SkinStudio Tutorial by Vampothika

Friday, June 19, 2020 by Island Dog | Discussion: OS Customization

This is a detailed tutorial for SkinStudio which shows you step-by-step with images on how to create a WindowBlinds skin.  It was created by Master Skinner Vampothika and we give her a big thanks for helping out the community with this.  Also, another big thanks to gmc2 for getting the resources for this so we could share it with the community.

There’s a lot of images with this tutorial, and it’s broken up into 3 directories.  I wanted to make it easy to view, so I created an html image gallery that will allow you to browse and view the images on your PC.

Download: SkinStudio Tutorial

Unzip the folder and double-click the Index shortcut and the gallery will open with your browser.  Now, get to creating a WindowBlinds skin!

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neone6
Reply #1 Thursday, August 29, 2013 11:23 AM

Gaspershooters
Reply #2 Thursday, August 29, 2013 11:43 AM

This tutorial is beyond useful for novices;its a holy grail.    

DaveBax
Reply #3 Thursday, August 29, 2013 11:48 AM

RedneckDude
Reply #4 Thursday, August 29, 2013 1:23 PM

I'll use this on my WB I'm working on now!!

Uvah
Reply #5 Thursday, August 29, 2013 2:00 PM

RnD's doin' a WB!............

Cool.

Sneak peek?

DaveBax
Reply #6 Thursday, August 29, 2013 2:02 PM

RedneckDude

I'll use this on my WB I'm working on now!!

Thank goodness. We may now end up with a WB we can use.

Uvah
Reply #7 Thursday, August 29, 2013 2:08 PM

doortech1
Reply #8 Thursday, August 29, 2013 2:53 PM

DaveBax


Quoting RedneckDude, reply 4
I'll use this on my WB I'm working on now!!

Thank goodness. We may now end up with a WB we can use.

 

Oh no you didn't say that,to funny.

 

 

Very cool , thanks Kitty and GMC for his part also.

doortech1
Reply #9 Thursday, August 29, 2013 2:55 PM

Uvah .,

 

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 RND ,Already previewed some when he made SWITCH. Although a full screeny  would be cool also.

Uvah
Reply #10 Thursday, August 29, 2013 3:16 PM

Switch......Switch......what Switch?

RedneckDude
Reply #11 Thursday, August 29, 2013 6:21 PM

doortech1

Uvah .,

 

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 RND ,Already previewed some when he made SWITCH. Although a full screeny  would be cool also.

 

Brian, the WB isn't connected to the Start8 button. Switch.

BlackOro is the WB I'm working on. I posted a screen of the matching Winstep in the Desktop thread.   

I did post a Start8 button for it though. 

 

https://forums.wincustomize.com/447285/page/2

 

 

 

adni18
Reply #12 Saturday, August 31, 2013 5:46 AM

Great work! Congrats! 

groovestorm
Reply #13 Sunday, November 10, 2013 5:09 AM

What if you want a picture inside the start menu?

Uvah
Reply #14 Sunday, November 10, 2013 5:25 AM

Make it as part of the start menu graphic.

DaveBax
Reply #15 Sunday, November 10, 2013 8:22 AM

groovestorm

What if you want a picture inside the start menu?

You can also add any .png graphic you wish another way. Open your WB in SkinStudio. On the top menu click on Tools. Gp down to Start menu Animation builder and click on it to open. Click on Import and find you graphic. 

Set it to the location you wish by adjusting the "Animation Canvas Margins" and or "Layer Position Margins". You will see the graphic move when you do this so just line it up wherever you want. To see what things do mess around with graphic sizes. Make a smaller graphic say 400x400 px just to see what it looks like. You can than make your graphic to the size you want. Play around and if you want to get rid of the graphic the fastest way it to just click on the down arrow next to the graphic and scroll up to the top and click on no image defined. Have fun

DPCloud
Reply #16 Sunday, November 10, 2013 1:46 PM

groovestorm

What if you want a picture inside the start menu?

Make a texture

 

https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/windowblinds_textures/100/

gmc2
Reply #17 Sunday, November 10, 2013 4:59 PM

groovestorm
What if you want a picture inside the start menu?

I assume you have sks and photoshop (or something similar). try it. all you can do is learn something from it.

xNexusVrenx
Reply #18 Wednesday, October 8, 2014 7:23 PM

I just downloaded your tutorial, however, when I click on the link file the browser states that the webpage cannot be found.

Was it moved from that webpage to another?

Thanks for your help.

 

NV

LightStar
Reply #19 Wednesday, October 8, 2014 7:54 PM

Click on the index.html file in the album folder from inside the .zip xNexusVerx, evidently it wasn't packaged correctly.

gmc2
Reply #20 Thursday, October 9, 2014 7:47 AM

LightStar

evidently it wasn't packaged correctly.

I was going to take a little umbrage to this comment since I uploaded the original zip files. However, having looked at the package referenced, I got to agree with you.

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