August 2023 Desktop Screenshots
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Saturday, July 29, 2023 by DrJBHL | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Well, it's August, already. Hottest month over with...hoping (against hope) August will be somehow better.
Decided to give tribute to three great Master skinners, and really good people...one of whom is here in memory only, Xiandi (Lady X), PoSmedley, and WebGizmos. They collaborated to create a beautiful skin, my desktop of the month: Xiandi the Windowblind and CursorFX, PoSmedley, the walls, and WebGizmos, the Winstep Xtreme.
We're talkin' Metropolite:
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Reply #64 Thursday, August 17, 2023 2:57 PM
Great screenshots! The completeness in style is a very nice touch.
I love just looking at the screenshots, seeing what sort of possibilities there are on "the other side"
Reply #65 Thursday, August 17, 2023 3:05 PM
Great screenshots! The completeness in style is a very nice touch.
I love just looking at the screenshots, seeing what sort of possibilities there are on "the other side"
Great to see an old time member! 
Hope to see more of you here. Post a screenshot!
Reply #66 Thursday, August 17, 2023 5:09 PM
Was playing around with vStyler's Vienna (free skin in the WC Gallery but his Master skins are available at Lightstar's new commercial site) and AI and so I modded a wall for it. The docks and modules are Xiandi's Ultimate Clean.
Reply #67 Thursday, August 17, 2023 5:15 PM
Looks absolutely great Doc! 
I will be trying to get more of vStyler's Master skins up on my site as soon as I can for him.
Reply #69 Friday, August 18, 2023 3:27 AM
Was playing around with vStyler's Vienna (free skin in the WC Gallery but his Master skins are available at Lightstar's new commercial site) and AI and so I modded a wall for it. The docks and modules are Xiandi's Ultimate Clean.
Reply #71 Friday, August 18, 2023 5:54 AM
Thanks for the white text version, SimplexDesigns. Much easier on my old eyes. The blue simply lacked adequate luminosity (for my eyes). Well done!
This substyle will be a premium download option eventually, its a fairly quick wip as I want testing out if I were to invert the colors in photoshop and change the hue to blue. It did come out nicely, just a little rough in some areas.
I will include a white explorer background withe the base style (the one with dark frames/elements) as part of the free version(lite).
Reply #72 Friday, August 18, 2023 6:02 AM
"This substyle will be a premium download"
Where will that be available? There are no longer premium skins available here on WC.
Reply #73 Friday, August 18, 2023 6:21 AM
"This substyle will be a premium download"
Where will that be available? There are no longer premium skins available here on WC.
He's a JM so couldn't charge on WC even were there a Master skin program. He has a "buy me a coffee" thing...
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/simplexdesigns
I will include a white explorer background withe the base style (the one with dark frames/elements) as part of the free version(lite).
What interested me was the dark version with the white font. Strange to base a premium skin on only that.
Reply #74 Friday, August 18, 2023 6:22 AM
"This substyle will be a premium download"
Where will that be available? There are no longer premium skins available here on WC.
He's a JM so couldn't charge on WC even were there a Master skin program. He has a "buy me a coffee" thing...
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/simplexdesigns
I found a site called gumroad for it.
Reply #75 Friday, August 18, 2023 6:37 AM
What interested me was the dark version with the white font. Strange to base a premium skin on only that.
The only version that will cost money is that all white edition. The ones I have shown before that will be free. I had to redesign a bunch of stuff to get the white graphics to work right. So that's why I decided to make that version cost a little something.
So to recap, the dark/dark explorer & dark/ white explorer options will be fully free. The all white version will be a premium theme. Hopefully that sorts out any confusion 
Reply #77 Friday, August 18, 2023 7:04 AM
So to recap, the dark/dark explorer & dark/ white explorer options will be fully free. The all white version will be a premium theme. Hopefully that sorts out any confusion
Screenies of the substyles would be helpful.
Im still working on finishing the dark version. I cant make the white explorer version of it yet till I finish that first. I will post some screenshots of it at a later date. I wont be able to work on it for the next 4 days due to my work week starting later today.
Here is a rough WIP of what the white explorer mode is shaping out to be like so far. Its still very early stages as I have to redesign some other elements to fit with black font as many of them were designed for white font. There is a chance I just make the dark explorer background just a smidge lighter just so the font is readable while still maintaining a darker look. Just gotta experiment with the various ways around this issue.
Reply #78 Friday, August 18, 2023 7:46 AM
There is a chance I just make the dark explorer background just a smidge lighter just so the font is readable while still maintaining a darker look.
Charcoal/Graphite is your friend. Black/white is high contrast...not necessarily comfy for the eyes on prolonged use.
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Reply #61 Thursday, August 17, 2023 8:27 AM
XPired by Michael Brandt - I tweaked for 11
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