yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
Thank you, was just some lines and text ;)

Here´s the AppToDate:
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
and this is a new winterboard (iphone app) and a stopsign, use this for a traffic app or whatever.
[Windows Mobile Themes] ramez75:
This is better than the real one

thanks
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
thanks, then this G-Watch must be better too ? ;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] 6Fg8:
off my socks

Wow, your icons really rock!

If you can afford a few minutes, could you please make an icon for a program i wrote (PowerRadio, see signature). Currently i use the one attached (it doesnt look that good as an icon). That would be awesome :)

Thanks in advance.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Griechenland:
DLL containing exactly one icon

Could somebody upload a DLL containing exactly one icon (or tell me how to generate one)? I have searched everywhere and haven't found one...

I tried Microangelo and BeCyIconGrabber to generate one myself, but both were not be recognized by SK Shortcut Manager :confused:

Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Themes] Alkhal:
SK Tools has one... Take it from your pda after you install the trial.... Rename it and copy if you need more... Then use Micro to add the icons to it....
[Windows Mobile Themes] Griechenland:
DLL containing exactly one icon

Just installed SK Tools - found two dll's - both do not contain any icons :(

Isn't there an easy way to make a dll with one icon?

(After that as you wrote I'll rename it + use Micro to change the icon...)

Please help!
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
@6Fg8

So, this is the most detailed and complex work from me ever. It is handrawn out of 21 Layers/Objects. Never did such a complicated one.

But i think it was worth the two hours ;)

If you like it then this is a gift for you.

I made different versions: iphone glossy, matte and matte without icon shadow. Other colors are no problem.

EDIT: I made a brighter Version, i think this is better and a version of this with a logo. So everything is possible, tell me what you want.
[Windows Mobile Themes] ytsejam_:
spb backup icon request

hi blue.. i've been shadowing this thread for a while and all i can say is wow..

all icons here have been very helpful in skinning my phone for all the stuff i use..

there are still one that just won't fit..

can you make a SPB backup icon?

here's the image..

TIA
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
mmh, thats often the problem, Orignal windows mobile Icons are so Ugly, so this is a PDA within a yellow Somthing, don´t know if i can reproduce this to a iPhone Icon, and if this would look good ?

I prefer to work on own ideas, especially if i don´t like the original one.

i will try it ;) . If the result isn´t good enough you must live with this from pack 2
[Windows Mobile Themes] 6Fg8:
Hi blue,

thanks a bunch for your effort, they all look amazing! I had no idea it's that hard, whish i were as talented as you are.

I replaced it in the app and it looks very well even resized to 64x64. The logo letters are hardly readable with smaller resolutions, so my favorite is definitely the glossy without logo.

One final wish though :D Could you replace colors with something "happier"? pastel shades or something? I know, thats girlish :)

Guess i owe you a couple of coffee's, thanks again for work!
[Windows Mobile Themes] Piter1225:
Hi! I'm looking for Quick Menu and Mort Player icons. Can I request them?
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
okay as requested i played a little with pastell colors, not my taste and difficult to find something that fits:

the colors of the radio are defined by the base layer and the radio body itself (see icon four).

EDIT: i Added another idea with a logo and a pastell orange.

But my favorite for a pastell icon would be Nr. 3 or 6 ;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
and this is the requested easy Setting icon:
[Windows Mobile Themes] 6Fg8:
Hard to choose, they all look great. Maybe you're right regarding the pastel colors :), though i tend to use #1. Anyway i'll ask people in the Power Radio thread what they think and decide afterwards.

Thanks again for your efforts, hope you dont mind if i'll add you to the Power Radio hall of fame :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] michoob:
I don't known what is the best too.

I thought about that when I saw the Adobe Reader icon, because the top corner appears in white.

But in fact, I can see now that even in million colors on a PC, the top corners are white. It is a bit ugly.

It is also the case for following icons: Facebook, Total Commander, iGO, S2P, Twitter, Stocks, Weather, Bing.

Is it normal or is it me?
[Windows Mobile Themes] whitealien:
Yeah, that is what I thought why some icons get jagged edge. It happens when high color icon is transformed to 65k color. You lose almost any blur or smooth applied to icon. Check my post here, http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=4101243&postcount=1124

The second icon looks a lot smoother on mobile phone. It got indexed color (to 65k I guess) instead of RGB.

I tried to make myself indexed color icon with Gimp, but the problem is that Gimp transforms only to 256 colors so it looks really bad after :).
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
oh yeah, windows mobile and its icon corner problem.

Okay i took a look at this problem:

so you see a picture here, original size. Copy it and zoom in, if you want.

1. Its not true that the icon corners are white on a PC. Both the red adobe one and bluetooth have exactly the same corners. But the corners are in fact brighter than the rest, this is volitional but could look ugly on wm when reducing the size and colors.

2. the green phone icon in front is reduced to 64.000 colors for windows mobile, you can see, as expected, a not so smooth gradiance, but on a normal size no one should realize this too much.

3. the brighter edges of the corners come from the "gloss overlay" in combination with the "shadow to the inside" effect i use for the icons. I could reduce this a lot by just not using the shadow-to-the-inside effect.

So as i can´t test this all on windows mobile we don´t come around for you guys the make some tests ;):

Here are four Icons (i choose a dark blue for better contrast): RGB with and without this insideshadow-effect, and both just with 64k Colors.

Please test it and just tell me what looks best on your device, maybe your screenresolution or you can post a screenshot.

Thanks. In the worst case i must make all Icons new :(

Here you can see a screenshot with my icons on the iphone 3Gs (too big for it, i know). They are brighter at the top yes, but it looks quite good on 16 Billlion Colors. This may cause the problem on wm. So make a test.
[Windows Mobile Themes] brunoisa10:
hi blue

can you make icon for

Nex , Previous , Play/Pause , Update Weather , Reply , icon for digital clock background

here is my test with your test icons

from top to bottom from left to right your 4 icons and your original green one
[Windows Mobile Themes] michoob:
Icon tests

@bluemetalaxe: you will find in attachment a screenshot from my Blackstone with you test icons set, and also with the icons I have told you I had a problem with white top corner. Perhaps they appear white because of the shadow inside effect.

Personnaly, I don't see any difference between RGB and 64k colors on my phone.

But surely, I prefer the icons without the shadow inside effect.
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
Okay i will look at your results. Till then you must wait for new icons.

@ brunoisa10: is this a screenshot from your device ? if so, i see no Problem. Need some more infos.

But it seems to make no difference if i create them in RGB or 65.000. thats good.

If the shadow inside effect and the resulting brightness at the top and top corners are the Problem i must do ALL Icons new !
[Windows Mobile Themes] whitealien:
@bluemetalaxe - okz, I did some testing on QVGA device with your test icons and I did not notice any difference. Its all still the same. If you look at top part of icons you will notice that top corners are cut off, they are not round. The best you can see it on album, rss, clock and tasks. Compare to s2p, g-maps and onenote icons you will see that top corners are round and smooth.

That is the only one issue I can find with these icons.
[Windows Mobile Themes] brunoisa10:
yes it is from my Touch pro , for me it's good , no difference between RGB or 65K
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
Okay. I come to the point that everything is okay or normal.

1. So it seems To make no difference if i reduce the colors or let windows mobile reduce it, they still look good even if the gradiance isnt as smooth as original.

3. cant see any Problem with the brightness at the top.

2. On a qvga device the icons are about 48x48 pixel i thing and this means we loose about 75 percent pixels and so it is normal that they are not perfect anymore and a round corner can look a little bit ugly. But i think higher screen resolutions are coming more And more and this is something i cant help the qvga owners.

I will take a deeper look a your screenshots when i'm on PC again.

Thanks to all.
[Windows Mobile Themes] michoob:
Since pixels are squares, I think bluemetalaxe cannot do anything for that... you might try to change for a WVGA device :p

Have a look at my screenshot from my WVGA Blackstone. There is definitively something that could be better with top corners of the few icons I have talked about: Facebook, Adobe Reader, etc.

But I agree all is ok with the phone icon and the others.
[Windows Mobile Themes] brunoisa10:
hi blue

perhaps you don't have seen my request because of my big print screen this morning , if yes excuse me for duplicate asking

can you make icon for

Next , Previous , Play/Pause , Update Weather , Reply , icon for digital clock background

I'm making an iPhone like skin on WAD2 and it is very clean with your icons so I want to make a smart Page for SMS with Next , previous , reply

a weather Page with Update weather icon

another : Music Page

and the Last : Photo Page :P

and a special Background for the clock would be appreciated (I've thought to have your calendar icon but with size 192x96 but not very nice on my screen)

With my docks and your icons it will be terrific :D:p:p:p:):):):)
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
Yes i ve seen you post. Just want to solve graphic problems before doing more icons. your requests are on my list ;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] whitealien:
Icon Request

Yeah, well it is not coming very soon as I'm waiting for Palm Pre to become available in Europe. :)

My point was to show that it is possible to make icons for QVGA device at 48x48 resolution with round corners, not cut, but I don't want to bother bluemetalaxe with this minor issue if majority of users now have high res devices.

To give you some more ideas here is my icon request list in priority order: :)

ActiveSync

Contacts

Communication Manager

WiFi

Task Manager

Metro (underground)

Skype

Windows Media Player

Audio Manager

S2P

FootPrints

Backlight

Battery (Power)

MSN Messenger

MSN Live

MS Office

RAM Cleaner

Control Panel

Internet Explorer

Notes

Registry Editor

TCPMP (well I saw you made icon for Core Player, so this is optional if get bored) :)

Bar Codes (its for i-nigma program which reads bar codes)

Ok, I think thats all for now. I could go into game category, but then the list will be too long :p
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
okay guys, i looked at your screenshots again:

@whitealien: You are right, there are some icons that have better round corners than others. I really don´t know why, they look all the same in original size, so iPhonetoday or windows mobile does not shrink them correctly, this can also depend on the colors the icons use.

Maybe this becomes better when creating all icons new in 48 Pixel, but i can´t be bothered to do that :o

You can try to shrink them first with a fotosoftware to 48x48 pixel (gimp or whatever) before using them on your device, maybe the result is better then. Give it a try.

@michoob: This looks ugly, you are right. But this are not the icons how i made them. Open one icon on your PC and you dont see this effect.

Could it be that you use/convert my Icons to bmp files ?

.bmp is terrible for graphics because it can handle only transparent and not-transparent pixels. bmp does not know let say 20 Percent transparency and therefore it converts a transparency white shine to a white pixel and you get a hard white border.

By the way two new ones, i made between :

(and sorry for my english ;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] mimosoft:
Hi,

i use your icons on my winmo 6.5 rom and i really like them!

Maybe you can make some more. Can you make an icon for:

- NoData

- Directory (also ein Ordnersymbol)

- KlickTel

- Radio

- Suchen

- Kontakte

- IE

- Java

- Taskmanager

- Marketplace

- regeditor

thx!

Grüße aus D.
[Windows Mobile Themes] michoob:
Ok, I have opened the Adobe Reader icon on my PC and when I zoom in the top corner in, I can see that all is ok, no problem at all, as shown in attachment : the border is very light but not white.

So you're probably right there is some conversion issue.

Actually, I'm not converting anything, but I'm using iPhoneToday which perhaps converts icons to bmp. I don't know, but it might be possible.

You are certainly right, it must be some problem with handling transparency in iPhoneToday, and that's why I think there wouldn't be any problem without the shadow inside effect, would there?

Perhaps you have an idea to fix that for me and all iPhoneToday users?
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
First: I m in contact to the iPhonetoday developer to know more about the graphic format he uses.

And here are some more Icons, only doing the "FMradio" and "tasks" cost me about 2 hours :eek: Hope you like it.
[Windows Mobile Themes] brunoisa10:
really nice one the FM Radio :) :p:p:p:p:p
[Windows Mobile Themes] jeanne8fr:
Those icons are WONDERFUL....

More....Now you have me totally addicted

Thank you

Jeannette
[Windows Mobile Themes] mimosoft:
WOW! thx! :D i will add them right now to my phone. then i go to sleep :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] darkdreamer63:
iPhone theme

THANX Bluemetalaxe thanks to you I finalized the adaptation of Torx's QVGA iPhone theme to VGA.​

=)

More info: >ClicK<
[Windows Mobile Themes] darkdreamer63:
Icons I made

2 video icons, 1 S2U2 Settings icon, 1 NES icon.
[Windows Mobile Themes] cruiserrr:
compe twonav

My first attempt with bluemetalaxe psd template
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
@darkdreamer: well done, WAD seems to be the best ;)

@Cruiserr: i´m quite sure the template has a icon shadow :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] Alkhal:
With SK Shortcut manager you should be able to view the 20 something icons on that specific dll. Beforehand Micro would allow you to replace them with any icon of your choice. So use micro on the dll first then from your PC place it on your PDA (Even on storage card..) then use SK Short... to replace icon on whichever you choose... Trust me I know it works for I use it to this day....

*Edit Try this link it may be what you are looking for?

[Sorry for being off topic here, just trying to help someone else enjoy these icons like I do..]
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
@Alkhal: No Problem, thanks, i can´t help in that case. So helping by using this set is welcome.

okay guys this are

- two different NES Icons (white one is better)

- a S2U2 Settings,

- a matte and minimalistic mTools (i love that icon)

- a new Appstore icon (with new background effect)

- a MortPlayer,

- a MainMenu and

- a Quick Menu.

All graphics made from the scratch, except for the Hitchcock picture.

See you ;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] cruiserrr:
sigh !!! I am using glimpse portable. Any idea how to paste my image in your gladiator layer?? I only was able to do it creating deleting your picture and bringing the new layer to its position ... I will keep on trying !
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
- copy your picture in the template,

- pull my layer to this picture and disable my picure

- now copy also my effects (fx) (rightklick) to your picture

this is how it would work on photoshop.

And use a sharper graphic. Don´t upscale smaller graphics or use jpg graphics ;) I will post the next days a detailed "how-to" for beginners.
[Windows Mobile Themes] ramez75:
BMA

I found the attached icon that was done by you on XMRadio thread-xda-developers. Can you please modify it to look like the rest of your icons. I tried messing with it using Adobe Photoshop CS3 but can get it to look good. I used the iReflect template post#1 and copied the image XM onto the background and removed the blue base and Radiation.

By the way what is eye and chainlink icons mean

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Themes] ytsejam_:
the eye means the visibility of the layer.. no eye means, the layer is still tnere in the picture, but is not shown.. of course if there is an eye, it's visible..

the chain means the selected layer is linked to another layer.. so if you made some changes (resize/transform, move, opacity, etc), the linked layer will be affected too..
[Windows Mobile Themes] ytsejam_:
you are totally spot on blue.. and you're right it's ugly.. hehe.. anyway, I also tried making some icons of my own and i'm really stuck with this spb backup icon.. it seems I cant squeeze out a concept that would look good but won't give injustice to the original icon.. anyway, thanks and still hoping you can think of a way.. Ü
[Windows Mobile Themes] chancer63:
I've just downloaded your template again. I'm not so sure about the shadow. I can't see one. Would you please be so kind to look into this? Thank you.

CU
[Windows Mobile Themes] ankit360:
this is request that plz make some cool sexy icon for hComber
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
A shadow in Photoshop is NOT a picture. It is a effect you can add to every layer and graphic. Klick on the layer/picture and you can see multiple effects to choose. To get the same look you must copy the effects from my Gladiator layer.

But maybe your software can't do that !!! Try Gimp in that case. It seems

to be the only application that can handle PSD files correctly. Even my Corel paintshop professional has massive problems.
[Windows Mobile Themes] michoob:
Hi bluemetalaxe, may I request an icon for Playtomo: http://www.playtomo.com/?

Thank you in advance!
[Windows Mobile Themes] chancer63:
I use gimp and when I open your template I see picture 1 and there is no shadow for me so I made a shadow (picture 2).

Thank you for your help, bluemetalaxe.

CU
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
Okay. So i have a fx field on the right side of

each layer to add a shadow, gradience, lights and more to this graphic.

Your shadow is unfortunatly not correct because you now have a too large quarter shadow on a round-corners-icon:(

i can post you a png file with a correct shadow so you can use this as a layer like you did ! But i use another inlight effect for this base?

Are you or other gimp users really sure that there is

no possibility to add shadows to a graphic ?
[Windows Mobile Themes] zippo_berlin:
Hi at all,

is it possible to create HighRes-Icons for these ones?? If anybody has the time :)

Thanks in advance

zippo
[Windows Mobile Themes] chancer63:
I hope that I found the correct triggers to put a shadow in gimp to your template. What do you think, bluemetalaxe?

CU
[Windows Mobile Themes] ramez75:
BMA

I forgot to attach the template in the previous post. I just cant make it to look like your other icons
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
@Ramez: Don´t ty to press Realize Icons in this template, Realize Icons have allready another shine/Glossy and a shadow from the outside to the middle, so the look like 3D. iphone like icons are flat, so this does not work, you can only try to copy a flat graphic in the template !

@chancer: much much better, and would be nice, but sorry, to have all the same style you need excatly the shadow i started with ;)

here are two screenshots. the first shows the shadow settings for the base layer and the second a inlight-effect for the base layer. try to find this settings in gimp or try to find a cheap photoshop copy :)

So i

try

to tranlate (First picture): Multiplicate, Transparency: 80 Percent, Angle 90 °, Distance 2 Pixel, Size 2 Pixel, thats exactly the shadow i use.

(Second picture): Can´t tranlate this: Linear somthing. Transparency 20 Percent, Now you must creat a white to tranparency gradience :p; Technic: smoother, size 1 Pixel

If you would have photoshop than you would not have to this, because its allread part of my template.
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
....and here we go :)

- Underground (U-Bahn, german version)

- Haltestelle (Busstop)

- A Bus/Train with a Number or a New York Text (as you like it for whatever you want)

- VBB (german webside)

- XM Radio

- SPB Backup (not my best, but i´m not perfect in doing 3D Objects and SPB Backup is difficult to make in iphone style. Maybe i try it with copy and paste again.:rolleyes:

All graphics made from the scratch for you
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
Some Words: i reorganized the set (3 Parts now). All ICO Files are updated. I through out some old icons that i have made better ones. Thanks for about 5300 Downloads :)

I now begin to write a easy tutorial for creating icons.
[Windows Mobile Themes] cruiserrr:
When I open the template with glimp the curved shape is 100% White and there is no clue of shadow effects. What I do is to select the curved shape and make it semi transparent to whatever %. Then I select the gladiator template, erase with a rubber and then paste my picture (I do not know how to copy the mask from one layer to the other). Finally I apply the filter drop shadow to the base layer and this is the result. However I am not sure if this is what you meant ....

maybe you can download glimp on a usb drive, (it is a portable application) and check or provide the shadow layer as a separate file.

I am not to proficient with glimp anyway so maybe somebody else knows better how to do it. thx.
[Windows Mobile Themes] EDILFUTURO:
hi friends!... grat upgrade...

2 request:

teamstats icon (soccer update)

and reSTART icon

is possible?

thanks again
[Windows Mobile Themes] redd214:
you guys are awesome love the icons!!

a few request please:

-h-Comber

-Jetcet Print

-Quick GPS

-Zuma (game)

thank you in advance i appreciate your time!
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
As promised here is the TUTORIAL how to make a iphone icon with my template from Post 1:

(and forgive me my rusty school english)

This is for Adobe photoshop. If you use Gimp you must google for a solution.

This is just to explain you some basics and how to do a simple copy and paste icon.

If you want to know how to make a own icon from the scratch see the next post. But this is not the right place to explain more :D

Make sure

that only the glare and your graphic (=homer) is enabled ! Otherwise you would have the gladiator or base icon under the homer icon and the shadow would be doubled and is too dark !
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
This is nothing for beginners and bejond copy and paste. So please don´t ask me how to draw a circle or something ;) If you are interested in more Details you can find many tutorials for photoshop in the web.

I just want to show you how i made such a complex icon, give you some ideas and show you how this is build up from the ground with simple geometric bodies.
[Windows Mobile Themes] 12gage:
thanks for that blue, i was able to make them but was using the template all wrong
[Windows Mobile Themes] valkryomnia:
Anyone know any ways to change the icons on my phone without having WAD or Iphonetoday? I like the UI I am currently using.

Correct me (please) if I'm wrong, but is Iphone today a ui, or only replace buttons?
[Windows Mobile Themes] zippo_berlin:
:) Thank you very much bluemetalaxe :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] aussiebum:
nice, maybe you shld attach the screenshot in the 1st post so it doesn't get lost :)