I'm gonna stand on top of the gallery with my net. As soon as it gets there ....... BANG!!    Mine.

Starcandy, that looks awesome!  

Thanks sViz. Couldn't have done it without BoXXi's PSD's though. And it's been a good learning experience for me. First time using vector masks, and oh boy were they helpful. Plus I've done a few more readings and features on this Rainmeter, so it's been a nice advancement from my first one. Still so much to learn though.

@Uvah - Silly sod, lol

You're one up on me. I still haven't quite figured them out yet. lol

Very good for resizing stuff without any distortion. Select one of the path/shape creating tools (U) (rectangle, rounded rectangle, Elipse, Polygon, etc) Make sure you have paths selected up in the top left, not shape layers. Create your rectangle or whatever, press A to switch to Path Selection Tool, right click path and select add vector mask. Press Shift and F5 to fill with a colour, apply layer effects or whatever. You can resize down nice and easy using the Path Selection Tool and again right clicking on the path (make sure the path thumbnail is selected) and select Free Transform Path.

Couldn't use them on the inner gold layers, they still distorted for some reason, but for the background frame and Carbon pattern layers they were invaluable.

Cool. Saved for future reference.

No problems. And keep in mind you can do that with any path, including ones made with the pen tool.

Speaking of pen tool, I finally got around to using it. Takes a bit of getting used to but once I play with it enough I should nail it pretty quick.

Parisienne Rainmeter ready for download LINK

@Uvah- I totally suck with the pen tool, lol. I really should practice more with it.

Okay ... so ... you play with the pen tool and I'll play with the vector masks. Somewhere along the line between the two of us something is bound to sink in. lol

I doubt it........

F!

*chuckles*

Working on a wallpaper for Parisienne. I think the circles need to be toned down a bit as they stand out too much at the moment. Thoughts?

Making them smaller, tighter maybe