Besides the set of Crystal Document icons previewed recently, another feature of the forthcoming CrystalClear Interface 2.5 is a new set of eight beautiful preset themes, shown below. (Click the images for a closer look.) The themes are designed to complement the eight Frosted Crystals desktop pictures released with CCI 2.2. Of course, you can still set colors, frames, and transparency settings for Mac OS X windows to your own taste, as always. The preset themes are ones I've enjoyed and find a convenient shortcut to designing custom themes.

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This is a set of 74 document icons intended to complement CrystalClear Interface and the set of Crystal Albook system and application icons I released a couple of years ago. The set covers most of the document types used by Apple's applications as well as a limited set of document types for third-party applications. The icon set for third-party apps will be augmented substantially as time permits.

These icons are available for download now, and they will be included in the forthcoming release of CrystalClear Interface 2.5 (more on that in another article). In CCI 2.5, you will be able to automatically install and uninstall the various icon sets displayed below, including any of the Crystal Docs icons for any of the third-party applications you use. The new icon install feature will be included in the new CCI Preferences window.

Enjoy!

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.frostHolder { position: relative; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: auto; width: 329px; height: 312px; } .frostedBg { position: absolute; width: 329px; height: 312px; background: transparent url(/images/frostedimages/background.png) no-repeat; } .frostedimg { position: absolute; right: 0px; width: 324px; height: 307px; margin-top:2px; margin-left:2px; margin-right: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px; -webkit-box-reflect: below 0px -webkit-gradient(linear, 0% 0%, 0% 100%, from(transparent), color-stop(0.82, transparent), to(rgba(255,255,255,0.9))) 0 0 0 0 stretch stretch; } .title { float: left; width: 125px; height: 45px; top: 186px; position: relative; }.gradientBox { position:relative; width:470px; left:0px; right:0px; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; margin-top: 45px; padding:15px 12px 10px 2px; height:381px; background: url(/images/frostedarticle_bg.jpg) top left repeat-x; -webkit-box-shadow: 0px 3px 5px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.65); -moz-box-shadow: 0px 3px 5px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.65); -webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 8px; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 8px; -webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 12px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 12px; -webkit-box-reflect:below 1px -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(transparent), color-stop(0.9, transparent), to(rgba(255,255,255,0.9)));}#credits { text-transform: uppercase; font-family: Trebuchet-MS, Verdana, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.3em; font-weight: bold; font-size: 7pt; margin-top:50px; color: rgb(70, 70, 70);text-align:center;text-shadow: 0px 1px 1px rgba(253,252,252,0.9); z-index:5;} These are snippets of the 9 "Frosted Crystal" desktop pictures that'll be distributed with CrystalClear Interface 2.2. (...)

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