How do you make skins & wallpapers?

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I was wondering how you made skins & wallpapers!? If you could help that would be nice but if not its ok 2:) plz im desperate, well not really but it adds a little something to my post! So please help me my e.mail is [email protected]
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Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
get some software and use your imagination. there are tons of tutorials for all kinds of different effects out on the web. I suggest using google at www.google.com to search for tutorials on whatever software you use. If you don't currently have any, there are numerous freeware options out there. I would suggest GIMP, since it has virtually all of the features a high-end peice of software has, and is totally free. for 3D software, try something like Blender 3D to get started. All software will require a bit of time to get familiar with it, but tutorials really help in this area because they give you a focus on a specific idea and you gain familiarization with the interface at the same time. Then just let your imagination run wild. Remember, ideas gained from another's work is ok, as long as you do not actually copy any of it and claim it is yours. Do the right thing and ask permission before you use peices from someone else's work. If you are polite they usually respond well

Good luck!

Hopefully this helps...
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Also, to make a skin will depend on the software the skin is applied to.

Usually, a skin is basically broken up into peices. One peice will be the upper left corner. To make that peice, you create an image to go in that corner. Then you create the upper right corner's image. Then the middle, etc. The software links it all.

Some applications that you can skin are very complex, and require modifying code to go tith things like clicking effects and slider bars. Others are much simpler and only require a basic shape with no individual peices. I think quicknotes was a basic shape design. I don't quite recall, as I haven't skinned it in years.

Download the application you want to skin and then search for the skinning guide to it. Usually it is an attached file. Sometimes it is on the application's homesite. Sometimes you just have to ask, since it may be hard to find and not intuitive