Hey there. I love Winamp and have been a loyal user for years now. However I want to make my own skins, particularly for modern Winamp versions. I use a program called WinampSC. It's decent but not impressive. It's however the best I have used so far. I have been seeing all you guys uploading to Winamp and the skins you people have are awesome. How do I make my own almost 3D looking skins? I don't want to use Skinnertoo or those old programs and they playlist frame is dull and boring. It would be easy for me if I could make the colors for the frame on the video playback window change and look more modern. Besides the skins I make are very 1 or 2D. Boring!

Can someone direct me to a good new or updated program that I can work with to make my own modern winamp skins.

Please someone please help. No more classic. Step into modern!

I was trying to attach a zipped file with some of the skins I made and you can judge for yourselves. But I am checking out some of yours first and then find a way to send it to you. Thanks, help much.

01:41 pm, Monday, April 28, 2008 (3 months ago)

excess says:

1. 3D skins often look horrible. Simple skins are much better.
Also, how did you manage to make a 1D skin? Wow.

2. Coding Winamp modern skins can be very laborious and takes a lot of work to properly learn the code. Read some tutorials and such (search google).

3. Upload files to somewhere like http://www.turboupload.com/ (my personal favourite).

04:47 pm (3 months ago)

Wilian_souza says:

First of all, you can make the skins with the style you want.

And, have you ever checked out the new classicPro skins? They are a new type of a modern skin that you can skin like the old classics, with the benefits of transparency and without any construction bugs. It´s a good way to enter in the modern skinning era. See how a classicPro skin look like here:

http://zeolyte.deviantart.com/art/cPro-Niveum-81747314
http://www.winamp.com/skins/details/193914
http://www.fusionamp.com/index.htm#FusionAmp_WA-5
http://customize.org/thumbnails/large/57445.jpg

I´m creating a template for classicPro skins with Veroka, another skinner friend of mine, but while it isn´t released you can see how to make a classicPro downloading the manual made by SkinConsortium here: http://cpro.skinconsortium.com/index?content=manual

Hope it would really help you.

12:03 pm (3 months ago)

Veroka says:

Sorry Abe, but good skins are not made with any automatic skin generator program. Good skins are usually made with photoshop (although I've seen some amazing classic skins made with MS Paint, but modern skins need png files), but you can try Gimp or any graphic editor you like.

09:46 am (3 months ago)

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