Here's a skin I made

[hothead]

I was just knocking about with Gitmail, which will be a future mail client, and finally decided it should have true skins. Well, I started searching around the forums, and found ActiveSkin. This was made using a mixture of ActiveSkin and Adobe Photoshop 6.0. (Yes I know my Photoshop is way outdated, but it still serves my purposes.)

Well anyways, this is my first attempt at creating a serious skin. I want to know what you guys think.

A. Looks great. Keep 'em coming!
B. Looks good for a first try.
C. I've seen better.
D. Bah! I'm not all that impressed.
E. This is awful, ya no-life wannabe.

[hothead]

Whoops, would help if I posted the darn thing eh?

[The Hobo]

I choose F:

[Kasracer]

Originally posted by The Hobo
I choose F:

[dogfish227]

i think it would look better i you used the regular min and maximum buttons insted of the arrows

[The Hobo]

A consistant color scheme and border around the edges would really help, too.

[mendhak]

SKINS ARE FOR RACISTS

[hothead]

Hmm, thanks for your input.

I was originally trying to put in a background I made with the Glitterato plugin, but it don't seem to do so well with images. They only become tiled onto the form.

I always thought having a consistent color scheme was too boring; you'd have too much of one color on there.

What if I added this button, and changed the colors of all the controls to match?

[mendhak]

Wouldn't that make it a little duller? I'd suppose a good skin scheme would involve matching and contrasts. What did you have in mind with that button.


BTW, whatsup with the .BMPs, I thought they'd open up in the browser.

[hothead]

That's what I thought. However, the man says to use a consistent color scheme. He's probably been doing this a lot longer than I have.

BTW, BMPs are an activeskin format. That and TGAs are the only formats it understands.