pjpowell

pjpowell

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Reply to The Nickname we choose.... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

HOW A SKINNER GOT HIS NAME -------------------------- Come with me if you will to a land far away and a time before skinning. Picture the scene. A moonlit night in India. A woman wracked with pain. A man trying desperately to stay awake by drinking lots of tea. Suddenly there it is. A screaming messy baby and a terrible choice. The choice was hard and fraught with danger. And what was this most terrible choice you ask? * cue dramatic music *

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Reply to Help with creating transparent .PNG images with Paint Shop Pro 7 in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

When you say you are having troubles with transaprencies is that once you save as a PNG or actually getting transparency in the program? If it's the former you need to Choose File->Export and export as a png. You should see the option in there to use Alpha transparency. If you mean the latter then you need to promote the background to a layer. To do this you have to be working at a colour depth of 16 million colours. <A HREF="https://www.wincustomize.com/index.asp?Cmd=full&NewsID=913

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Reply to Updates. What am I doing wrong? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

A few sites have blacklisted Stardock unfairly for some unknown reason. This means that certain ISP's that check against the list and reject email from stardock automatically but do not reply to stardock to say this has happened. So you get annoyed at not getting replies but Stardock are unaware and have no way to contact you to tell you of this even if they become aware. You best course of action is to contact support saying that you think mails are being blocked your end and they wi

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Reply to Couldn't be bothered anymore in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Hmm, > I didnt upload anything major. I have always restrained myself from that. Given my > experiencs. If you got low ratings then it's no wonder. As I read it you just admitted to not uploading your best pieces. So what? You just throw the scraps for the unfortunate people on wincustomize to gather up? You constantly talked about trying to make the place better but I haven't seen much evidence of it. Recently you have been throwing comments aabout implying the admi

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Reply to SkinBrowser 0.99 available for WinCustomize subscribers in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Same here. Tried viwing the Msgboard chatroom marathon and got : Active Server Pages error 'ASP 0113' Script timed out /browser/sb_msgboard.asp The maximum amount of time for a script to execute was exceeded. You can change this limit by specifying a new value for the property Server.ScriptTimeout or by changing the value in the IIS administration tools. <img src="http://images.s

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Reply to Why is Arcila being allowed to rip skins, (especially rips adni18), and post them here? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Can someone please post a link to two that look blatantly the same or at least contain identical images? I have just been through all of adni's and arcila's and while they are a similar style (not many rounded corners) and contain a metallic or other colour gradient I can't see any actual rips. Maybe I'm just blind though. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/smiles/sb.gif" border=0 ALIGN="absmiddle" ALT="Power

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Reply to Object Desktop: Why did you buy it? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Well. I bought Windowblinds first which led me to the Windowblinds newsgroup. There I heard about WindowFX and Object Desktop. I really wanted WindowFX so much that I bought Object Desktop very soon after. Then I bought Windows 2000 so I could make the most of it. Soon after that the first whisperings about DesktopX started. I soon was hooked. I also find folks at stardock to be friendly helpful people with a real interest in resolving problems which crop up and consider a lot of the peop

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Reply to how many of you...like to play games? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Also enjoy(ed) Fifa 97,Fifa RTWC 98, Fifa WC 98, Fifa 99, Fifa 2000 and the only reason I haven't got any since then is my Gravis GrIP system and pads won't officially work with anything above Windows 95 and 98 at a pinch and I haven't found a good replacement. As you can tell I like my football (soccer for the yanks and aussies) quite a bit. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/smiles/sb.gif" border=0 A

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Reply to jack the ... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

There's only so many ways you can do shiny plastic/metal skins. And if you always use the same image as the basis and just draw/recolour on top of it all the skins are going to look very similar. Also if you just use the same gradient tool with preset gradients like I tend to do in PSP you're going to get the same look. I try to make each of my skins unique and interesting both in use and in looks but it gets hard to keep producing unique skins. I keep designing one and then finding it's too

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