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It looks good Cliff.

kado897 said:

It looks good Cliff.

Thanks Keith, it needs a few touch ups though.

Performance monitor got some cool color gradients going on:

Nice. You'll have to document what does what. Maybe a tutorial?

kado897 said:

Nice. You'll have to document what does what. Maybe a tutorial?

That would be very long winded and hard to doo, as many color reg settings, are not intuitive at all, like the ones I posted above, and it only get's worse

What is used for a "button" can change text color somewhere else, or be used as a window background color by a 3rd party app(like SystemInfo from Seven Forums, or Tweaking(dot)coms Windows Repair ) and that is the hard and most frustrating challenge of making an AeroHybrid theme, without using patching tools. You ALWAYS have to find a compromise.

So really it's just down to trial and error and experience.

kado897 said:

So really it's just down to trial and error and experience.

You get an instinct for what changes, so it goes faster, as you do it over time, but.... yeah.
Best results are the colors higher up on the gray scale, closer to white than black, and more pastel, than dark or full.

Cliff S said:

Something I am learning along the way using SMACC to customize system colors, if you use lighter versions of colors(210-240 on the grayscale) you get a beautiful metallic like gradient when setting Button Highlight and Button Shadow.
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The only negative effect is, in Event Viewer part of the description header, uses these registry entries too, and might be a bit hard to read, but does not affect the rest of the program, as only tells you when it was last refreshed(when starting it) and just say's "OverView and Summary"(so no big deal):
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That looks great Cliff, good work

Stephanie said:

That looks great Cliff, good work

Thank you Stephanie:)