The latest edition of This Week in Skinning is up.  While the summer is slowly winding down, this has been a surprising one as skin submissions have been great.  This edition of TWiS has a bootskin, some cursors, a .dream, wallpapers, and a WindowBlinds skin. Check out the August 1st edition of This Week in Skinning .  

The latest Master Skin here on WinCustomize comes from Master Skinner Gef .  Gef's work in DesktopX themes is impeccable and this latest addition is no different.  I was very impressed while going through this theme, and there is no mistaken that Gef has paid much attention to detail. This DX theme, Starlight , has a dark and sleek look.  The top bar can be viewed and hidden by moving your mouse over the Starlight image, and the bar includes weather information, calendar, mai...

We haven't said too much about the GUI Champs lately, but rest assured, we are hard at work behind the scenes lining up sponsors and getting everything ready.  One thing we often talk about here, and even in the WinCustomize SkinCast, is the quality of the skins that were submitted.  So just to give a reminder at what the '06 GUI Champs was like, here are some skins from the competition. ...

I wrote a bit about this yesterday, but today we have the "official" announcement that the Harley-Davidson MyColors desktop themes are available.  The Harley-Davidson branded desktops are ornamented with classic or raw imagery while retaining the PC’s functionality, included a branded media player, and customized icons.  The Harley-Davidson desktop themes can be downloaded for $19.95 on Windows XP or Vista and features the following:  A complete Harley-Davidson visual style ...

Master Skinner SKOriginals wrote an article today that I think might benefit skinners of all experience levels.  This article is about the Blur feature and the effects on Shadowing.  He puts the theory through some tests, and then writes an interesting conclusion. Check it out!  

One of my personal favorite skin galleries to watch is the ObjectDock gallery .  I'm always keeping an eye out for a dock background to match the WindowBlinds skin I am running.  We have several very talented skinners who always seem to keep us up to date with matching skins. These are of the latest backgrounds that caught my eye.

Harley-Davidson is a name pretty much everyone knows, whether you are a biker or not.  They are one of the most recognizable brands and have a definite mark in American history.  Earlier this month, Harley-Davidson opened a museum in Milwaukee with a bunch of antique bikes and memorabilia, along with a history of HD productions.  This place is huge as they took 20 acres and placed 3 building and filled it with archives, a gallery, and of course a store.  You can find more...

Stardock is pleased to announced the release of WindowBlinds 6.2 today. WindowBlinds is an application that lets users easily change their Windows interface by applying a new skin. These "visual styles" can be applied across the entire user interface (title bars, push buttons, start menu, taskbar, etc.) of the operating system. As a result, users gain complete control over the way Windows looks. What's new in version 6.2: Improved compression on start menu animations A...

This is a short week for most of us, so I wanted to just give a quick re-cap of some news we had this week.  Although it was a short week, we had a lot going on in the world of skinning.  Have a great Thanksgiving! News of interest:  GUI Champs – Dream Voting Christmas/Winter Holiday Winky Challenge Thanksgiving Skins BootSkin Pro Walkthrough Popular WB Skins in November Thanksgiving vacation for support Nightlit Master Skin  

The Thanksgiving holiday is approaching for many of us here, and although Thanksgiving is not a “big” skinning holiday, there are still plenty of skinners who contribute some holiday inspired works. So if you are looking to Turkify your desktop, take a look at some of the skins below.  They will certainly get you started.

Not a bad Monday considering this is a short holiday week for many of us.  The popular gallery right now is the new Bootskin gallery for Windows Vista.  You can get Bootskin Pro now by becoming an Object Desktop subscriber.   Take a look through my weekend picks and tell me what was your favorite skins from the weekend.

It’s the weekend!  Instead of going outside and doing stuff, take a browse through the wallpaper section and give your desktop a fresh look for the upcoming week.  Here are my picks, what are yours?

Time is starting to wind down on the deadline for the Most Usable and Most Original Dream categories in the 2008 GUI Champs.  At 11:59pm EST tonight the doors for submissions will be closed.  After this point, and until user voting ends on these events on November 30th, you will not be able to upload new dreams, or edit existing ones on the site.   So if you have any last minute work to do, you better submit it soon! The judging will happen over this weekend, and t...

This weeks WinCustomize Member Spotlight goes to a fairly new member of WinCustomize, but  has been doing some great work and really getting noticed around the site.  This weeks spotlight goes to jester382 !  Jester382 has been a member since July of 2008, but as his profile states, he has found a new hobby of skinning.  He’s also been off to a great start. Jester382 has submitted skins in a few galleries including WindowBlinds, ObjectDock, and CursorFX.  His Windo...

This Week in Skinning took a very short break, but it’s back with an extra long feature list.  We have had a bunch of new skins come in over the past week or so.  This weeks TWiS includes WindowBlinds skins, wallpaper, bootskins, logons, and more! TWiS is a great way to catch on skins you might have missed, and also feel free to pass it along to friends and show them what they have been missing as well.