Mix match your themes with your skins

I need an icon package for my skin!

http://www.icondeveloper.com/
So you have that cool skin you've always dreamed about. It's smooth, it's great, it's beautifull, and it absolutely does not come along with your favorite icon package. Damnit! You look at the skin, then you look at the icon package... can't decide which one you should get rid of? No problem any longer. Match your icon package go smothly with your skin.

As you will see, my skin of choice for now is dark olive. It's a recolored (with SkinStudio of course ;) ) Reluna Visual Style (ported for my own usage with SkinStudio) and the icon package I will try to match is Paul Boyer's (Mormegil) PixOs.

The Icon package recoloring - File->Open dialog

Yes. IconDeveloper now lists icon packages in its skin tree that it displays on Tools->Browse IconPackager themes. So I select the PixOs Package and press the "Recolor" button which the hand points to (you could also just double click the theme or press the "Edit" button on the toolbar as usual. Notice that there is also "Edit" button on the left of the cursor taking you to IconPackager if you wanted to make any changes to your theme, and "Apply" button for your convenience that applies the package you have selected (IconPackager is required for that option to work).
Ok so let's press "Recolor".

The Icon package recoloring - recolored theme name selection dialog

So now IconDeveloper asks how you want to name the recolored theme. I called it "PixOs Olive" since I'll try to make it... Olive. Press [OK] and wait for IconDeveloper to pre-process the icons for you. Notice that the whole process is totally harmless for your original theme. IconDeveloper will never write anything to the original theme neither will it allow you to keep the name of the theme so that you did not break it by mistake.

So we have it loaded and IconDeveloper shows you the list of the icons your theme consists of.
The Icon package recoloring - Step 2
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Reply #1 Top
This is a great new feature! Love the Preview mode.
Reply #2 Top
Excellent new feature maybe now I can have the Grayscale Faux-SX Icons that I've always dreamed about.. ;)
Reply #3 Top
Very very cool....i can now have Orion icons in purple!!!!!
Reply #4 Top
Thai is great!! Thanks for shareing this!!
Reply #5 Top
This is great and will be very useful- - however I did not see - -is there going to be a way of adding texture ie., woodgrain,stucco, etc.? or do the icons have to already be textured.
Reply #6 Top
Jeff Kohrt,
this is a great idea, I can do it!
/me switches [Code] mode.
Reply #8 Top
Why is it that I never see any of the images posted in your articles?
Reply #11 Top
inazuma002, it was my account hosting the images beeing broken, sorry about that, should be all fixed now
Reply #12 Top
actually it was for Melchiah
Reply #14 Top
Looks like too much work for me -- isn't there anything eaier and better that works with XP? I used to Have Desktop Srchitect for ME .. But this XP is new .. and the skins are the eost! - so are thr Icons
Reply #15 Top
There is only a few steps to it. I am not sure if it can be any easier.