New Comic Book Theme!

hansolo77

The creator as moved on and said he will not be creating more system themes. This is mostly pointed at @movd and @herbi444 in case they didn't know. HOWEVER, If you have some skill in Photoshop or similar software, creating your own system theme is really not that hard. I've done it on a few systems myself and they turned out just as good. That being said, I do have a request for @TMNTturtlguy .. would you be willing to provide me the transparent "slime" image you used for the hacks as well as the hacks overlay image you put over top of the system names? You neglected to include some systems that have hacks and I need those images to create a perfect match. I can make my own, but it won't look right if they're not exactly like yours. That'd be great if you can!

movd

@hansolo77, Let me preface this with I have never used photoshop, I have no graphic editing skills and I did this in paint.net. I attempted to made an atomiswave menu image. It is good enough for me, but not nearly as good as the officially created ones. Anyway, I figured I should share it if anyone is interested.

hansolo77

That actually looks really good! I had trouble with the duo-tone bit.

chubsta

I am aware this is no longer being developed, which is a real shame as it is by far the best theme I have seen, but to save duplication of effort does anyone have an updated theme set for the following systems:

pc engine cd
coco
dragon32
megadrive-japan
msx2
sgfx
ti99
try-80
videopac

chubsta

@chubsta im an idiot - but its too late to delete it - sorry!

Gwyllion

@Alturis said in New Comic Book Theme!:

Character settings

Ufff so complicated for me... I´m only trying to get a ZX81 text.png , if any can help and get for me, I Will be your friend forever :)

Raze

Hi all,

I've started to develop a section for this theme for windows based games. I have an x86 pc running Xbuntu and retropie and most of the games I want run perfectly through Wine. It's actually really fantastic - can even link to steam, gog, etc.

I got artwork, and snaps etc, for a few games and got the 'rip' image done but got stuck with the windows text for the main screen. I'm hoping to get a bit of help. I don't have a Photoshop license, and can't seem to replicate the font effect well in Gimp.

I've been able to hack together a windows text image using other images as you can see below, but it's not super great. I've also included my rip should anybody want to use it.

I was really hoping somebody who's had success using some of the methods noted above would be willing to spend a few minutes and whip up an nice 'windows' text for me?? :) Ideally it would be blue like the older windows icons.

Much thanks in advance. Cheers.

~Raze42

windows word.png

Raze

@Raze alright. Well I took a crack at it in Gimp. It's not too bad, but not perfect....

Gwyllion

@Raze could you plz make a ZX81 pic, please? My girlfriend is available...😜

Gothrek

sam coupè
satella view
sufami turbo
thomson
neogeocd
pokemini

someone?

RussellB

If someone can walk me through the process of how they are created in Gimp I'll start cranking them out!

Clyde

@RussellB Though I don't know much about GIMP myself, there are two step-by-step guides for Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop in this thread. Click on their names to jump to the posts. Maybe you or anyone else can use them as a basis for GIMP (or Krita, see below).

You may also take a look at Krita, another free and open source image editor that is often mentioned as an alternative to GIMP. It's said to be "designed primarily for painting and animation purposes" (Wikipedia).

A quick web search got me these pages among many others:

Originally, I switched from GIMP to Krita because it's the standard image editor for my Plasma desktop environment from KDE. For my very simple image editing purposes, I found it easier to use than GIMP, but that's just my personal and unprofessional opinion. :)

RussellB

! POKÉMON MINI.png )

My first take on it... Needs some work because the borders are bigger than the the ones that come with it but I'm almost there. Bought and learned Photoshop. Worth it!

stahl80

This theme is absolutely beautiful!!
Thank you for this 👌👍✌️

Zenjiro

Can anyone point me to where I can acquire the blank/template of the rip/comic_rip image used to put any desired character in?

Zenjiro

I really love this theme. So much so I have taught myself how to use GIMP, created my own fork on github, and I am getting close to start pumping out newer themes and collections.

Here is a current work-in-progress Banjo-Kazooie Theme:
I still have some touch ups I need to do.
Sorry for the low quality. Had to fit it into site restrictions.

Zenjiro

I've created a fork for this theme which can be found here: https://github.com/Zenjir0/es-theme-ComicBook
I am calling this a v3.0 of this theme. Please read the changelog in the readme for all changes that were made.

Added Holy2tack's themes as well as my own touch-ups to holy's system/collection images.

I've added my own original theme, Banjo Kazooie and a Template Theme. More to come in the future.

I have not tested this theme on a Raspberry Pi yet. Most of my tests have been on either jrassa's or fabricecaruso's fork of EmulationStation. If you encounter an issue, please feel free to leave a ticket on the github. I will do my best to fix it.

Same goes for requests. I already have a huge list of collections and systems I want to add.

Hope you all enjoy.

Clyde

Since FB Alpha was replaced by FB Neo in Retropie awhile ago, could/did anyone make an FB Neo logo?

Clyde

@Zenjiro Thanks for taking over the baton. Any chance for a 4:3 version?

Zenjiro

@Clyde - "Any chance for a 4:3 version?"

As of right now, no. My primary focus is on 16:9.

I'll update the FB Neo system image.