Irule Remote picture thread - Page 2

Originally Posted by mborner

Steve, excellent work on the cat. I really enjoy doing the smudges in Photoshop too. Here's one of my favorites, done on a Wacom.

Originally Posted by Graham N

mborner and steve,

I like these smudges, never tried it myself but was tempted to sign up for the online courses that were being advertised on the DPreview forum a while ago. Never got around to it though. There are some excellent smudges on there.

Must get back to fiddling with my irule 14 day trial,

Graham

Originally Posted by Steve Goff

I didn't do mine with the smudge tool. It is a straight painting, without tracing, but using a separate reference photograph.

Originally Posted by mborner

So far, everything is working flawlessly.



[IMG]http://mborner.smugmug.com/photos/1187552629_3pjVw-O.jpg[/IMG

Originally Posted by DAlba

I would like to see your Denon page:-)

Originally Posted by mborner

Thanks for the kind words, Jeff. I exported the background from the iRule image library and imported it into Photoshop. From there, I can create graphics of the exact size that I need for my UI. I'm still working on your projector, by the way.

Originally Posted by thebland

Mike,

Thanks so much for your generosity and great projector icons!! That was exactly what I wanted.

How can I repay you?? Are you on the iRule staff??

ONe last thing, and I'm sorry as you've done so much, but where can I find those insets you've put in to your screens? The ones with audio adjustments, etc?? What a great feature! Or is there a simple way to generate one?

Thanks!!! Jeff

Originally Posted by mborner

LOL! No, I'm not on the iRule staff. There's no compensation necessary. Computer graphics have always been my hobby/passion. I don't do it professionally, which is one reason why I'm thrilled to do it for other people. Trust me when I tell you, it makes me happy to do it! Again, thank you for the kind words. It doesn't go unnoticed when someone acknowledges my work.

Mike

Originally Posted by Peter M

Jeff / Mike,

Great looking interface ! I don't have an iPad or iRule at this time, but may I make a suggestion from a purely visual design perspective. I think the borders would look better with rounded corners and maybe as dotted / broken lines or in a different colour. To my eye the square white borders jump out too much and are not in keeping with the style of the rest of the interface.

Originally Posted by thebland

Hi Peter,

This was my doing! I asked Mike to do it this way like this but once placed, I felt they were a bit heavy. I agree with you. I love how they delineate and partition various groupings of buttons. Also, I asked for white, but perhaps a light gray (or dark gray??) might further soften and make things more integrated looking

I thought a thinner line but didn't consider rounded corners. A good idea. Perhaps Mike will chime in. He is a wonderful help here and has provided some excellent graphics for us new iRule users.

Originally Posted by mborner

Hi, Jeff. I sent you some new graphics with a thinner line, hope you like them.
As I mentioned in my note, the new lines are 1 and 2 pixels wide. Since we are dealing with pixel graphics and not vector graphics, it's extremely difficult to get a single pixel line to curve at the corners and look right, especially when we're working with graphics this small.
Jeff, your UI looks great! You can play with the vertical alignment of the insets by increasing/decreasing the cell height of the inset and then playing with the row numbers.
Also, you can make the lines appear somewhat lighter by selecting the graphic and then moving it up one level in the tree.

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Originally Posted by thebland

Thanks Mike~

And thanks to you, it looks even better! White I think looks good. Perhaps a baby blue would be better but I am very, very satisfied! THe tweaking could go on forever. Even though the template is labeled' "Denon", I'm devising this to be a 'master template' for my 5 other players around my house.

Here is the latest with the smaller sized templates you sent! Thanks!!

Originally Posted by Peter M

Jeff / Mike,

Great looking interface ! I don't have an iPad or iRule at this time, but may I make a suggestion from a purely visual design perspective. I think the borders would look better with rounded corners and maybe as dotted / broken lines or in a different colour. To my eye the square white borders jump out too much and are not in keeping with the style of the rest of the interface.

Originally Posted by 3Cubed

Hi. Can't seam to figure out how to get a copy of the source blank button to make new once my self?

• I tried dragging to my desktop on both my mac and in windows vista using firefox. In both cases once an image from the builder is dragged beyond the borders of the browser it's lost.

• Right clicking wont work.

• There is no explanation on how to use the irl files you get from the download page, I thought I needed a picture format, the irl is not know by my computers!?

Any help would help i guess.

Thanks Kasper