Everyone gets their inspiration from somewhere. I of course am using it now, and IMO it bears resemblance to Vienna only because it's dark & glassy. Vienna has a lot more gray. I'm using more blacks. Though I drew some inspiration from Rapture, to me it looks totally different.

Part of why I decided to do this is because I cannot find a dark glassy theme that I think is absolutely perfect for my tastes. (Sorry John! ) Vienna 3 Rapture was the closest thing to perfect that I could find, though. Besides, I personally love the start menu on Tinted. So far, this IS my favorite skin ever!

Yeah, that was an early screeny. I have fixed that already.

That's just what was on my desktop at the time. And I agree, it's overused.

Glad you guys like the cursor! It's been my current fave!

No, sorry to say it'll be a while. I kinda forced myself to take time off from my side work, so I spent the evening SKINNING!

I did accomplish a lot tonight, but I wouldn't expect this for several more weeks yet.

I updated the screen shot at the top.

Here's a preview of the finished window frame buttons in both the active and inactive states.

Don't fergit me when the time comes, yall hear? 

Looking good Mirsguy!   So sad it won't be ready this month either

I would never forget you, Jim!

Patience...

At a stand still with my customer projects for the moment, so guess what I did tonight? You guessed it, I skinned!

Made a lot of progress, too. Right now, I'd say I'm about 90% done with XP / Vista light.

Looking forward to this

Thanks c242!

After thinking on this a bit, I see more resemblance to iPhonix or Eminence than I do to Rapture, IMHO.

The taskbar and buttons underwent a slight redesign in order to keep with a consistent look.

I fell in love with the window close buttons after I finished them, so I applied the same styling and lighting effects here.

I's like to see a background design behind the back\forward arrows in Explorer and IE, a lot of skinners seem to be bypassing that element for some reason, not utilizing the power and functions available that SKS provides......

After thinking on this a bit, I see more resemblance to iPhonix or Eminence than I do to Rapture, IMHO.

I think the objective behind true skinning is bringing a new and different prospective to one's designs. Trying as hard as one can to not resemble.. anything that has come before.....  IMHO 

The start menu isn't matching the the caption lighting, one has a curved lighting highlight, one is completely a horizontal highlight. Lighting direction, strength, overlay mode etc,  should always match up throughout the wb.

The arrows are how I want them in this skin.

Not trying to resemble anything or anyone. It was an observation hoping to quell any other observations about this being a Vienna clone.

Which I tried to do with Miricla, and many of those things are being carried over or even modified in Tinted. This skin is what I desire in a dark glassy skin. It is fully my style. Now moving on...

Did I take a crazy pill by mistake? I don't see Vienna in this. Where's the similarity?

There isn't any, I'm the one taking crazy pills, didn't you know

movin on

I'm fine tuning the design of the start menu to match more with the new taskbar.

Jim, this is why I haven't given you anything yet. I tend to get it "set" then I become dissatisfied and re work everything. It doesn't matter how detailed I get in my mock-up, I always still change things a gizallion times!

Looking good Mirsguy   This is a real high quality skin. And your work looks very original to me

As long as it's for the better.    Don't let John shake you, he's on crazy pills...lol!!!  

Plodding through slowly but surely. Been doing a lot of the more "boring" and somewhat unnoticable parts lately. But, greatness is in the details, right?

I've also heard that the Devil is in the details...

Logoff buttons still not skinned but I'll be getting to those shortly.

XP / Vista is very close to being done.

And really, I guess that 7 is too!

Slobber, slobber, pant...pant....