Windowblinds

How do you make a windowblind accept forced coloring? Using Ascension as an example...I can grey scale it and make it darker, but I am unable to force it to accept other colors. Any help will be appreciated.. .. ps because Im not a skinner, please use laymans terms, thanks

~Its My Secret~
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I have not tried with Ascension is probably not very color support friendly. It is too white. Color support changes the non grey scale colors only. It only darkens or lightens the grey scales.
In WB config, custom coloring there is a check box to force the coloring, Im sure you found that but just in case you missed it.

Some skins just are not very custom color friendly.
Reply #2 Top
The only way to change colors in a grey/black/white skin is to use SkinStudio's colorizing abilities. You won't be able to do it with Windowblinds alone. If you have SKS, edit the skin, and play with the coloring options there...I've managed to color a few grey skins to different colors. This will end up with more work though, as you will probably need to change other things like font colors, etc.

Still no guarantee that it will look good, but the colors will change.
Reply #3 Top
Thanks NightTrain2002 & Scribe Hus...I have skinstudio so I will play around with that...I will first backup the blind though.. , wish me luck..

~Its My Secret~
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Its My Secret again.. I now can change it to any color in windowblinds, mind you it only took 10 trys...

~Its My Secret~
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Its My Secret again.. I now can change it to any color in windowblinds, mind you it only took 10 trys...


That's the trick with windowblinds and SkinStudio...Never give up.
Reply #6 Top
I have a question that I need help with.

I am thinking about downloading Window Blinds and the Longhorn Slate 4051 skin for my computer. For that skin, in the list of bullet points, this is the last one:

"Remove old Visual before updating if you don't want to encounter problems"

Could someone tell me what this means?
Reply #7 Top
It means that because the skin has been updated from an older version, you should delete the old version of the skin as to not encounter any errors.

If you have not downloaded the skin before, you have nothing to worry about.