SkinStudio is a program that allows users to create visual styles for Windows XP and Windows Vista with the possibility of changing the start button, taskbar, buttons, titlebars, and pretty much everything in between.

This update includes several major feature updates.

• WindowBlinds Layer Support. The WindowBlinds layer system allows a skin author to provide multiple layers for a given section of a skin. This also includes layer support for per-pixel borders and glyphs. This opens up a whole new level of creativity for skinners.
• Skin Color Feature. This feature allows Pro users to recolor a skin, or a specific sub-style by using the HSL sliders that is similar to coloring skins in WindowBlinds. This will make it even easier to create sub-styles of varying colors.
• Animated “Please Wait” Support. The Please Wait screen has always been a static image, now it’s possible to create an animation that can be seen while the Wait screen appears.
• NWA File Support. NWA files are a way to reduce the size of animations that are used in WindowBlinds skins. These can be used on Start Menu and “Please Wait” animations and can help save considerable memory and hard drive space. SKS 6.2 also includes a tool to create NWA files from vertical .png/.tga image strips.

Okay, there is a free version with the basic tools, but it remains very limited and we cannot take full advantage of this software. Well, to download the free version of SkinStudio it is in this way.

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008 at 1:36 am | by Kur-nia-one |