Fancy that!....Actually doing some skinning...

With all the controversy[s] lately....War, rips, lame excuses for spitting and moaning....recalcitrant youth personally requesting their butts be kicked....that sort of thing, it's refreshing to just get back to the REAL THING [tm]......SKINNING.

Just grass-roots stuff...a WindowBlinds skin 'ported' from the graphics used in my next LiteSTEP theme which originated right here on Wincustomize.com, thanks to Alexandrie.

Being an old-fart, with a pathological mistrust of SkinStudio, I'm yet again skinning with Notepad [actually 'Texturizer', which is superior], and Good old PSP6. I'm doing this all with the latest 'WB beta', but just to be different and demonstrate personal individuality, which is what, after all, skinning is ALL about, the WB skin will be LiteSTEP-specific, that is, none of the typical Explorer shell - XP particulars will be handled at all.
Maybe that 'stage' can be achieved by diving into SkinStudio later, something I'd need to do on several other skins of mine.

After that, it'll be a simple ICQ equivalent, and of course a WinAMP 2x skin....sorta a mini 'suite', but really what I normally tend to do with my LS stuff.

Oh, yes.....needless to say it'll be grey [ish]....
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I'am happy for you Jafo.

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Sweet

I have come to some big conclusions about skinning and other related matters. I'm gonna chime in soon myself, but in a different sort of way.
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Congrats, Jafo. Alas, I fear, dolphins will not be included in your latest work. And you were making such progress. Seriously, I'll look forward to seeing it.

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Oh, yes.....needless to say it'll be grey [ish]....
by Jafo - 4/3/2003 6:46:20 PM


and some thingz neverrr change... hehe
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Making the world a better place, one desktop at a time.
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Jafo skinning again!

/me is half way through her first WB skin...of all things...

Jafo, you are right...even the starting code In Skinstudio for a first time skin is a bit bloated... So far my skin checks out with no errors but I've had to constantly edit the code in notepad as well.

I'm still trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong as far as the .tga files are concerned. Honestly, I've never edited .tga files before but I know about masking etc...and there MUST be a way to change those .tga elements and I'll probably feel moronic after it's spelled out to me in black N white. *sigh*
I've made new .tga files and masked them and wrote them into the coding and nada...poo...nuttin'!

Other than that...my skin is coming along as ugly as planned. Stop laughing... *whimper*


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/me has pushed her new WB skin release up a few months...after buying the game "Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell"...that game...it is just mind blowing!

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Your "JafoWMP" WMP skin is the only one I'll use on my work machine!

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Been using it for quite some time now.........

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Ah...so YOU'RE the one who downloaded it....
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Hey Jafo I'm officially a LITEstepper. thanks for your help. but only until Sunday. Then I'll be whatever They call a mac user decides bad names and a sellout.
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Hey Paul, my next skin is grey too! Jeez I hope they don't look exactly the same!
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will you happen so port over that skin with the hook on the bottom??

I forget the name... it was greenish and gold... it had this round curve on the bottom and...

you know the one... the one I've been asking about on those screenshots of yours...

you know. that one.
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You mean 'Nijikon Fetchi'....that's derived from Misery's wall, and along with the WinAMP skin to match, he hasn't responded to emails requesting consent, although he had earlier for the LS theme...

So, I have a WB skin and matching WA 2x skin that I cannot release individually....as yet...
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ohhh your such a goodi goodie.

poop


he already gave you consent... that is good enough.

jusy give already.

come one! give!!!



ok

I guess your doing the right thing.
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Well Jafo considering that you removed that great Bryce masterpiece with out giving us the requisite accompanying LS theme Grayish bits and all.( A totally selfless act) It is as always with great relish and baited breath that I personally anticipate yet another Jafo signature piece. Sincerely snarph
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and where is this WMP skin... I want it.....

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You have something against color, my friend? (we are still friends aren't we?)

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Nijikon Fetchi! Nijikon Fetchi! Nijikon Fetchi! Nijikon Fetchi!

We want Nijikon Fetchi!
Nijikon Fetchi! Nijikon Fetchi!


styl skinner, can you sing?
u r needed to sing the Nijikon Fetchi, We want Nijikon Fetchi song.

Can't this Misery guy understand the needs of the people?