Programs That Can Help with Skin Making
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Programs That Can Help with Skin Making
Post Here Programs That Can Be Used When Creating Skins.
Trout's GIF Optimizer (A)
Adware to create smaller GIF files
Trout's GIF Optimizer shrinks GIFs without any noticable reduction of picture quality
It will even convert other graphics to optimized GIFs:
? Bitmaps (*.bmp)
? JPEGs (*.jpg; *jpeg)
? Icons (*.ico)
? Metafiles (*.wmf; *.emf)
Just drag-and-drop files then Save
Supports animated GIFs
New in GIF Optimizer
? create even smaller GIFs
? cut, copy and paste graphics to / from the Windows clipboard
? color reduction to create much smaller GIFs
? sort graphics in batch optimizations by name, size, bytes saved etc
? preview to compare the original graphics with the optimized GIFs
? Recursively search for graphics through folders and their subfolders
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Trout's GIF Optimizer (A)
Adware to create smaller GIF files
Trout's GIF Optimizer shrinks GIFs without any noticable reduction of picture quality
It will even convert other graphics to optimized GIFs:
? Bitmaps (*.bmp)
? JPEGs (*.jpg; *jpeg)
? Icons (*.ico)
? Metafiles (*.wmf; *.emf)
Just drag-and-drop files then Save
Supports animated GIFs
New in GIF Optimizer
? create even smaller GIFs
? cut, copy and paste graphics to / from the Windows clipboard
? color reduction to create much smaller GIFs
? sort graphics in batch optimizations by name, size, bytes saved etc
? preview to compare the original graphics with the optimized GIFs
? Recursively search for graphics through folders and their subfolders
Get Email notification when there are more new features
Last edited by angeldust on Wed Mar 31, 2004 10:06 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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Icon Sushi (F)
http://www.towofu.net/soft/e-index.php
Batch image conversion. Converts .ico's to .png's & .bmp's and vice versa etc..
http://www.towofu.net/soft/e-index.php
Batch image conversion. Converts .ico's to .png's & .bmp's and vice versa etc..
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The following Programs were suggested by one of the most prolific Avant Skin Designers we have.
sevensteps2heaven
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 1:49 pm Post subject: FREEWARE
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Graphics:
imageforge:
http://www.shareup.com/ImageForge-download-1999.html
imageforge3:
http://www.cursorarts.com/ca.imffw.html
the gimp:
http://www.gimp.org/
pixeltoolbox:
http://www.axiomx.com/pixeltoolbox/
Icons:
http://www.towofu.net/soft/e-index.php
Resizer:
http://www.acumensystems.com/mir/
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http://www.towofu.net/soft/e-index.php
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Thankyou, I've modified the original post to reflect this 


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Re: Programs That Can Help with Skin Making
Browser Person found this program that makes converting old skins a breeze!
http://www.zexersoft.com/products.html

http://www.zexersoft.com/products.html
Sarahttp://www.zexersoft.com/products.html
It has a 30 day trial and is $19 after that.
Using it on skins extracts all the bitmap files in them. It seems to pull out the foreground image and background image as separate bitmap images (this is exactly what I wanted).

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Re: Programs That Can Help with Skin Making
Not so much a program but nice little article on Avant & Skin making
http://www.associatedcontent.com/articl ... owser.html
http://www.associatedcontent.com/articl ... owser.html
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Re: Programs That Can Help with Skin Making
I found this application useful:
http://www.winmatrix.com/forums/index.p ... topic=1774
http://www.winmatrix.com/forums/index.p ... topic=1774
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Re: Programs That Can Help with Skin Making
Here's a site where you can get some free icons for skining or what ever. You can also purchase some too.
http://www.iconshock.com/
http://www.iconshock.com/
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Re: Programs That Can Help with Skin Making
Thanks for sharing the links. This would be much easier rather than searching for them in google.