Shoutbox

oh damn thats harsh lol, what i mean by that is i absolutely love this skin however since installing 9.0 my 8.5 has stopped working properly and this skin only works in 8.5 so i cant look at it, however based on the screenshot provided i am slightly concerned, although it looks great what you have to remember is when toasts pop up youll see a very dark green with part of a star in the middle and the black text "windows live messenger" will not be readable, i dont know if toast can be assigned seperate backgrounds than the rest of the windows however assuming its possible i recomend the same background at slightly smaller perhaps without the tree and set the images for the "windows live messenger" text to be a different colour maybe even change the default text colour on the toasts.

i know toasts dont pop up that often but when they do they need to look nice and be readable or people might not enjoy your skin.

those are my only real complaints about it, so if you fix the toasts and add 9.0 compatability it will be pretty near perfect i reckon, well actually perfect would include animated snow in the background of all windows however im not sure of the limitations of messenger or plus's skinning engine so that may not be doable at this time.