Designer: Cynthia Grantz URL: Size: 6.2kb Download: louvre_gold_ver3.ssk	Designer notes: Note: All of the Louvre Gold skins, versions 1 through 5, have the same functionality and layout of buttons. Version 5, however, gives a choice of inner borders via the User 2 button on the upper left side. To make fast friends with this skin, please read the main notes as well as the additional notes if time permits. Hope you will enjoy using this skin as much as I enjoyed creating it. **************************************** MAIN NOTES FOR LOUVRE GOLD VERSIONS 1-5 **************************************** 1. For aesthetic reasons all buttons are hidden by a theme design, however all indicators are unhidden, except perhaps in rolled mode. So exactly where are these buttons? Well, none of them are on the sides. This skin is good for the memory, and the buttons are easy to learn because of their layout. 2. Big idea for the bottom buttons: They control appearance aspects of the note. Set them and move on. The "S" button at the bottom is really four buttons in one. Mouse around it and you will find that you may summon four styles, styles 1 through 4. Think of "User 1" button at the bottom as a time and date switch. 3. The top buttons. ** Think of the sacred syllable "Om" to help recall the two buttons at center of the top which open two main Stickies menus, "Options" and "Manager." **The outermost buttons at left and right give two ways to place the sticky aside -- "Close" on the outer left and "Roll up" on the outer right. **The A-ttached and A-larm buttons are in the middle of the top left and right sets of buttons. ** The toggle buttons for locking and always-on-top are on the insides of the top left and right sets of buttons. 4. The smallest possible rollup, which will not show title, is arrived at in two steps: First make the note as narrow as possible; then use the roll up button. Ok? Any other roll up is made from some greater than minimum width and, if you allow enough room, your entire title (if you set one) will show in the roll up. ** Opacity works fine with this skin. Opaque or less opaque, as you please. Use the diagonal double arrows for the prettiest stretch. ----------------------------------------------------- ADDITIONAL NOTES ----------------------------------------------------- The idea behind these skins was to create a frame that would appear as though it could hold a piece of fine art; the name of the skin tries to convey this idea. Actually it is probably too busy to frame a painting - it tries to be the frame and the painting. The colours in the side strips and buttons are magical. In combo they behave like a cameleon -- they tend to take the colour of the note paper. This skin may prefer dark colours at times; it is also very nice with subtle pastels and some deep medium colors. This skin's existence is owing to Tom Revell's auxillary software, the Stickies Skinner, and to his excellent Skinner Tutorial. In order to create the Louvre Gold's, I studied quite a few masterpieces. Study skins included Tom Revell's Orange Juice, Noos, and Apple. The scrolling system was partially designed "word for word" on the scrolling system in Nightshade by sookyee, and I may use it many times more (in future skins) for its excellent simplicity and elegance. The creation of all the windows of various sizes that look through the skin onto the paper were inspired by the window at the top of Roland Askew's skin, Buttons. Staff notes:
Indicators: attached, read only, always-on-top, alarm, user 1, scrollbar required, transmit ok, email ok	Buttons: close, attach, lock, options, manage, ontop, set alarm, rolled, friends5, apply style 1, apply style 2, apply style 3, apply style 4, edit title, user 1, font, colour
	Scrollbar: Yes

Date: 12/07/2010