WINDOWBLIND TUTORIAL PART 1 The start menu

Published on May 31, 2010 By Vampothika In Skinning

Hi guys,

we have had some requests about learning how to make window blinds, some of the tuts out there are a bit dated and hard to understand,

so Im putting together a series of extremly easy to follow and understand tutorials focused on how to make a windowblind from beginning to end.

If anyone has questions, please ask! or if anyone has suggestions....do tell us, the more secrets we crank out the better.

Tomorrows tutorial will look at painting margins, startmenu font, username font, margin seperators, all programs arrow and the log off buttons.

Vampothika xxx

Comments (Page 5)

neone6

on Aug 14, 2011

Smooth Avatar Greg.

gmc2

on Aug 14, 2011

neone6

reply 61

Smooth Avatar Greg.

thanks Andrew, I'm changing things around, wish I had your talent, keep'm coming.

mightymark

on May 01, 2014

Is there a zip file of .bmp images that a typical skin would use that newbies could use as a starting point? I like to think I'm a good digital artist but getting the sprites right is a little tedious. If I had a basic set of images. That I could open in Photoshop and replace with my own work would be awesome. Does something like that exist?

Thanks for taking time to read.

Kind Regards

Wilhelm

DaveBax

on May 01, 2014

mightymark

reply 63

If I had a basic set of images. That I could open in Photoshop and replace with my own work would be awesome. Does something like that exist?

Use the Corporate or Diamond WB that comes with Windowblinds as a templete. One of those is the preferred one to use from Stardock but it's been so long can't remember which one.

Uvah

on May 01, 2014

Usually the Diamond skin......I think.

Wizard1956

on May 01, 2014

mightymark

reply 63

typical skin would use that newbies could use as a starting point

Besides using the Diamond skin as a template, you can also open any skin up in SKS and look at what is there and make your own changes. Many skinners here at WC started out by modding an existing skin (For your own use of course, not for re-uploading) before they created their own original works from scratch.

Good Luck.

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