Smooth Platinum: Could use some feedback

[Wild Bill]

I figured I'd post what I've done so far so I can get suggestions and/or comments.

I'm calling this Smooth Platinum (though it's not so smooth after I brushed it, heh). My goal with this skin is to have something ultra-compact, kinda like the vertical small mode of MMD3 for Winamp3. The right side of this image is where I'm doodling to show where widgets will go. Eventually I'll be putting a border on it, so it won't look so cut off when you're using it.

I'm not sure about some things, particularly the intended button layout. What's everybody else think?

[chicubs]

thats some nice brushing you got there :) ...however I dont know if its going to look good...even with a border it will probably look a little cut off...the button layout you have looks pretty good. Now you have to decide whether you want to make inset the skin of extruded out. I want to see how this looks when its finish Im curious to see how the small rectangle looks.

[Wild Bill]

Thanks for your input. I've touched things up quite a bit. I figured out how to make it not look chopped off: Just bevel each part of it individually. So I did that, and the result is attached. I also added the visualization screen.

I've figured out how I'm going to do this... the thing will have two modes, compact, and detailed. Detailed will be a combination of player, playlist, and eq. I thought about just having little popup things for the playlist and eq, but I think this method will look nicer.

Oh, and glad you like the brushing. It was done with the GIMPressionist filter. ;)

[chicubs]

another thing you might do is contrast it a little, also consider removing some of the logo.

[Wild Bill]

I didn't do much work with the contrast (forgot), but some major changes to the body probably affect the contrast. I'm really happy with how this is coming out now. :D

I started setting up the map. I got ButtonSet.bmp done, and that works. Now to finish the rest of the stuff so I can move on to the playlist/eq extension...

[chicubs]

The QCD logo is what is in most dire need of being sharpened, contrasted, just in general better quality.

[Wild Bill]

I applied a bevel to the QCD logo to make it look like a bump on the rest of the skin. I just got another idea for how to make it look good, so I'll try that.