Watercolor Emico

[Jamushroom Veteran]

How abut this one? I think it fits better:

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

[MrFuji]

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!

[Byron86]

Much better!

[Jamushroom Veteran]

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 :)

[virgo89]

Anyone willing to make a matching Launchy skin?

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

[Yggdrasilly]

@Yggdrasilly: The Visual Styles uses magic pink up there. Maybe Windowblinds wants to have that totally transparent. Oh.. and fix those caption buttons :rofl:

Thanks, I'll check that out. :3

Also, what's wrong with the caption buttons?

[Jamushroom Veteran]

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

[acies]

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 approve. :cool:

[Krokus]

Damn.

That looks nice. :o

[Jamushroom Veteran]

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

[andy_rose]

Great update, thanx :)

[Krokus]

Thanks! :)

Looks great.

[Spartan Erik]

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

Tell me when there's a black one available!

[NeoXY]

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

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

[betadan]

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

[SakuraKira]

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.

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.

we_sml_caps.zip

[Jamushroom Veteran]

^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 :D

@Spartan Erik: Did you register only to say that? :p

Edited June 7, 2008 by Capric0rn

[A.Gabri]

Awesome Theme , waiting for the black one :)

[darthmaulbr]

Great job! Amazing.

I can't wait for the Dark version.

[MrFuji]

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

[Spartan Erik]

^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 biggrin.gif

@Spartan Erik: Did you register only to say that? tongue.gif

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 :)

[Jamushroom Veteran]

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

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

[BlueFox]

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 :)

[mitchmalibu]

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.

[kageon1]

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

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

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