Graphic Kit... what were you thinking?

[gorman]

Why is it that the "color" part of each element has not been kept separated from its design... since you are providing layered PSDs it would have been so easy to provide layers so as to enable users to easily change the gradient colors underlying each element...

The way it's done, it's really tough to come up with uniform colors, since overlaying another color, with some degree of transparency, makes it really tough to come up with uniform results... :(

[Arkham]

Why is it that the "color" part of each element has not been kept separated from its design... since you are providing layered PSDs it would have been so easy to provide layers so as to enable users to easily change the gradient colors underlying each element...

The way it's done, it's really tough to come up with uniform colors, since overlaying another color, with some degree of transparency, makes it really tough to come up with uniform results... :(
;) Sounds like you know enough to do your own graphics. ;)

You know there are already three hundred other threads discussing the new graphics' merits or lack thereof.

[BigJohnson]

Why dont you adjust hue and saturation? That will change it for ya. Don't add a layer on top of it and lower transparancy. Not kool.

Plus if you know stuff about graphics why don't you just create your own gradient. It is very simple.

Gradient Tool ;)

[Wayne Luke]

This is explained in the Graphic Developer's Kit documentation at http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/graphics

[gorman]

Wayne, I read the manual.

Still, all the images provided in the graphic kit default to a generally blue theme.

Adjusting hue and saturation requires reworking colors on a case per case basis, so it would be really time consuming.

All I'm saying is that this set of graphics is not at all easy to work with if you have a different color theme to your forum... and yes, I know enought to redo everything from scratch, but I don't think this is what I should be expected to do, given that I paid some money for this software (I would have said something before, but the graphics were the last thing to be completed...).

Regards,

Andrea

[Wayne Luke]

Still, all the images provided in the graphic kit default to a generally blue theme.

Adjusting hue and saturation requires reworking colors on a case per case basis, so it would be really time consuming.

I know nothing about images really. I don't use Photoshop 7 or CS or anything like that. I do have Photoshop Elements which cost me $58.00 at Wal-Mart. Using that software, it took me 2 seconds to change the NewThread.psd in the Instant Matte package from the default blue to green. All I did was use the Hue/Saturation/Lightness tool and adjust the sliders. Now that I have done it once, I can denote the numbers and type them in for each image for a consistant look and feel. I didn't have to change each color individually to get the background gradient that I wanted.

I would suspect the the full version of Photoshop could do this as well, probably easier since you can script it and create actions to make the changes with a click of the mouse. However, having never used that program they may well have made it 100 times more difficult than what I experienced with their less capable offerings.

I, personally, do not have the artistic ability to create my own graphic set but I can change the colors of the existing one to suit my needs in seconds.

[Zachery]

Also there is an instant way to bring back up the same lst settings, should be ctrl+shift+u ahd it will bring up your last hue/sat settings so you dont need to full with them.

[gorman]

Well... yesterday I looked a little more into this and... while the process could have been more straightforward, there are workarounds.

There are still some PSDs where white elements have not been kept separated from colored elements (think Private Message Icons.psd for instance), but obviously there are workarounds for those as well.