windoe
Comment #2 Saturday, November 18, 2006 10:09 AM
Comment #2 Saturday, November 18, 2006 10:09 AM
Thanks, Sheley ! Glad you like it ! it's not easy to make a first one! 
armaninyc
Comment #5 Saturday, November 18, 2006 7:41 PM
Comment #5 Saturday, November 18, 2006 7:41 PM
Windoe, I must say, you did an EXCELLENT job with the WB, I fell in love with the SMX and R.L. I had to ask Ms Lovely if she could do a weather. Now to search for someone to do a tab dock and a winamp, and I will be content. Keep up the GREAT work!!!!
Armaninyc
Armaninyc
windoe
Comment #6 Saturday, November 18, 2006 7:55 PM
Comment #6 Saturday, November 18, 2006 7:55 PM
Thanks for your enthusiasm, Armaninyc ! I haven't tried to make tabs or winamp skins for the moment. But nothing is impossible when you really want ! Never thought one year ago I could make a WB !!!
I have to watch this...
To help you waiting, I just submitted a logonXP to match the suite.
Never thought one year ago I could make a WB !!!I have to watch this...
To help you waiting, I just submitted a logonXP to match the suite.
cplair
Comment #9 Sunday, November 19, 2006 9:56 AM
Windoe I cannot believe this is your first skin! This skin is beautifully crafted, well thought of to the last detail, the color selection is masterful and is perfect for every day use.
Too many of us have gotten caught up into the Alpha blending / Vista clone aspect and its just great to see good old fashion creative from the heart skinning again. This skin of yours isn't missing anything!
Do us all a favor and please keep them coming!
Comment #9 Sunday, November 19, 2006 9:56 AM
Windoe I cannot believe this is your first skin! This skin is beautifully crafted, well thought of to the last detail, the color selection is masterful and is perfect for every day use.Too many of us have gotten caught up into the Alpha blending / Vista clone aspect and its just great to see good old fashion creative from the heart skinning again. This skin of yours isn't missing anything!
Do us all a favor and please keep them coming!
windoe
Comment #10 Sunday, November 19, 2006 10:26 AM
Comment #10 Sunday, November 19, 2006 10:26 AM
Oh thanks cplair ! Your comment (and others) make me forget the rather low initial rating ! I really spent a lot of time on skinning this one. I made it for myself, first, because I really like my Blue Glass serie and I wanted it to be complete. I thought the quality was lower than what I could see on the site ( WB4.5, UIS1) But when I saw the reaction of my WC friends about the screenshot , I decided to share with community, and honestly , I dont regret, only for comments like that ! Thanks again !
wilson1992
Comment #11 Sunday, November 19, 2006 9:48 PM
Comment #11 Sunday, November 19, 2006 9:48 PM
Great Skin my favorite couleur bleu. Keep it up.
BigDogBigFeet
Comment #13 Tuesday, November 21, 2006 9:35 PM
Comment #13 Tuesday, November 21, 2006 9:35 PM
Thank you windoe. A very good first effort.
boopish
Comment #15 Thursday, November 30, 2006 6:13 PM
Comment #15 Thursday, November 30, 2006 6:13 PM
Windoe...congrats on your first skin!
It's looking good...but here are a few little pointers: check your images for the vertical taskbar arrow....they are a .tga ( and I am assuming that you used a .png for them)...so...make sure that where ever you have used this type of image, that both the transparent and translucent boxes have been checked. Right now the vertical taskbar arrow just shows up as a black void. There is magic pink showing around the toolbar buttons...you can use a .png for this and the taskbar button images...then no magic pink hassels!! LOL!!! Try a slightly lighter shade of blue for your window background...this will make the text more visible.
A question about the menu's - did you want them to look like a series of little panes all stacked up? If yes, then no problem. If no, then here's what you can do to change it. Make your menu background a single image of 150 x 150 of so. The pulldown menu item is a single image consisting of 5 equal parts or frames , one beside the other. Frame 1,3, 5 should be transparent. Frame 2 is the separator and frame 4 is the mouseover image. The separator can be transparent if you want or just a thin line.
Don't forget the Control Panel...the default luna blue isn't harmonious with your beautiful dark blues. Be sure to expand that bit on the explorer tree in Skinstudio and do the header and vertical separator as well.
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
It's looking good...but here are a few little pointers: check your images for the vertical taskbar arrow....they are a .tga ( and I am assuming that you used a .png for them)...so...make sure that where ever you have used this type of image, that both the transparent and translucent boxes have been checked. Right now the vertical taskbar arrow just shows up as a black void. There is magic pink showing around the toolbar buttons...you can use a .png for this and the taskbar button images...then no magic pink hassels!! LOL!!! Try a slightly lighter shade of blue for your window background...this will make the text more visible.
A question about the menu's - did you want them to look like a series of little panes all stacked up? If yes, then no problem. If no, then here's what you can do to change it. Make your menu background a single image of 150 x 150 of so. The pulldown menu item is a single image consisting of 5 equal parts or frames , one beside the other. Frame 1,3, 5 should be transparent. Frame 2 is the separator and frame 4 is the mouseover image. The separator can be transparent if you want or just a thin line.
Don't forget the Control Panel...the default luna blue isn't harmonious with your beautiful dark blues. Be sure to expand that bit on the explorer tree in Skinstudio and do the header and vertical separator as well.
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
windoe
Comment #16 Friday, December 1, 2006 7:33 AM
Comment #16 Friday, December 1, 2006 7:33 AM
Thanks Betty for taking time to review my skin ! 
For the tray vertical arrow, I dont understand, because it appears correctly on my screen ...
For Toolbar buttons, its fixed now. For menu's, I wanted them to be like that, because the frame style is the "trademark" of the skin.
About Control Panel, I had tried to change the page color, but I coulnt recolor the right bottom image. This time, I made one myself and did the separator and header, too.
I wont change the window background because I find this one matches so well with the frame color.
PS: I dont have your mail... about that, I send a preview to 47Songs of a matching SMX I made for Velvet Shadows skin. As I used the rainy frame to do it, I need your permission to upload ! but I dont know if 47songs transmitted ...
For the tray vertical arrow, I dont understand, because it appears correctly on my screen ...
For Toolbar buttons, its fixed now. For menu's, I wanted them to be like that, because the frame style is the "trademark" of the skin.
About Control Panel, I had tried to change the page color, but I coulnt recolor the right bottom image. This time, I made one myself and did the separator and header, too.
I wont change the window background because I find this one matches so well with the frame color.
PS: I dont have your mail... about that, I send a preview to 47Songs of a matching SMX I made for Velvet Shadows skin. As I used the rainy frame to do it, I need your permission to upload ! but I dont know if 47songs transmitted ...
boopish
Comment #17 Saturday, December 2, 2006 11:38 AM
Comment #17 Saturday, December 2, 2006 11:38 AM
Windoe - No problem -my addy is bebull AT shaw DOT ca. You can find me at Skinartistry most of the time! I am using WB5, but what I meant about the button is that when you use a .png you have to be sure that both the translucent and transparent boxes are checked (these appear in skin studio in the lower central pane when you add your image - they are also listed in the far right hand pane - the Parameters) make sure that they are enabled in both places - or the image won't appear properly.
The shellstyles have a little trick to them - LOL - to recolor them, you need to change the mode - they are index - to RGB in your graphics program. The top left hand pixel must exactly match whatever color you have chosen for the window background or they won't show up.
If you are interested, I wrote a step by step guide to making a skin using SkinStudio. It's available here: http://skinartistry.com/download.php You need to sign up to access it, but then you can also download the teaching skin that Night Train made (he packed it full of helpful tips!) - thanks Night Train!!!) and you can also upload you skin at any stage to the workshop and get additional help and advice!
The shellstyles have a little trick to them - LOL - to recolor them, you need to change the mode - they are index - to RGB in your graphics program. The top left hand pixel must exactly match whatever color you have chosen for the window background or they won't show up.
If you are interested, I wrote a step by step guide to making a skin using SkinStudio. It's available here: http://skinartistry.com/download.php You need to sign up to access it, but then you can also download the teaching skin that Night Train made (he packed it full of helpful tips!) - thanks Night Train!!!) and you can also upload you skin at any stage to the workshop and get additional help and advice!
windoe
Comment #18 Saturday, December 2, 2006 5:25 PM
Comment #18 Saturday, December 2, 2006 5:25 PM
thank U Betty for all these advice ! I said it will be the only one skin I ever made , but we never know with all this help...
For the moment, I finished a matching Winamp skin (my first one, too ! )
For the moment, I finished a matching Winamp skin (my first one, too !
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Comment #1 Saturday, November 18, 2006 7:25 AM