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Graphic Design Blog – An Ultimate Resource for Graphic Designers. How to Create Your Own Google Chrome Themes. Customizing our computers is a cool way to personalize the machine we work on. Working on a computer that we have personalized and are comfortable with increases our productivity.

There are various methods in which you can customize your computer; one of these methods is to customize the look of your favorite web browser. Personally, I prefer Google Chrome over all other web browsers. I like the quick response time and security it offers. The browser also offers a gallery of themes that can be used to customize its look. But instead of selecting something from a list, I like to create my own themes. Below you will find the tools that I use to create my browser themes for Google Chrome. 1. ChromeThemeMaker is the first entry in my list because it is the easiest one to use. You can select from a list of available options for each modifiable control. Alternatively you can upload your own options to give your theme a truly personal touch.

ChromeThemeMaker can be visited here. 2. 3. Create Chrome Theme Online. A theme is a special kind of extension that changes the way the google chrome browser looks. It is a zipped bundle of fles: one manifest.json file and several png images Here is an example manifest.json file for a theme: version: One to four dot-separated integers identifying the version of this theme. name: A short, plain text string (no more than 45 characters) that identifies the theme. description: A description text for your theme. images: Image resources for this theme.

Colors: Colors are in RGB format, which is used to specify the color of the bookmark text, frame, etc. tints: You can specify tints to be applied to parts of the UI such as buttons, the frame, and the background tab. properties: this field lets you specify properties such as background alignment, background repeat. Design Templates, Photoshop Brushes, and Stock Vectors | GraphicRiver. WebStarts | Make A Free Website | Free Website Builder. Responsive Website Builder for Designers - Breezi. Subreddit. A place for artists to submit logos they want to see on the front page.

If you want to make a logo for a subreddit, please submit your logo to the subreddit's moderators for consideration. To be considered for a front page logo: Get the base header or the vector art.Make your changes.Upload it to imgurSubmit it to /r/logos. Each day that we need a logo, we will pick from our favorite here (not necessarily the highest voted). The word reddit must be in it (or at least most of the word).The alien doesn't necessarily have to be in it, but it helps.If you want to do a series, use imgur's multiple submission feature to submit the entire series.Make sure the background is TRANSPARENT, but shows up against the blue.The image MUST be in RGB or sRGB.

Don't forget to check out /r/logo to see some of the previous logos, and also the reddit logo archive. ThemeCreationGuide - chromium - A guide and a reference for creating themes using extensions. - An open-source browser project to help move the web forward. The Google Chrome Extensions Help Docs provided some info on how to create theme as an extension, but for a pure designer, the details of the *.cc file can be overwhelming and confusing. Also, having a clear documentation, enables a new designer to start designing on the go! (Also makes life easier... he he he). Experimenting with the creation of theme and the possible UI elements that could be themed helped create this help document(working progress).It would be helpful if people contribute to this document in any possible way, that would make it a good Theme Creation Guide!

So how do you create a theme for Google chrome? Things you'll need to create a theme A basic text editor (preferably one that shows line numbers-because on packaging a theme, Chrome might point out the error in the control file - manifest.json, if any. It is recommended using Notepad++ which is a free and very useful editor!). Now that you have the needed tools, let's get started.

Then we package the theme and test it.