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Post #8 by CarbonG4
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Mediaman_12: well Beer Penguin did the Olive variant -- it was simply a matter of hue-shifting all of my blue elements in the original Ergonomic Blue version of Watercolor.... but as I have said before it's not that easy for Silver. And it sounds like you are interested in using the actual resources from the WinXP version, which I didn't even use myself when I started the project. I think it will take you a while if you want to continue it this way... but a faster and simpler solution would be something along the lines of a 70% desaturation of all the blue elements in the Ergonomic Blue theme.

I think you should at least give that method a try, it will speed things up and it should look fairly accurate. If you use ThemePark you can highlight all of the blue elements at once within a pxm and copy/paste them into Photoshop, then apply a -70% saturation on it and paste it back in. If you think the inactive (gray) elements look too close to the active (blue) elements after you desaturate the blue elements then perhaps you can play with the contrast levels on the inactive elements to make them much lighter than the active elements.

Let me know what your thoughts are on this, and if you're still interested in doing the Silver variant. Feel free to contact me on AIM or via email if you want.

-Carbon
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