Sony Ericsson Themes Creator To Easily Create Sony Ericsson Themes

Personalize the look and feel of your favorite Sony Ericsson mobile phone with themes created using Sony Ericsson Themes Creator. This is free software from sony Ericsson to create attractive themes, edit existing themes and save them. based on design components such as color palettes, sound files, image files or animations.

Sony Ericsson Theme Creator has a new user interface that simplifies the task of creating themes. It is easy to create professional themes, with the help of workflow and wizards, in a few simple steps. You need not possess any specific skills to create themes for your sony Ericsson mobile Phones.

How To Create Themes Using Sony Ericsson Themes Creator?

The application is not a graphic editing tool, but more of a “composer”, that is, it enables you to create a theme based on existing components such as color palettes, sound files, image files or animations. It also allows you to change display colours for menu text, clock display, and so on.

In Version of Themes Creator, themes can be edited using three different modes:

• Wizard mode
• Advanced mode
• XML editor mode

Creating Sony Ericsson Themes In Wizard Mode

The Wizard allows the user to create a theme in three basic steps. This mode does not work for creating Symbian phone themes, and is hidden for Symbian phone models.

• Select a colour scheme using automatic color combinations or a color wheel tool. There is also an Import Adobe Swatch Exchange file button, that allows the user to import Swatch Exchange files created with the Adobe Kuler system and use these swatches for colour schemes in Themes Creator. The preview screens in this pane are immediately updated when the colour scheme has changed
• The Next Step provides controls for importing background images for the Standby Wallpaper, Desktop and Navigation screens. Only screens supported in the theme definition of the selected phone are shown in this step. Clicking the Import button below one of the screens or clicking in one of the screen areas, opens a dialog where the image to use for that screen can be selected. note that Images imported for backgrounds are not affected by the colour scheme settings
• The third step involves selecting a style from one of the pre-defined styles, affecting the shapes and colours of certain screen areas, for example, tab areas and highlighted list items. When a style is selected, images of the corresponding style is generated for these items given the colours selected in Step 1, and the preview screens are updated with the new styles

Creating Sony Ericsson Themes In Advanced Mode

The Advanced Mode provides options to edit or create specific components. The most important features of the Advanced editor are:

• The tabs are used to select group of theme elements to edit. In the image above, the “Backgrounds” pane is selected. The Import buttons are used to select images for elements. When an Import button is pressed, an “Open” dialog is displayed so the wanted image file can be selected and imported to the theme element
• Colour settings for text items, outlines and backgrounds can be entered directly into the text fields or selected via a “Colour Picker” dialog, displayed when a colour box is clicked
• Image and colour changes are immediately reflected in the preview images shown when the mouse cursor is moved over a graphic element area, as illustrated in the image above

Creating Sony Ericsson Themes In XML Editor Mode

This mode allows the user to edit the content of the XML file which is saved inside the theme file. This is practical, for example, when the user wants to add an element that is not supported by the currently selected phone profile but can be handled by the target phone.

The XML editor is a basic text editor, where the XML file of the current theme is displayed when the editor is opened.

For .thm themes (Sony Ericsson feature phones) the user can add images and colours not supported by the currently selected phone profile. For .utz themes (Symbian/UIQ phones) the user can add condensedColorScheme colours, wallpapers, systemSounds and skins, skin patches and skin texts. When the user adds an element requiring an image file or sound file to be specified, the full, absolute path of the file must be specified for Themes Creator to be able to import the image or sound into the theme file. The “Insert file name” button helps the user with this by opening a dialog where the path and file can be selected.

When the user changes editor mode from XML Editor to another mode (either Advanced editor or Wizard), the XML code is reformatted and rearranged to the standard. When pressing Apply in the XML editor, a validator checks the consistency of the XML code and all the elements in the code. If, for example, the code contains elements that do not belong to the currently selected phone model or file specifications are missing, the validator presents warnings in the list below the code window. If the user double clicks a warning in the list, the cursor moves to the line of code that the warning refers to. If the list contains only warnings, the XML code can be saved and the XML editor be exited. If there are errors, which would make the XML file unusable, the file cannot be saved and the XML editor cannot be exited, unless the user agrees that all changes will be lost.

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