I recently began work on a new WindowBlind I am calling 'Miricla.' This is a skin that I am making specifically for my wife, Brysgirl. She has not been able to find that 'perfect skin' yet, so I am creating it for her.
It is primarily blue in color and quite glassy. I chose the blue color because I just couldn't bring myself to work with pink. This skin is a recolorers dream, and looks good however you set the color slider in the config settings.
When I complete Miricla, I will begin work on 'Tinted,' which will be essentially identical in most ways to Miricla, just with dark glass rather than blue. Also, the Tinted WB will be made to match the ObjectDock backgrounds I have already created of the same name.
Is this good enough?
Looks better
Thanks!
Just decided last night that I'm going to rework the window frames and probably the window close buttons. Now that I think about it, those frames don't (entirely) match where I'm going with the skin. But hey, that's what the development stage is for, right?
Quoting myself here to correct myself:
My wife is not the only tester. Z71 is also helping me along.
Looks awesome, Mg!!!
Brysgirl, you're one lucky lady
And this is the Hers? I love it!
Yeah, she wanted something pink. I refused to work in pink. I just couldn't do it. Sooooo... the alternative was to build something that recolors well.
Start menu is completely finished, including log off buttons!
Looks fantastic, Brian!!! Keep up the hard work, sir!
blend modes are SO important.
Now John...stop giving all the best tricks away.
JK...he and I have been telling people for a long time...get away from default PS bevels...it makes a huge difference.
That start menu looks tons better now.
Yeah, that was a good tip. I primarily design for print, and for what I do there, blend mode variations are second nature to me. I guess I need to transfer that to gui design, too.
Thanks! I guess you can call this whole skin a gift to my wife, and so I'd want to give her the best possible. Thanks for the help & guidance v & ir!
Reworked the window frames and window buttons...
Yes!
Beautiful . When will it be ready?
Now that I've got most of the "easy" stuff done, it's on to the more tedious work. Not the mention the minor differences that'll need to be made for it to work across the 3 OS's.
I'd say probably a couple of weeks. Depends on how much free time I get.
Couple of weeks ? I should better start counting the days
If your using layers on the window frames...check your blend mode...you have a halo effect...especially at the sides and corners.
depends on the color content that they sit on ,but the correct blend can minimize the halo.
All else is looking great.
Would you mind showing me? I'm not sure I know what you mean...
left side of your window and each corner has lite pixels showing...usually caused by a layer blending incorrectly with the drop shadow and some of the pixels in antialiased corners.
dosnt show up so much til its over something dark
layer automask has some difficulty with the transition between actual frame and shadow...depending on the blend mode and color content of the graphics involved.
Ah, ok. think I see it now. I'll look into it. Thanks!
Okay, I've found it. Looks like I need to revamp the frames once again!
Shexy. Looks great man.
Thanks! New frames looking even better than before. (Thanks, IR!) Stay tuned!
Honey, They're lookin' good!
Yes, Honey, they look friggin awesome!!!
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