Vista Aurora R4DS Skin

Ok, so I decided to make a ‘proper’ Vista style skin and I’ve based it on the Aurora background.

It actually looks better than I thought it would and probably has the best working colour scheme that I’ve done so far, you can actually see everything instead of having to squint (except the bit that says ‘R4DS <version>’, but you don’t really need to see that anyway).

You can either click the image to download it or take a look at the others on the R4DS Skins page where the rest of my creations are.

I may decide to do a bunch of other Vista style skins featuring the various backgrounds and rather than ‘announce’ them on here, I’ll just stick 12 together and offer them as one big download. As much as I’d like to offer an anime pack of skins, I’m not sure which are the popular series or what characters are peoples favourites, so if anyone would like to let me know and/or give suggestions, leave a comment or send an email to and I’ll see what I can do.

A Vista Style R4DS Skin

On the net somewhere, you can download a ‘Make your own Moonshell’ kit. It’s not a Moonshell kit at all, but files to create
your own Vista style skin…

I’ve made a basic skin using the files (there are just .png images, a couple of .psd (Photoshop) and a theme.ini file) by using a not particularly fancy background, although, I may do a few with Vista specific backgrounds (or at least backgrounds that are classed as ‘Vista’) for anyone that may be interested, but for now, I’ve just thrown one together to see how it turned out and it’s not too bad I guess.

Actual Moonshell skins seem to be a lot more complicated than doing a normal theme, there are more images to deal with and the ini files are quite a bit more technical than just changing a few color values, so it’s doubtful I’ll attempt doing a Moonshell skin, but you know what they say, never say never…