Hi folks!

Sorry I missed last week, with summer here , I have less time to devote to my blog articles, and I apologize for missing last week's deadline.

Because of the lack of time , I am going to be posting once every two weeks now till fall.

Having said that, here's this week's themes:

Well I picked out Blackbird by voidcore for the windowblind this week. it's a sleek little blind, which is easy on the eyes. One of the things that got my attention with this skin, is instead of having a different color for the active/inactive  highlight in taskbar, it has text that states "active","select" and "is active" upon mouseover  and when viewing the taskbar.

The greens and almost amber colors of the skin's contrast colors are very soft to the eye and are actually quite difficult to match with other skins. Because of this , I opted for things that either "almost matched " or blended well.

First I changed the right click menu to Seasons Reflections Plain Pack by buzzh58, Summer's Reflection. The yellow in the menu seems to blend nicely with the yellow/greens of the blind.

For Wall I chose Pool side by teddybearcholla. The half orb in the middle looks like it was meant to go with the start menu button and the whole look is refreshingly simple and clean.

I had a hard time finding DesktopX objects for this theme, but eventually managed to find two I thought worked well.

The first is Clear Window widget by bilbo1930. It's a nice clear weather widget with some splashes of color here and there to add definition.

The second was PJ's DXScripted Net Meters by pjpowell, one of my old favorites. It's small, and does exactly what it says, it monitors the flow over your internet connection.

For icons, I chose a nice crisp look without much fuss. Kwiksilver by skinhit fit the bill perfectly. This package is neat, well blended and very complete. The package goes well with many different looks as you will see later.

The CursorFX cursor  I chose actually came out of a windowblind I recently downloaded, Sandera by LightStar. The Blind came with alot of extras, including this cursor, which I recolored to fit the theme. Though with the recolor, I get a purple color for the wait cursor, the style and simplicity of the cursor matched very well the over all theme I created.

The second theme I'm featuring today is Spider-Man by  DaRkFuSsIoOn . I was going to do a whole setup of superhero themes done to de-emphasize the superhero side of the themes, but unfortunatly there were only two I could really do that with, and one I'd already used at one point.

I wanted to make this theme look as three dimensional as I could and so chose a dark wall from my collection, I can't find the link to this wall, and wb config doesn't provide names of the backgrounds available, so I can't tell you what it's called either. I chose the dark background after trying several silvery shiny looking ones, which actually changed the look of the blind so much it detracted from the appearance I wanted. If anyone has a link to this background do please include it here for me .

The cursor here is Metallica by J Aroche . The black and white , with the jagged edges added to the look I was heading for here.

Kwiksilver again, by skinhit worked the best here.

I had some fun with my DesktopX look, I went for some really shiny objects and it highlighted  the black background nicely.

Chrome Menu by Boxxi was a fun choice. This object reminded me of something I'd see at a car dealership, or in a trophy case... just really glossy and reflective.

I found a great object made by an old friend, Digital Trucker, RG111_Clock is chrome plated simplicity. The look was very three dimensional here and again made the dark background really pop.

I chose two more widgets here , both by Bilbo1930 , the first is True-Glass meter the second is True-Glass Weather. The transparency and reflection here made it possible to have so many widgets and objects.

I used Zig Zag 2 by Fairyy~ to complete the look. The silver and black complemented the blind's look nicely yet went perfect with the shiny metallic look of the DX  objects.