How to become a good skin maket...?

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Hello Everyrone. I'm sorry if this post might sound stupid, but lately with the great skin emergence of XP Skins, I feel like making my own changes to them. Unfortunately, no one has even helped me, by making something for me, but I understand that it is stupid, and that those people are busy people. Anyway, my question to you great skin makers is, how to become one of you? Meaning, what graphic programs, programming languages, and techniques are needed, under one's belt, to become an effective skin maker. Once again, sorry if it sounds stupid, but please try to help me, and guide me to glory. Thanks in advance!
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Seek for that Stone which has no fleshly nature, but out of which a volatile fire is extracted, whence also this stone is made, being composed of white and red. It is a stone, and no stone; therein Nature alone operates. A fountain flows from it. The fixed part submerges its father, absorbing it, body and life, until the soul is returned to it. And the volatile mother like to him, is produced in her own kingdom; and he by his virtue and power receives greater strength. The volatile mother when prepared surpasses the sun in summer. Thus the father by means of Vulcan was produced from the spirit. Body, soul, and spirit exist in both, whence the whole matter proceeds. It proceeds from one, and is one matter. Bind together the fixed and the volatile; they are two, and three, and yet one only. If you do not understand you will attain nothing. Adam was in a bath -- wherein Venus found her like, which bath the aged Dragon had prepared when his strength was deserting him. There is nothing, says the Philosopher, save a double mercury; I say that no other matter has been named; blessed is he who understands it. Seek therein, and be not weary; the result justifies the labour.

-Basil Valentine
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Three steps to enlightenment:
1. Read the documentation
2. Disect existing skins and find out how they're done
3. Practice makes perfect

And it may sound corny, but that is the righteous way.
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