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What makes a good skin?

By bugzlitey
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chichigirl46
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bugz..... for your first wblind skin, I think you did very well :-) never mind the critics @ WC, their making more of a wise ass remarks then giving constructive opinions or suggestions..... me makes skins for me, what I like and my taste, and I like to share it if some one wants it....... as for different? whats that, the sky ihas no limitt. Please give yourself a chance :-) Different makes the world go round, it gives me a "choice"...........
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brub
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You know what Bugz, My skins sucks, i&acute;m aware of it, but like ChiChi said, skin what you want for yourself. If you are satisfied, you have satisfied the toughest critic. with the amount of people on the web, you can&acute;t please everyone. <BR> <BR>So do what you want, when you want, about what you want with the application you want. And we&acute;ll like it. beleive me, we will
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elwin
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Listen to Scarebear, Chichi and BruB. <BR> <BR> <BR>On the other hand... <BR>If you want to be &quot;trendwhore&quot; popular, :) <BR>then maybe you should look at the general techniques that popular skin authors use. <BR>Some of those include: <BR> <BR>Glass <BR>Metal <BR>Plastic <BR>Gradients <BR> <BR>Then look at popular color schemes: <BR>Blue <BR>Gray <BR>Blue/Gray <BR>Orange <BR> <BR>Now if you can take those and combine them in the right blend, you can become a &quot;good&quot; skinner. Quite possibly a &quot;popular&quot; skinner. <BR>Not what you may call an original skinner. Or an inventive one. <BR>BUT - You&acute;ll probably get lot&acute;s of downloads... <BR> <BR>{:p
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koasati
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Addendum to Elwin&acute;s post..................don&acute;t forget to slap the XP logo on everything.......... <BR> <BR>Skin for yourself! I know, it would be nice to get lots of downloads, and to be fawned over by the mindless. But do you really want to be a &quot;Brittany Spears&quot; of skinning? Pumping out odles of look-a-like skins...........? Be Yourself! <BR> <BR>/me
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brub
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Don&acute;t listen to Elwin (I never thought I would say that) Popular does not necessarly equal Good. <BR> <BR>Jokin&acute; {:p :)
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bugzlitey
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Thankyou all....wow...I musta sounded like a whiney lil brat huh?...but I needed to know if it was just me or everone else who&acute;s going crazy....and now I know it&acute;s everyone else...lol... <BR> <BR>Um...I got something really different in the works....will more than likely need help though...bugzOut
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craeonics
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Hey hey wait till I&acute;ve slitin my comments, you whiny lil brat. Jduging fromt he skin Carebear linked too, your stuff is <b>fresh</b> and if there&acute;s one thing the world needs more it&acute;s fresh, original skins. Ergo keep it up! Do what you like, not what others like.
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adni18
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Hey bugzlitey, <BR>You are a very good skinner and your last skin is wonderful! Honestly :) <BR> <BR>About your last skin and the comments in WC, you could make your text in titlebars outline with white shadow, so the text could be more readable for those that can not see very well ;)
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bugzlitey
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I can smile now....Thanx...and adni....Special thanx....
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spine
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checked out botnik ... looks kinda cartoonish ... <BR> <BR>timezone series is the path you wanna folow ... looks popular ...
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cuttheredwire
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For me it need to be black, stream-line, functional, yet beautiful and make a statement (even if in itself it mearly says &quot;darkness is beautiful&quot;). That&acute;s just me though. truth is, the better you know yourself, the more you will likey you be able to make skins you&acute;ll like. <BR> <BR>After all, can skin for yourself if you don&acute;t know the person. ^.~
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