A New Bootskin for Vista

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 by Island Dog | Discussion: OS Customization

As we have been teasing you with news about DeskScapes for XP, and Bootskin for Vista over the last couple of weeks, I wanted to tease some more and show Bootskin in action.  Get Object Desktop to get access to all these cool apps when released.

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ArileenDesign
Reply #1 Tuesday, November 11, 2008 3:41 PM
sweet that's a good news

CharlesCS
Reply #2 Tuesday, November 11, 2008 3:45 PM

I'll se this when I get home but am wondering, bootskin was free befor, will this one be the same or will I have to get OD 2009 to get it? Just wondering.


sb_41
Reply #3 Tuesday, November 11, 2008 4:04 PM
Will these bootscreens be somewhat animated like the XP Bootskins?

VistArtXPosed
Reply #4 Tuesday, November 11, 2008 8:04 PM
I've been waiting forever to change my boot screen in Vista! I really hope that there WILL be a Bootskin for Vista.

DorkCoffeez
Reply #5 Tuesday, November 11, 2008 11:41 PM

What an amazingly great bootskin you have chosen! Why I would love to buy that artist a beer!    


bk13GarbageMan
Reply #6 Wednesday, November 12, 2008 10:14 AM
Cool, now I won't have to be jealous of all the XP'ers anymore!

skibadee
Reply #7 Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:06 PM

will they look better than xp version?  screen shot seems to look a lot better 


Island Dog
Reply #8 Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:13 PM

will they look better than xp version? screen shot seems to look a lot better

It's high resolution, unlike XP.

 

 


Philly0381
Reply #9 Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:21 PM

Oh sure just pick on the XP users you bunch of bullies!  

Lets see, Vista users get bootskins,   and XP users get animated wallpapers, .

That seems about right.


RickJP
Reply #10 Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:48 PM

and some of us get both to play with.


skibadee
Reply #11 Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:59 PM

Oh sure just pick on the XP users you bunch of bullies!  

Lets see, Vista users get bootskins,   and XP users get animated wallpapers, .

That seems about right.  lol I say so to philly0381 & thx for reply Island Dog,can't wait


sb_41
Reply #12 Wednesday, November 12, 2008 7:08 PM
Will these bootscreens be somewhat animated like the XP Bootskins?

ZubaZ
Reply #13 Wednesday, November 12, 2008 7:51 PM

Will these bootscreens be somewhat animated like the XP Bootskins?
My XP bootskins always turne to this pretty blues screen.  Every Dang ONE!

Unfortunatly, not this one: http://x86code.com/bsod.bmp, this one:


Excalpius
Reply #14 Wednesday, November 12, 2008 9:26 PM

Will these bootscreens be somewhat animated like the XP Bootskins?

Good question.  Are they just stills (in which case a randomizer option would be nice) or do they support some animation format?

 


DorkCoffeez
Reply #15 Thursday, November 13, 2008 12:08 PM

No BootSkin Pro will not have animations in it, at least not for the moment. Right now it will load static images for booting.


sb_41
Reply #16 Thursday, November 13, 2008 6:23 PM
Crud. Will animations be something that the BootSkin Vista development team will be looking into?

also, LOL Zubaz!

GhoS
Reply #17 Thursday, November 13, 2008 8:02 PM
Very nice!! I'm very excited about this, though do wish it had some animation.

SkruffyTheDJ
Reply #18 Thursday, November 13, 2008 8:48 PM
That dreaded blue screen... seen it few time when i was learning about making the bootskins... what i found is : if you use paint or some of the other art programs even though you save them in a 16 color format and the 4 bit they don't always do it corectly...thust not doing what the programs telling us it's doing...lovely aren't they...lol there's and art filter for photoshop... you can find the pluging to do the 4bit at the following link...website http://photoshop.pluginsworld.com/plugin.php?idx=50&directory=Adobe&software=Photoshop&searchFor= That's where i found most of my photoshop plugins... also if you have the Skinstudio professional...you can click the tools button up top and there'll be popdown to creat the bootskin image... and it works find for them both... however you'll have to resize the scroller (9x22 image) and make sure the background is 640 x 480, which is why I use the photoshop filter, and it checks them that way and lets you kind of retouch the images to make them look better if you need... hoiwever you'll find you'll still be limiteed to the colors in the images before you loaded them in photoshop...only 16....and one more note... if there's too much color variation between the background image and the scroller... as in an extra color between the 2... then the wonderful bluescreen of dread pops up...reason being the totol , between the 2 images turns out to be 17 colors and we're only allowed to have 16 total colors for the whole thing... Hope this helps and wish you luck...and Skruffy

ZubaZ
Reply #19 Friday, November 14, 2008 8:51 AM

The new bootskin is a new set of rules.  HiDef baby!!


2of3
Reply #20 Friday, November 14, 2008 9:59 AM

And when can I download this marvel?

 

2of3 waits impatiantly


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