Text colors in skins

you can make small modifications of the skins all you want as long as you don't distribute the modified skin without permission or claim the work as your own. At least this is what I believe. If you aren't supposed to then I am guilty as charged. I learned/am learning from other's skins by opening them up in skinstudio and playing around with them. If other skin creators or people in charge see a problem with this idea then I am sorry, but I find this is the best way to learn and if something is wrong with a skin like text colors then the user should be allowed to change it to suit them.

Crazy Travis, you are correct on both counts. Yes, as long as the skin you modified is only for your personal use.
Also, opening other authors skins in SkinStudio is a perfect way to learn how to make a WB.

you can make small modifications of the skins all you want as long as you don't distribute the modified skin without permission or claim the work as your own.

For your own personal use, you can make any changes you wish. Not just small, but major changes as well.

Ridge Runner ....... you should point out any problems to the author of the skin(s) It may help them improve.  

If you open your system display properties, then click on the appearance tab, then click on the advanced button you will find lots of font overrides. In the advanced window you will find at the bottom a button called other advanced controls. You can use these to change almost any setting you want.



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..ditto GM ..

Okay, Ridge Runner, that was a constructive criticism and I will respond to it in kind. I've made three windowblind skins so far. From the very first day that I change anything to begin making a blind, I use it until the end. I spend weeks just using a partly constructed skin. I've read many other artists who say that they do the same. I'll tell you that the colors are the most difficult and frustrating part of a skin for me. One font color is the same in another part of the skin. That is the way "Windows" was designed. So, for example, if I use yellow font on what is a black background, in one area, it will look great. But, if the background changes to grey? Okay, so I use black text on the grey background, but what about the black background? It uses the same color for the text. And now, the text is unreadable. I've spent days apon days using a skin that I thought I liked the text color settings on, only to find another program where something was completely unreadable now. So, I blend the color. Make the Yellow darker, so it can work in both areas. But, it isn't easy. Also, one really has no idea, for some colors, everywhere that will be effected. It is a hit and miss scenario. You fix the color in one area, and it effects another area. There is also no real tutorial for all the color changes. No diagram anywhere that says everything that changes for this color as compared to another. It is almost impossible to find every change that one color will do in some cases. Only one person has the solution really. That person is Bill Gates. We just do the best we can and hope you like it. Believe me, we do. We want people to like our work. Otherwise, we've wasted 30 or 40 hours, and life is too short to waste so much time.

good I was pretty sure I was right just thinking from a common sense angle. but, a lot of skins have that little notice that pops up telling you not to modify the skin. the pop-ups on my two skins say that you just can't distribute modifications. I wish people would change it to that to avoid confusion.