Themes and Textures for Directory Opus

These are background images and textures that I have assembled and/or created for use with Directory Opus.

Directory Opus is a file manager for Windows. Read my guide, Getting to know Directory Opus, for an introduction.

You can use them in other programs, too, if you like. Opus theme files are just zip archives with a special extension so you just need to rename them if you want to extract their images.

Not all images contained in theme files will be automatically configured when you import them into Opus. All the images will be extracted but you'll have to set some up by hand using the Opus Folder Options dialog.

If you use a tiled image for multiple elements (e.g. toolbars and status bar) you'll often get best results if you tell Opus to share the image as it will then line up across elements.

You can get neat effects by using different versions of the same image (e.g. one more washed out than the other) tiled and shared on different elements (e.g. toolbars and file display area).

Vista Corner (Click for more info.) Backgrounds / Bottom-Right Large and Small sizes.
Nudel Corner White Theme / Bottom-Right Source PSD with layers
Nudel Tile White Theme / Tile Source PSD with layers
Nudel Tile Sand Theme / Tile Source PSD with layers
White Grey Lines 17 Tile	Opus 10 and above: Opus can now create patterns like the one above for you, and blend them with other background images if you like. Choose the thick, solid line in the Preferences / File Display Modes / Details / Display grid lines drop-down (or similar for Power Mode if you use that).
Silver_TaskBar.png Stretch From WinXP Taskbar	Note: If you set a floating toolbar's style to Taskbar then it will automatically use the taskbar background/style provided by Windows, without needing any images like the one above.
Explorer-Toolbar.png Stretch + Share From WinXP Explorer
vs2005_toolbar.png Stretch From VS2005
Transparent_Gradient.png Stretch From SubBASS Listers
Nudel-Blue.png Tile + Share
Nudel-Blue-Light.png Tile + Share
Nudel-Grey.png Tile + Share
Nudel-Grey-Light.png Tile + Share
Nudel-Marble.png Tile + Share Source PSD with layers
Nudel-Water1a.png Tile + Share
Nudel-Water1b.png Tile + Share
Nudel-Water2.png Tile + Share
Nudel-Water3a.png Tile + Share
Nudel-Water3b.png Tile + Share
FolderColors_1.zip Icons	Opus 10 and above: Opus can now re-color the icons for any files and folders on-the-fly, so you don't need these icons anymore. This is done via Preferences / Favorites and Recent / File and Folder Labels.

More themes can be found at the Directory Opus Resource Centre.