Da Brain's update page.
for the 3 or 4 people that are interested... ;)
Sunday, August 2, 2009 by I.R. Brainiac | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Updating some skins...thought I would show off some of the changes.
ecoLogical is getting the full 7,Vista,Xp makeover.With some help from Dani on 7 and some inspiration from vStyler there will be 29 substyles!
Knot Vista is also getting the full 7,Vista XP makeover.Many changes,huge selection of styles and colors.New name will be Knot Aero so it will not overwrite the original (if you are one of the few that already have it 
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Thanks fer lookin' 
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Reply #42 Saturday, August 15, 2009 12:06 AM
Brain,
I found that if I get stumped
I do something else for a while
then all of a sudden when I am not even thinking
about the problem the answer comes to me.
You could give that a try.
Reply #43 Saturday, August 15, 2009 4:12 AM
I noticed that too. When I have tried a gradient overlay layer, I had to bring the opacity on the image itself down to 82 percent to make it match the surrounding graphics. 
Reply #44 Monday, August 31, 2009 5:22 AM
no the layers dont work correctly, try doing a vector sun ray......yah thats impossible, i had to manually repaint the layer for it to work, then scraped the whole skin in the end anyway.
Reply #45 Thursday, September 24, 2009 8:15 PM
im a big fan of your blinds so cant wait thx 
win 7 version of slider?
Reply #46 Thursday, September 24, 2009 8:29 PM
i also would like to see slider for win 7 i love my slider xp 
Reply #47 Thursday, March 18, 2010 11:46 AM
I cant believe how badly that crap pissed me off. 
Oh well...deleted a bunch of the screwups SKS created and back to work.It will still have a lot of styles but not so many as before.(all the .wbo styles were lost when Neil changed recoloring methods...I guess backwards compatibility isnt a priority...no matter how much work is tossed away) 
Sadly,unless you get lucky(and I didnt here),the automatic settings are bad and the old eyedropper method was much easier. Aint progress swell? 
But...the background options are great...textures?...not enough control,I'll texture in photoshop thanks. 
Layers?...layers got me in this mess.Better control than textures but still problematic...blend modes dont work the way you expect and lining them up on a multipart image like the start menu is a chore. 
Still see a lot of stuff badly skinned(or not skinned) in 7 but if you just give up and ignore it I guess you'll be fine. 
progress at least...
Reply #50 Thursday, March 18, 2010 1:31 PM
But...but...I thought 7 was such a sweet thing to have! Go figure! 
Anyway...haven't forgotten about the Plasmatron docks...they're still in the works. Just can't bang these out like other docks though. Gee...I wonder why!
Reply #51 Thursday, March 18, 2010 1:45 PM
by a strange coincidence, that goes great with a set of docks and a xion I made. weird.
Reply #52 Thursday, March 18, 2010 2:23 PM
I actually ran Plasmatron on 7 just for grins...wasnt really that messed up...might be worth updating someday. 
Reply #53 Thursday, March 18, 2010 2:23 PM
Reply #54 Thursday, March 18, 2010 2:28 PM
Neil has made some very cool changes...some just work better than others...some are just plain fun...some are mostly unusable(for me anyyways)
sweet.Reply #56 Thursday, March 18, 2010 7:10 PM
much as I bitch and whine at Neil...his start menu mods in Win7 are pretty slick. 
Reply #57 Thursday, March 18, 2010 7:49 PM
How few am I a part of. 
When you get to it, will the update be available at MaxStyles, as there is where I purchased it.
Reply #58 Thursday, March 18, 2010 7:55 PM
Just make'em update to XP!
Reply #60 Friday, March 19, 2010 12:27 AM
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Reply #41 Friday, August 14, 2009 11:48 PM
I appreciate the encouragement...as of yet I cant even bring myself to look at it right now...what its doing shouldnt even be possible.
I ran into the same problem on 7 but its all beta so I just designed around it for now...but XP isnt beta and the skin ran fine til layers became involved.
Layers are a great idea but they just dont work correctly.They dont blend right,at least not like layers blend in PS.Automask is nice but it also has issues...it leaves pixels from the layer on your antialiased strokes.(because they are not opaque and might have a smidge of color information in them)
I selected just the antialised parts of my images and desaturated them...this helps but isnt perfect.
There isnt any masking function (for elements you dont want the texture layer on)that I can see...other than content margins and automask, and thats not good enough.There are lots of workarounds but not if your skin is translucent.(and they just about ALL are)
It dosnt do any good to fix 1 problem or add new capabilities if it creates new problems.