"The Children of Fate"
--featuring Cloud Strife of FF7: Advent Children--
--a "Have Faith" production--
http://www.angelette.com/

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
by Tari Gwaemir
tarigwaemir@hotmail.com
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I probably would have finished this quickly if I hadn't gotten lazy and put off skinning the library for two months.  By which point I had an awful time going about and trying to decode the complicated system of layers in my PSD files.  -_-  There was a point where I was extremely in love with this skin, but as usual, now that I'm finally finished with it, I'm really sick of it.  I don't really like the playlist or the equalizer...and I positively hate the minibrowser and video windows (which are identical, yes, since the minibrowser is obsolete in Winamp 5 anyway).  Ick.  On the other hand, I think the library came out nicely.  In any case, this skin is 2.9/5-compatible.

The volume and balance bars are invisible.  Which, to my surprise, I'm starting to find incredibly inconvenient.  My new manifesto: from this point on, I swear to always skin the volume bar!  The (invisible) bars are in the vicinity of Cloud's eyes, in case you depend on them.  The playlist menu buttons are also difficult to decipher, but hopefully it won't be too obscure to the experienced Winamp user.  All other buttons should be skinned--they mostly work on a unbolded/bolded toggle interface and should be quite legible.

I think I still like the bubbles and the border motif, but I'm not sure about the dots.  They help fill up empty space but I think they're a bit too loud.  Also the picture quality isn't the best, but all images used in the skin are from screencaps I took from the Advent Children trailer (Anime-Kraze sub).

I think I've cycled to my "I'm really sick and tired of partly-3D skins" stage, which (hopefully) means I'll stick to simpler flat skins for the next year.

Note: As I understand it, Liberi Fatali is actually a FF7 song, and it means "fated children" in Latin.  Thank you, Val-oneechan.

Dedicated to...my next year's blockmates: Nan, Jenny, Jenny and Risheng!  They had nothing to do with the making of this skin, but why not?  XD

Graphics Editor: Photoshop CS
Text Editor: Windows Notepad
Fonts: Tahoma

If you wish to distribute this skin through your own web site, please remember to give me, Tari Gwaemir, full credit.  You don't need to ask permission beforehand, but you should, out of courtesy, inform me if you're going to archive it on your site.  No skinning programs were used in the making of this skin.  Please don't insult me by insinuating that I did.  All "handmade", thank you very much.