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It's been a while since i've submitted something so here you go. I worked on this for a long time so hopefully you guys will like it ;). Before you guys bash me for the small font... THE LARGE AND EXTRA LARGE FONTS ARE NORMAL FONTS. I don't know what it is about small pixel fonts that I love so much? Some of you like them and some don't so I encluded both. There's a small description in the screen shot. As always comments and criticism are always welcomed

ENJOY! ;)

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I enjoy the subtle use of gradients in this. I was a little troubled at the preview, so I switched over to explorer to check out if my suspicions were correct. Indeed they were. For the most part your visual style is built around borders, but the start menu's vertical lines aren't encased by one. I mean it does look cool, but it doesn't fit entirely with the rest of the theme. Also on closer inspection, the diagonal parallel lines on the outside of the border are offset by an extra pixel. Get on the irc channel or something and I'll show you what I mean.

Mon, May 3rd at 12:50am (5 years ago)
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tehl3x says:

spectacular as always.
reminds me of the Advance4 styles.

Sun, May 2nd at 10:11pm (5 years ago)
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2JSC says:

I like the orange and red ones, very cool, but the hatch in the start menu is off - it doesn't repeat too well, now we need a Winamp skin as well!

Sun, May 2nd at 10:13pm (5 years ago)
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fate0000 says:

The colors are wonderful - reminds me of my wardrobe. The visuals are excellent, the patterns are a nice touch. My only gripe is that the text is difficult to make out on my 1600x1200 default, but the adjustment worked out fine. Overall this is a great compliment to your other "pixel" styles. ;)

Sun, May 2nd at 10:23pm (5 years ago)
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heylove says:

oh yeah the winamp is on the way! ::::UPDATE::: i'm not discontinuing this style anytime soon so if anyone has any request or complaints speek up ;) ::::UPDATE::: ok i made a small update before anyone noticed and resubmitted and i thought i deleted the old one which is this one but the wrong one got moderated eek! the gradient in the start menu doesn't stretch right when you have recent program icons. this isn't a problem if your like me and don't use any but i did fix it for those of you who do. you can download it here
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/6995
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sorry about that guys

Sun, May 2nd at 10:27pm (5 years ago)
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Enjoy this piece you have done and luckily i've been looking for the red color theme and i found a good one! =)

Sun, May 2nd at 10:52pm (5 years ago)
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illem says:

Very nice pack, i love all the color choices. I love the pixel/gradient path your taking and the start menus are awesome. I think the preview wallpaper kinda takes away from the visual style but whatever. Very nice release.

Sun, May 2nd at 10:59pm (5 years ago)
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when you open up thunderbird while using this theme, the headers for the columns in the message window (ie to, from, subject, date) are all huge and whacked out. it's pretty weird.

Sun, May 2nd at 11:00pm (5 years ago)
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Sonic says:

soo awesome, and i was gonna ask about winamp, but its covered, how much better could thsi get! i LOVE heyloves work and i ALWAYS have a heylove theme and/or winamp up. THIS IS AN EDIT:::: i just want to say i have yet to find a flaw, NONE. (dont know what xhabbo is talking about) Download this now, you're missing out.

Mon, May 3rd at 01:08am (5 years ago)
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Xhabbo says:

I laughed out loud when I looked at the screenshot and saw the fonts but I'm running the style on "extra large" fonts just fine. The subtle gradients and pinstripes are way cool. I also like what you've done with the color combos. There are a few bugs here and there (Firebird buttons are a little big and the scrollbar in explorer could go over a pixel or so) but it's still nice. The tabs look great - playlists in foobar look fantastic. You've got style - no one can deny that. I'm looking forward to the winamp skins. :)

Mon, May 3rd at 01:10am (5 years ago)
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is a matching winamp on the way?

Mon, May 3rd at 05:51am (5 years ago)
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Gaz says:

About damn time someone did a classy stylexp skin. but the colours arent too appealing to me, id like some more whites tha greys :(. maybe some more appealing colours, other than that damn nice
-Gaz

Mon, May 3rd at 06:55am (5 years ago)
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MaRZ says:

awesome vs heylove

Mon, May 3rd at 07:16am (5 years ago)
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Evdawg says:

finally a new VS to use... and this one is just super wonderful.

Mon, May 3rd at 07:41am (5 years ago)
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LimiT says:

4imp 4eva...ok, so that was lame.

Mon, May 3rd at 08:01am (5 years ago)
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Very nice

Mon, May 3rd at 08:52am (5 years ago)
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Wynton says:

Let's get married.

Mon, May 3rd at 11:01am (5 years ago)
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fokus says:

It is very smooth, but heylove, i wonder, how on earth could u read the text without turning on large/extra large? anyways, good work as always.

Mon, May 3rd at 12:59pm (5 years ago)
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infinism says:

awesome

Mon, May 3rd at 09:39pm (5 years ago)
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R I P says:

yes m4d sk1llz r1ght h3r3

Tue, May 4th at 12:12am (5 years ago)
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Anetalaya says:

I can't wait to go home and try it... and if is already a winamp skin... you guys at 4imp shoudl work on icons and wallpaper (imrik!! =) ) beacause this is worth it. I just one to complain about one little thing: the preview wall takes away from the actual skin.

Tue, May 4th at 07:20am (5 years ago)
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profumo says:

great visual style, but I have one problem with it. With large and extra large fonts the pixel font is still bein used in windows explorer. other than that, awesome work!

Tue, May 4th at 10:10am (5 years ago)
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Imrik says:

Congratulations Mrs. Donīt be afraid to show what you have. Itīs wonderful work :)

Tue, May 4th at 12:22pm (5 years ago)
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SteV says:

runs fine but the normal fonts are really to small for me. And too hard to read. But futher I must say I am pretty saitsfied with what you made of it.

Wed, May 5th at 04:18am (5 years ago)
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jromo says:

i can only say... ITīS BEAUTIFUL!!!

Thu, May 6th at 06:30pm (5 years ago)


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