how can I get my album art to be glossy like this guy has done?...

http://www.playnow.co.kr/link/1ee0357654815/Untitled-1.jpg

thanks

Make a transparent fade in Photoshop or other program capable of alpha channels, then save it as an alpha PNG.
Then you place it over your album art.

Something like this

enjoy these:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=51159

thansk guys:)

I can't find the option for entering any script in album art preferences, only a tab for entering sources?

You'll put that code in a trackinfo_mod or track_display panel to show the art

thanks, still can't get it working though. this is the full code I used in my track display panel:



-I saved the image as a .png file, I couldn't find any option to save as 'ALPHA PNG' file in photoshop.
-nothing appears in the track display panel just a white background
-my album art are all named 'folder.jpg' and are saved in the corresponding album folder, along with the tracks.

what am I doing wrong?

which skin is that? it looks awesome!

no idea, I just found the image on another post in these forums as an example.

im a bit confused, will this cover glossy art appearance work in columnsUI, it seems like it ought to... but its unclear from the responses

It will work in Track Display, SCPL and Library Filter(I think, haven't tried images in LF)

I've got panels UI installed, which includes the trackinfo mod panel, which should support the $imageabs2 function shouldn't it?



I think thats the idea yeh, but I cant seem to get it to work using the code I have used in above post^

maybe you need to change the path of your album art?

any ideas what I can change it too, so that it will work for every album?

I'm not sure why the code:



returns the album art when used in the album art panel but not in the track display panel?
I can't think of any other code to use for a universal file path

$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,folder.jpg)

I changed the code to this:



and selected 'follow cursor' mode.

now the image is being displayed in the trackinfo panel, but it is way too large for the window, and the .png image (the gloss) is not being displayed on top of it:



you can see an albumart panel underneath for comparison of the size of the art.

-I still need to get the art to fit the window (even when resized)
-get the gloss to be displayed on top

thanks

I made this post a while ago, and I've been busy revising for my exams since but I had another look at it today, and I found out what I was doing wrong; using the alpha channel in the code, when I didn't need to.

this is how its looking now:


Pic:


as you can see I made my image in 1024x768 size in photoshop, a bit too big.

I was wondering how I can get both the album art and the glossy image, to fit the window even when it's resized?

(I figured it would be better to make a larger image, and have foobar scale it down to fit the panel, than to make a smaller image, and have foobar scale it up, losing quality.)

p.s. thanks all for the help

I am pretty sure that the "nokeepaspect" part of your code needs to read "NOKEEPASPECT" (all caps). Try that, it should work.

Thanks for the suggestion but that didn't work. Just stayed the same

Maybe you can use %_width% to get the panels width.

%width% and %height% don't exist.
you should be using %_width% and %_height%

ahhhh I see, what a stupid mistake.
Oh well thanks alot for all the help!
everything is working seamlessly now:)