ScaleNine

When I first started ScaleNine there was an immediate request for a theme based on Adobe Lightroom when it was in beta. I added the suggestion to the list and now finally got around to putting a theme together.

Initially I was just going skin the basic components, but as I got into it I started creating additional skins resembling those components in Lightroom. I ended up with multiple background, scroll bar, toggle button, combo box and button bar skins. I almost went into icons, but those are specific to Lightroom and I figured people would just use their own.

Also, to see how far I could go with the skin I mocked up what I thought Lightroom would look like in Flex. I was able to get real close without creating any custom components, but the best solution would be taking the time to create them for areas like the expanding/scrolling accordian-like area, putting a scroll bar on the left versus the right, etc. I just put VBoxes inside Canvases inside HBoxes inside… At least it will give anyone wanting to use the theme an idea where to use the different skins.

Almost everything is collapseable, like the trays and content areas in Lightroom, but I didn’t spend too much time getting into effects so they’re a little buggy in some instances.

Check out the Darkroom Theme (view source enabled) or download it and get the FLA from the Scalenine homepage. Happy Cinco de Mayo!

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