Edge8- First WB Theme

EW, you made me see DA. Not my idea of a good morning.Just my opinion, but looks pretty factory still, but would prefer to see more done before passing judgement, so to speak. Looks like you have the drive and ambition to do whats needed though, by your DA gallery.Keep going!

I really like the taskbar! And the frames do look nice too. Only the titlebar looks a bit boring in comparision. But I hope that not much will be changed till release.

lol, yeah I have a majot learning curb to learn skinstudio. Doing something different from another way I theme has more work than I thought. Once I get the hand of it, I will be able to produce higher quality work.

It took me an hour just to start getting the start menu aligned properly. Just have a few more imaged left on it.

I made a laymens beginner tutorial for making window blinds.... (it shouldnt take over an hour to get the startmenu aligned if the pieces are cut properly

in photoshop!!lol) I hope this helps you.

good luck.

kitty.

part 1.

  https://forums.wincustomize.com/383174

part 3 (i think part 2 is part of part 1)

https://forums.wincustomize.com/383387

part 4

https://forums.wincustomize.com/383710

Looks pretty good but needs more finesse. Take your time dude. You'll get the hang of it. As for SKS.......I can stare it in the face now and not run away really fast.

Thanks for the feedback!

Do you know where this is located in the Win8 theme? The aero like overlay on the control panel

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------?

Control panel, branding

By the way, you are doing fine. I bet it took me five days to cut my first start menu!

I did not use help forums or tutorials in the beginning, I was to good, so I thought. Found out quickly  how much is involved in skinning and still learning myself. It is worth the effort though if you like to create and share.

Always help here, DT1

Ditto.

Where's my surprise?

xxinightxx,

sweet sounding rig ya got there.

16gigram

I5 Intel

3TB of Disk.

video{unknown]

Should be able to whip those skins right out!

Disregard my post, I know nothing of windows 8, sorry.

Edit Vista / 7 Control Panel  and Navigation Parts

Control Panel

Side bar.

(branding is the glyph or image you can add over the side bar image)

You can also change the text colours of that area too.

Change skin colours/Edit colours/  when the edit colours window opens, down the bottom you will see a button that says "Edit vista/7 part colours" 

click on that button.

a new window pops up. and the first section is called "control panel"

that is where you change the colours for that area.

close and apply when you are done to see results.

Thanks Vamps, I can't read. I first thought I knew, then I thought it said windows 8, not the theme from seven, called windows8. Glad you can read.

heheh.. someones gotta save yr ass

He is better off in your hands anyway!Thanks teach.

If you plan on uploading the WindowBlind on WC, you'll need to rename it. Edge is taken. LINK

It will be on deviantart then. I'm not renaming just because someone has the same name. Lol. I had the name for my edge theme for a long time. I'm too attached to its name. Plus I did upload the dock here and it seemed to vanish from my uploads. Not to happy with how uploads are handled here. ;p

On dA you called it Edge8, that should work for WC. No conflict there.

Oh and your dock is right here: https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/objectdock_backgrounds/429/

Uploads here are moderated to protect the artist/creator. BTW,don't expect many folks from here to go to dA for anything.

It will be called that once windowblinds for win8 comes out :p

sorry for all the questions. lol  Im just use to the other app I used to develop themes have a good help section. Anyways, is there a way to shift the whole start menu to the right a little so that it lines up better with my taskbar?

Uploading here with the same skin name isn't the issue.  The issue arises when someone downloads it/installs it and they already have a WB of the same name installed.

Whether you distribute via Deviantart or Wincustomize will make no difference to someone in that position...;)

Mine tended to have 'unique' names....

Also, a simple grey gradient can be pretty commonplace.....this one dates back before both Deviantart or Wincustomize were founded ...and the 3.0h' indicates it'd already been old in 2001...;)

Wow, thats a really old one :p  yeah, I updated the Theme name just so no issues arise. 

Quick q, do sounds still work in windowblinds. I remember using a mac theme that had custom caption button sounds.