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After making several detailed toggle skins, I thought I would just make something that is extremely easy to see.

No mistaking what the toggle is or if it's on or off with this one:




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Title: Visibility.
 
I liked the look of the "Stone Carved" with a transparent background, so I decided to make a sans serif one with a softer deboss and matching weather. The weather icons are based on the FlatBlack weather skin by Simen Opsah (http://twitter.com/simenopsah).



Why hide your wallpaper? Have a perfectly visible clock that is transparent enough to see the background:



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Title: Debossed.
 
I revised the Debossed Home skin with a beefier font that matches the standard Android font.



This still goes with the Debossed weather skin.

Title: Debossed
 
Hi there, not sure if this is the right place to post this: I have just installed bw and when I download and apply any skin, nothing happens. I'm still stuck with the old skins. I'm using a HTC hero, any ideas? Thanks in advance.
 
Viajero said:
Hi there, not sure if this is the right place to post this: I have just installed bw and when I download and apply any skin, nothing happens. I'm still stuck with the old skins. I'm using a HTC hero, any ideas? Thanks in advance.
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The only thing that I can think of is to make sure tha you're hitting the second "Save and Apply" button before exiting the app.

Other than that, I haven't had that problem before.
 
paulmz said:
I revised the Debossed Home skin with a beefier font that matches the standard Android font.



This still goes with the Debossed weather skin.

Title: Debossed
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This is awesome...its what I'm using now.
Is there any possibility of getting some debossed dock icons or could you sure how to make them possibly. I doubt I could handle it but I would love matching dock icons with this skin.
Thanks
 
mario23 said:
This is awesome...its what I'm using now.
Is there any possibility of getting some debossed dock icons or could you sure how to make them possibly. I doubt I could handle it but I would love matching dock icons with this skin.
Thanks
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This shouldn't be a problem. If you have icons (preferably black) that you are using now, send me a Dropbox link or something.

If you don't have icons, let me know which ones you're looking for and I'll try to track them down. This will take me a while, though.

Anyway, just an FYI, dock icons are about half the size of the weather icons, so I'm not sure how they will look with the debossed effect. I guess we'll find out!

It's late... going to bed. I will follow up on this with you tomorrow.
 
paulmz said:
This shouldn't be a problem. If you have icons (preferably black) that you are using now, send me a Dropbox link or something.

If you don't have icons, let me know which ones you're looking for and I'll try to track them down. This will take me a while, though.

Anyway, just an FYI, dock icons are about half the size of the weather icons, so I'm not sure how they will look with the debossed effect. I guess we'll find out!

It's late... going to bed. I will follow up on this with you tomorrow.
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Here's a few that I found (minus the reflections) that might work.
They appear to be similar.
https://www.dropbox.com/home/Public/black icons#/Public/black icons:::
I really appreciate the help...I'll surely donate to the cause.
Thanks
 
paulmz said:
I meant to do this one at the same time as the Wood Carved skin:





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These carved ones even look good with the "Hide Background" option selected:



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Title: Stone_Carved.
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This skin is by FAR my favourite. For the most part my wallpapers are of a solid nature. Popular ones such as the Wood, Brushed Metal, and my current Brown leather one. It looks sick with the carved stone clock on it. However, I can't seem to get the carved stone weather skin as part of the "Home Widget" that i'm currently using.

When i go to BW>Home Settings-scroll down to "skins">Clock Skins; the "Stone_Carved" skin is available. However, when i do the same thing but got to "Weather Skins", Stone Carved is not available in the "Download Skins" link.

Is there something i'm doing wrong?

Thanks.
 
Pottertons said:
This skin is by FAR my favourite. For the most part my wallpapers are of a solid nature. Popular ones such as the Wood, Brushed Metal, and my current Brown leather one. It looks sick with the carved stone clock on it. However, I can't seem to get the carved stone weather skin as part of the "Home Widget" that i'm currently using.

When i go to BW>Home Settings-scroll down to "skins">Clock Skins; the "Stone_Carved" skin is available. However, when i do the same thing but got to "Weather Skins", Stone Carved is not available in the "Download Skins" link.

Is there something i'm doing wrong?

Thanks.
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The weather skin version is called "Flat Carved". I just checked and it's definitely still available for download through the app.

This and the "Debossed" skins that I made certainly are popular. I'm glad that you like them!
 
Thanks. I checked again and it was there. I was looking in the "home settings" download list rather than the "weather" list. lol

Just downloaded the BW yesterday, so i'm still new to getting around.
 
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