Seriously though...the GUIOlympics got me inspired to try skinning

My biggest inspiration was the sheer ugliness of Win98, and discovering "skinz.org" 2 months after I started using a computer.

And I always thought we were in it for the money, , sorry, I spelled it wrong, happiness ?

#18, *Cough* SkinsFactory

I got into skinning because of a wall of nuvem. I ask where the wall came from and I was told, from wincustomize, they have great walls there.
I looked arround and withing a couple of days I was addicted to objectbar.
Thats what got me into skinning. The fun of making skins and being able to create something that you can share kept me going for a while.

Then I started to create some icons. I got contacted by someone if I could create some stuff for him and because I was quite busy I said "I will do it for 20$" (thinking he probably wouldn't bother any more and leave me alone )

He accepted that and that was my first experience with commercial skinning.

Never knew money could be so.... inspiring?

Will be comming some free skins soon tought, got some of them laying arround here. Will be re-opening styl-x with a blast!

Oh yeah, almost forgot about the green start button. Had to go!

3 skins encouraged me to take a whack at skinning

-Aquarium by Joanne
-CopperDeckII by Treetog and
-Azure by Adni18






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WOM was inspired by all the great skinners and their skins.

Thats why I download as many as I can.

Winamp set it off. The idea of the users ability to change the way it looked got me hooked (wow that rimed). I looked deeper into it and found Stardocks apps. Just awesome. Now I can change it all and make some after my own taste.

Messing with weird proggies....found Litestep...a horrid looking thing with little lightglobes as shortcut icons.....got hooked....somewhere around b21 release '97 or '98....thereabouts [I still have the old shell somewhere]...

Winamp got it started for me, back in like 1999, snooped around the skin sites for bit...but then I took a break. Few years later I download a StyleXP trial, exactly 4 minutes later, I download WB 3.5 trial, now here I am.

I really got into skinning, when I saw Polymer by The Skindicate back in the day.

I started tweaking it and the next thing I knew I was hooked.
If it was skinable, I turned it into a Polymer skin.

Sonique 1 (Back in '99) and the skins by Supa, Luke, Pordey, Wreck etc...

Contrary to all you WinAmp skinners out there, my first inspiration came from the skins available in Windows Media Player. Back then it still was version 7, so the skins were limited. I decided to take a whack at skinning it. First step: destroying about 6 skins trying to modify them. Moved from there to making some cursors and stuff to complement an idea I was workin with at the time. From there I've gone pretty much nuts with failed attempts at other stuff. WindowBlinds is actually easier than I thought it would be.

I am on the brink of just slapping graphics together and posting them in the library for others to pick and use if they like... *sigh*