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You draw, we write
Published on February 13, 2008 By Zoomba In WinCustomize News
For an artist new to skinning, few things can be more helpful than a step-by-step tutorial walking them through how to create some element of a skin, or learn a new Photoshop trick that could save them hours of time and frustration.  The people best suited to providing this knowledge are our community of skinners, the people who spend their free time actually making skins and using the tools.

But, as many artists have said to me, just because you can make a skin, doesn't necessarily mean you can explain it or write about it clearly so others can understand. 

That's where we can help out.  I'm looking for a few skinners to work with to create some new, detailed tutorials to skin things like WindowBlinds, ObjectDock, Icons, WinAmp, Xion, Dreams, Cursors etc.  Full tutorials, mini tutorials (i.e how to make just one element of a skin) etc.  You provide the pictures and walk me through the steps, I'll write it up and format it for general consumption.

If you're interested, please post a comment below.

(Additionally, if you can't skin, but feel you can write and want to pair up with a skinner to write a tutorial yourself, let us know in the comments too!)



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on Feb 14, 2008
I did this one here:

https://www.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?aid=132307

Links seem to be broken now though...
on Feb 14, 2008
I *could* expand my ObjectBar doc (if it needs it):  Creating an ObjectBar
on Feb 14, 2008
I'm not good with English but I'm good with photoshop and 3D.
If someone writes the tutorial I can provide the pictures.
on Feb 14, 2008
Here is one I did for looping in After Effects.

WWW Link
on Feb 14, 2008
Sounds good to me,i also have a suggestion as well,how about the tuts be either downloadable by clicking on "save page as" but without having to download the posts that are usually below articles,or a printer friendly version or my personal favorite pdf format,basicly something that is the tut only along with the pikkies & no other stuff i.e banners,replies etc.
on Feb 14, 2008
I would be more than happy to help in the writing of tutorials.
If one of the skinners wants to give me a rough step-by-step, I can easily write it up.
on Feb 14, 2008
i also have a suggestion as well,how about the tuts be either downloadable by clicking on "save page as" but without having to download the posts that are usually below articles,or a printer friendly version or my personal favorite pdf format,basicly something that is the tut only along with the pikkies & no other stuff i.e banners,replies etc.


Funny you should say that. I requested the very same thing last year! I didn't get an overwhelming response to my post as you can see: Tutorials for the offline user

MySecret was kind enough to help me out and she and I have since converted many tutorials to PDF for personal use.
on Feb 14, 2008

Sounds good to me,i also have a suggestion as well,how about the tuts be either downloadable by clicking on "save page as" but without having to download the posts that are usually below articles,or a printer friendly version or my personal favorite pdf format,basicly something that is the tut only along with the pikkies & no other stuff i.e banners,replies etc.

That's kinda the point of the wiki, you get just the tutorial by itself, no comments.
on Feb 14, 2008
I m very interested in doing a tut for window blinds......and now my pc is back up and running, im a force with time on my hands once again.....so yeah count me in.
on Feb 15, 2008

Reply #22
Skinner 2of3
Today, 2:03 PM

Funny you should say that. I requested the very same thing last year! I didn't get an overwhelming response


yeah see what you mean..lol..



Reply #23
Lady Bebi Bulma
Today, 2:18 PM


That's kinda the point of the wiki, you get just the tutorial by itself, no comments.


I saw that article a few days ago on the wc wiki,guess i should'a clicked to view





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