Ok here it is. This is just a beginning of this very early preview,i need to place local\removable and folder selection somewhere and check needed space for those sliders. I also hope Sasha will help me with buttons and display (status) area.
I have double state buttons prepared too but this is still far away 
Cool! Looks good. Nice and clean. I wish I knew how to make skins.
Douglas
RajZors not happy working on his tool ;D now heās working on his skin ;D
Nice work though.
- Tipton, with so much talent in these forums making skins, it hardly seems worth trying to match it (for me certainly).
No no,AEC is just fine ;D I just wanted to do something different.
Iām always full of new ideas,but i almost never realize them because i donāt know where to start or how to finish.
I hope this one will be finished too 
OMG!! Thats an Apple studio display in the real time monitor box!!!
Nice, Iām delighted to see more people rolling out their own skins.
One note (Iāve said this before but Iām saying it again): if possible, please donāt put static (English-language) text to the skin. It makes the skin much harder to use in non-English avast versionsā¦
Thanks.
Vlk
Yeah i know,but this is by design. Donāt know how could make it look like those Pro interfaces without such specific text.
Here is almost finished second preview.
Its damn hard to make all those graphics and the are not even in the usable form of interface,just how it suppose to look in the end.
Then iāll have to slice out or replace those that suppose to be different in specific state. Long way to the end and i impressed Sasha can make so many great skins in so short time.
PS: Yeah i know i donāt have play/pause/stop buttons
Iāll have to extend the window a bit
Very nice RejZoR. Please let us know when itās posted and approved.
Canāt wait for Avast! 4.5 when we can have rotating skinsā¦ :
Very nice, RejZoR. Clean and uncluttered. Should make MacLover2000
happy.
Weee i managed to finish the preview. I also have most of the graphics except buttons (i really donāt know how to make over/pressed/normal buttons) and those dialogs and some radio buttons.
Here is the image:
http://www.zippyimages.com/files/70396/main_animated.gif
Any suggestions?
PS: Sasha could you make me those over/pressed/normal buttons?
Well, sorry RejZor, I have so much things to do these days and I spend every single spare minut that I can find on making avast! skins, and also finishing few WEB site projects I already startedā¦ But, that doesnāt look so bad, 'cause I already made two skins for you, one of them is even named by your nick nameā¦ Isnāt that nice ?
Making states of the buttons is easyā¦ draw normal state, and then you just have to transform that image to something elseā¦ letās say, you want your button to be little brighter in āOVERā state, just make it little bit brighterā¦ if you want to see button in āPRESSEDā state, make it little bit darker, thatās all. Of course, there are lot of ātricksā, so you can play with buttonās depth, emboss etc.
The biggest problem of all is I donāt know what size your buttons will be. Every button state should be exactly the same size as āNORMALā state, but on the other hand, all those different buttons doesnāt have to be same sizeā¦ there are those little few things that you should think of.
Cheers !
Thanks for the tip. Iāll use glow effect i guess
What about transparent stuff? Can i use transparency in TGA images (like for PNG) or i really have to make an extra alpha map for that? Paintshop Pro isnāt my best tool to play with,especially when it comes to multiple layers (never used them).
good work rejzor
Yes, you can use alpha chanel inside TGA, but I donāt recomend that. Just search for some Tiptonās earliest posts. He had so much trouble with displaying TGAs with alpha channel on his system. Anyway, I used TGA only inside one of those skins made by me (Laah-Ra), but I immediately removed TGA as soon as Tipton reported his problemā¦ If you think about Lite-On skinā¦ I have to surprise you my friendā¦ no TGAās with alpha channel at all. Martin can confirm that, 'cause he can āopenā every single skin I sent to Alwil. Transparency effect I achieved just by drawing every second pixel in those sliding pannelsā¦ yeah, huge job, but I wanted something to be totaly differentā¦ and I think I succededā¦
Yeah iāll need transparency on the main window (upper left and right corner,because they are rounded and would look ugly if i donāt use transparency). Btw i already made the Start/Stop/Paused buttons I just need to convert those colorful image buttons and then i can basically start assebling this thing so iāll be able to see how it looks in real-time with clicking and so
For those corners you can always save file as normal 24bit BMP with some āstrangeā color you didnāt use anywhere in that particular piece of graphicsā¦ you know what I mean ? See attachmentā¦
Then all you have to set is, load that graphic into SkinBuilder, right click on that picture file inside IMAGES folder, choose Edit Alphaā¦ and then APPLY COLORKEYā¦ now, you just have to choose exactly the same color you donāt wanna see on your skinā¦ in this case, that would be some kind of PINK colorā¦
Very easyā¦
Aha got it. Its similar to WinAMP 2.x skins transparency.
Thanks
Sasha could you assamble the skin if i supply you all required graphics? This SkinBuilder looks so unlogical to me that my head hurts (where did a put those aspirins :-\ ).
There would be no extra instructions since everithing is shown on preview shot. Oh is it possible that Sensitivity for resident protection is dropped down over Resident button (the way how GIF animation shows)?
Hey Rejzor nice job. I canāt wait until this skin comes out; it will definitely be one of my favourite skins (as is On-Lite, and a few others!).