how do you make a skin colourizeable?

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how do you make a skin colourizeable? by Shiny Rabbit on 02-13-2008 at 03:48 PM

anyone???

RE: how do you make a skin colourizeable? by Basilis on 02-13-2008 at 04:38 PM

the skin's background image will get colorized by default.

RE: how do you make a skin colourizeable? by vikke on 02-13-2008 at 05:12 PM

Windows Live Messenger handles most of the colorize features itself. As long as you have the colorize-button available, you don't have to worry. All pictures doesn't get colorized. If a picture doesn't get colorized, and you want it to be, or the opposite, you can change the MetaData-flag for the image in your SkinInfo.xml file. Read more about that in the skinning-documentation.
If you have a color-resource in your SkinInfo.xml, and you want it to be colorizable, you have to use the <I>-tag. This is because it doesn't colorize the color by default, and it doesn't know how to without that tag. You can use these colors to make backgrounds or text-colors colorized. You could just use rcclr(<RESOURCEID>), so for example background:

code:
background: rcclr(490001);

And now, that background will get colorized.

RE: how do you make a skin colourizeable? by Shiny Rabbit on 02-13-2008 at 05:37 PM

my background stays white, how do i fix this? the same way?

RE: how do you make a skin colourizeable? by warmth on 02-13-2008 at 06:34 PM

you need to put the colorize tag in the skininfo file... please read the skinning documentation for it... there you will find lot of info about it... and maybe some examples...

RE: how do you make a skin colourizeable? by Basilis on 02-13-2008 at 08:13 PM

If you have put a white image as a background it cannot be colorized. Black and white cannot get colorized. I suggest you put a slight blue image as the default color so that it will be colorized properly.

RE: how do you make a skin colourizeable? by Shiny Rabbit on 02-13-2008 at 08:42 PM

i had found that out already after giving up with constantly breaking the plsk file, i changed the hue in photoshop to blue and now it colours beutifully

RE: RE: how do you make a skin colourizeable? by vikke on 05-14-2008 at 05:51 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Eminem1992
Hey i have added also a metadata to my background image for Windows Live Messenger 8.1, but it doesn't work How do you colorize it?

Can you explain the problem further? (attach the SkinInfo.xml file, screenshot, and how you added the background image)

Why would you want to skin 8.1 anyways? 8.5 has been the public version for about a year or something.

RE: how do you make a skin colourizeable? by TheSourcE on 05-14-2008 at 08:09 PM

Here ar my skininfo and a screen shot:

You see only red lines. I can't colorize the whole image.

quote:
Why would you want to skin 8.1 anyways? 8.5 has been the public version for about a year or something.

I'm wanted to make a skin on WLM 8.1 and WLM 8.5

RE: how do you make a skin colourizeable? by joey on 05-14-2008 at 08:18 PM

excuse me for stealing the topic a bit, but what theme is that? i likes =]

RE: how do you make a skin colourizeable? by TheSourcE on 05-15-2008 at 09:20 AM

The background image you mean? Its a Vista theme