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Blackbird
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Blackbird

Updated Feb 15, 2008 by voidcore
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vStyler
Comment #41 Friday, February 29, 2008 3:05 PM
You would be surprised how many people do use vertical taskbars, always try to skin a WB from one end to the other. A skn can be judged very harshly by someone who thinks 'you've left them out' This applies to toolbar Icons too. Couple of things that kill it for me tho. Hopefully you will take this constructively. The bevel\lighting\shadow is overdone, One thing I can say about skinning in general, from experience is, usually.. less is more. This is reminicent of a 90 's type skin.. If I were you I would work on refining yourself in that area, cutting down on general bulkyness. It can be all the diff. in the world. Many new skinners make the same mistake in their initial forays, shadows too dark, bevels too big\light.. if its 90% opacity.. make it 70,50.. experiment. If the bevel is 3-4 pixel, make it 1-2. typically lower is better. Secondly, the menu's, toolbar background, all too dark, most folks especially on CRT's will have a hard time reading black text over a dark grey background and can be a make or break for a lot of end user's. The right click Menus dont seem to be skinned at all other than a simple mousover. (MS Outlook is unesable) Lastly and this is just preference, the taskbuttons\ tray are far too simple..imo. I would try to make the buttons, glow, inset, have some kind of action.. or at least center the 'state' text' in some kind of box, having it over the buttom outline makes it look awkward and crowded. Couple of cosmetic flaws.. the taskbar text isn't centered verticallyand the taskbar, toolbar, clock text are all different sizes.. font size should be ...imo.. universal. Lastly when making a window small, horizontally, your titlebar font is merging with your buttons (content margins) Lastly.. check tons of skins..all the way back. Compare what you have done for originality.. the only way to know if your being original is if your knowledgable on what has preceeded you. Conversely.. for a first skin , you show potential, people have been hoping that some decent new skinners would emerge, looks like your well on your way. 8 stars from me.�� Sorry there is no spacing.. WC is being an ass. Ive attached a few of the things ive mentioned in a small screeny. [URL=http://imageshack.us][/URL]

bk13GarbageMan
Comment #42 Friday, May 16, 2008 5:10 PM
Nice job!!��

nacio
Comment #43 Friday, May 30, 2008 5:53 PM
Voidcore, I love our theme, excellent job, I also downloaded the modified background. I would like to put my name using the font you are using in the blackbird background will you tell me what font you are using?

dxm765
Comment #44 Sunday, June 15, 2008 11:16 PM
I'd love to have this skin, but i got vista, any slight chance for a pure vista upload voidcore?

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