Skin Edit Guide - part 1

Skin Edit Guide part 1

I am not going to write a guide for creating new skins. No one can write better guide than fearsim. Here is fearsim's how to create your motorola skins guide. Here I will show you some common skin mods and some tips and tricks.

Tools I used to edit skins:
1. Motoskin on PC
2. Skinner4moto on PC
3. TextWrangler on Mac

Motoskin is a basic and easy-to-use software. It is good for doing some simple mods. I use it to do the followings:
1. change position and width of operator name, date and time.
2. change opactiy/transparency and alignment of the left/right/center soft buttons, operator and datetime text.
3. replace icons using icons with the same dimension. A good feature is that it can replace all icons in a folder.
4. delete icons.

screenshot of motoskin:


Skinner4moto is much more powerful. I haven't fully utilised it yet. I use it to do:
1. replace icons using icons with different dimension.
2. change colors of text.
3. change the path of the wallpaper gif file.
4. modify the structure or layout of the skin. For example, we can change the layout to achieve big photo of incoming caller, and different preview mode of pictures and phonebook entries. I will give details of these tricks in part 2.

screenshot of skinner4moto:


Sinner4moto is also very useful for understanding the structure of the SKI file. Once you understand it, you can use text editor, like TextWrangler, to edit the SKI file directly. This is important for Mac users, as motoskin & skinner4moto are for PC only.

Download:
motoskin: [inbrite.com]
skinner4moto: [inbrite.com]
TextWrangler download page

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