My almost finished style


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^ from his deviantart.

Basically this is the same as Aero but with that awful light blue color removed from almost everything. The only two things that I cannot remove it from are when you hover over files and folders in an explorer window, and the light blue graphic that shows at the bottom on these windows. If anybody knows what are the resource numbers for those, or how to change them, please let me know.
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Light blue removed?

How come the 'x' is light blue in the screen shot? Also the outline of the 'Local Area Connection Status' window.

Hmmm...?

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Light blue removed?

How come the 'x' is light blue in the screen shot? Also the outline of the 'Local Area Connection Status' window.

Hmmm...?

The X is a different type of light blue. It's not pastel light blue like when you hover over files or menus, it's basically the original color with its hue changed dramatically. That's a type of light blue that I like and goes well with the graphite window, but I really dislike the pastel light blue.

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I can't see how this style is 'almost finished'. To me it's more like 'just started'.

I think we all appreciate new themes, but this is basically the default theme. With a few minute details changed.

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I can't see how this style is 'almost finished'. To me it's more like 'just started'.

I think we all appreciate new themes, but this is basically the default theme. With a few minute details changed.

You're way wrong. It's almost finished because I'm only two steps away from achieving my goal for it, which is to remove all instances of the light pastel blue from the original aero style, which is something Microsoft should've included in the same way you can change the color of the windows.

And it's not a few minutes' work, it was hours. If you open aero.msstyle and look at the PNGs inside you'll see that about a hundred of them have the color I was trying to eliminate. Even worse, it's not only a matter of opening them in Photoshop, removing the color and saving them, if you read my other thread "I hit a roadblock" you'll see how someone there gave me several steps on how to save those PNGs to get Vista to read the transparency properly, and even after I somehow automatized that process and made it faster, still it takes hours to go through all of those resources just to change their color.

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How did you automate the alpha conversion process? I was gonna attempt to do it but I didnt get around to trying.

Sorry, I said that wrong. I meant that I made the process more efficient given the amount of files involved. I realized it was going to be tedious to do your steps for each file one by one, so after I tried it and it worked, I did this:

1) I set up an action in Photoshop to apply the hue and saturation changes, then save and then close, and applied that to F2

2) I opened like 40 files at a time in PS and I kept pressing F2, until they were all done.

3) I opened the folder with the files, sorted by date and time to put all the files I had processed at the top, selected all of them, and dragged them to Alpha Converter,

4) Deleted the PNGs in that folder.

5) Opened all the BMPs in Photoshop (I have 4 GB of RAM so it didn't choke on them, plus they're small files) and saw which ones had transparent parts filled in white instead of black (quite several of them had), and filled those areas in black.

6) Dragged all the BMPs to Alpha Converter

7) Went through all the resources one by one and replaced the ones I needed, which was the longest step.

One problem I found with a few PNGs however, was that Photoshop has a design bug that when you open a PNG with transparency, if you just hit CTRL+S it will save it without alpha channel. You actually have to do a Save As and deselect "save as copy" to save the alpha channel. However, for most PNGs, when you use Alpha Converter to convert them to BMPs, and then back to PNGs, they work fine, but there were one or two that were not working until I opened the original one in PS and did a Save As. So that's something to keep in mind.

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One problem I found with a few PNGs however, was that Photoshop has a design bug that when you open a PNG with transparency, if you just hit CTRL+S it will save it without alpha channel. You actually have to do a Save As and deselect "save as copy" to save the alpha channel. However, for most PNGs, when you use Alpha Converter to convert them to BMPs, and then back to PNGs, they work fine, but there were one or two that were not working until I opened the original one in PS and did a Save As. So that's something to keep in mind.

Thanks for the tip

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looks to me like you only changed the X to the same blue colour.. which seems as simple as a registry hack, or something. Doesn't seem like a "style"

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looks to me like you only changed the X to the same blue colour.. which seems as simple as a registry hack, or something. Doesn't seem like a "style"

As simple as a registry hack? Is that your expert opinion? Wow, you must know A LOT! You know, for someone so ignorant, you should at least be more humble. And at least either read the rest of the thread or even download the style and use it for a minute instead of just looking at the screenshot and conclude that it's just "a registry hack, or something. Doesn't seem like a "style""

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looks to me like you only changed the X to the same blue colour.. which seems as simple as a registry hack, or something. Doesn't seem like a "style"

You my friend are a ****ing ignorant toss, if you bothered to read he editted about 100 files, you just cant see most of them in the screenshot. If you dont have a valid opinion dont post.

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2) I opened like 40 files at a time in PS and I kept pressing F2, until they were all done.

Instead of that, try going to File -> Automate -> Batch. Then, select your action and the source and destination folder. Click OK, sit back, and save your finger from hitting F2. :)

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You begin to think if it is worth the work.

Then you come here , post your hard work and read all this ignorant comments...men, this is at the most ridicoulous.

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