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Theme for Aston inspired by smartphones GUI design took me much time and still not fully finished. I am at the moment occupied by some personal issues so I will return to this theme when I have more time. For now it includes many widget skins but I promise I will return and polish it up some more. Below you can see full screenshot and the theme can be obtained here. See ya soon.
Age of Aero2 was great source of fun in the past two weeks, had a blast while I was making it although it was a bit though. I tried not to repeat myself because I have already made several Vista/Win7 aero styled skins for Astonshell, AltDesk and Aston2, did I succeeded ? well… its on you to tell. Anyhow I hope you’ll enjoy this one, below is the full screenshot and the actual theme can be obtained here.
BTW also would like to give credits to unknown author of wallpaper used.
Christmas time is my favorite and most inspiring holiday so I made one really cool Christmas Aston2 theme. Theme is available with new Aston2 version 1.6 (Christmas edition) which includes some really cool new features like RSS widget and floating widgets. Below you can see the theme in full screen with my animated live desktop Christmas Madness. I have used some free icons from Smashing Magazine which made my job a bit easier since the schedule was really tight. Also you can get two versions of static wallpapers just in case you get fed up on animated wallpapers.
Below are additional wallpapers.
Theme for Aston2 inspired by DJ Hero game. I have never liked the idea of using brushed metal in UI and skins in general but I must admit it fit in quite nicely. My first animated wallpaper but so I hope you’ll like it. You can get the theme here and below you can see the 1440×900 screenshot. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did while making it. It took hours and hours too polish the look the way I wanted but I think it has payed off well.
Being big coffee drinker myself I must admit making this Astonshell2 theme was really pleasant experience. Windows 7 style taskbar again since I think it it is GUI improvement of the decade 
Wallpaper is just awesome and all the credits for it go to http://wallpaperstock.net. I usually don’t like wooden patterns and style but in moderation it can give stunning results. No kidding I think this is my best desktop theme ever. Below is the 1440×900 screenshot and the actual theme can be obtained here.
In past two weeks I have worked on updating my Red Alert and finishing Playboy theme. In theme creation I have used some third party materials and that is Wallpaper for RedAlert theme, it is from redalert web site, and pinup girl in Playboy menu skin is made by fantastic artist Gillian Riley Lepisto from phrizbie-design.com.
You can get the Playboy skin for Aston2 here and below is the full screen shot, also for visitors of planetaston.com a special treat, 3 extra playboy wallpapers that did not make in to the theme you can get them here.
RedAlert theme can be obtained here and below is the full screen image
Vitaly Cashev and I dedicated really great deal of our time in producing and designing this skin wonder. The task was demanding but the reward is huge. I am on a dual boot machine running XP and Windows 7 (sorry Vista but 7 is just better!) and when I am on XP using this Windows 7 skin for Aston2 Shell sometimes I get carried away thinking that I am on real Windows 7. Blah.. I hear you saying but yes we did a good job and if you don’t trust me see it your self.
You can get the skin for Aston2Shell at the skins page and try it first hand. Soon I’ll post a tutorial or two on how I recreated some of the Windows 7 UI elements. I hope you’ll like this one.
Now this was a huge task and I wouldn’t do it without great help of Vitaly Cashev, greatest Aston2 skinner, (so far ). I though it would be easy at first but it took much longer than I have ever expected. The end result is satisfactory and what I like is that we incorporated some Aston2 Menu features pretty good. Something to kill some time before Windows 7 is released and the cool thing is that you can have this start menu even on Windows XP. You can get the skin here and the screenshot below is taken on Windows XP running Aston2 Menu. Aston2 full skin is coming soon!
