Old 02-23-2008, 08:24 AM   #1
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Hi!

Here's my attempt to make Reaper more pleasing for the eye.
At first I started to make everything from scratch, but when I saw that combining different themes with my own produced quite nice results, my motivation to do it all myself quickly vanished





Backgrounds and rec.arm is entirely my own, other is taken and modified from vixieplain105, lf_reapercussion_themepack and Stumn201.
So thanks to the authors of these themes valenzia, limeflavour and max.

There's still a lot to do (matching all the colors, so that there wouldn't be many different reds, etc), but already it's usable.
http://www.kaspartorn.eu/Reaper/SoG.zip
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Old 02-23-2008, 08:40 AM   #2
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Looks good so far!

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Old 02-23-2008, 09:05 AM   #3
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yeah, this does look good so far. i like the faders.

coding for displaying images looks like this (remove spaces):

[ img ] http://www.filename.png [ / img ]


hope this helps.


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yeah, this does look good so far. i like the faders.

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Old 02-23-2008, 10:28 AM   #5
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looks rather good i like it
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Old 02-23-2008, 01:53 PM   #6
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love those meters!
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Old 02-23-2008, 02:19 PM   #7
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Hey, Carbon

Weird day! I sent you an email earlier about the website gtroblq

nice looking theme, too, I'll download it as soon as you finalize it.
I didn't know you were here on the Reaper forum.
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Love the toolbar buttons!
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Old 02-23-2008, 07:42 PM   #9
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good work,looks really good
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excellent - very clear
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Good work, carbon!
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Old 02-24-2008, 12:42 AM   #12
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I really like this one.

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Old 02-24-2008, 01:50 AM   #13
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Yeah, this ones looks nice!
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Old 02-24-2008, 05:11 AM   #14
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Thanks to all!
But that just shows, how little tweaks and different combinations produce a completely different results.

to ieso:

Yes, weird indeed.
Thanks for the unexpected invitation!
I guess finally the word is starting to spread.
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Old 02-24-2008, 05:26 PM   #15
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Wow! I am really liking this one too. Can't wait for the official release. I'm ready to download it.
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Old 02-24-2008, 05:39 PM   #16
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Hi!

Here's my attempt to make Reaper more pleasing for the eye.
At first I started to make everything from scratch, but when I saw that combining different themes with my own produced quite nice results, my motivation to do it all myself quickly vanished





Backgrounds and rec.arm is entirely my own, other is taken and modified from vixieplain105, lf_reapercussion_themepack.
So thanks to the authors of these themes valenzia and limeflavour

There's still a lot to do (matching all the colors, so that there wouldn't be many different reds, etc), but already it's usable.
Carbon, this one is looking great man! Looking forward to try it!!Great job!!
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How's the progress on this one? I am anxious to download it... hehehe!
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Yes - very nice !

Hope its downloadable soon.....


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Old 03-06-2008, 07:51 AM   #19
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like this one as well... ready to try it..
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Yes, looks very nice, keep up the good work!
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Looks great! Can't wait to try it out.
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Haven't got time to spare for skinning lately.
Been making music and working...

I could just put it up for download as is.
It's usable for me at least.
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I like the look so that's a great idea for me - and you can always update later if you feelthe need
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I could just put it up for download as is.
Yeah - go on......



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So here it is as it is:
http://www.kaspartorn.eu/Reaper/SoG.zip
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very smooth.

My mixes still look messy because I colour the tracks into categories (drums, strings, guitars...). I think there should just be a coloured bit of the track instead of the whole thing, this would look better IMHO. Would probably have to talk to Justin about that.

One thing I don't get with most skins, irrelevant of how brilliant they are. When I stretch out the left track panel to see all the buttons the top left corner big buttons always look crap because they are stretched and blurry. Why don't skinners make higher res buttons that shrink instead of the normal low res ones that grow.

I'm not sure if you get my drift, anyway it's a little niggle I have had with most skins.

A really nice, very usable look. The brushed aluminium looks great.

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very smooth.When I stretch out the left track panel to see all the buttons the top left corner big buttons always look crap because they are stretched and blurry.
True - I guess its not noticed because thze skinnmakers don't expand the TCP to full size.
White Tie's default theme doesn't have that problem.


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One thing I don't get with most skins, irrelevant of how brilliant they are. When I stretch out the left track panel to see all the buttons the top left corner big buttons always look crap because they are stretched and blurry. Why don't skinners make higher res buttons that shrink instead of the normal low res ones that grow.
Actually, it's like choosing between two evils. When you make the toolbar icons you have to decide if you want them to look sharp and clear when they're scaled up respectively down, on one or two rows (unfortunately, it's not possible to "fix" the sizes). I think most of the toolbars (themes) are designed to look best when scaled down (two rows), whereas others are designed to look better when stretched up.

Minimize/maximize the track panel all the way down/up, then switch between themes, let's say Default_WT and Max's Stumn201, and you'll see what I mean. (Funny thing, though, is that Stumn201 looks good either way.)
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very smooth.

My mixes still look messy because I colour the tracks into categories (drums, strings, guitars...). I think there should just be a coloured bit of the track instead of the whole thing, this would look better IMHO. Would probably have to talk to Justin about that.

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I think you can set that in the preferences - to make the whole track coloured, or just the block behind the text.

Sure, it would be better if you could specify which part of the track should be coloured.
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Thanks guys, your right I can just make the labels on the tracks coloured. Now I can see the folder tracks easier too. Everything now looks so much sweeter.

I'm mixing heaps of strings tracks (might have mentioned it) and I am having problems getting a massive overview or the big picture. Then I discovered the experimental view settings (Prefs/General/AdvancedUI/ScaleUI). I tweaked the view to 80% (0.8). I can now shrink the track view mixer to the smallest setting and get a fuller mixer view. It's not pretty but it works.

Here is a crop of my main screen (full is 1680x1050).Flickr doesn't let me upload anything larger than 1024x768, but thats for another forum.

Here is a link to the my compact GUI.
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I like this one a LOT. Very cool and clean. Nice work!
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THANKS so much for posting the link, Carbon! This is a very nice layout.

Right now, I am torn between this one and Vixie Plain. These are my favorites right now.

I appreciate your work on this my man!
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Thanks, I'm Torn too, but not between
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Old 03-10-2008, 07:44 PM   #34
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carbon.
i very much like this.
in particular words above the buttons like at the top.
which i feel would help new people to reaper.
i urge you to develope this further.
nice work.
ps..in another thread someone mentioned gold faders.
subtle gold faders i like the idea of.

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I like it too
became my default now
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