Would like to learn how to make windowblinds.

As of now, about the only thing you can do is open up some skins in SkinStudio and tear them apart. Then start building your own while studying another one, checking out all the settings.

There really isn't any documentation on how to skin a WB, unfortunately.

No complete info or vids available but lots of help here and there is some official instructions...but absolute BEST way is open a skin that you like(thats made well) and see how they did it.

if you get stuck, just ask here, most of us wb skinners are always happy to help.

even make your own post about it, so when you have new questions, ask them there and they can be answered, and it will be a good reference for you when you do another skin and forgot a certain problems solution..... xx

if you want you can pm me for my email addy and i can help you live on msn.

i have tried and tried and tried to make skins using skin professional and just cannot get my head round it. i tried using the aero theme and changing colours but so many other little windows open and i get flustered. how hard can it be?   i am not easily thrown by things but this just baffles me

In a nutshell, if it were easily done, more would be doing it....it takes tremendous dedication, graphics talent, a synthetic imagination (and other traits I am sadly lacking). The three individuals who answered before us, lou, are perfect examples of how much imagination and talent is needed to be truly successful at it.

You might want to check these tutorials out. There is a teaching blind made by Night Train, and some tutorials on how to work with it by bebop/boopish. It's a bit out of date (for WB5).

http://www.skinartistry2.com/download.php?view.764

http://www.skinartistry2.com/download.php?view.6

http://www.skinartistry2.com/download.php?view.7

http://www.skinartistry2.com/download.php?view.8

http://www.skinartistry2.com/download.php?view.138

so true doc, i am usually good at working things out but i find the who UI baffling and keep doing things that dont seem to achieve what i wanted  lol

i thought i cld take an aero skin, replace the colour with texture and hey presto a beauty  lol

You can do that just within Windowblinds, without having to mess with it in SkinStudio.  Just play around with the textures tab in Windowblinds following Island Dog's instructions from this thread https://forums.wincustomize.com/367264  and I think you should get that Presto beauty you've been looking for!

lol  K10w3 i have done that already, thought it wld b nice to create a skin myself tho 

lol, is that offer open to anyone?

sure

Like you, I gave it several tries and abandoned the whole project on the "too hard" pile.  Maybe some of the excellent skinners we have could get together and create a tutorial for beginning skinners.  I think it would be very good for the community as a whole.  Loukeeya and I are probably not the only ones who have tried and been frustrated by the lack of information.

The teaching blind and tutorials seem to have been removed from skin artistry.

I have a question about Window Blinds.  I do use Skin Studio and am able to edit graphics such as the start menu, change colors for menus, favorites, fonts, etc. What I don't understand is how to new create corners, tops, sides, bottoms of frames to make a new skin.  Do those graphcs have to be a specific size?  Do some of you create them from scratch or do you edit aero or other skins?  I also get confused creating glass.  That seems to be the hardest thing of all to create though some folks are absolute wizards! 

Add me to the list... and you are right.  I am sure there are thousands of would be skinners out there, especially with the windowblinds program.

I have tried to make a couple of WB's, all ended in massive FAIL.  If only there was adequate instructions and maybe a troubleshooting guide.  But, I am not really complaining.  I can accept my strengths and weaknesses.

Knowing how difficult it is to make windowblinds make me appreciate the skills of the artists even more.

I will surely attempt this again sometime in the furture, when I have time to study the intricacies involved.

I just downloaded it again to be sure. It's here:

http://www.skinartistry2.com/download.php?view.764

It looks like you will have to join SkinArtistry to get access to the teaching blind and the tutorials. They are all there, but not accessible if you aren't logged in.

Most of us started skinning WB when it was a LOT easier, so it was easier to adapt to the changes as they came along. I feel sorry for anyone just starting out now and trying to make a WB, as it's really hard. I've made 100 WB skins and I can't figure out skinstudio these days. It's a shame really...... B[]

I'm waiting for WB 87.34. It'll be the one where you just think of the skin and *poof it's there.

Until then....

I'm still learning how to apply the things.

Skinning WB, as it always has been is about opening SKS and not giving in to it until you get the result you want, trial and error trial and error, trial and error, mixed with persistence, rolled up sleeves and plenty of coffee.

There is no secret, other than how bad do you want it?

He conveniently left out the magic ingredient .... talent.

Probably because to those who have it, (as all the above Masters and Journeyman) it's probably so natural that they don't really notice it (sorta like one's nose).

Honestly Doc, I think you couldn't be further from the truth, Man Hours, practice maketh perfect'ing is 95 % of it imo.

You might, no, would be surprised how shockingly untalented I really am and how much just keeping at it, over and over, hour after hour, day after week after year, soon to be decade is the real key.

The only talent needed is knowing what looks good and what doesn't, the rest is busting your ass to make it look that way. If you can't figure something out, do not give up. If you want it to look a certain way and don't have the skill set.. then learn the skill set, do not give up.

Works for almost everything in life.

You mean they can pick both,  Doc?

I'll agree with that, as I went through medical school in Hebrew. That was 3 yrs. after arriving in Israel, knowing no Hebrew at all. My Hebrew I learned on a Kibbutz and in the Army (incentive: learn or be perforated)....

But, John... as Billy S. wrote, "....he doth protest too much." You are extremely talented with graphics and have a natural bent for the arts. Sure, you had to learn the tools, but you unerringly come up with great skins. Not a loser in the bunch. Was that random chance? No way.

Is Vamps' originality and unique imagination a product of 'don't give up'? No...it's a product of inspiration. I.R.'s amazing imagination isn't 'perseverance'....it's part of his talent, and so is yours.

In fact, you're doing it now....when skinning is so difficult, and technical.

So don't argue, my friend

    I can see through you.....

Or.....in a  *special*  case, *poof both.