In another thread I said I had made a simple skin for use with an aftermarket head unit, and a forum member asked me to post it up. It's probably a bit different approach than most seem to take here, but it suits my specific needs. Only tiniest bit of flash. I have a calculator and moon phase display on the night version's 2nd menu screen. I admit to plagiarizing both flash elements from forum members here, and I apologize for not giving them specific credit. I forget who I took them from as I never expected to go public with this skin and I would be happy to correct this shameful oversight if someone recognizes the author(s). No phone, web, radio, etc. Anyway, I created some files on mediafire to host them.
Here are some pertinent items about my skin:
1. I use a Pioneer Premier head unit, so I don't have volume controls on the skin.
2. I either play one specific album or I do a random shuffle of all the songs on the machine. As a result, I have all my music on the carputer organized with each album as a folder under "My Music". Inside the folder are simply the mp3 files and an album art image.
3. My main screen, "menu_off.png" also serves as my audio player screen.
4. The 2nd menu screen has stuff I seldom use, i.e., video, skin browser, calculator, exit to windows, minimize RR, and a repeat of a couple of the music control buttons.
5. There is a skin element titled, "multi_use" that only works when the calculator is called up. I created this skin name when I still used a notepad, web browser, etc in an earlier skin - just stuck with the name even though I no longer use them as skin elements.
6. I use iGuidance v4
7. Even though the video screen says External_DVD, I use the MPC files that came with RR. I don't have a video browser screen since I never really use video in my car - next skin iteration the video element is likely to disappear.
8. I create the PSDs in 800X480 format since that's what my Xenarc displays. My skin's *.png files are in 1024X768 since my computer won't support 800X480, and I seem to remember a post (by JohnWPB?) saying iGuidance likes to work in 1024X768 - really have not tried anything else - unfortunately it makes the png file size bigger than I would like. Of course, feel free to resize to meet you needs - IrfanView is a freeware graphics program that easily does that even in batch mode.
OK more than enough background - on to file links (day and night versions, plus PSDs for the day version), then two screen captures to give a flavor (without the bother of a download), one of the day version of the main screen and one of it in night mode.
edit: please see post #5 below for some updates.
Day
http://www.mediafire.com/?1xy2jhg3tqm
Night
http://www.mediafire.com/?517ml2dgysf
PSDs
older 800X480 version
http://www.mediafire.com/?0ntbrtymezk
1024X768 version matching current Day skin
http://www.mediafire.com/?3jxyjjonzz3
The day time version of "menu_off"
The night time version of "menu_off"
I hope the above is enough to understand the skin, I would be happy to explain anything else, or do minor tweaking for someone wanting something along these lines.
edit: Also thought I'd mention the PSD files are probably sloppy as I'm self taught and lack discipline, and the PSDs don't exactly match the png files as I more or less constantly tweak the display - but they're close enough for anyone using photoshop to do whatever they would want.
Changed the day version to make all screens consistent, i.e., the background of the audio browser is now black and the buttons are set up to be white with the blue edges.
Another edit - changed the night skin to be consistent with the day - basically the same skin with colors toned down - the day skin has high contrast as I drive a convertible and could not afford a transflective monitor - which in turn makes it too bright at night.