Saturday, November 17, 2007

So Sorry.

I do not have time to work on my theme this weekend.
My Science teacher is making us make a scrapbook of some scientist.

I got Alexis Carrel. I have no idea who he is.
I'm sorry but I will get to my themes as soon as I can.

Thursday, November 15, 2007

With my Doodles theme NEARLY DONE. (So close. For some reason all the images I uploaded to scrobix's software suddenly lost it's transparency.)

But anyway, ideas for a theme anyone?
E-mail me at k_chug@yahoo.com to give me an idea. I'll work on one during following week because I have a project due.

But if no one comes through I plan on making a Guitar Hero theme.

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Theming software update.

The Software I posted and reviewed, has been updated.

It seems to have fixed the main bugs.(I can click and close Help now :) )
It also makes theming a LITTLE easier by adding SD Backgrounds. A LITTLE.

I also have finished 99.9 % of the Doodles icons. I just need to finish the recieved and sent mailboxes.
After that. Make the icons transparent, then compile them.

Sadly, I have homework. I'll finish in a sec and will continue.
For now test out the new software.
Go get it HERE

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Software evaluation

The 3rd party theming software I posted about awhile ago has been reviewed by me.

Well Theming is very easy for those of you whose memory is exceptional.
Why? Because when you are uploading your own icons the program doesn't show the original icon. So I recommend to either have your PS3 on or just look at your sample file.
Besides that, the software is in its early stages and has a few bugs. These bugs are not unavoidable and you can make Themes without hitting one of them.

But the software is overall good but I will stick to using the edit method.
I am still going to use this program for ONE theme.

The main Horizontal part of the XMB is done and now I only need to handle the Veritcal parts.
This theme will be called Doodles. The Icons and wallpaper are both hand drawn during math class.(In case you are wondering how my math grades are doing, I just recieved a 97 on my math test.)

Also with enough luck I can have it done by tomorrow.
NO WAY I can finish it now. (Vocabulary test tomorrow :( Yea Yea I know)
And I just got another idea from that sentence. But more on that tomorrow.

Monday, November 12, 2007

New 3rd party Theming Software.

From Playstation Forum Member sbcroix is a free theme editor that actually looks like a theme editor, unlike Sony's Official one(My opinion).

Overall it is great software.
I have yet to make a theme yet, but one is on the way. :)

One complaint though. Touch that Help Icon on top and the window it opens cannot be closed. Small problem. The Help Window has nothing useful.
Get it Here

Sunday, November 11, 2007

Wii Theme

OK. Well some people may have made the wrong purchase this season, and their return policy has ended.
Personally I made the best purchase of my life.

Or maybe you are extremely sarcastic.
In any case here is the preview of my Wii Theme:


Like it*?
Then download it HERE

*Warning this theme is extremely bright. To keep your TV working at optimal efficiency keep the brightness of the theme at -2.

Saturday, November 10, 2007

Making a PS3 Theme.

Okay so lets begin.

1. Download this FILE

2. Unzip it and if you wanna stop here just read the PDF File and read me files.

3. But if you wanna learn how to make your icons transparent and what not read on.

4. Go find some nice icons. (Google Image Search, your own hard drive, etc.)

5 If you have photoshop skip this immediately!Download Gimpshop or if you have it already skip.

6. Open your icon in Gimpshop/Photoshop.

7. First of all add the Alpha Channel.
In Gimpshop, it's Layer > Transparency > Add Alpha Channel

8. ( Most nice icons that you will use will have some solid background color.)
So just select the color with the hand that points to the 3 colors.
(Shift + O)

9. If only the background is selected then move on.
If it selects more than the background, then switch to the Fill.
Fill the selected background with a color that is not on the image.

10. Erase the selected background.

11. If your image is not 128 x 128 pixels then go to Image > Image size and make it
so.

12. Save it as a PNG.

13. Go back to the PS3 compiler file. Open it and copy the sample file.

14. Go to the new copied sample file, open it choose the PS3 Icon you wish to change and remember the name. Go to your edited icon and give it that name.

15. Drag the editted file to the sample file and if you did everything right it should say would you like to replace Icon whatever with Icon Whatever.

16. Make more Icons.

17. Once you are done with all the icons you wish to edit, drag the XML file in the sample file to the PS3 Compiler.exe in the PS3 Compiler 101 file that you downloaded in the beginning of this.

18. Go back to your sample file and look for sample.p3t

19. Go get some way of transporting the file to your PS3. (Flashdrive, CD, etc.)

20. Okay make a PS3 file. In that PS3 file make a THEME file.
Drag the p3t file to the THEME file and bring it to your PS3 file.

21. In your PS3 go to Settings > Theme settings > Theme > Install > and sample.

22. Test your new theme and enjoy.

Long Huh. If you don't wanna make one then just download one of mine.
One is in my very first post in this blog. More are on the way.

Wanna have me feature your PS3 Theme?

Well then just e-mail me at k_chug@yahoo.com and e-mail me the p3t file as an attachement.

If you don't know how to make a PS3 theme I will show you in my next post.

Playstation 3 themes

Hello Everyone.
I make custom PS3 themes.
I already have one up for download.
Here is the preview



Like it?

To see the rest of the icons download the theme
HERE