<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 19, 2006, at 22:47, Jacob Rus wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Brendan Simons wrote:</FONT></P> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I like it, but Aqua has tuned down a lot its glassiness in recent<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">years. <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I would tone down the difference between highlights and shadows<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">myself, but I'm not going to argue about it :)</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">You're probably right, but make sure you look at the actual icon files<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">(in the zip files I linked to earlier) as well as the png files.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>There<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">are some icc profile mismatch issues here, which I always seem to run<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">into with png files (and it previews differently in Camino and Safari,<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">for instance).<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>The actual version may be duller than the preview you're<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">seeing.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Maybe I should post a screenshot instead of saving from photoshop.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>Jacob,</DIV><DIV>I think your 'glassiness' is understated and fine. I never meant the extreme of the original colored iMac look.</DIV><DIV>I think it adds a nice 3-D look especially in the smaller sizes and is under-stated enough to fit the Apple look of today with a little of a yellow and blue color Apple doesn't use. Could it be turned down a bit? Yeah I suppose. But there is a time to tweak and a time to move on when the diminishing returns of tweaking are vanishingly small and we can ignore subsequent terms in the series (flash-back to advanced engineering math ;-). Guess what time I think it is IMHO?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Daniel</DIV></BODY></HTML>