My first WB skin

Published on July 14, 2007 By jamespaulp In Skinning

I am not an artist. I am a software engineer. After downloading dozens of skins from WinCustomize, I wanted to do something for the community. I have been working on this skin for a few months now. I just completed task bar, start panel and start menu programs. I have a long way to go. Hopefully I will complete my skin before next version of Windows is out.

Here is how the skin looks as of today.

Comments (Page 1)

Vampothika

on Jul 15, 2007

I encourage every new skinner to skin......its a great creative outlet...if you need help with anything just holla...(ill help to my limits anyways...i know not all....)

REDstyler

on Jul 15, 2007

I like it so far, very good for a first time. I must tell you that I haven't done a WB skin before, rather my first skinning attempt was yesterday with a "MysticSteel" Xion Theme. So far it looks good!

Good Luck !

jamespaulp

on Jul 15, 2007

Thank you kittymalone and REDstyler.

MovieMan999

on Jul 15, 2007

Wow, very nice! I can't believe that's your first one!

Daiwa

on Jul 15, 2007

Welcome, James. And thank you for contributing. I know how many many hours go into creating a skin and how daunting it can be to get that first one "just right" enough to publish.

Keep them coming. It's a great hobby... if you don't count the divorces, hehe.

vStyler

on Jul 15, 2007

Looking pretty good there for your first attempt.. My advice would be to try and be as original as possible, drink plenty of coffee and do your best to avoid deep vein thrombosis

Nice name REDstyler

jamespaulp

on Jul 15, 2007

Thanks everyone.

I have changed the images quite a bit to get here. So far I like this hobby. Paint.NET is a bit primitive tool though. I have tried Photoshop CS2 trial but was intimidating. I want to give it another try if I learn enough to express my ideas.

vStyler

on Jul 16, 2007

WWW Link is a great site for learning PS.

jamespaulp

on Aug 23, 2007

vStyler, there are some really cool tutorials there. Now that I have PS CS3, I should start learning.

I decided to stick with Paint.NET for this skin though.

I wasn't doing anything with the skin for about a month. I was playing Gears of War in Insane difficulty. Finished last weekend. Now back to more skinning until Halo 3.

jamespaulp

on Oct 22, 2007

Here is how my skin looks now.

Then today when I was looking through new forum entries, I found this post about black and green skins.

Look at the skin Intoxik8ed by Night Train. The green buttons are almost the same. I may go ahead and finish the the skin, but I no longer plan to publish it.

Once I am done with this, I will start on something else and hopefully, as vStyler said, "original".

Fuzzy Logic

on Oct 22, 2007

Looks like a great start

You should definitely upload this when its done

jamespaulp

on Oct 22, 2007

Looks like a great start

Thanks Fuzzy Logic.

You should definitely upload this when its done

I will try to get permission from Night Train.

By the way your comment about lighting on another post threw me off. I had no idea about the importance of consistent lighting effects on all elements

I am working on it. You probably had no idea that how many people benefit from such comments.

2of3

on Oct 22, 2007

You probably had no idea that how many people benefit from such comments.

Fuzzy has a way of pointing out things that us new guys wouldn't notice.... and he's so nice too!

I belive the comment you refer too was on one of my blinds

jamespaulp

on Oct 22, 2007

I belive the comment you refer too was on one of my blinds

2of3

on Oct 22, 2007

refer too

and we have Jafo for spelling/grammer issues

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