How to Edit a windowblinds skin?
Thursday, December 6, 2012 by Skorzeny8814 | Discussion: WindowBlinds
Today I've tried to edit some windowblinds skins by extracting them and edit the textures. I've made a few changes I wanted to and repacked the files as a ".wba". Then I opened it with windowblinds but it appeared as the same as before 
Can someone help? I don't know what I did wrong 
Reply #2 Thursday, December 6, 2012 5:56 AM
You can change a lot without going into Skinstudio at all. First you have to go into the skin itself. On win7: My Computer, C drive, Users, Public, Public Documents, Stardock, Windowblinds. Open the skin you want to fiddle with. There will be all the parts to the skin there. You'll need a graphics program that opens TGA files and Bitmap files. What I do is make a folder in My Documents and name it for the skin I am playing with. I copy the part of the skin that I am changing into that folder so I always have the original in case things go bad. Whatever I change I put into the original folder for the skin. When you want to see how the change looks you have to re apply the skin.
I use Skinstudio sometimes too. Bottom line is that you have to play with this a lot and don't be afraid to make mistakes. As I said it's good to make copies of the original files.
Reply #3 Thursday, December 6, 2012 9:18 AM
Tried, but doesn't work No matter what I change, everything stays the same.
Reply #4 Thursday, December 6, 2012 9:22 AM
I can't see anything like SkinStudio at the link you posted. Not even in MyDownloads.
Reply #5 Thursday, December 6, 2012 9:32 AM
Reply #6 Thursday, December 6, 2012 9:34 AM
https://www.stardock.com/products/skinstudio/ as far as i know there is a pro and a free version i might be wrong tho
or you try the way Chasbo posted
Reply #7 Thursday, December 6, 2012 9:49 AM
After installation it says: "Please check that the SkiStudio7 folder is in your skins folder. If you moved your WindowBlinds skins folder then you will need to relocate this folder too."
O__o
What? I've never had any folder called "skins" in windowblinds anywhere. What can I do to get it working?
Reply #8 Thursday, December 6, 2012 12:05 PM
the skinstudio7 folder is located within the windowblinds folder. When you make something and save that into a .wba package this is where that file is saved to.
just a suggestion; open the windowblind that you want to change and save it by some other name.
you don't need to create a .wba package to view your changes, just click on the save button and then apply button from within skinstudio.
Reply #9 Thursday, December 6, 2012 1:14 PM
Save? There's no save option in windowblinds for me. Where can I find it?
Reply #10 Thursday, December 6, 2012 1:16 PM
And there's no skinstudio7 folder in my Windowblinds folder.
Reply #11 Thursday, December 6, 2012 1:51 PM
Are you using the trial version of WindowBlinds or the paid version. Where did you download WindowBlinds from?
You may want to start a trouble ticket by sending an email to [email protected] on your issues with skinstudio7.
Reply #12 Thursday, December 6, 2012 2:01 PM
I'm using the trial version. I can't afford the complete version. And I downloaded the program from it's own site.
Reply #13 Thursday, December 6, 2012 2:06 PM
Reply #14 Thursday, December 6, 2012 2:38 PM
I've sent an e-mail to them. Now I'm waiting...
Reply #15 Thursday, December 6, 2012 2:46 PM
Please post your auto-generated support ticket number here. Do not resend an email until you get a response from tech support or you ticket position in the queue will restart. Thanks.
Reply #17 Friday, December 7, 2012 12:34 AM
Finally it reacts to the changes I make in the texture files. But no the best... The colors change as I want them to, but a lot of the textures became invisible. What program do you use to edit the tga files correctly? (I used Pain.net)
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Reply #1 Thursday, December 6, 2012 5:07 AM
You will need Skinstudio
Link login and you will find it under My downloads