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corbo-billy wrote:Original concept for the outgoing and truly off the beaten track .
Thanks - keep up your own work which is always interesting!
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I just think it would be necessary to include instruction, a small PDF for installing these Themes because it is not obvious to all . :|
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corbo-billy wrote:I just think it would be necessary to include instruction, a small PDF for installing these Themes because it is not obvious to all . :|
Its kind of second nature to me now - knowing which colours to alter on the Style.xml and which png files to alter. Not sure I would have the time to write it down - the point is for people to experiment.
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@ Guitar Gaz, MP
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As a guide I find the apple Digital Colour Meter app as invaluable. I check the RGB colour on the scheme and then search for it on the Style.xml file in Text Edit. So if you want to replace it with a different colour it is easy to locate and you can then pick the colour you want (the Digital Colour Meter again can be used to help pick a colour). The png files I can change in Preview for the most part. There are no doubt more sophisticated ways of doing this but for a simple colour or background colour change it works quite well.
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