help with new skinner plz

January 20, 2003 10:41 PM from

I think its about time that i freeloading off of everybody else and contribute to the skin making. i have been wondering how to create windowblinds skins. i downloaded skinstudio but...to be honest i have no idea what to do. i dont know how to change the skin to how i want it to. can anybody help me here? links to tutorials would be most helpful.

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Reply #1 January 20, 2003 11:48 PM from

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You may want to start with something a little easier. WindowBlinds is a bit involved and takes even an experienced skinner quite a while to complete. But if you're gung ho and want to dive into it, the only 'tutorial' I'm aware of is here: http://www.windowblinds.net/skinning/

Have fun.

Reply #2 January 20, 2003 11:52 PM from

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I say start messing with skinstudio and Little by little you will figure it out.

Reply #3 January 20, 2003 11:52 PM from

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I say start messing with skinstudio and Little by little you will figure it out.

Reply #4 January 21, 2003 12:14 AM from

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There's also this tutorial http://www.aleksyandr.com/tutorial.htm

Reply #5 January 21, 2003 11:37 AM from

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Aleksyandr's tutorial is great - I've got the offline copy of it kept on both of my systems (and someday, maybe someday, I'll actually finish doing a skin for... well, anything. =D)

Reply #6 January 21, 2003 5:09 PM from

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Thanks for the help. I'm sure it will help.

Reply #7 January 22, 2003 5:53 AM from

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Y'might also wanna try skinning something simpler just to get the feel for it. AstonShell, AltDesk, Sysmetrix, and ObjectDock are very easily skinned. Iben's right, too. To learn the software, you just have to tinker around with it.

You'll get it!

Reply #8 January 22, 2003 7:21 AM from

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Playing with SkinStudio gets you familiar with the parts of the skin.

When you get familiar with the parts then there are three things you need to be familiar with
1: Margins
2: Margins
3: Margins
Also, Margins

Reply #9 January 22, 2003 6:27 PM from

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Well I have been playing around with SkinStudio a little more now and loading skins i have downloaded and I think I am beginning to understand margins. One more question. Do you make the individual parts of the skin, say for example the scroll bar, with a program such as Photoshop and then apply them to the skin using SkinStudio? I'm not quite sure how that works.

Thanks for your replies.

Reply #10 January 27, 2003 10:08 PM from

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Can anybody answer my question please? Read #9.

Reply #11 January 27, 2003 10:13 PM from

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Yes, you make them in a paint program and you apply them in skinstudio.

Reply #12 January 27, 2003 10:24 PM from

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Paint program such as just paint?

Reply #13 January 27, 2003 10:30 PM from

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PSP7, Photo Shop, Gimp etc, etc. Any paint program that you have or can use.

Reply #14 January 27, 2003 10:31 PM from

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Ok thanks a lot.

Reply #15 January 28, 2003 12:17 AM from

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I wonder why they named the one program Gimp. Do you think it might be missing something.

Reply #16 January 28, 2003 9:50 AM from

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Probably just limps a little

Reply #17 January 31, 2003 12:06 AM from

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So....you paint everything pixel by pixel then right?

Reply #18 January 31, 2003 12:07 AM from

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"I can't see a thing till you open my eyes..."

Reply #19 January 31, 2003 12:08 AM from

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What?

Reply #20 January 31, 2003 12:11 AM from

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I think he's asking if you want him to paint you a picture or something.

Reply #21 January 31, 2003 12:13 AM from

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"If that's the way you feel..... (I don't mind).."

Reply #22 January 31, 2003 12:14 AM from

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oops, wrong thread... sorry..

Reply #23 January 31, 2003 12:17 AM from

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Try winamp first its easier and you get your feet wet.

http://www.winamp.com/nsdn/winamp2x/dev/skins/

Reply #24 January 31, 2003 12:19 AM from

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get winamp 2.81

Reply #25 January 31, 2003 12:20 AM from

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Winamp isn't that easy. Try SysMetrix. Thats real easy.

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