Intro to customization

Window borders and colors

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New to WindowBlinds.  (on Windows 11)

My initial goal is to continue using Dark Mode with dark/black desktop.

I just want to increase the width of window borders and control the color of the borders, and perhaps the title bar.

I was hoping for an interface like older Windows versions that would show a simulated desktop, allowing selection of an element and then its properties, such as size/thickness and color.  So far, I don't see that flexibility within a given style/theme.

Maybe I'm just looking for a link to an intro user documentation.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Hi. I'm sorry to disappoint you, but there is no "Introducton to WindowBlinds" that I know of.

The only ways to change colors is 1) via the WB config window or 2) via SkinStudio, which I wouldn't advise fiddling with just yet.

The first way is by opening the configuration window by clicking on the WindowBlinds icon or choosing it in your start menu...that's where all your skins are displayed. Choose the skin you're wish to use and on the upper right, click "Modify style". A bunch of colors and other sliders appeared, I hope. You can choose the tiles or the top slider. Then the range to apply and the saturation rectangle drop down and the lightness/darkness one. Play around. When/If you find a combo you like, click the "stop modifying" and use it. Click on the "Manage presets" to save that combo on that skin so that it's remembered. You won't be able to change border/header size through the WB config window, only through SkinStudio which is rather confusing (at least to me). Advice? Leave it be for now.

Hope I haven't confused you too badly. ;)  

Enjoy!

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting PhoenixRising1, reply 2

I recently stumbled on this documentation for skin studio, maybe it is new?
It's not new - it's for Windowblinds 6 back in 2008. A lot have changed since then, but it still has some useful information.

Vampothika's tutorial from 2013 is a better alternative imho. https://www.wincustomize.com/article/447931/skinstudio-tutorial-by-vampothika

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Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting JanOscar, reply 3

It's not new - it's for Windowblinds 6 back in 2008. A lot have changed since then, but it still has some useful information.

That is quite old. I always wished someone would post youtube video tutorials myself because skin studio isn't very easy to figure out 

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting PhoenixRising1, reply 4

because skin studio isn't very easy to figure out 

Windowblinds [and Skinstudio] evolved over decades concurrently with the skinners using it/them so the learning 'curve' was incremental.

Unfortunately what that meant was if you were to dive in now cold turkey it's a shock to the system [how's that for a bunch of mixed metaphors].  ;)

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