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SkinStudio Pro to get icon creation features!

September 20, 2003 12:57:30 PM from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums

The current internal version of SkinStudio Pro not only will let you create Windows Media Player Skins, WindowBlinds skins, Universal Skin Formatted skins but now can create icons of every known Windows icon format.

It can handle both individual and batch processing of images created in .PNG, .TGA, .BMP and other formats and automatically transform them into icons of various sizes.

I tried this out last night on a .PNG file I downloaded from the ObjectDock library last night and it worked great.

http://draginol.stardock.com/writings/skinni8.jpg (screenshot of final icon in various sizes).

SkinStudio comes in 3 forms: The free version which just creates WindowBlinds visual styles.  The enhanced version which is $19.95 that adds widget, colorizing, and skin importing into skin creation.  And the pro version which will have an introductory price of $29.95 and has Media Player skin support and icon creation.  SkinStudio (all forms) is part of Object Desktop: http://www.objectdesktop.com

This new version should be up on ODNT next week.

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Reply #1 September 20, 2003 1:41:49 PM
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This is very cool indeed. Will it be able to take existing ICO files and export them to PNG as well? How about PSD support?
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Reply #2 September 20, 2003 4:42:24 PM
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Sorry if I am missing something obvious, but can I create ICO files with this?
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Reply #3 September 20, 2003 5:37:24 PM
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goodie goodie.. I can't wait
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Reply #4 September 20, 2003 8:10:25 PM
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After have tried this application as a beta tester and being an iconist (at least I guess I am ), I must to say, Adam is a genious, the app works perfectly, it has some very interesting resources on a easy to use and  friendly user envoirement. I bet it will bit some well known Icon Editors. GO! GO!
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Reply #5 September 20, 2003 9:46:55 PM
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This sounds nice.

Too bad I *just* purchased IconWorkshop!
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Reply #6 September 21, 2003 3:31:19 AM
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Windows Media Player skin support sounds interesting...another skin format that would be nice is Winamp3, even though it's been cancelled there's Winamp5 coming up which has support for both Winamp2 and Winamp3 skins. I found an alpha version via geeknewz.com and it works perfect (with the skins I mean). I'm not very interested in xml - I just wanna do the graphics - so a program that could write it for you would be great.
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Reply #7 September 21, 2003 6:11:16 AM
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G-R-E-A-T!!!
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Reply #8 September 21, 2003 10:29:40 AM
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I could imagine some other even easier to do auto-skins in there like colorpad, ez-pop, beatnik and sysmetrix.
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Reply #9 September 22, 2003 11:43:45 AM
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Wow. That's very nice.
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Reply #10 September 22, 2003 12:25:21 PM
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It's a useless feature unless is can convert from/to OSX .icns files.

When Creating Icon packages I like to offer Windows and Mac users my icons.

Since I own a PC and a G5 I also like to keep my systems looking quite similar and so far there is really no easy way to convert Win Icons to OSX.
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Reply #11 September 22, 2003 1:18:20 PM
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scratch_pentagon, by the nature of how it works with icons - it automatically creates PNG images for every frame).
Sysmetrix, yes you can,
qrayg, i'll see what I can do. Where can I get Icons for the OSX? I don't supose you would know any docs on the format, would you?

Thanks for the kind words everyone!
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Reply #12 September 22, 2003 3:32:30 PM
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OSX icons can easily be found on the web. My two favorite sits are IconFactory http://www.iconfactory.com and Xicons http://www.xicons.com . I convert them to windows using IconShop, which for some strange reason won't work on my laptop anymore but does function on the desktop.

Being able to convert from OSX to Windows would be a very nice thing.
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Reply #13 September 22, 2003 7:36:10 PM
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Do you need pay to register the free version?
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Reply #14 September 23, 2003 10:48:03 PM
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Bsoft: You're funny. "pay for the free version". Now, that would make it not free, would it.
As Brad said, there are 3 versions:- Free version: makes WB skins only, and yes, it's free- Enhanced version, $20- Pro version, that will skin WMP and make icons, $30.
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