TazSkool

Tazskools FMF Skinning FM Guide - Photoshop Guide + Over 15 Templates

Tazskool’s Guide To Skinning FM
Using Adobe Photoshop CS
www.FMFormation.net
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Click Here to download the file and leave any questions!!!

As you probably have seen that I have done a previous guide to this on skinning using Paint Shop Pro and since a lot of people use Adobe products I took the time to learn how to use PhotoShop and write this guide.

If you do have any questions please come to www.fmformation.net and in the Guides Section you will see a thread about this guide. Please leave all questions in there!! I shall answer them as soon as I can! 

If you wish to have this guide in your forum PLEASE ask as I do like to know where it is being copied and read as I can then give the best help possible!!!

Why this guide differs from others? It’s simple in the fact I write it with little knowledge of Photoshop and everything is simple to read and understand and I also see, as a beginner, that templates are also the easiest thing to use and understand. I shall also aim to point out where every piece of graphics are stored and used in the game. Then at the end of this guide I shall explain simple colouring and how to make the changed image save correctly and appear into your FM game.

I shall be dealing with the default graphics directory within FM. Then you will be able to move these files to a separate folder to create your own skin as we work through the guide.

This guide will be updated for every section of the game I write so it will have many sections such as “Skinning the Title Bar and “Skinning the Tree Table” and many others.

Please make a backup of CProgram Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2006\data\graphics by right clicking on the folder GRAPHICS and then selecting COPY. If you are using Windows XP then click in a blank section of the screen and select PASTE. This will create a new folder called “Copy Of Graphics”

This is all my own works so please do NOT try and pass this off as you have done this cause I do know that some people try and take credit for others work. This is a copywritten FAQ!


Now Let’s Begin!

Index:
Part 1 – Skinning the Tree Table
Part 2 – Skinning the Dialog Box
Part 3 - Skinning the Info Bar
Part 4 – Skinning the Background
Part 5 – Skinning the Buttons
Part 6 – Skinning the Side Buttons
Part 7 - Skinning the Match Title Section 1
Part 8 - Skinning the Match Title Section 2


Part - Colouring Your Template
Part - Cutting Templates and Making New Image
Part - Setting Opacity
Part - Saving Changed Image


I have created a lot of templates in the rar file which are not covered in this guide YET.

I will get around to writing this all up and what the exact templates cover in FM but for now this is a good start on what to look for and how to do it!!

So more templates and more written sections to follow!!!!

Barnsley

hello thanks for this, but can you mail it to me it wont let me download it my email address is on my profile thanks.

Good work

TazSkool

I shall have a new upload link coming soon once I clear some space from my server .. a 5.7 meg file takes time to email lol...

Barnsley

ok il wait for the other upload link, filefront if you can boss

TazSkool

Ive added a 2nd site to the list now.. If you click on the link in the first post you will now have a choice of 2 sites to download from

Barnsley

thanks alot looks complicated though

TazSkool

Its not complicate dif you sit down, read and try and follow it..

I have never skinned FM ever so this guide is written by me as a complete newbie to it all...

Templates are there to make things easier..

Give it a try and see...you'll be surprised as I was when I thought it was too hard to do...

It does take a while when you first start out to get it right and make sureyou have done everything.. but once you see you have 1 section completed and knowing YOU did it you will be hooked as I am now lol..

Ter

You need to learn about image slicing then you can make better templates. I think I put a guide up here before explaining how it's done.

TazSkool

Thanks Ter...

I just hoped it was a little easier to read and understand than other guides I have seen around the FM community...

I also hope it gives new peo1ple a look into skinning and helps them a little.. as for better templates I shall read about splicing and learn and build this guide a bit more in the future

Apart from the splicing side of it is there anything that can be improved so that people of all abilities can understand and follow?

Ter

I haven't really had time to have a proper look through yet. You should definitely look at image slicing as it makes the whole process much easier. I did a guide on that before but I can't find it now.