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Hello,

I decided to create a new bevelled start menu button. This really is kinda fun, lolz. Either way, here it is.

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"A book is a mirror. If an ass peers into it, it doesn't expect an apostle to peer out." - E.M. Forster

Nice! Can you make one with the letters slightly closer, not changing their position when clicked but only the pressed effect around the button, please?

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I am a Windows enthusiast and helped a little with Classic Shell's testing and usability/UX feedback.

I can give it a go. I'm still new to this though, so it might take a bit for me to get it right, lolz. I'm using GIMP 2, so if I get it wrong I'll just try again.

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"A book is a mirror. If an ass peers into it, it doesn't expect an apostle to peer out." - E.M. Forster

Okay, I did my best, but I couldn't get it entirely perfect. Either way, here's what I managed to get made. I hope you like it.

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"A book is a mirror. If an ass peers into it, it doesn't expect an apostle to peer out." - E.M. Forster

Okay, I gave it another go and came up with this one. Looks a bit better imo. I hope you like it.

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"A book is a mirror. If an ass peers into it, it doesn't expect an apostle to peer out." - E.M. Forster

Soz if I didn't get it right, I couldn't figure out how to edit an image that had already been finished. I had to try to make them all over again and apparently I don't know the hexagonal (I think that's the term anyways, lolz) code for the colors I used in the first one. As for the pressed image, it is actually pre-applied by the area of GIMP 2 that I used to make the image with, the only think I know how to customize on that part is the size of the pressed effect (I believe it's called a bevell). I do hope you like what I have managed to get made though so far. I'm still very new to making button images and so on, lolz.

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"A book is a mirror. If an ass peers into it, it doesn't expect an apostle to peer out." - E.M. Forster

@ editing a finished image: you right click the image file, and select open with gimp

@ getting the color code: Click one of the 2 colors from the toolbox, and look for the eye dropper icon (next to HTML notation text field)
then click on the part of the image you want the color for

I was needing to edit the size of the bevel so as to save it as a second version with a bigger bevel. But yah, your info does help me figure out something i hadn't figured out yet, lolz. Thanks. Also sadly, I lost all of the .xcf files for the start buttons i created recently when my comp crashed and had to be restored to factory defaults. So I don't have the original edits anymore...

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"A book is a mirror. If an ass peers into it, it doesn't expect an apostle to peer out." - E.M. Forster

Im glad i could help
I usually toss my .xcf files to (if i even bother to save in that format)
but mostly because I hardly ever do anything that takes longer than an hour to make