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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Taskbar transparency, icons go away Glass/alpha opacity |
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Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2014 8:25 pm
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| Hello. Time to ask a few questions, that were at the back of my mind. The Win8.1 taskbar, when transparent, hides icons, folders, and its text behind the taskbar. It is rather nice. 1. Is there a way to enable this feature, behind Classic Start Menu, when transparency bitmap is used? Like, is there ... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Experiment #3 Carbon Steps |
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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2014 4:09 pm
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| Here you go :P I never added caption text to a skin script before, so was a head scratcher. I made the simple stretched caption area, and decided to push it some more, as I got some free time away from work. So there are 3 slightly different variation caption areas. Flat extension, flat with trench ... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Starcraft Zerg - Skin |
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Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2014 9:41 pm
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Replies: 50
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| Hi Jcee. First I thought it was the slices that's off for Mr. wormy in the middle column. Comparing the screenshot and picture in web page, there is a difference. I think what has happened, is a layer in Gimp was moved slightly, making a dark transparent line. That may be your intent, I don't know. ... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: XP Classic Retro |
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Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2014 6:58 pm
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Replies: 99
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| Sorry. This menu skin has gone into hibernation, for lack of time:( Does not stop anybody else from modifying it for better or worse. The way I see it, if it got uploaded to public, it belongs to everybody to play with. The little time I have, I want to get back to my ugly duckling high contrast ski... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Starcraft Zerg - Skin |
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Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2014 6:57 pm
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Replies: 50
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| Oh My. Oh My. The master has risen. Terrific. I had to download a demo to figure out what the menu is about. Very high definition. Even a built in shadow. Like those winding snakey worm creatures. Looks like many days of hard work, doing layers as well. Good to see alternate menu skins, being made:)... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: XP Classic Retro |
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Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 1:28 pm
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Replies: 99
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| Hello GauravK I'm in a bit of brain fog, as to where to go now. I did lighten the right column a bit for picture. After you mentioned, I put back to no mask on right. As far as I know, there is no way it can get any darker to match the bar above, without touching the main bitmap. I am using the modi... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: XP Classic Retro |
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Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2014 5:46 pm
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| Hello GauravK I did start to play with brighter mix single columns. A bit tricky to find balance of white and original color. I'm leaning towards keeping a bit of color, rather than grey white. As for the two column split, yes probably white or hovering around 240, with possibly tint, maybe not. The... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: XP Classic Retro |
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Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 11:31 pm
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Replies: 99
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| Hello Ivo. I was going to give the text for the first main skin, then thinking what about the other thirty skin folders. I better just upload the skin. I did try it on Win7 afterwards and no problems. I have noticed in past on other skin making, when changing option text, the next time I restart Cla... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: XP Classic Retro |
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Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 8:31 pm
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Replies: 99
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| Hi it's Juniper7 here, in trouble. Does anybody have any idea why the radio option buttons, sometimes get stuck, with set showing all selected? Thought was because I moved the options text around. I put back, and still stuck. Reset skin, reset settings- stuck. I replaced with older working backup sk... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: XP Classic Retro |
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Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2014 11:07 am
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Replies: 99
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| Complications. The nightmare continues. Looking at my xp classic os, I found I made the separators wrong for submenus and single column. They should not have the little left shadow. Those are only on the two column. I will have to devise a method to put it back properly for all:( I put the variation... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: XP Classic Retro |
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Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2014 4:18 am
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| Skinning pro. You so funny GauravK :lol: The way I'm going, having problems with the bleaching, and script logic, I will always be a nubee! If I ever finish this monster, could be 3.5MB. I wasn't sure if it is white 255, or off white 240. I started to have both selectable, but gave up as it got real... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: XP Classic Retro |
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Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 4:40 pm
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| Hello GauravK. You have given me a brain challenge. I get it with the white submenu. Brown shoes, brown pants, brown shirt, dulls the senses. Need a white shirt for the business part of it. I will add as an option. It will still retain the 3d colored border and separators. That is easy. It will use ... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: XP Classic Retro |
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Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 11:14 pm
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Replies: 99
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| OK. Thanks for the information. I understand. I'm not sure the end user would want to go to that trouble though. Will leave it up to Weboh. I have put the p in, and added the classic black and blue gradient. Now skin with 31 flavors. I will add the rev B skin now, and delete the original later, if n... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: XP Classic Retro |
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Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 2:15 pm
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| Oh rats. Thanks for catching it. I'm sure I left a few others here and there. Need a good QC cat to get them all :twisted: In fact, I never fully deleted a non working feature in options. Now is a good time to ask if this feature is possible, or impossible. I was trying to have small icons in first ... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Classic skin Windows 2000 caption Colors |
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2014 4:29 pm
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Hello mhoude
I will keep as a spare.
Thank you. |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: XP Style Classic Skin |
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2014 2:16 pm
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Replies: 17
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Weboh
Finally finished with my third attempt.
The first and second versions, although more accurate looking, were half and up to twice the size, and had issues.
Those are now stored safely in the recycle bin:)
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: XP Classic Retro |
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2014 2:13 pm
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Replies: 99
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| XP Classic Retro (menu skin only) This menu skin is similar to the classic menus in XP. Not exact match, but close enough for the retro feel. It has the qty 31 color variations, with the color title bar/ band at top of menu. It has the older single classic menu, with the gradient caption bar on left... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: XP Style Classic Skin |
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Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 8:47 pm
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| Update. It rained. I had time to work on it some more. Getting closer to the reality of finishing this menu, 6 more to go. But realizing, I'm further from the truth of having it look like real XP. Wish there was a way to have alternate font sizes and boldness in same column. Oh well. Que Sera, Sera ... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: XP Style Classic Skin |
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Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2014 2:11 pm
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| Hi Weboh. Decided doing all 22 plus the glass color, that tracks the taskbar color. I got to 5 colors so far. 18 more to go. Summer weather is too good to miss. Will get back to working on it, off and on in coming weeks. ps I don't know anything about coding. All I'm doing is rearranging script text... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: XP Style Classic Skin |
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Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 11:31 pm
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| Hi Weboh. Um. I was playing with a color bar on top of simple menu. There is a way to have two color gradient, just very complicated to use, and a user will tire of it quickly. If internal menu has only one color available, at a time, a green gradient mask refered to that color, and a red gradient m... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Request: Nintendo themed skins |
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Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 11:22 pm
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Replies: 22
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| Hello Weboh Here is my story for you. Bad Omen. Strike 1. Having bad luck even activating their new trial version, that apparently has SkinStudio in it. Tried two times. Gave up. :x Strike 2. Searched my room, and found old dusty version Windowblinds ver5. Installed on XP. Tried your files. There is... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: XP Style Classic Skin |
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 5:44 pm
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| Hello Weboh. I'm just looking at the xp classic menu right now. I count 22 stock color schemes, with multiple combinations, in the advanced button. So lets just say about a hundred different color menus! I don't know if I can make a look alike menu, let alone with all those options. The file size wo... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Request: Nintendo themed skins |
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 5:27 pm
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Replies: 22
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| Hi Weboh. I think for me, you are asking for the nearly impossible. I'm a newbee at skinning, and find it hard enough figuring out how to make simple skins. I pass. Sorry. looking at the Nintendo menu pictures, I can see that there are all kinds of textures and pictures in the menus. I don't think C... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: XP LUNA Variations (Classic 1 and 2) |
| juniper7 |
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 5:24 pm
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Replies: 56
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 Me thinks that's more than a weekend. How about 20 years project! |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: XP LUNA Variations (Classic 1 and 2) |
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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2014 4:49 pm
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Replies: 56
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| :!: Warning :!: Don't download, unless you like to tweak CSM settings. Will not look good, straight out of the file box. Bottom text will be all jumbled and scrunched up. Blue/Green/Silver. This is another version, my last attempt. At one time the bottom lettering was clear type. This one looks like... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: XP LUNA Variations (Classic 1 and 2) |
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Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2014 7:37 pm
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| Hello Weboh. That's funny. I thought I was helping you, and find out you did it already:) First I thought-piece of cake. So easy, until I switched to small icons. All yucky spacing. Took me a day just to sort that one out. Yep, I messed around with a lot of things as well. I made buffer/padding icon... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Windows xp skin - how to extend the blue bottom border? |
| juniper7 |
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Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2014 5:30 pm
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: XP LUNA Variations (Classic 1 and 2) |
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Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2014 5:26 pm
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| XP Blue BBT rev B (Classic 1 and 2) The fat Blue Bottom Border is back, now with Transparency! (BBT) Please be aware, it can not look and function same as original. It is a compromise. Skinning can only do so much. Tried with CSM 4.1.0 on Win7/8. Not compatible with most older versions of CSM. Will ... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: COLORS LGTB |
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Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2014 4:23 pm
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| Hello Pipalou50 I see you have been working hard. What can I say. Bright, colorfull, a welcome change. The color changes vertically on the menu, and horizontally on the selector buttons. Keeps it interesting. French Hello Pipalou50 je vois que vous avez travaillé dur. Est-ce que je peux dire. Lumine... |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Something fishy, with the hex number in glass overide. |
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 5:31 pm
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Replies: 2
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OK. So the internal hex number for background color is same as in photo programs,
but the glass hex color , just needs the ends flipped, and wala, back to normal.
Yep. Works now. 
Thanks |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Thanks for fixing apps submenu. |
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Posted: Tue May 20, 2014 6:12 pm
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I see the apps submenu is now top limited, and not cut off anymore, in 4.1.0
Looks good. Also gives it some breathing space, on some menus.
I'll have to make a menu in future, to show it off with say, rounded corners. 
Thank you |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Something fishy, with the hex number in glass overide. |
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Posted: Tue May 20, 2014 6:07 pm
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| I really can't figure out this hex number system in the overide glass color. Sometimes it works, sometimes it spits out almost the inverse color. I know about the end result, where the color in the menu is not always the same, as it will mix with the intensities of one or both masks, original menu b... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: AeroFlat Skin |
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Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 9:53 pm
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Replies: 10
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| Hi jordan1776 I think you need to replace the original submenu bitmap26 with the one, that Jcee provided above. Don't save as a picture, as it might be missing the alpha channel layer. Copy it to your computer. Use resource hacker, and replace bitmap 26 with new one. If all goes well, it will look b... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Need help debugging a skin |
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Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2014 9:30 pm
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| Hi. Not sure if I can help, but I know how you feel sometimes. I can only see the same bitmap for 1 and 2 which looks great, by the way. All the rest of the bitmaps, if they are bitmaps, show as nothing, or errors. The text is weird too. I see a lot of "100%" after the padding values. Hope... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Experiment # 7 NeX-P |
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Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2014 7:16 pm
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| Footnote. If it got you thinking, yes. People, animals, flaming evil eyed skulls. I have a number of personal picture menus for some time now. The biggest problem is, if you put a picture of your girl/boyfriend in there. It will turn them into a frankenhuman, distorting them badly. Be very carefull.... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Experiment # 7 NeX-P |
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Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2014 7:10 pm
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| Experiment # 7 NeX-P Novelty bliss-like picture menu, with a couple remnants of xp. :!: Warning alert :!: * Will produce expansion & compression ratio distortion. * Super long names in main menu will use up the bitmap picture, and start duplicating pixels(streaking). * Don't download, unless you... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Experiment # 2 Handhelds |
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Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2014 7:01 pm
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| Hello all. Have not been to forum for awhile. Busy. Hello ZoNi. 20, 30, 50 % transparency! I don't even know what the percentage relates to. Is it log, exponential, or conversion of alpha ?/255 bits? Which of the six types and is it for Win7 or 8? This is what I did, I made the skin as a quick refer... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Experiment #6 Frames. |
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Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 5:52 pm
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| Experiment #6 Frames. A plain Jane menu, with panes and frames, and a few edge border frames. It uses the system glass color, so one needs to get familiar with the 3 ways to change color. In Win8 System, right click on desktop and click on "personalize". Here you can change the color and a... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Questions about skins for the wise ones |
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 6:04 pm
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Replies: 3
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Ok, thanks Ivo, for the fast response.
I was hoping there was an easy way, guess I will learn to reduce the bitmap sizes, and make duplicates to use for a "favorite color"
One more question. Is there a maximum size for a skin? |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Questions about skins for the wise ones |
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 5:33 pm
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| Questions for the wise ones. I had these questions floating in my head, time to offload. 1. Can a combination green and red bitmap mask, be selectively turned on and off? eg. normally red mask enabled, and green mask enabled. Then with some text symbol in skin file, have red disabled, and green enab... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Request help. Stuck in menu mud. |
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 5:30 pm
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Request help. Stuck in menu mud. |
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 5:16 pm
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Replies: 2
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| Hello out there. I'm trying to make another menu skin, but have got stuck in the mud. I must be overlooking something simple. First problem. If I add padding or border to submenu, then the apps menu gets cut off at the top. This happens on multiple columns. The bottom is ok. I put picture of another... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Experiment #3 Carbon Steps |
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 5:02 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 22713
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Can transparency skip through a solid bitmap? |
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Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2014 8:11 pm
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Hello again. Just one more question please.
Is it possible to have a selector bitmap be transparent to show desktop behind,
if the main menu bitmap is not transparent?
Or does each layer have to be transparent on top of each other, for effect to work? |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Menu text with contrasting surrounding color? |
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Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2014 8:07 pm
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| Hello Masters. I have a question. Is it possible to have the Win8 desktop shadow effect on menu text? Occasionally, autocolor will change the menu to a washed out bright look. This reduces the contrast. I can change to black text, until autocolor changes to a dark menu color. Would be great to enabl... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Experiment #4 Dark Cloud. |
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Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2014 7:22 pm
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| OK. I added blue highlights option. I had tried green, to escape from MS brainwashing blue :lol: Put option for a matching black submenu. Also an option for more of those dirty ugly dark clouds. I may have gone too far on this option. I have yet to fully explore and understand menu transparencies, s... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Bitmap editor recommended for newbies |
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Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2014 7:16 pm
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Hello Pipalou50
Ah, the jaggies.
Pixelformer can make that kind of dithered look, to blend the jagged pixels.
Use the brush feature, with hardness at 0, and size at 10 or more.
Or use the supersampling and ellipse tool.
Not sure what the pros use. Could have a more automated tool  |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Experiment # 5 Out There. |
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Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2014 11:44 pm
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Pipalou50
I just thought of way to make in an abtract way.
Put a picture of anything in image editor.
Select a one pixel wide strip of say 400 pixels high, in that picture.
Blur it, and paste on top of menu bitmap.
May have to try many times before becomes usable.
Many many times. |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Experiment # 5 Out There. |
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Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2014 10:50 pm
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| Hello Pipalou50 Yes. Working with noise streaks can be difficult. If it's too much, is just looks like a video display error. Seems it has to be subtle. I had tried with randomized noise in photo program. Here is picture of one of my failed skins with the vertical streaks. I had one called Purple Ra... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Experiment # 5 Out There. |
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Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2014 8:17 pm
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| Experiment # 5 Out There. Major changes made from Smoked Glass skin. Misty here, clear out there. Yep. One of those iconic beach views. Fake of course, almost like a cartoon. The horizon will wander up and down somewhat. Not sure if anything can be done about that? I still find it amazing that all t... |
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