Miricla & Tinted: WIP
His 'n Hers Blinds
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 by Mirsguy | Discussion: Sneak Previews
I recently began work on a new WindowBlind I am calling 'Miricla.' This is a skin that I am making specifically for my wife, Brysgirl. She has not been able to find that 'perfect skin' yet, so I am creating it for her.
It is primarily blue in color and quite glassy. I chose the blue color because I just couldn't bring myself to work with pink. This skin is a recolorers dream, and looks good however you set the color slider in the config settings.
When I complete Miricla, I will begin work on 'Tinted,' which will be essentially identical in most ways to Miricla, just with dark glass rather than blue. Also, the Tinted WB will be made to match the ObjectDock backgrounds I have already created of the same name.
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Reply #22 Thursday, June 25, 2009 12:52 AM
Thank you to everyone for your supportive comments! Glad you're liking it. I'll try not to disappoint...
Thanks Ulcerbob, I'll take that into consideration. However, I'm afraid if I make them any taller, then I'll diminish the effect I was going for; but I'll consider it nonetheless. 
Reply #23 Thursday, June 25, 2009 2:25 AM
New "natural lighting."
Actually just changed the highlight color to a light blue and left the blend mode at screen. That ended up being the best solution. Thanks for your input, John.
Reply #25 Thursday, June 25, 2009 4:05 AM
Looks awesome.. But must have a "Send HG free pizza" button to be perfect. 
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Great job Mirsguy. 
Reply #26 Friday, June 26, 2009 12:14 AM
Is this good enough?
Reply #28 Friday, June 26, 2009 10:52 AM
Thanks!
Just decided last night that I'm going to rework the window frames and probably the window close buttons. Now that I think about it, those frames don't (entirely) match where I'm going with the skin. But hey, that's what the development stage is for, right?
Reply #29 Friday, June 26, 2009 10:55 AM
Quoting myself here to correct myself:
My wife is not the only tester. Z71 is also helping me along.
Reply #30 Saturday, June 27, 2009 12:33 AM
Looks awesome, Mg!!! 
Brysgirl, you're one lucky lady 
Reply #32 Saturday, June 27, 2009 2:30 AM
Yeah, she wanted something pink. I refused to work in pink. I just couldn't do it. 
Sooooo... the alternative was to build something that recolors well.
Reply #33 Sunday, June 28, 2009 3:35 AM
Start menu is completely finished, including log off buttons! 
Reply #34 Sunday, June 28, 2009 5:28 PM
Looks fantastic, Brian!!! Keep up the hard work, sir! 
Reply #35 Sunday, June 28, 2009 6:02 PM
blend modes are SO important.
Now John...stop giving all the best tricks away.
JK...he and I have been telling people for a long time...get away from default PS bevels...it makes a huge difference.
That start menu looks tons better now.
Reply #36 Sunday, June 28, 2009 11:47 PM
Yeah, that was a good tip. I primarily design for print, and for what I do there, blend mode variations are second nature to me. I guess I need to transfer that to gui design, too.
Thanks! I guess you can call this whole skin a gift to my wife, and so I'd want to give her the best possible. Thanks for the help & guidance v & ir!
Reply #40 Saturday, July 4, 2009 5:06 AM
Now that I've got most of the "easy" stuff done, it's on to the more tedious work. Not the mention the minor differences that'll need to be made for it to work across the 3 OS's.
I'd say probably a couple of weeks. Depends on how much free time I get.
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Reply #21 Thursday, June 25, 2009 12:48 AM
I should've thought of the 'natural lighting' thing--Bert Monroy writes about the same thing in his book Photoshop Studio with Bert Monroy; Digital Painting.
Your suggestion does help; now I've just gotta figure out how to best execute the concept.
Oh, and so far it looks like overlay & lighter color are the blend modes to use.