October 13th Skin Thoughts and Reviews

Monday, October 13, 2008 by wulfn1 | Discussion: Community

This week, with the GUI Championships upon us, I wanted to find something special.

I didn't have to look very far. The very first page had a great blind  that stood out and , really I think should have been entered. (But I'm glad it wasn't!).

Azul HI-def in 3d by the AVMAN is a brilliant skin with features you won't see in other blinds. For one, the start menu gives the illusion of being offset and made of something more solid than a bitmap. The colors are blended in a way that is really easy on the eyes.

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The menus of this skin are outstandingly skinned. The individual sections for each menu item makes it much easier to find what I am looking for in a long list of stuff. One of the nicer parts of this skin is the min/max/close buttons are situated on the left. Being a lefty I have to enjoy that.

 

CursorFX theme is Prototype 01 by J. Aroche I adjusted the hue slightly to bring out the deeper blue tones.

Slider by SkinHit , recolored to blue  is the IconPackage I used .The slight tilt to the icons worked well with the blind's look. I had to recolor Firefox Midnight by Mirsguy again for this one. And I recolored and converted Thunderbird 2005 icons by Jairo Boudewyn from Object Dock pngs.

 My Dreaming Night by PhoeniXLegends is a great wall, with three different styles and three different sizes. This setup looked great with each of the styles, but because it's october I thought maybe something a bit darker was in order.

for my ObjectDocks , first I chose a single dock again with the Stardock ODNT icons all from some Hazard icons by David Brelo , really a detailed group of icons, unfortunately he did them one at a time!

 

The second Dock, is BlackRose Tabbed and Side docks by WebGizmos with the blue hue allowed for each tab, just slightly different blue.

I tossed in Mini Calendar by Vad_M just because I could. Blue of course.

 

Right click is BlackBlue by Cavan1. It's a great skin and the coloring is spot on.

Jafo
Reply #1 Monday, October 13, 2008 10:42 PM

Always nice to see 3D in WB skins....

Philly0381
Reply #2 Tuesday, October 14, 2008 11:29 AM

It would be nice if the next new option/function that Stardock came out with would be a 3D Desktop capability.

Great review and desktop as always Wulfn1.

storm347
Reply #3 Tuesday, October 14, 2008 12:20 PM
well done i look forward to the next one   
PuterDudeJim
Reply #4 Wednesday, October 15, 2008 10:57 AM
Nice review, Thanx!   

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