How you make a skin in StyleSkin is simple...

You design your template first. StyleSkin's built in template editor does this quickly and easily, or you can use another program and import the template as a graphic. Either way creating the template is a simple job of drawing shapes which define the different areas of your skin. The default template looks like:

You then create a texture for your skin. You can choose from the extensive range of textures and endless variations StyleSkin has to offer, or you can import an image to use as your texture. With the built in textures StyleSkin can create a texture that is unique across your skin. This adds detail and interest to your skin, and avoids drab tiled patterns. For this skin we chose the Petri Dish texture:

Now you decide on your color and other skin properties. You can choose your colors, how rounded it appears etc. For this skin we chose to have green gel buttons on a grey background. We also chose to vary the color of the skin with the texture, giving us the following skin:

We can even save our skin settings, our texture and our template! Then, when we want another skin in that style we need only open up the files we want and we're off again.

A Versatile, Complete Skinning Package

There are three facets to creating a skin in StyleSkin, your template, your texture and your rendered graphics. StyleSkin combines it's graphics rendering engine with a versatile template editor, and an extensive texture generator. This means you can do all your design work right in StyleSkin, creating templates, textures and rendering the final results! Because you can save your template and effects, making a change at a later date is easy. No more do you have to try and remember the long chain of manipulations you had to do to create your graphics. Nor do you have to take the time to do them either, simply open up your template and effect settings and you're right where you left off. Make any changes that you wish and click "Render Complete Skin" and you've produced a new fully rendered skin!

StyleSkin allows you to adjust every aspect of your skin, and render any of the many different skin elements independently. The elements include:

Plus Photo-Based Skins!

StyleSkin ALSO offers a range of specialized skinning modules which allow you to create a skin based on a photographic image. This means you can take your favorite photo, or a photo that suits your skin, and with minimal disruption to the image, create an attractive skin from it! You can create very attractive skins while retaining all the detail, color, contrast and brightness of the original photographs! The photo render modules are as follows, please note that the standard text module above also serves the photo rendering method:

And There's EVEN More!

StyleSkin is packed with features to help you make your skins! These include a number of Accent effects, for a rundown on some of these just click below:

to view Accent Effects!

 

 

 

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