Wondering if I should bother to upload my latest LS theme. Its nothing special, just an excuse to learn some scripting.

jcg: go ahead and upload. Someone might be able to give you great tips.

skinning, skinning and skinning

like treetog said...

Doing the finishing touches on my latest HvD theme

taking a couple of weeks for a morrowind break...

before and after that I have been/will be working on two (and a half?) skin sets and a couple of heavier wallpapers. I'm mainly stalled on scripting stuff on the skins, not so much with knowing how to do it, but knowing what *to* do. I'm not familiar with all the possibilities.

I'm also a bit blocked on what *to* skin, I can't decide beyond a couple of main big apps, especially since I am gonna probably have to buy some of the others In my off-time, I'm goofing around on my site, doing some photo-retouching for fun, working on an animated short or two for my little girl. I'm also trying to dig our ways to make my site profitable for me and yet return all the kindness and education I have recieved. Hard to find a balance that isn't annoying to all concerned.

Pondering...pondering... "The tragic story of a man who could not make up his mind..." i think about everything and end up doing nothing...

I dunno, I'm out of the habit of sitting down and working for hours at a time on this. I need to borrow some focus from someone

Trying to confiornm a babyac sys acquisaitio .

I'm in semi-hiatus. I'm fed up skinning on this slow crappy system, so I've taken a break untill I get a new system.
Although I say 'semi' hiatus, as I've dug out Photoshop again recently, and Mike Bryant (MikeB314) and I are collaborating on a new WB skin together.(It's lookin mighty fine).
I also have been trying to save the dolphins, fly to the moon, and eat an entire turkey in one go.
Not all at the same time though.

Working (yes, me).

If I could find a way to concentrate on something for more than 5 minutes at a time I'd actually be able to skin somehting again. Lately I'll get an idea, work on it for a few minutes and suddenly I have no idea what the heck I'm doing.

well, maybe I'll have something by 2010. *s*

Well, I'm collaborating on a skin with Hippy, drinking lots of coffee, and thinking about what my next skin will look like. Hmm, why do I only work on one skin at a time? Perhaps I'm not drinking enough coffee. Can a man survive on coffee and skins alone? Maybe I should get some pizza.

Ok, enough babbling. I've been on vacation from my job for the last week, but I'm back at my desk today. Oddly, it seems I'm here (in the skinning community) more often when I'm at work than when I'm at home. Shhh, don't tell my employer.

I have designed a Windowblinds/Objectbar skin. I have included XP support (and I don't have XP) How is that for an exersize in futility?

i am currently doing a LiteStep dock that runs on top of explorer (or any other shell). smooth 32 bit PNG animations with layercut.dll. (abusing DesktopX zoomer objects btw.) at the moment it is only an app launcher, but as soon as everything works, i´ll include winamp3 remotes, an analog clock, that "Home" object and some other goodies.

final goal is to get a least the functionality of Deadzombie´s docks.

Bloody show off.....

Mark, here is a screenshot (not much yet, as i said).
maybe i´ll abuse you as a beta-tester (works on 2K and XP)

errmm ... http://www.hardwaregeeks.com/board/showthread.php?s=&postid=4960#post4960

Decided Sat. to fix 1 or 2 little problems in a misscripted dashboard skin - 15 minute job. Finished this 15 minute task at midnight last night. Perfectionist heal thyself!

Dare I visit a site labelled "hardwaregeeks"? Anyhow, so moshman, is it LiteStep with some DesktopX imagery or are you encorporating DesktopX in Litestep? (I suspect option number one, but you never know)

Crae: those DesktopX zoomers are PNG files that show all frames of one animation. layercut.dll is doing it´s animations the same way. so all free software (i am just in the cool position to be able to use the same images, so i might finally reach my download cap at this site)

I'm working on 5 DesktopX themes, 3 WindowBlinds skins, (these will be my first ever WB skins!) and trying to get used to my new supercomputer that I got on friday. I have kind of put wallpaper creation on hold for a while, for various reasons. Maybe I will try and make a new image this week if I get chance.

Making an effort to create my first WB skin. However, I'm artistically challenged, and it's hard to come up with a design that doesn't make me run from the room screaming

Moshi, very interesting project there. I've done a little animation with layercuts as well, but that looks real ambitious.

As for myself... themeing, LS, what else

wallpapers, colorpad skin(one step at a time )

now... getting ready for a possible reinstall of WinXP :/ Major system pockup

Boxxi: Good to hear you are still working on the WB skins.

Personally I am working on a new WB skin and a DX theme to go with it. Converting Nuvems themes to use new plugins. Learning to use Photoshop (just got 7, I usually use PSP 7).