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 The present version of SARAH provides for a minimalist skinning approach---just a single background image---the technique, limitations, and philosophy of which are discussed below. For details about how to create your own SARAH skin, go to https://github.com/getdunne/SARAH/tree/master/Skinning, and look in the //Skinning// folder in the source code. The present version of SARAH provides for a minimalist skinning approach---just a single background image---the technique, limitations, and philosophy of which are discussed below. For details about how to create your own SARAH skin, go to https://github.com/getdunne/SARAH/tree/master/Skinning, and look in the //Skinning// folder in the source code.
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 +===== Default GUI is vector-only =====
 +If the user does not provide a //sarah.png// image in their //Desktop// folder at run-time, the present SARAH code defaults to generating a "pure-vector" GUI, where all elements are software-generated. This should work on any computer, and based on tidbits I have read, it should also scale automatically on Retina-screen Macs. Unfortunately I don't have a Retina Mac at the moment, so I can't test this.
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 +The code still includes support for a default background image, compiled in to the executable using JUCE's //BinaryData// mechanism. This will only be used if you change the default value of //useBackgroundImage// to //true// in the constructor in //PluginEditor.cpp//.
  
 ===== Raster vs. Vector graphics for GUIs ===== ===== Raster vs. Vector graphics for GUIs =====
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   - Within each plugin GUI, users engaged in musical work tend to find their way around by memory---both visual and muscle-memory. Nicely detailed GUI designs facilitate visual memory.   - Within each plugin GUI, users engaged in musical work tend to find their way around by memory---both visual and muscle-memory. Nicely detailed GUI designs facilitate visual memory.
  
-This is not to say that there are not good, bad, and downright ugly GUI designs around. But imagine if you will, a large screen full of plugin GUIs that all look like Windows apps from the 1980s. How would you find your way around? How could you tell one from another?+This is not to say that there are not good, bad, and downright ugly skeuomorphic GUI designs around. But imagine if you will, a large screen full of plugin GUIs that all look like Windows apps from the 1980s. How would you find your way around? How could you tell one from another?
  
 ==== Division of labour and "skinnability" ==== ==== Division of labour and "skinnability" ====
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