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Artist's Note

CLICK DOWNLOAD TO VIEW SECOND SCREEN SHOT. The second screen shot is my busy desktop.

_The Screen Shot:

I finally decided to use color on my desktop. At first I thought it looked horrible. But I got used to it after a while. =P This screen shot was inspired by Antimatter's screen shot titled Modern Nature. (http://www.customize.org/details/32766) I really liked how the title bars looked. And I liked the soft purple color. I thought with a soft darker shade of purple it would look really good. And I think it turned out perfect. =D

_The Visual Style:

Then I set out to make my very first visual style. I built it off of Untitled by Sticboy. You may think some things look similar to his VS. But I did ALL the graphics myself. Which wasn't to hard since it's such a simple VS. And like I said in the screen shot Heylove helped me with a couple things. =)

_The Color Scheme:

Until now the only other color I had used was red. And I sure as heck knew I didn't want an all red desktop. That'd just be to extreme. And I knew that of all the other colors, I liked purple. I thought nice soft shades of purple wouldn't be to bad. That's how I ended up using the one color from Antimatter's screen shot.

_The Usual Notes:

Colorpad: Modern by me.
Litestep: Modern by me.
VS: Modern by me. =)
QuickNotes: Modern by me. (Forgot to list that.)
Wall: By Dokt, edited by me.

They are in the screen shot as well.

_The End:

I'm hoping you all will consider the effort I put into this desktop when ranking it. I put a lot of work into figuring out/making the VS. And even more work into whole effect of the desktop. And I especially hope there will be no more "do some thing new" comments. Because all my other screen shots were different from each other.

If you compare to some people's desktops all they ever do is change the color scheme. They never do any thing different. I however did in a lot of my screen shots. But this one SHOULD be thought of as a heck of a lot more original. Especially with this weirdo color scheme. Since every one is so obsessed with that part be changed. I don't know if I'll stick with the whole using colors thing. But thus far I'm mostly liking the purple. =)

Comments (14)

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akka says:

color ;) and i love what you did with the calculator.. hot. slick, all around. really solid job :)

Wed, Oct 6th at 06:45pm (5 years ago)
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Pyro_ says:

Akka, Thank you. =) And I always use the numpad, so the calculator is just perfect for me. Also the calendar in the second screen shot I made from the calculator ya know. MzTriz, Thank you very much. And I like that guy. He's funny looking... but in a good way, hah. =P Heylove, I prefer purple over pink. =) And thanks a bunch. TheEVILCube, Thank you. =) Antimatter, Thanks a ton. =D And after I figured out what that part of the wall REALLY was I had to cut it out lol. ScipioX, Thank ya. =) But I shall not be using an indecent wallpaper. Besides the group of people were the only part I liked to begin with. Spectral, Yeah yeah yeah every one liked that side of the wall. Well I didn't. -_- Thank you though. The music player is Foobar2000. Zorlac, Thank you very much. I guess I do purple well heh. Septor, I was wondering when I'd get that reaction... GodBomber, Thank ya. I always try to match every thing. Dokt, Hah, it is a nice wall. And thanks a lot. Moskow, Thank you very much. But I don't think I'll be releasing it. =/ I'm not using Winamp. At the left side of the shot is Foobar2000. And at the top right is a remote for it. Thanks again. =)

Wed, Oct 6th at 06:46pm (5 years ago)
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mZtriZ says:

-2 Because I dont like that man with the glasses. I do realize that it came from the screen shot that inspired you to do this, but it is really ugly lol.

Wed, Oct 6th at 06:58pm (5 years ago)
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heylove says:

I hate purple... but this is a good screenshot. Lots of custo and it matches. Good job.

Wed, Oct 6th at 07:01pm (5 years ago)
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i like this a lot, but im liking lime green right now

Wed, Oct 6th at 07:20pm (5 years ago)
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Seeing as how I'm the 'inspiration' for this, how could I not[/B] give it a 100? But I have to note that you cut (arguably) the best part of that wall out :)

Wed, Oct 6th at 07:26pm (5 years ago)
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scipioX says:

LOl color! I like this screen shot, but you took the best part of the wallpaper out !

Wed, Oct 6th at 08:39pm (5 years ago)
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Spectral says:

argh the whole punch line of that wall was left out :P. but still everything in that screenshot is incredible. what is the music player you used?

Wed, Oct 6th at 10:01pm (5 years ago)
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zorlac says:

this really looks amazing! i'd never say that purple would work so well on a desk

Thu, Oct 7th at 06:33am (5 years ago)
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septor says:

OMFG COLOR

Thu, Oct 7th at 07:14am (5 years ago)
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godbomber says:

very clean design and matching also!

Thu, Oct 7th at 09:25am (5 years ago)
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Dokt says:

Nice wall :) Cool dtop too ... one of the few I'd actually use myself :)

Thu, Oct 7th at 12:14pm (5 years ago)
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Moskow says:

Pyro_ as always this is very good, you're VS is just awesome, please release it, maybe with a color pack ;)
And which Winamp(?) skin are you using?
once again, exelent job with this one, keep it up. :)

Fri, Oct 8th at 03:27am (5 years ago)
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All of your screenshots are great... but this one is surely the best.

Mon, Nov 21st at 09:11pm (4 years ago)


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