Full-feature Skin

An IF skin I made,want some oppinions ^^ http://s6.invisionfree.com/Sail_Sail_Away/

Edit: Yea,ROTD is right,the original artist must be credited at all times,even if the topic is just looking for some oppinions in the wish of improving the skin =D so here's the original ship image,no,I didn't do it myself,it takes weeks to make one,don't have that time now :(
Thanks geci,;) awsome pic http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/...q=sailing+ship

The compass I did myself,from scratch,in Photosho 7.0 .

Vary pirate like kinda different i like it. . .yarr!

I dig that. You really don't see stuff that's piratey very often.

The topic texts are way too dark. And the buttons should be alot clearer and less digital, more piratey.
Its too shiny. the banner part looks great though.

I agree with dragoneye on this one! The top navigations button are a tad bit to digital looking.

Good work for sure! =)

(Almost professional work!)

*lol*
=) Thanks all,and yea,I know the buttons look a bit too digital >.<,done them like that because I wanted ppl to be able to use the skin for more forums than just...water/pirate-related :D
Hehehe...yesh,I declare now,buttons are killers,but I guess I'll remake them all,eventually you're right guys... :(
But dragoneye,what you mean by"too shiny"? you kinda lost me here ^^...?

It would be a good skin if you had sense of colour co ordination Laaawl

Good Skin + Awful colours = Bad Skin

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Originally Posted by Ben

It would be a good skin if you had sense of colour co ordination Laaawl

Good Skin + Awful colours = Bad Skin

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I find the color scheme very "co ordinated",Ben,if you think the colors are not co-ordinated,then it means you've never seen a non-co-ordinated skin .
I also find your comment offending,in the way that: if you have constructive and specifically-oriented comments,please,I'd be glad to hear them. If you just commented at this topic to kill boredom,then please stop "Laaawl"-ing at others work .

Thank you .

You said you want opinions, and i gave you my opinion, which is that it is a bad skin.

Don't ask for comments if you can't accept negative ones, pussy.

Its an opinion, you may like Green, browns and oranges where as i do not. If you cant accept other peoples opinions i think you need to go and hide under your bed, rocking yourself all day, which you probably do all day anyway.

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Originally Posted by Ben

You said you want opinions, and i gave you my opinion, which is that it is a bad skin.

Don't ask for comments if you can't accept negative ones, pussy.

Its an opinion, you may like Green, browns and oranges where as i do not. If you cant accept other peoples opinions i think you need to go and hide under your bed, rocking yourself all day, which you probably do all day anyway.

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My last wish when I started this topic was to have an argument over it.So two things will be clear: this is the last post in which this argument will be continued(from my side at least) and you should already know that a professional artist does not judge or comment other artists' work based on personal feelings and perferences.
Therefore,your action of labelling the skin as "bad" based on just your liking or disliking of the chosen color scheme is not appropriate.
What was your right of then using offending words just for the reason that you "didn't like the colors"..?
And you say "you may like Green, browns and oranges where as i do not. If you cant accept other peoples opinions". But let's take it the other way round.What was your right of giving me advices about accepting other people's oppinions,when it seems you still find difficulty in accepting that I and other people may like the color scheme,which is,practically,our oppinion?

None.

However,you have an oppinion and I will respect it,whatever your motivation is and will not continue this argument with you any further.

Thank you.

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Originally Posted by LightOfRevival

My last wish when I started this topic was to have an argument over it.So two things will be clear: this is the last post in which this argument will be continued(from my side at least) and you should already know that a professional artist does not judge or comment other artists' work based on personal feelings and perferences.
Therefore,your action of labelling the skin as "bad" based on just your liking or disliking of the chosen color scheme is not appropriate.
What was your right of then using offending words just for the reason that you "didn't like the colors"..?
And you say "you may like Green, browns and oranges where as i do not. If you cant accept other peoples opinions". But let's take it the other way round.What was your right of giving me advices about accepting other people's oppinions,when it seems you still find difficulty in accepting that I and other people may like the color scheme,which is,practically,our oppinion?

None.

However,you have an oppinion and I will respect it,whatever your motivation is and will not continue this argument with you any further.

Thank you.

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pwned.
What i ment with shiny was that its shiny...
lol. err. how should i put it. The category headline thingies. (under

http://67.18.37.14/style_images/1/nav_m.gif "Cat.one" "Talk, talk talk!" and "board statistics"
All those thingies, they look too plastic or something.

True.
Thanks,I will blend it better with the rest of the skin's style.

Wow. Very well put lightofrevival. I may qoute you one day on that! ;)

you might try changing the text and losing the reflection, sure it might have seemed a good idea (its stylish and kinda pro/looking) its kind of taking away from the overall feel of the forum (plus the text is fairly hard to read with the reflection in there) trying maybe... centering the text on the button (here's an example of what i mean, its positioned more towards the top of the button, when it should be placed more at the center) http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n...ersButton2.png

now just so i stop myself from rambling, nice work. (oh and if you did make the header, you might want to say so.. if not try crediting the artist responsible... things like that can get out of hand if you use it for a major (over 100 member) site.

Awesome, pirate-ness!
Buttons' font is bleeeaaaah... Change it!
Also: The area with #80710C as the background color is a bit too hard to read IMO, make the background or text a tad darker, and it should be excellent...
9/10!

^^ thanks ROTD,did.And just.xTc,hmm...maybe I should try a more...medieval-look ;) font...yea,I'll try that right now :)
About the bg color,>.<,I think I tried over 15 times and this would be the best choice,but,...guess I'll have to try some more XD =)

Shut up Ben, kthxbye. :)

I like it! I even like the menu font pretty much. I'm not so much for dark skins, but this one is pretty neat, as it flows very well with the header. Some of the text is too dark though. It was a bit hard to read. Text is the most important thing on a forum, make it stand out!

Hehe,working on that and some more right now,Rabieshund,so...if you come over and notice some things where they don't belong,like buttons for example,lol,just know it's me working on it =)

Yea,I like the font too...but it's true...the ancient-like style of the header...doesn't really go with the digital look of the font ;) ^^
Lol.After I finish this,I'll make another skin with a more digital look to fit this bit font,specially for you and me and who else like it ;)

The colors are decently put together, id like to see more contrast between them though, with maybe some deep red/maroon creeping in. However, the actual color choice isnt too nice, that mustard-olive base color is sickening/hard to look at for long periods of time. And i wouldnt say it was too piraty, myself id go for a desaturated brown, with a bit of red in, and goldish buttons etc.

I guess its decent, i like the hanging signs. But the open topic etc buttons dont fit in. And i couldnt see the ship picture :S

Yea,the olive was fitting nice with the old ,modern-glassy-buttons,but now with the new button idea I got(the hanging signs&such) it will require a change of table color ^^.But first I'll finish the new buttons ;)
Umm...which ship picture,on the skin or the link to the original ship image? :/

The link you gave, i cant see anywhere in it (supposedly the header?).

I like the new button idea. It doesn't go well with smenu3.jpg though... Medieval theme and bright gradients = meh. Otherwise, perfect.

Mmm,rob,don't know what's wrong :/ ...and lol,no,the gradients went well with the old ,glassy buttons,for the new medieval ones I'll make a new one of course =)
Though unfortunatelly school started here >.< and I have only 30 mins to an hour/day for the skin :(... but I'll work on it every second I can spare ^_^
Btw,nice sig just.xTC ^^

I don't know why everyone's bashing on your colors. The only place I can see where the colors don't fit well are the words "Welcome Guest" because they're too light for that background, but that part isn't exactly the most important part of the forum, now is it? Yeah, the button changes are nicer than the digital look, because of the theme. Oh, I lied. The Sail, Sail Away title part...I also think it's too dark. Coming from someone who doesn't know much about skins, it took me about three minutes of looking at the page before I saw it. I still really like this. Great job.

Yes it has excellent potential...

Fixed
=)

Y'arr! I like it!

Ok,I eventually released the skin,for whoever is interested in the Codes,here they are =) http://forums.ifskinzone.net/index.php?showtopic=228245

Thanks again to all those who helped me not abandon it ;)