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feedback needed

PostPosted: June 28th, 2007, 12:00 am
by ALAS
started making something "commonplace" just for fun and exercise. With most functions Xion offers implemented ..and a little gloss- a little glass- a little aero.. (for high ratings on certain skin sites, hehe). By working with it I started liking it, and thought one aero for Xion is ok, but now, I´m not quite shure what to think about it. So I would much appreciate your oppinion!

(@SLoB: look!)
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-buttons are glassy-transparent
-the X in the big mode is glassy-transparent and gets that green glow by vol amount l/r
-both modes: left right volume animations: horizontal green ellipse expanding with vol amount

PostPosted: June 28th, 2007, 12:21 am
by eugene2k
My humble 2 cents:
Cool skin, reminds me of x-box? and the glassy-transparent look is very nice too :)
Some of the buttons though are a little too hard to see, so maybe changing them somehow is a good idea :)

PostPosted: June 28th, 2007, 2:11 am
by KEV-O
Hey I like that! I really like the mute, eq, etc. buttons. I know this may be blasphemous in this forum, but I'm really not a fan of the Xion "X" logo. I think your skin would be better off without it. (or perhaps make it a little more subtle) The other other criticism I have is to add a little more seperation between items in the display area. Some of the things seem to run together a little bit. Looks sweet tho! Keep it up!

PostPosted: June 28th, 2007, 3:36 am
by SLoB
yay :)

small mode looks good, agree with Kev on the logo, perhaps make it greyscale and subtle on the left or right, thers plenty of space for a smaller one

funny you were thinking green, i started on another skin the other nite which incorporates the Xion logo, but its subtle

i would make he buttons on the sides bigger, thers shed loads of space, so user click able area is huge, about twice the size i reckon

PostPosted: June 28th, 2007, 8:10 am
by ALAS
hey thanks all for your comments :D

yes the "X"; that letter is indeed a little `worn-out´ these days (X-Box, X-Files, X-Men). Though I think the Xion-X is o.k. I think I´ll substitute it in the skin completely (it´s indeed too similar to X-Box, also green, I think....).

The hard-to-see buttons have a slightly white glowing over-state to identify them-you can´t see it here. I´ll post a link to download a later version to test it...

PostPosted: June 28th, 2007, 3:50 pm
by skryingbreath
Looks like quite a good skin but let more subtlety envelope your outer glows.

PostPosted: June 28th, 2007, 6:11 pm
by SLoB
yea good point skry, i normally use transparency values 30, 50, 65, 75, 85 for most things, those are my fave/most used numbers for layers