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First Great Skin

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First Great Skin

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Can you remember the first skin that really blew you away and got you hooked on customization?

Mine was Thredz by Dangeruss and Thredz. That skin made it impossible to have vanilla Win ever again. When I look at it now, I am amazed at what a fine piece of work it was and still is!

How about you?
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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Back in '02 when Iwas heavily into win98 desktop themes there was an author that put one out that was mixed with a WindowBlind..from that moment on I knew that I had to find out more about WBs and how I could have them!..LoL
The theme was Ghostbusters..
Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I think Darkstar did it for me... but thats what got me wanting to skin more so than just interested in general. I loved the theme but had to have it in black/green not black/red and force coloring it just didn't look as good as tweaking all the images to get it just right.

I know, I know, its a TSF skin and I might get some flack for that but I've also only been around for less than a year and some of these older skins and stuff were not the first I came across. Ultimately what got me into skinning (even in general) was creating my own desktops (and so on) from my own images. The whole concept was just too sweet to not get into.
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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Always the one it impressed me and still does is Avenger by ya all know who.
Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top
This is great Aveneger was one of the names that I just could not remember and it is such a great skin!
Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Something Different by Mgiff. It was the first thing I saw when I first logged to WC. I was looking for a wallpaper and found out what a windowblind was!
Reply #31 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Skin X pre update) cuz it was different & Alien Technology
Reply #32 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Farcusmarkus's OS-W icons first got me hooked. I adored the little kitty hanging out of the full recycle bin. http://farkus.wincustomize.com/

Then it was mormegil and his Corel tutorials that convinced me that MAYBE I could create some of these little babies of my own!! I have to credit Paul Boyer for his willingness to let the general public in on his world, and thus allowing the so called artist-wanna-be an outlet to express oneself.
Reply #33 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Whatever happened to Farcusmarkus? Worked stopped in 2004 at least what is posted here.
Reply #34 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Lets see...the first blind I had was I think was called " Mrs Gold "

For 6 months I refused to change to another blind cos this one came with 10 different color substyles and had a tranparency button.

I finnaly was forced by a friend that felt my obsession with mrs gold was not healthy...

I believe I settled on one of Brewmans blinds after that...
Reply #35 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Not fair...I can't edit my post to correct a typo.
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Reply #36 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I've been addicted for quite a while, and I think it was Colony that snagged me, but Micron gold that I used for the longest time.
Reply #37 from WinCustomize Forums Top
"Mean Machine" by Hippy got me... hook, line and sinker. http://hippy.wincustomize.com/ViewSkin.aspx?SID=677&SkinID=3415&LibID=1
Reply #38 from WinCustomize Forums Top
been a member 2 years ago and the SKIN that blow me away belongs to TIGGZ (K TEK,GT3) DANILOOC (NeOS) and REMOLACIO (Bench Chrome).
Reply #39 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Mean machine...what a great skin! K tek, and NeOS as well. Strange feelings reloading these. So much has gone by, like a great bitter sweet trip down memory lane.
Reply #40 from WinCustomize Forums Top
 
Thug Life.
by.....Praxxis '99
Reply #41 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Three people got me hooked up and the skins came after that. My wife, clwoods, got me interested, starone is teaching me how to skin and skinalli (PluGGz) supplied the skin (Compromise) that I am still using. Richard Mohler is a great source of inspiration along with adni18.
Reply #42 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I came to skinning via Litestep, because I saw a screenshot of a Litestep theme somewhere and just HAD to have it. After finding out what Litestep was, and installing it, I applied that theme, which was called "Rising Edges". I tweaked it for months and months and learned all about Litestep through doing that.

I think the first WB skin that really blew me away was Copperdeck, by the incomparable Treetog.
Reply #43 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Yep, Copperdeck is certainly there in the all time classics group!
Reply #44 from WinCustomize Forums Top
One of the first windowblinds that caught my eye and downloaded was ^^Gabriel's Glassteel https://www.wincustomize.com/ViewSkin.aspx?SID=1&SkinID=3387&LibID=1 . I loved the deep blue colors, and complemented with Chaninja's excellent SubZero icons https://www.wincustomize.com/ViewSkin.aspx?SID=1&SkinID=1019&LibID=2 it made for a most-welcome and refreshing change from Luna.
Reply #45 from WinCustomize Forums Top
VistaXP By KoL. that is the best skin. when i downloaded windowblinds 4 the featured skin was vistaxp so i downloaded it.
Reply #46 from WinCustomize Forums Top
VistaXP By KoL. that is the best skin. when i downloaded windowblinds 4 the featured skin was vistaxp so i downloaded it.


Please leave...leave now!
Reply #47 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Please leave...leave now!

Be Nice NT..LoL..Remember, ya gotta be nice...
Reply #48 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Back in 99 when this all started for me I used my own skins most of the time but, it was essorants Seer and Dervish Blue that rated time on my desktop and Dageruss's Candy Blue that caught my attention....
Reply #49 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Allen Bond's "Capsula" made me blink, BaT's "Shapeshifter" made me feel all warm inside, Shoggot's "Scathe" had me drooling but Square Designes' "Square One" made my jaw drop. Yeah, I guess I'm showing my "age" considering all these skins are from 1999, but back in those days creativity was in its prime and originality at its peak, these skins were so different and groundbreaking...but I guess you had to be there and have the benefit of hindisght sitting here 7 years later
Reply #50 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Shoggot's "Scathe"
  ....Geez....how did I forget THAT one?....