Winamp Skins, Desktop Themes

Does anyone know how to make them? And could you possibly explain it to me? Or maybe give me a link to a tutorial that would show how to make them?

I have absolutely no idea how to make winamp skins.

But i do know how to alter most the desktop stuff, i just dont know how to make icons [what do u save them as in PS?].
Those are my real problems

icons have a .ico extension, and as far as I know, you can't make them with photoshop. Well..you can make the actual icon with the right proportions and all, but in order to use it you need another program, like IconForge. As for the winamp skins, no idea. Do a search for "winamp skin tutorials" or something on google and you'll probably find tons of sites with some good info. happy skinning .

There was a thread around here somewhere that said how to make an icon (or rather, save an image as one). Two step process I believe. Here we go:

Originally posted by Zyconium
hmm
save it as a bmp first .. then reopen it in mspaint and choose save as, then just put whatever extension you want

Do some searching around for winamp know-how 'cause I don't know either. Hope I helped .

Go to the winamp site and they have a full tutorial on how to skin them. It is a lot more than just changing graphics.

i made a winamp skin in 1998. i just went to search for it online. i found it on ONE site! too bad the download and preview links were broken. even worse, it had someone else's name as the author!

it wasn't that good anyhow...

thanks for the input. I'll try the .bmp -to> .ico thing when i get back to my house.

You know, this may sound like a no-brainer, but Googling for the answer is often an overlooked - and most useful - resource!

I'll tell you a story (quit your whining :D)

This story happened a couple of months ago. After visiting www.sexmaxxx.com and enjoying myself, I found that the site had actually gone and edited my registry files for Internet Explorer, so that whenever I right-clicked inside Internet Explorer, on the right click menu, right between "Refresh" and "Properties" there was this one option that read exactly as follows:

>>>FREE PORN GALLERIES<<<

You could understand my dismay. I had no idea of how to go about solving the situation. I was scared that I'd be in trouble if my brother or my mother saw it.

Thank god, they both are pretty much computer illiterate :D :D :D

After about a month (and no one seeing, can you believe it?), I realized that I never tried googling the answer, which I did, and I found out how to edit registry files :D

So lesson learned.
A) Always try Googling for the answer!
B) Never visit sexmaxxx.com again!!!

you oughta put the thing about the free porn galleries problem BEFORE you put a link to the site, lest you get some unsuspecting sucker in trouble:D