Skinners: What was your catalyst to start skinning? (Another mushy thread)
Friday, July 23, 2004 by farkusmarkus | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
I'd have to say that Jairo Boudewyn first inspired me to try and learn how to emulate the glassy aqua look and from that I took a shot at skinning.
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Apocalypse_67
Reply #22 Friday, July 23, 2004 5:09 PM
Reply #22 Friday, July 23, 2004 5:09 PM
3 skins encouraged me to take a whack at skinning
-Aquarium by Joanne
-CopperDeckII by Treetog and
-Azure by Adni18
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-Aquarium by Joanne
-CopperDeckII by Treetog and
-Azure by Adni18
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WOM
Reply #23 Friday, July 23, 2004 5:33 PM
Reply #23 Friday, July 23, 2004 5:33 PM
WOM was inspired by all the great skinners and their skins.
Thats why I download as many as I can.
Thats why I download as many as I can.
PixelPirate
Reply #24 Friday, July 23, 2004 5:38 PM
Reply #24 Friday, July 23, 2004 5:38 PM
Winamp set it off. The idea of the users ability to change the way it looked got me hooked (wow that rimed). I looked deeper into it and found Stardocks apps. Just awesome. Now I can change it all and make some after my own taste.
Jafo
Reply #25 Friday, July 23, 2004 9:12 PM
Reply #25 Friday, July 23, 2004 9:12 PM
Messing with weird proggies....found Litestep...a horrid looking thing with little lightglobes as shortcut icons.....got hooked....somewhere around b21 release '97 or '98....thereabouts [I still have the old shell somewhere]...
Hus
Reply #26 Friday, July 23, 2004 9:23 PM
Reply #26 Friday, July 23, 2004 9:23 PM
Winamp got it started for me, back in like 1999, snooped around the skin sites for bit...but then I took a break. Few years later I download a StyleXP trial, exactly 4 minutes later, I download WB 3.5 trial, now here I am. 
Z71
Reply #27 Saturday, July 24, 2004 2:35 AM
Reply #27 Saturday, July 24, 2004 2:35 AM
I really got into skinning, when I saw Polymer by The Skindicate back in the day.
I started tweaking it and the next thing I knew I was hooked.
If it was skinable, I turned it into a Polymer skin.
I started tweaking it and the next thing I knew I was hooked.
If it was skinable, I turned it into a Polymer skin.
Scarebear
Reply #28 Saturday, July 24, 2004 6:07 PM
Reply #28 Saturday, July 24, 2004 6:07 PM
Sonique 1 (Back in '99) and the skins by Supa, Luke, Pordey, Wreck etc...
CerebroJD
Reply #29 Saturday, July 24, 2004 6:25 PM
Reply #29 Saturday, July 24, 2004 6:25 PM
Contrary to all you WinAmp skinners out there, my first inspiration came from the skins available in Windows Media Player. Back then it still was version 7, so the skins were limited. I decided to take a whack at skinning it. First step: destroying about 6 skins trying to modify them. Moved from there to making some cursors and stuff to complement an idea I was workin with at the time. From there I've gone pretty much nuts with failed attempts at other stuff. WindowBlinds is actually easier than I thought it would be.
IPlural
Reply #30 Saturday, July 24, 2004 10:14 PM
Reply #30 Saturday, July 24, 2004 10:14 PM
I am on the brink of just slapping graphics together and posting them in the library for others to pick and use if they like... *sigh*
chadlachlanross
Reply #32 Saturday, July 24, 2004 11:17 PM
Reply #32 Saturday, July 24, 2004 11:17 PM
"Steel this Amp" Winamp skin, and the Dreams Windowblinds skin started the ball rolling for me.
GuardianD
Reply #33 Saturday, July 24, 2004 11:41 PM
Reply #33 Saturday, July 24, 2004 11:41 PM
Simply being tired of the way Windows looks and feels!
Really though, I like a lot of the stuff that I've downloaded and run. However, I'm the type of person that likes to know how things work. On top of that, I've always been into artistic things. So, while I enjoy much of the skins/icons/objects...etc, there's always that "I like it, but I wish that( object/skin part) were a little more ( adjective)" aspect.
Plus, I'd really like to develop some stuff that's based on my favorite Anime/Games/Movies/Books... etc. Overall though, it's just that I love to learn new stuff, and this stuff is just too cool not to want to learn.
Really though, I like a lot of the stuff that I've downloaded and run. However, I'm the type of person that likes to know how things work. On top of that, I've always been into artistic things. So, while I enjoy much of the skins/icons/objects...etc, there's always that "I like it, but I wish that( object/skin part) were a little more ( adjective)" aspect.
Plus, I'd really like to develop some stuff that's based on my favorite Anime/Games/Movies/Books... etc. Overall though, it's just that I love to learn new stuff, and this stuff is just too cool not to want to learn.
Jafo
Reply #34 Sunday, July 25, 2004 7:54 AM
Reply #34 Sunday, July 25, 2004 7:54 AM
| "Steel this Amp" |
Now THERE'S a blast from the past.....
Phar0e
Reply #35 Sunday, July 25, 2004 3:48 PM
Reply #35 Sunday, July 25, 2004 3:48 PM
LiteStep from 97 ish.
Back in the day when customizing it meant finding different tiles for the Wharf, and matching efX skins.
Back in the day when customizing it meant finding different tiles for the Wharf, and matching efX skins.
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Reply #21 Friday, July 23, 2004 4:46 PM