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               Snowflake v1.2
         Smooth Graphics  2003
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         made for winamp winter
 skinning contest, www.winamp.com
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Title: Snowflake
Version: 1.2
Release date: Januari 2003
Filename: Snowflake.wsz
Author: Simon Snowflake
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This year's winning skin is Simon's 
"snowflake",with a score of 92. This skin
had 3 first place votes, and one second 
place vote. Simon is on a roll! 


Judge's comment: "Fantastic 3D modelling
on snowmen, trees, etc. Wide colour range
(not faded). Funky circular / wide style.
Lovely backgrounds. Innovative EQ sliders.
Absolutely trend mikroamp (great play/stop
symbol integration). Great cursors. All
round theme is well carried through. I wish
I could raise the temperature in winter
with those EQ bars!" 
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Genaral Skin Information

Snowflake (the story)
This skin was made for the "winter" 
constest we had in de forums on winamp.com
in the winter of 2002/2003. Snowflake is 
the result after trying two other "winter"
styled skins that where not as succesfull
as I hoped. They lacked in functionality 
and/or looks. 
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Skin Information
features  : main
                equalizer
                playlist editor
                minibrowser
                AVS
                cursors
                mikro-amp
New Graph.: yes

Created with:
- AutoCAD 2000
- Paint Shop Pro 7
- Animation shop 3
- Notepad

Construction time, 60+ hours
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things that have changed since
the previous version of the skin:
- ajusted colours/brightness
    on some togglebuttons.
- small pixel change on the posbar.
- added colors for selected song 
    and currently playing song in 
    the playlist editor.
- Added winampmb
- Created more contrast on the 
    clutterbar.
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Other skins by Simon Snowflake:
- Torment 
- Buffy-amp
- Cool Black
- Purple Heaven
- Croq-amp
- Electro Transfix
- Yaxay-amp
- Notepad
- NoPhuN
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Special thanks to:
- Social Sarah (my girl)
   because she gave me the time to make this.

Greetings and thanks to:
- Mr Jones (the forum devil)
- Jayn (we still miss her in the forums)
- Binary Hero (TeH Flap 0wnz Y00)
- db (for suggestions made)
- Reanimation (bugtester no. 1)
- Naamloos (bugtester no. 2)
- and all the other folks at Skin Love.

For supporting me on this project 
through the winamp-forums.
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A word about the "Cbuttons"

Though the Cbuttons (previous, play, 
pause, stop, next and eject) on this 
skin do not have the most obvious 
symbols and may be a bit hard to work 
with when you don't have a lot of 
experience with winamp, you'll find 
that you get used to it quite fast. 
The idea behind the buttons is rather 
simple. I tried to use the same three 
symbols as much as possible. 


A word about "stacking the components"

I designed the skin so it would be 
horizontally stackable. This means that 
you can put the Equalizer next to the 
Main window on either the left or right 
side. The same goes for the combination 
of the Minibrowser and Playlist Editor. 
note: The MB and PL can't be smoothly 
    stacked next to the main or EQ and vise 
    versa due to the fact that the PL and 
    the MB are resizeable. Because they are 
    resizeable they tile a part of the bitmap. 
    This Tiling of the bitmap would result 
    in repeating tree tops if i would have 
    used the same trees as I used in the 
    EQ and Main) 


A word about the "winshade modes"

Some people might find that the winshade
modes are rather plain. This can be explained
in three diffrent ways:
1.  If I would use the winshade mode I want
       functionality above looks.
2.  If I would use the winshade mode I want
       to be free in the order that i stack
       the windows.
3.  The winshades use the same part of the
       same bitmap as the titlebars in the 
       other windows.

 Simon Snowflake  2003
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Smooth Graphics  2003 contact info:
- simon_snowflake@hotmail.com
- www.smoothgraphics.tk

You may contact me at any time for
feedback. 

If you are in need of, and you are 
interested You can also contact
me to hire me as freelance designer
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          !!!Remember!!!
   feedback takes only a few 
      minutes per reaction
 skinning some day's per skin

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RIPPING:
Keep everything in the wsz/zip file 'as is',
in other words It's not allowed to copy, 
modify, publish, distibute this skin in any 
thinkable way. It is not allowed to sell 
this skin to a 3th party or submit it to
any websites. 

If you want to use (a part of)
this skin, please contact me, state the 
reason(s) why and what you want to use
(a part of) this skin for, and I'll contact you
as soon as possible. If you don't get a reply
see this as a negative response to your
request. In that case you are to respect the
previous stated.
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