It's sort of a game skin...
 

Not really my style, so this might be the type that I start and then wait until I get better to finish. Any thoughts on 3D effects in photoshop?

Scratches head.

yeah... I dunno yet.
http://img63.exs.cx/img63/6104/bimage009.th.gif
This is what I was going for in the Vis area. Nothing else is done yet, but the skin should be an amalgamation of gadgets and puzzle designs from Myst.

Yeah, I'm not gonna do this skin. it's meh.

http://img26.exs.cx/img26/4933/nes9mr.jpg
Here's a totally different idea. I don't know what I'll do for the other windows, but I'll come up with somethinf.

The black part turned into dark gray on the bottom part didnt it? I cant remember, but it looks pretty sweet. You've get to work the controller in there somewhere; maybe in the eq? Makes me want to go look for my console..

http://dee-nee.com/rbi/pics/nintendo.jpg For reference. Please don't notice that it's backwards. :p

Is there still a market for "only the main window" skins? :p
Nah, I'm gonna try to work some clever stuff for the other windows. We'll see.
http://img60.exs.cx/img60/1084/nes26rf.jpg

you could have the eq on/auto buttons be very very tiny controllers that plug into the play/pause buttons.

but i dont know if you want everything in close proportion or not.

or you can take some liberty and make the rest as if nintendo made a winamp add-on for the nes....i'd bet thats what the revolution is.;) :p

I don't think I'd want to make the controller that tiny. I think I'll see if I can work it into the EQ or something. I want to keep everything sort of in proportion, but I know I'm going to have to be doing crazy stuff lower in the other windows.

http://hem.passagen.se/status82/bild.../advantage.JPG
Probably not the controller we were thinking of, but it jumped out at me in a GIS, so...
http://img29.exs.cx/img29/8599/neseq0me.th.jpg
Don't worry, I'll work the standard controller in too, I promise. And I think I'll make a Zapper for the cursor. :D

Methinks the eq frame needs a bit more depth, there. If you could work the powerglove in somewhere, I'd call you a genius...

I laughed when i first saw this skin very original. Sorry i haven't reponded sooner. I got stuck doing jury duty the entire week. :(

GUILTY :down:

Maybe I should release it as-is. it could be like AmpBurger.

NOOOO.

You should finish it. Why it's your obligation! YOU-ARE-OBLIGATED!~! You're doing a great job dont let us down now.

Lol, I was joking. But it'll be a little while before I finish this skin because I just started a different skin. I will get back to this one, because I love this design.

http://www1.1001skins.com/skin_details.html?id=3418 Look at this while you're waiting.

The EQ makes the skin. Burninating is never bad.

Playlist is mostly done. Not perfect, but I like it.

Playlist looks good. Interesting skin you've got here. :)

Would everybody hate me if I didn't make any close buttons? On the main and EQ they're pretty much cropped out, I'm not sure what to do with them. Anyway, check out my video window, I'm very pleased with it. The library came out okay I guess, it doesn't look like anything in particular but I was just trying to get it to match stylishly.

the close buttons are up to you...i dont know about everyone else, but its not a big deal for me.

the main and eq need some severe polish. i know your not done, but it still looks fairly awkward and its hard to appreciate your design ideas. and IMO tydogg is spot on when he said the eq frame needs some more depth.

its not any big things that look wrong...just lots of very small ones that add up.

Beta skin here: http://www.deviantart.com/view/15409702/
Help me out, guys. I tried to make the main and eq look a little neater and ...depthier... but specific suggestions on how to give it a bit more "oomph" might be very helpful.

Okay, with hardly any hyperbole, I have to say that your powerglove cursor is the best cursor ever. Not very impressed with the winshade modes for the main and eq, though.
I'd like to see the playlist more like the video window as far as the framing goes. I'll try and do a more depthy eq for you.

It's probably too metallic, but you get the idea

That's basically what I did, but I lowered the opacity on the graidents until I thought it looked good.
And I'm pretty happy with my playlist. I will admit that the video window is pretty awesome :D I'm glad you like the cursor. My first idea was The Zapper but I thought this made more sense.

your nes looks "pointed" in the front...i see what you were trying to do, but looking at screens the nes had a completely flat frontside.(i thought it looked fine until i looked at a pic)

if you dont know what i mean take look at this.

Oh, I know what you're saying. My design is also left-to-right backwards. :p I know my shape is wrong, but it's how I designed the skin, and I've grown attached to it. I think it makes it look a little more interesting and 3-dimensional, and like you said, you'd have to look at a picture of a real one to tell the difference anyway.

I redid the main/eq windowshades, the playlist will likely remain unchanged.

Oh i like that trigger action. That has to be the best winshade i've ever seen.

Very nice.

That indeed is a pretty cool wishade :up:

Here are my thoughts on the skin, late as they are:

Some of the angles on the main skin really bug me.
The shape and shading of the EQ just looks odd. I'm not sure exactly what it's supposed to look like, as I don't really know the console, but I'm pretty sure that some things about how you've synthesised it are iffy. Is the console actually trapezium-shaped, or is it just tilted for your skin? That seems visually unclear to me.

Firstly, the top of it is really bright, though it looks like it should have much more shadow cast on it by the MAIN. Secondly, the bottom indented border is very bright, although because of the angle, I'm thinking that it should be much darker. Also, maybe a subtle gradient on the face of the whole EQ would help make it look more slanted, if it's supposed to be slanted.

The angle of the black part near the cbuttons doesn't match the angle of the edge, and this looks really wrong to me. I know that you don't want it to match 100%, because of the perspective of the skin, but I think that the angle should be much more similar to the edge than it is, seeing as how close to the edge it is.

Likewise, the angle of the right side of that black area should match the angle of the NEXT button much more than it does.

The buttons (shuf/rep/open/next) don't look quite right, though I'm not exactly sure why. Maybe try giving them more defined indents (maybe even with just the outer bevel layer style), and try giving them a stronger drop shadow

Try giving all of the plastic areas a slight texture by adding noise and then making the noise layer very translucent. And some subtle dodging and burning with a soft brush could make the lighting a little more varied (eg. some dodging on the corners, perhaps)

Would the bottom of the PL (the stacks, etc.)look better if it was all light grey, and only the PLEDIT.TXT area itself was in the indented dark grey area?

Surely you can put little tiny indicators for the \//\X buttons, at least?

I was about to publish the skin, but I'll put it off

sorry - that must be annoying :D

Sure is! ;)
Basically I just need the extra time to decide which of your suggestions I'm ignoring for valid reasons, and which I'm ignoring because I'm lazy :p

hehe;)

Another thing, shouldn't the background of the up/down buttons in the ML be dark grey to match the overall background? I think those buttons look odd on those small light-grey squares. You could then give the sliders themselves a more rounded and/or interesting shape.

By the way, I just saw the Mikro: :):up::up:

There's nothing stopping me from making them an interesting shape now. Except the fact that the sliders stretch and look stupid every time I do something with them. I might take out the little grey squares, since they don't really accomplish what I intended. Glad you like the micro. Oh, and http://crummysocks.com/images/advant..._advantage.jpg is what the EQ is supposed to kinda look like... but it's so not-even-close that I'm considering doing the whole window over.
I'm not reframing the playlist in any way, because that would make it look absolutely nothing like what it should look like. If you're concerned about the light grey oval-shaped bits looking out of place, I actually think they're one of the most correct-looking bits of the skin...

Eh, I went ahead and submitted it, because I don't feel like working on it any longer, and it's technically complete. Gotta move on to other things...
http://www1.1001skins.com/skin_details.html?id=3419
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/15498503/

You know what would be cool? A skin with the light gun in it.

You know what would be cool? looking at my windowshade mode :p

now that is slick.