:: r9x :: Theme preview

It looks well done but it feels OS9-ish with the cartoony square edges. It is still good to have more options though. Keep her on two wheels.

Nice looking theme so far... good work. Best part: looks prtty different from most of the themes currently out there.

On a different note, though... I think it's so funny when somebody posts a screenshot, and their dock contains not only every high-end graphics and productivity app, but also Carracho and Hotline! Tee-hee-hee...

Nice theme.

Looks very promising for an early beta, keep us informed...

It looks very nice. Yes, just my humble opinion but I agree with swiz that it does look OS9-like. Not sure if that was your intention. But good work on the theme. Good luck. I look forward to testing/using it.

what's wrong with looking OS9-like.... the were a crapload of killer schemes for OS9.... many of which i hope someone will port over to OSX.

promising start to this theme....something different than we've seen. not just an aqua variation.

It looks very nice! I quite like the ghostly blue-white you're using (and that 3D object is sweet as well).

I do understand the comments that say it looks like OS9, though - the reason is very simple...

Rather than take advantage of Aqua's built-in window stroke and drop-shadow to define your window edges, you're defining your edges with black lines, which was pretty much the norm with OS9 (seeing as it had no built-in strokes or dropshadows to take advantage of). Unfortunately this will always look a bit wonky to many people's eyes as many of Aqua's main interface elements (dropdown toolbars, menus, dialog backgrounds) won't feature the stroke. Aqua was built to be photorealistic more than illustrative, so it will always look more pleasing to most people's eyes when a theme is built with that in mind.

You could even go photoreal with the materials you're using... your overall design itself - in terms of line and proportion and colour choice - is actually flawless. It just looks illustrated rather than rendered (nothing wrong with that, but it can look a bit wierd with Aqua). You could always push those pixels out to the window edges and limiting your strokes to interior regions of the window. You could try resampling up 200% and then back down 50% to soften the details a wee bit. With the nice hazy plastics you're using (using the 3D object for reference), you wouldn't really even see any true black in the shadow details... Look to real world materials or 3D rendered lighting/surfacing tests for ispiration and have fun trying to recreate them.

I also find it's helpful to create a compound layer effect with a slight semi-transparent stroke, slight outer glow set in transparent black to multiply, and a drop-shadow (look to aqua and try your best to match it) and design with it turned on to get a feel for how the final window headers, etc. will render in-system... I'll just turn these off before building the actual resources... you can do the same for buttons as well (but leave these turned on and merge them with the actual pixels before buidling into the resouces - as long as you understand how to derive masks and premultiply from a merged layer, no problemo).

My 2�... again, nice design

i used to have LiveMotion on my dock. i have no idea what that program even DOES.

I would not take that MacMotiva desktop and put it in your about this mac logo. Thats a no-no.

That is some dock though, gesh.

...and LiveMotion is Adobe's answer to Flash. Its a nice program, much more easy to use compared to Flash.

lookin' good

To me, it's more *nix'ish.. because R9X was originally an Enlightenment (*nix window manager) theme. The style was based on themes for windows by Hippy\Dangeruss. The original author is pixelmasochist http://http://pixelmasochist.deviantart.com//

Hay where did the screen go?