My last post here for some time to come and an apology.

The apology goes to anyone who may have been offended or felt they were personally attacked by simply stating what I know to be my own truths.
I found after stepping back and being honest with myself, it is frustration based which is my problem not anyone else’s. I found the core of my issues became evident finishing this very last work “Steampunky” that I have spent a very large amount of time finishing. It will never truly be finished I suppose and I will also never be 100% happy, but that is good thing too because it leaves room for my own improvement.
I found I was subconsciously becoming pissed off that the amount of detail I was creating was being lost skinning because I have often needed to shrink the created size sometimes as much as 85% and the quality went with it. Add to this, being completely misinterpreted more times than I can count because I could not seem to word my intentions succinctly enough, as most were workflow issues I found as I was creating, which is additionally difficult to relay…. so I subsequently became lost in translation. Add to this occasionally, some people assumed things about my work, or practices, or choices across the board and honestly, assuming is silly when it is so much easier to simply ask the person.
So I apologise for anyone who felt I was taking my frustrations out on them because that is unfair to them if you felt this. For the record, I love minimalistic work as one example, something is good or it is not, for me it is that simple. It does not matter to me whether it is simple or complicated. I also love well designed complicated work too. So please avoid misinterpreting me so easily.

THE THEME important info - I enclosed a couple to show why I have to do something else because if I keep doing with the way I am going, I am only going to get pissed off more with resizing what I truthfully should not need to but the application has to be done that way, so I need to find another avenue to explore this and at this point I have no idea what. The detail, well if you look at the gauge and the camera which did not make the final cut, you might have some idea of why I need to find something else to do and why I get frustrated by looking at the gauges in the final Winstep “Steampunky” theme. If you look closely, the gauge arm I originally designed is not the final arm because it cannot be seen except as a pixellated mess. I left it on the main image if you also look closely. That should explain a little. I will not be uploading this. It is definitely NOT functional, I realised I had created it for the artistic aspects and in the process became increasingly annoyed with quality loss shrinking them. If you look very closely you might perhaps see detail within detail in the clock and others... Lost in translation as well unfortunately. This is aesthetic not so much aimed at functional ... So the University educated functional side of me is forever in conflict with the performance and practical application side of me when it comes to doing these themes. I am sick of having to sacrifice quality for functionality in my own designs for these themes, it is that uncomplicated, and that is my problem, not anyone else's.

ANYWAY – reiterating, my apologies if I offended anyone with my truths and they are my truths and I do know for me they are just that. I will always apologise for the way I said something if I came across as being a 'dick', but I will never apologise for my beliefs and I believe that none of us ever should.
Take care all.


P.S. - On a final side-note, the camera effort was not completely wasted. Those of you who downloaded the "Copper" theme will see the textures of the camera in that. Cheers.

More uploads in Registered users only Gallery section. That's all.

Nice!

made for kids so likely not too popular, but warm 'n fuzzy nonetheless. Back much later.


I will upload this theme eventually even though this drive lost 90% of its detail.
I nearly went the path of turning inanimate objects into toys like this and did not, so this is the lesser important graphic overall.

I'll upload this too after another sojourn... Every module has a message...Considering how convoluted this is, overall it's clean.
Anyone wanting them will need to monitor the gallery, do not rely on me.

Noah would love this theme if he was a little older.

I am sure you know they grow up way too quickly. I am just taking my time more now. I finish and check everything works as it is supposed to. while I don't mind updating, I'd prefer to do updates because you've created something new or different rather than fixing something that I should have checked more. It will be there for you to download as I'm sure he'll want to know what his Dad does in a little while. It also touches the kid in all of us.

I hope you all realise that kids exposed to smartphones/computers etc. have been shown in any number of studies now to be poorer learners and poorer educational performers than peers who were not exposed until at least secondary school age.

As for that theme - I'd be horrified if even a girl would like that, let alone a boy, any age! Fluffy toys, honestly! Even most gays would have nothing to do with such.

I hope you realise that this is your opinion and you are more than entitled to it but I am confident that while you are welcome to it, so is everyone else. So be horrified and tell it to someone who cares what you think and fortunately, not everyone shares your view, and more than obviously, neither does Jorge or he would not have made the comment he did.

Very well said. And thank you.

There you go again. Intolerant of somebody else's opinions and resorting to your personal kind of "censorship". This kind of thing is one of the major things that is wrong with today's society - not only has it adopted the Stalinist idea of "Political Correctness", but moreover the principle of not tolerating dissent of any kind..

As for opinion, my first paragraph is no opinion of any kind, it is scientific fact. The second one is opinion, and it's all mine to express where I please pretty much. You don't like it, tough titties mate. Cry into your Horlicks over it and move on. (Oh and BTW, gay friends of ours had pretty much the same opinion, incidentally.)

You are welcome