jowaldo's skin beta sample

by **jowaldo** on Wed Mar 24, 2004 4:29 am

Well I've been home from work sick the last few days, and I decided to do some heavy work on my skin. I got quite a bit done, but the more I do, the more ideas I get and I see this process could be never ending.

I did almost all the graphics in it, except for some of the icons that some of you may recognize, but all of the buttons are custom ones I made. And from many different things I got ideas from.

Anyways here are some screenshots, and yes I will release it hopefully very soon, I just want to clean up a few things, and do the ppc screens which I just started on.

To keep the images high quality I won't post the screenshots in this thread. This page is about 2MB in size.

http://members.cox.net/jowaldo/xlobby/

btw, this was done with A40

Please post any questions/comments/constructive critisizm

by **Tracie** on Wed Mar 24, 2004 4:54 am

HOLY HECK! That is an incredible skin. I love what you did with the overlay controls, especially in the Music section, the 4th shot down - that's brilliant. I've been trying to figure out how to make this an easy program to navigate for people that are unfamiliar with it, but keep the screens uncluttered & still have a great looking presentation - I was beginning to think it wasn't possible. You did keep the spot for screen stills in the movie section, right? Great work & yes, I would love to get a copy for my own use (please).

by **jowaldo** on Wed Mar 24, 2004 5:08 am

Yeah I kept a spot for the stills. I haven't done much work with them yet, since I don't care too much for the imdb stills. And its too much work to go out and find and add them manually

by **Tracie** on Wed Mar 24, 2004 5:22 am

Yeah, true, but I went ahead & did it. Heck, a couple of movies I actually made my own with screenshots pulled from Theater Tek! We should get some sort of file sharing system going - it would certainly be easier on everyone. I know that I would be willing to since I can't really contribute from an artistic standpoint.

Anyway, not trying to hijack your thread. Looks awesome & I can't wait to get my grubby hands on it.

by **stevenhanna6** on Wed Mar 24, 2004 5:32 am

I said it before in the chat room, this is an amazing skin. jowaldo has put alot of effort into this and it shows

If you want any indication at the kinds of skins xlobby can do...you dont need to look much farther then this one...it's just all around great.

Since I know for a fact this skin works (it pays to hang out in the chat room) and is NOT a photoshop dream(like some other htpc apps out there :wink:

), I have upgraded jowaldo's rank

by **jowaldo** on Wed Mar 24, 2004 5:40 am

sweet thanks steven

by **noviceboy** on Wed Mar 24, 2004 9:37 am

I like the overlay design - simple up/down navigation and exit.

I put my exit buttons in the middle of a set buttons to cut down on the remote key presses required.

by **samgreco** on Wed Mar 24, 2004 12:40 pm

I am humbled in your presence. WOW. It's beautiful. You MUST share so that we may learn. This is the direction that I wanted to see in skinning for XLobby. I just didn't have the skill or the time.

Steven, I think that jowaldo needs a rank all to himself

by **Twit** on Wed Mar 24, 2004 5:51 pm

WOW! You are really talented - Do you do this sort of thing for a living.

I am about as artistic as my cat - If i ever post my skin I would have to name it 'stolen skin' as i nicked a bit from here and a bit from there.

Can't wait to start nicking from your skin - Ha! Ha!.

Keep up the awsome work.

Later
Simon.

by **jowaldo** on Wed Mar 24, 2004 6:44 pm

Simon,

I did take ideas from a few things, but thanks for the comment. I have never done this sort of thing for a living, I always thought I wasn't creative enough to do something like this, but I'm starting to think I should look into something like that for work.

by **Roscoe62** on Wed Mar 24, 2004 8:01 pm

Just re-iterating what everyone else has already said. Fantastic job!

So........er.....when are you uploading it?

Congratulations on the rank upgrade. You deserve it!

by **jowaldo** on Wed Mar 24, 2004 9:06 pm

Hopefully somewhat soon, like in the next week or so. I will also separately release the photoshop psd files too probably to help the skin to grow even more

by **IHT** on Fri Mar 26, 2004 7:21 pm

Very Nice!! First time I've see one that hit all my what ifs. Fine Job!!
Do you have any sounds associated with screen transfers? Adds drama! =)

IHT

by **jowaldo** on Fri Mar 26, 2004 9:49 pm

IHT wrote:Do you have any sounds associated with screen transfers? Adds drama! =)

Nope, haven't added sounds. I guess I could, but sounds are something most people can't agree on what is good or not. I think I'll leave that for everyone to customize on their own

by **IHT** on Sat Mar 27, 2004 1:36 pm

jowaldo wrote:
IHT wrote:Do you have any sounds associated with screen transfers? Adds drama! =)

Nope, haven't added sounds. I guess I could, but sounds are something most people can't agree on what is good or not. I think I'll leave that for everyone to customize on their own

Good to know it is possible.
Thanks!!