Its one click of a slider.   

The Hue slider in the Coloring section of WB, you can also change it by using the little button in your appearance tab in display properties.

Here is a really fast color switch of Light Blue 2 by Pixstudio (one of my wife's favorite skins):

is simple to recolor a skin by using the default color changer in WB config.. adjusting hue,sat will achieve the desired results...without having to manually recolor a skins elements... fast and easy...

Not everyone has time or talent to skin (look at  me) but in cases like that young lady . . I'd love to see something like a workshop for skinners started.  I could see it done in chuncks:

Workshop 1: Developing a theme
Workshop 2: Building a mock-up
Workshop 3: Creating elements
Workshop 4: Putting it all together
Workshop 5: Explain to Zubaz how it's so much harder than that

Most of the work by the user would be done between workshops.  The workshops would be for the workshop leader to do some demonstrations but mostly just open discussion.  It could be done mostly in IRC or a chatroom hosted almost anywhere.  Maybe some web collaboration tool like yugma or webex could be used to share desktops or whatever.    Or maybe just uploading works in progress to imageshack.us.

I dunno . . it's an idea (and not one just for women).

I think if i ever took on something like that it would end up at about 20 gigs... which is why I haven't.  

*Edit access denied*  

additionally.. I guess as far as WIP goes, I may do the same as IR did on his last theme and have a thread dedicated devoted to the development of my next WB.

And that would be where Lantec's 'squeaky hinge' comes into play...

OK, from what I read, you need some market research...how 'bout Stardock emails ALL their subscribers and asks them to participate in a survey describing what they would like (don't exclude the men so's they don't feel discriminated against). Then, analyse the data separately (by male and female respondents) and find out what women want.
Alternatively, I could do a webpage and upload it to my site and you can tell me what to modify and add, and then just post a message or two on these forums asking for responses...

Or you could focus on profits and aim for the market you already appeal to   .

Some suggestions for survey questions:

• Gender
• Age group
• Type of skin generally used on user desktop
• How long each skin is generally used for
• Colors preferred (maybe a rank-order scale?)
• What Stardock products are owned
• Have you ever developed and published a skin?
• MORE SUGGESTIONS

Sheesh, guys, I'm still waiting for someone to tell me to shut up and sit down...mind you, if you PM me (if there's a PM function) then I won't know...in fact, I don't even know where to go on the web to access this post...looked last night and couldn't find it!   

https://forums.wincustomize.com | General Discussion | Community |

I'm not sure I agree with you.  I don't think Stardock can be the driver here.  I think it needs to be a grassroots program of users telling their network about this place.

I appreciate that you are making an effort to make a difference.

How about this for an idea : Women interviewing women skinners?  Get that article up and cross post it here and there.  I'd Digg it if it were interesting.

Bugger that, surveys cost too much, take too long....I'll organize for Mel Gibson to come in instead.

Anyhow, I'm getting sick and tired of this male - female debate....it is much ado about bugger all and has gone on far too long.

Apart from one or two obvious differences, there's not a lot to distinguish between male and female skinners, anyhow...so lets have no more of it, eh!

In fact, there's gonna be some new rules....the first of many starting with: no animosity or prejudice between men and women; there will be no segregation/male only - female only activities....etc, etc.

Now to get your new rule books, I want the guys to queue up over here....and the girls over here.

As a female, I don't see what all the hubub is about. Promotions and gender seem like completely separate issues on this site.

The people doing the promotions do not appear to do so based on gender. Some have even stated so in this thread. Furthermore, once you start counting up the days/months/years between promotions you'll lose sight of what's supposed to be important; that is, skinning because you love it and not for notoriety. Recognition is great but it shouldn't be all you're shooting for. I don't think making Master on WC should be the make or break highlight of your skinning career. If you are really talented it is not a question of IF you'll be promoted/recognized but when. If there is a better system than the one we have, I'm all for it, but statistics don't always reflect quality. Sometimes there is no adequate substitute to good human judgment.

As for there not being enough females on the site, I don't think that's the staff's problem. If they didn't have to go out and specifically 'recruit' men to come to the site they shouldn't have to do that to get the women on here. People are drawn here for their own reasons, and if that reason is based on the ratio between men and women that's that individual's problem. I can see that there are more men than women here but that didn't stop me from joining up nor will it deter me from sticking around. I don't even see how leaving or quitting helps the situation. Seems more counter-productive than anything else. I think if we want more women here, the women already here have to be more visible. If your not active in the forums/community how will I know you exist? You don't have to be as loud as a squeaky wheel. I only know a handful of the women on this site and that is mostly from their being active on the forums and my taking the time to view their profiles and learning who else they know. I don't consider them to be squeaky wheels but they are definitely a presence here (and a welcome one at that). If I don't have the time to be seen and heard from often, I would accept that will have something to do with my not being known very well or recognized. I don't have a real beef about the ratio between men and women here but I would love to see more women on the site.

Suggestions on how to do that? Well, I must say that after reading through this thread the other day I did feel the need to check out more profiles and give a shout out to the women who's work I admire. Seems like the best place to start, to me. Just good old acquaintanceship.

I found out today that someone I thought was a female skinner isn't so female.

Here's a game.

Name the female skinners.