Well said

If one can make a living out of doing something they love.... Go for it!!  Im still tryin to get Pizza hut to hire me as a taste tester

Welcome back Jeff.

I still stand by my Comment on the buttons, tho not meant as a bash. Merely a opinion. They do look awesome and I realize took plenty of work, but to me they just dont fit the look. But an outstanding skin none the less.

A general thanks to all.

Jafo: It wasn't just Custo, there were plenty of people at Skinz that we had it out with on a daily basis. Toasty and Mian were always cool about it though.

The thing was we weren't selling themes at all. All the work that The Skins Factory did was released to the public for free. Our clients were paying us not the community. We were bringing skinners real work for doing what they did as a hobby for free. I never could understand the resentment toward SkinWerkz and then The Skins Factory. It's like would you prefer the artist work at Home Depot than get paid for doing what they love? Ridiculous.

I remember hiring little $teven for a skin. I think we paid him like 500-1000 USD. The kid was like 16 years old, did something he normally did for free and got a fat payday.

And before there was a Pixtudio or The Skins Factory there was SkinWerkz.

I think we would all love to skin for a living.........

I know i would....

cos it's great fun but time is allways the problem (WORK takes up alot of my time )....... 

Hat's off to anyone who can do what they love doing and get paid for it..

Firsts posts on this topic has disturbed me. but now I see everything is fine. and everyone is happy.

"StarTrek" theme is fine, icons extraordinary. and all themes from the SkinsFactory very well done. I know many people in the world like "Disney" themes.

I like "Crysiz", like textures on it.

And I think we can't compare WindowBlinds and msstyle. both of this methods good but in different ways. and every have its own bad sides.

msstyle run fast and its closer to original Windows themes, but WindowBlins gives more features for skining of windows.

skining is very hard job. and i think usefull job. in present time even conservators who always work on gray windows classic theme(from win 95), now this people like skining too. and without doubts this job must be good paid. May be many people is accustomed that skins is free and think that skiners eat holy air. but i think that 20 $ for so great Themes as StarTrek or Disney is not high price.

eh, looks alright but those buttons blow. Looks like jewels gone wild.  

Blame Trek creators then...thats what they designed in the 60's man.

I wasnt too crazy about them at first then I realised where they came from and I changed my mind.(authenticity)

Yep. A real Trekker would know those are the triangular buttons from many console panels. The only difference is ours uses the 3 division colors so they work with each theme and they're more saturated.

I bought this as soon as it was available and absolutly love it!!! Great job!! Still have to remember to turn some stuff off when applying it      but well worth the money I spent!!

I'm pleased to see there are some positive vibes about TSF skins coming back to WC.... it sounds promising.

I don't think it'll come down to IF, though!   You do quality work and I'm sure there are more than enough discerning customisers here who will jump at the chance to use/enjoy your themes.

Oh, and welcome back to WC, I'm pleased about that... and under your old account, too. 

I don't care how it happened, I'm just glad it is.  Thanks to all who helped make this happen.

Jesh,you should use throboff to get rid of those awful microsoft throbber flags in your screenshots...its really just some reg settings and are completely reversible with a click but it makes a window look WAY nicer.

http://toastytech.com/files/throboff.html

works perfectly for all XP versions...dont think vista has one.

It might reset the toolbar layout but that only takes a click or two to set back

see,no throbber...nice.

Great little tool!

Where would we be without a throbber...

Jesh..........Good to see they've re-instated your original account. Nice touch from Brad and the WC mods. Long overdue.

Probably a Monastery! 

Well, I wouldn't be here if not for one...nor anyone else I might add.

Uh oh! Here we go again!

Throbbing ....please wait.

Hey Erk, do you think it's a good idea to expose your throbber like that?

You know Bichur has a thing for 'working' throbbers.

Yeah, and I got unwittingly sucked in again.

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