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My Dock Skins

My Dock Skins Software 27 posts Dec 31, 2002 — May 12, 2003

#1 Tue, 31 Dec 2002 - 11:17

New Dock Skin, See Below
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Ok, I've been asked before to group all my dock skin releases within one thread. So there you go.

My first dock skins released for this thread are called "Fisher*Price", they are meant to go along with the Mac OS XP Luna theme and/or Mac OS XP silver theme. I'm not a Photoshop genius (self-taught) and this is as close as I could get to reproducing the red XP buttons...I think they look good. What do you think?

You can now download them at http://iheartny.com.

Here's the red version:

Here's the blue version:

Here's the yellow version:

Here's the grey version:

Here's the green version:

Here's the green round version:

#2 Tue, 31 Dec 2002 - 12:55

They looked great but do you think the light direction should be 90�?

#3 Tue, 31 Dec 2002 - 13:10

Those look very nice Dace, my favorites of your skins so far. I think you should add all of your skins to this thread, even the old ones so they are all in this thread.

#4 Tue, 31 Dec 2002 - 13:17

Quote:

Originally posted by Adam Betts:
They looked great but do you think the light direction should be 90�?

I don't know

I just made them as close as possible (by me) to the original ones that Microsoft created.

Quote:

Originally posted by swiz:
Those look very nice Dace, my favorites of your skins so far. I think you should add all of your skins to this thread, even the old ones so they are all in this thread.

Thanks Kevin. I'll probably do that... a sort of archive of the many skins I've created

#5 Tue, 31 Dec 2002 - 14:36

Do they work with A-Dock? If not then it would be nice if you made some for A-Dock.

#6 Tue, 31 Dec 2002 - 14:50

Quote:

Originally posted by invisibleX:
Do they work with A-Dock? If not then it would be nice if you made some for A-Dock.

I believe all SkinADock dock skins work with A-Dock...u proably have to place the dock skins in a different folder. I think it's Home/Library/Application Support/A-Dock/Themes...but I'm not sure, you'll have to read the A-dock "manual".

#7 Tue, 31 Dec 2002 - 16:36

So far I have created 20 dock skins (not including the Fisher*Price dock skins).

Here they are, from my very first dock skin to the last one b4 the Fisher*Price dock skins:

Milky

Glass

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The Aqua Button collection:
A

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Greentek

Oh, Canada

Qu�bec

#8 Tue, 31 Dec 2002 - 16:37

(continued)

The BBX Dock collection:
1

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The Watercolor Dock collection:
1

#9 Tue, 31 Dec 2002 - 16:37

(conclusion)

And three dock skins that I give out only to those that donate

(nobody has donated though

)

In Focus

In Focus (frosted)

Squares

In case you'd like to donate, you can do so here. Don't forget to provide your email address so I can send you the dock skins. Thanks

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So there you have it, a complete list of all my dock skins

#10 Wed, 1 Jan 2003 - 12:14

All Skin-A-Dock skins work, but not all look right due to the way it interpets them. Since they work better with A-Dock than Skin-A-Dock its kinda nice.

Awesome skins, btw.

#11 Thu, 2 Jan 2003 - 01:48

Quote:

Originally posted by invisibleX:

Awesome skins, btw.

Thank you

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Here are the "Watercolor Olive" dock skins:

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#12 Thu, 2 Jan 2003 - 03:01

Yep Dace your the skin-dock-king

I like the milky skin and G2 the most ...

#13 Thu, 2 Jan 2003 - 03:08

Quote:

Originally posted by Dace:

Glass

This one rocks. Good work.

#14 Thu, 2 Jan 2003 - 03:25

Quote:

Originally posted by ShotgunEd:
This one rocks. Good work.

Thank you and thank you kovacs...

...may I just ask that no one "repost" images please. Not being a jerk, it's just that this thread will be (and is) image intensive and I just don't want two copies of an image of a dock skin. Agreed? Refer to the dock skin by name only please.

Hope everyone understands.

#15 Thu, 2 Jan 2003 - 03:28

Dace: Those look NICE! I like the Aqua "A","A2", and "Squares". SWEET!!

#16 Fri, 3 Jan 2003 - 23:11

Small update (excuse to bump this back on top : )

Watercolor Olive is now available at iheartNY

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Several dock skins, including my Milky dock skin, have been ported over to WinXP. For those who don't know...there's an app on WinXP called ObjectDock that simulates the dock of Mac OS X. it's still at an early stage.

Here are some links:

http://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?authorid=50618
http://www.deskmod.com/?show=showca...alue=spellbound
http://spellbound2003.deviantart.com/thumbnails/

#17 Thu, 30 Jan 2003 - 22:16

NEW DOCK SKIN

Silver Platter (just like the Mac OS X Server icons)

Available here and later on at iheartNY.

#18 Fri, 31 Jan 2003 - 00:48

What happened to the grass one and the water one that were in the original preview of skin-a-dock?

#19 Fri, 31 Jan 2003 - 00:56

Quote:

Originally posted by Beer Penguin:
What happened to the grass one and the water one that were in the original preview of skin-a-dock?

Those are on the iheartNY website and come bundled with the app. I didn't create those, Matthew Bice did...this is a thread listing all of the dock skins I created.

#20 Fri, 31 Jan 2003 - 00:59

I'm sorry, I thought you had made those.

#21 Fri, 31 Jan 2003 - 01:06

Quote:

Originally posted by Beer Penguin:
I'm sorry, I thought you had made those.

Thats ok. It crossed my mind that you would have thought that I created those. Matthew created some icons which put together formed the Lawn dock, then the programmer from ittpoi was inspired by those icons and the ingenuity of theming the dock...that him and Matthew created Skin-a-Dock.

#22 Fri, 31 Jan 2003 - 08:10

Have you thought about making a theme based on your Glass dock skins, where all the elements have a semi Alpha transparency?

#23 Fri, 31 Jan 2003 - 08:36

Quote:

Originally posted by Dace:
NEW DOCK SKIN

Silver Platter (just like the Mac OS X Server icons)

Available here and later on at iheartNY.

This one really rocks Dace.

#24 Sun, 11 May 2003 - 23:41

And so the collection grows....new D-Skins (yeah that's what I call them now). These ones were inspired by the new brushed buttons, it's not finished...missing 2 variations, but I decided to go ahead and release them.

The "Smooth" D-Skins:

Smooth

Smooth Aqua

Smooth Graphite

Smooth Pill

Available soon at I heart NY.

#25 Mon, 12 May 2003 - 00:50

Kickass!

#26 Mon, 12 May 2003 - 03:06

I believe Apple's calling those buttons 'Plastic', so you might want to name your Dock skin that too.

They are pretty neat.

#27 Mon, 12 May 2003 - 08:09

Amazing stuff, Dace. Any chance of at least one Watercolor Strawberry skin?