SkinStudio 4.5 released
Support for alpha blended Start Menus, better MSStyles support
Tuesday, February 1, 2005 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
SkinStudio 4.5 has been released. SkinStudio is a free program that makes it relatively easy for artists/skinners to create their own interfaces for Microsoft Windows. With it, users create visual styles that can then be applied with Stardock's WindowBlinds GUI customization program (www.windowblinds.net). When installed, it also enables users of WindowBlinds to seamlessly make use of visual styles that are in .MSStyles format. It includes support for both the WindowBlinds skin format as well as USF (Universal Skin Format).
Version 4.5 adds support for creating per-pixel alpha blended Windows XP Start menus, random window frames, Unicode support, and vastly improved MSStyles importing options.
Stardock also makes SkinStudio Pro which supports making Windows Media Player skins and soon Firefox skins. The Pro version is also part of Stardock's Object Desktop suite of desktop enhancement utilities (www.objectdesktop.com).
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Reply #9 Wednesday, February 2, 2005 9:16 AM
btw, keep up the good work over at neowin.Reply #10 Wednesday, February 2, 2005 11:10 AM
| AT1981, i think you'll have to make new tga images for that particular start panel btw, keep up the good work over at neowin. |
Arrgggg....I was really hoping we could just open an exisiting theme, play around with a few setting and boom...get some alpha blending
Reply #11 Wednesday, February 2, 2005 11:29 AM
Reply #12 Wednesday, February 2, 2005 12:04 PM
| Well, just open the panel, convert it to tga, remove the magic pink, put in some sorta aero affect or whatever, then import the image into Skinstudio as a tga. |
What do you use to convert a bmp to tga? Photoshop?
Reply #13 Wednesday, February 2, 2005 2:32 PM
Reply #14 Wednesday, February 2, 2005 7:23 PM
# 13 There is a test skin included.
Reply #15 Wednesday, February 2, 2005 7:25 PM
| # 13 There is a test skin included. |
Its called Pearlthane and is now available in the Windowblinds library here on the site.
Reply #18 Thursday, February 3, 2005 8:54 AM
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Reply #1 Tuesday, February 1, 2005 7:41 PM