How do I make Windows 2000-ish design? I have difficulties with

Gradients
No transparency
Grey

>>292561
>>>/wsr/ for requests

keep the number of pixels down to mimic the text first off. thin lines with thin drop shadows. doesnt even have be a gradient like in this example. choose boring colours and enough white highlights. terrible fonts. small type. all this shit looks retarded anyways so whatever

>>291928
No gradients, solid colors only.
Most big fields of color have a 1 or 2 px white border around them.

If things need to have a gradient or shading beyond like 16 colors, dithering is used instead of new shades.

Everything comes ot 90deg corners.

Text s anti-aliased but not much else. Everything should have a sharp, flat appearance within a window, but window borders have shading (but still come to 90 degree points, like a picture frame)

>>292563
If i wanted someone to draw for me, I'd go there.
Here, I think there's more proficient anons with design so they could help me out.

>>292636
>1 or 2 px
Isn't that too few for modern screens? If I were too bring this style nowadays, wouldn't it be too small?

File: Nice-looking-chef.png (82KB, 360x338px) Image search: [Google]

82KB, 360x338px

>>291928
Just make everything really tiny, put it in photoshop, and enlarge it x3, so you have just the right amount of pixels.

>>292840
You don't need a basel of 2px, bc, at the time, we couldn't see the basel either..
(that's due the fact the screen resoution and colors have changed).