damn I was waiting like forever for this theme.

Thanks!

Slick!

Thanks for your work

Exellent work, Capric0rn!
I love it! Good job!

@murderdoll: Read the first page It has a list with colors that I'm going to make.
@shen: I don't think that that's ever going to hapen

Can't wait, let them see the beauty of your work and XP. RAAR!

Great theme! Very beautiful

Too bad it's only XP and no Vista. It looks gorgeous, bit I don't want to use a dinosaur of an OS just for it.

Great work Capric0rn, I can't wait for the Ergo style (and the shellstyle ), +fav on dA too!

Great work, this looks very cool!

Thanks!

FANTASTICO!


edit: I'm not too crazy about this little "lip" on the bottom of the startbar.

AMAZING! Time to uxtheme.dll patch my work computer. +1 for Ergonomic.

Woah, didn't notice it has been released. I loved the original Watercolor style but this is just amazing. Using it on my XP machine

Really great job.
This blue is kinda bright for my taste,can't wait for Ergonomic or Silver.

Thank you.

Awesome VS!

Thanks again everyone

@tehmemories: I'm sorry but I don't what you mean. Do you mean the space between the start button and the task button?.
@russellc: I'm planning on releasing that next week
@Ji@nBing: I can't port it myself because I don't have Vista.

Also, I've posted some info in the frist post, regarding shellstyles and contribution to the skin plus a link to some more info

I just remembered Watercolor Emico's scrollbars are the same as the new LE preview, is em3 going to modify his scrollbars now? I hope not, the look awesome on both styles

Absolutely beautiful. One of the best XP themes I've ever seen.

I've been working on a WindowBlinds port for those who use Vista, and all is going well... There's just ONE little problem. [And I'm not sure if this would happen in WindowBlinds XP, but if you're using Windows XP I'm not sure why you'd want a WB version...] Anyway, here's what happens:



There's a thin black bar above the titlebars of windows. I don't know why, exactly. My only guess is that the default window titlebar thickness in Vista is a little bigger than in XP, and so it's trying to compensate. I'll try to fix that. I'll work on it this weekend.

Thanks Capric0rn for the awesome skin, I'll talk to you first [with screenshots!] before I make any attempt at releasing this.

@skelly831: The new LE scrollbars are the same as the Watercolor Emico scrollbars. He used my design to creat those
@Yggdrasilly: The Visual Styles uses magic pink up there. Maybe Windowblinds wants to have that totally transparent. Oh.. and fix those caption buttons

1. Are you referring also to the caption buttons on pallet windows, such as in Photoshop?

Since the caption buttons in this, and the ones in LE 5 Black are in the same style (ie a row of sunken buttons set on a shiny background), I think you could use the same technique here for the small captions, as in LE 5 Black.

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3. Multi row looks fine to me o.O.

Anyway, as I mentioned on devART, excellent work!




I think that was done to enhance the 3D gloss effect. This theme has the sharpest gloss lines of any I have ever seen, it's eye-catching! The bitmaps for that should be easily edited though. If you change the alignment of the gloss line though, make sure to edit all taskbar bitmaps, AND the taskbar buttons, or they will look misaligned.

Not my kind of skin, but good job! It reminds me too much of luna =P

Anyone willing to make a matching Launchy skin?

@SakuraKira: I have no application that uses all the small caption buttons. That's why I can't make the look correct. Do you know a freeware app that uses those small caption buttons?

Thanks to euphoricallydead on deviantART I'm currently working on a update which has a nicer taskbar for multi-row taskbars. It will also have a fix for the small frames.

Also, I might have some new toolbar buttons. I'm not so sure about them yet but here's a preview:



Edit:

Small caption buttons are also going to be fixed!

Hmm, those toolbarbuttons looks good, but IMO the current ones is good enough.
But those looks good..damn, I cant decide LOL.

Looks great...

How abut this one? I think it fits better:



IMO it looks more like the original Watercolor toolbar buttons but updated for this style.

I like that gradient ^^ the current one is kinda boring in comparison!

Much better!

Note that this will be the only update with such a big change. Other updates will only contain bug fixes and of course the other color styles

Not sure what Launchy is, but I use True Launch Bar.

Thanks, I'll check that out. :3

Also, what's wrong with the caption buttons?

^You made the captionbar darker or transparent which makes the caption buttons look weird.

I approve.

Damn.
That looks nice.

Version 1.1 of Watercolor Emico: Blue has been uploaded

Bug fixes and updates:

06-06-08:
- Fixed the palet frames
- Fixed the palet caption buttons
- Fixed the black text on the side taskbars to white
- Changed the way the taskbar image is being stretched when using multiple rows.
- New toolbar and placebar images

Great update, thanx

Thanks!
Looks great.

Best visual style I've seen yet, thank you for this!

Tell me when there's a black one available!

Wow..I still remeber watercolor from BACK IN THE DAYS

So glad to see the VS moving forward. Amazing work man. Amazing work

I approve of this theme. and think it is exquisite.

It's nearly 100% perfect. However, I did find that I had to mess with the small captions again. Unfortunately, Adobe Photoshop and Imageready are the only programs I have that use those types of frames.

I was able to finally get them aligned using the following method...


1. I noticed that the SmallClose button looked perfect, so I opened that up and used it as a template to align the rest of the buttons.

2. After I did that, I noticed that while min/max/restore looked great, they were still 1px off of SmallClose. So, I opened that up again and lowered the button images by 1px.

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Here you can see that the individual button alignment looks great, except that they are not aligned with the gloss line, which IMO is considerably less important that the buttons lining up with each other.


As I mentioned above, I can only go by the small frames used in Photoshop, so I don't know how they look elsewhere. Here are the individual edited images, if you should wish to use them.

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^Changing the smallclose button like that makes other palets look weird. Thanks for the help though! I'll look into it one more time.

@The rest: Thanks! All these positive reactions are really a motivation boost
@Spartan Erik: Did you register only to say that?

Awesome Theme , waiting for the black one

Great job! Amazing.
I can't wait for the Dark version.

Did I mention that the start button logo looks really great? Like a watercolour version of the Office 2007 logo

Actually I had been meaning to register here, but the moment I saw this awesome skin I had to register to add that a black one would be great too

^Hehe alright Well read the 1st page for info about the color styles.

@MrFuji: Thanks! You didn't mention that yet

I don't think I have already said "thank you" for making this piece of pure refined awesomeness.
So, thanks, Capric0rn
Keep up the good job

I really like how the old school feeling blends in perfectly with the refreshing, slightly glossy style of most modern vs. A true gem that I'll be sure to keep on my hd for quite some time.

Excellent VS Capric0rn, would you be willing to theme the logonui.exe and shellstyle like LE5 as well? Thanks for this!