Archive for ◊ March, 2009 ◊

Author: krstatzar
• Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

Sure skinning is fun, so go ahead and be creative, let your imagination come out and play like a child, that feels good but before you go and share your work with the rest of the community stop for one moment and consider the usability issue. One have to think that actual people out there will be using the stuff, actual people that are playing games (StarBlaze 2 :) ), using facebook, working with spreadsheets and who knows what else :)
Below I present you with my shame. My very old works that I was convinced were top-notch back then, ok go and laugh

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Author: krstatzar
• Saturday, March 07th, 2009

Finally found time and here it is, Playboy skin for Aston2 Menu. You can get the actual skin  here .
I wasn’t lacking inspiration in general but was keen in finding something special and interesting that would follow the theme nicely, was really happy when I bump in to wonderful classical pinup style girl made by Gillian Riley Lepisto from phrizbie-design. But the coolest thing was that she let me use it in my skin. So huge thanks again Gillian this skin would not be possible without you. Since I am far away from being a newbie in skinning and design in general I felt bad for using  stuff  made by others but that feeling was very soon replaced with the feeling of joy once the skin was finished.

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The biggest issue during the entire skin creation process was that pink (bubblegum pink) color. more…

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