well, its jus the alpha has been adjusted... means the image becomes 100% transparent... and the dock drawer determines the alpha to create the reflection required....

i got it,but how the exactly i can make the dock look like this?

how can i adjust the alpha? use photoshop to edit those .png files?

And here is mine again. This is my final version for the 2d Dock very simple.

great stuff!

thanks, that rocks.

I did some testing and tweaking myself.. and i realise that if u want a totally transparent dock with 100% reflection, all you need to do is jus remove all the scurve files....

now, when u're working in photoshop for you files, the alpha depends on the global transparency (opacity) of the layer that ur working on... and the whole image is rendered in perspective.. so i u want to have a definitive edge, all you need to do is to jus define that edge inside your rectangular file... the dock will do the rest.. (ie, the borders you see on some of the files here) i think full transparency works best with dark backgrounds and sucks with light ones as an example shown here of my desktop... time to migrate to a darker one.. (though i like this one that i created... hai..)

Ok Here is mine:



Also i can't seem to find the seperator program can some1 point it to me. I would like to seperate my icons.\

I made my own little Dock theme applescript app, i really wish i could program...

this too has to be put into the Applications folder and keep the same name...

it's got two different themes and can set you back to the default by push of buttons...

i'll take screenshots later, it's pretty late and i struggled to make the application better than the piece that it is now.

hi i would like to have this seperator trick/app to please =D

attached my desktop

please make yourself clearer... if u're looking for the separator found in the dock of the pic, then its in build... no need to find it, cos its always there....

if u're looking for a blank app, then u can always create a blank png file with 100% alpha, then use preview to copy the image, then paste it to the app to make it blank.. then drag that blank app to the dock...

the second point was my wanting =D

i made it with ur description
thank you

Wow! Everyone's Dock modifications looks really nice!

I managed to get the 3D Side Dock back in the Leopard GM. All I did was completely replace the Dock.app Package Contents with the files from 9a559, not the ideal solution. Any help would be appreciated. If you're interested here are the Dock Package Contents from Build 9a559: 9a559DockContents.zip.



I also posted the same information in this thread in case anyone reads it.

Peace.

That wallpaper is from InterfaceLIFT: Colorfast by Richard Mohler.

any chance of adding a transparent dock option?

thanks

update!

application folder and name dependency problem is fixed! now the app works, no matter where is placed!
new themes added...

my english is still bad ^^

LOL! You're English is fine.

That's a really cool app. Thanks for sharing!

Sometimes I get an AppleScript Error message that says, "No matching processes belonging to you were found (1)". Then I just re-open Dock.app and everything is cool again.

I made a small command line script to quickly replace the correct scurve files. just place the new ones in the same folder as the script. then open terminal, cd to that directory, sh the script and there you go, new dock with your very own custom backgrounds. With it are two of my favorites I made today and the originals.

the script doesn't back them up.

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wow much better job than i did, thats awesome!

you should get the ball rolling with that, take submissions too

that mirror dock is Awesome!!!!

(I personally don't like the grid theme - but the other options are great!)


thanks so much.


you need and icon, and to fix the Application name in the menu bar("docktweak", "about NewApplication", "Quit NewApplication" and "NewApplication" in the help menu), and post it up on VersionTracker/Macupdate

This is great, just one tiny thing, it would be AWSOME if we could add own styles....

Can you upload this on other server? please)
on something like sendspace.com

Lessew can u share your dock please??

my dock is slighty boring.

Here you go.
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Does anybody think they could upload the entire Dock.app? After archiving it of course... >_>

Thanks!

These are some really cool docks. How does one go about modifying these? Is it just:
show hidden contents/ and then paste the file resource file?

Also, I did the:

how does one go about undoing this? do I need to change YES to NO?

Thanks in advance.

Copy the png files into /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources. Then set your dock to the left of your screen, then set the dock to the bottom again, and it will refresh with the new images.

Ok, thanks. Does anyone know how I can return to the old dock(IE the 3D Dock)?

Change YES to NO, like this:



The directions to replace the Dock Package Contents are on the first page of this thread.

Here's my new dock. I can post the files (and psd for the dock) if you want.
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lessew thanks for sharing the dock! u are an awesome artist......just one question I did the above and the dark dock only show when I set the dock to be on the left or the right..but not the bottom. did I miss something?

I like your shelf lessew. Nice touch

Not sure why that's happening. You did replace ALL the dock background png's? Are you running the older dock? I don't know why that's not working for the bottom.

@frankiedp
Thanks. I got the original psd from http://www.hine.org/graphic/2007_10_docks/ . I didn't like how large the edges were, and also didn't like the background. I modified and used the dock background from http://theappleblog.com/2007/10/31/create-...od-custom-dock/

I've also just modified the separator. If you go back and look at the new screenshot I attached to my last post, you'll see it.

Here are the files.
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I'm running into the same problem. Is the scurve.png file supposed to be renamed 4 times to replace scurve-xl scurve-l scurve-m & scurve-sm?

Yes, scurve-xl scurve-l scurve-m & scurve-sm all need to be replaced. With the final builds of Leopard, they changed it from the one file to four different files.

Here is a pack of themes I made for the leopard dock along with a bash script to update. Instructions included in the folder.

Themes included in my pack:

Black Glass:


Carbon:


Caution:


Marble:


Seafoam:


(Backup Originals Also Included)

NEVERMIND!! lessew I got it to work! i redownloaded your .zip file and replaced all the files and it looks AWESOME!! ....thank you again!!

Just wanted to say thanks for all the help with I got from this thread. This is about the same as everyone else but wanted to post anyway:Click to view attachment

My new dock.

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lessew could you post the files for your latest dock please... I love the indicators

Another I whipped up: Click to view attachment

I must give some credits to turpentine Post #12, I hope he does not get upset for my coping of idea but rather takes it as flattery for his ideas.

If any of you guys would be willing to put your images (already named) into a folder and also add in my update script from my dock theme thread and zip it up, i would love to add it to the thread. Update script and thread here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=69313

I actually got the indicators from farther back in the thread...

That said, here it is.
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Heres one of the many I;ve made

it amuses and motivates me

is there possibly anyway to get the opacity turned up on the 2d dock?

You can do that in Photoshop. Just adjust the opacity for the interior. There are more than 25 files you'll need to edit though.

which files?

I don't want to list them all!!! It looks like you've already edited most of them to get the squared corners and black border. You'd just need to re-edit the same files and adjust the interior opacity. Or is that someone else's dock?

Do you want me to list all the files still?

well is all i edited for those are the 5 bottom files and it does not change the inside of the dock :/ i must be missing something very obvious?

No, you're right. I had edited all the 2D files (for left, right, bottom = 25+ files), but they're apparently only for the border. I have no idea about the interior then, sorry. I wish it was as easy as I had thought. Be nice to change the color too.