There some stuff that you should know before making your skins...

* You are making a skin for yourself, don't mind what others might say, so make it as YOU want to

* The planning is very important

* If is about someone/something famous, make a good search on the net for the best images and gfx of it! It always helps!

* Gather all the stuff you got and made in a folder

* Don't mind of the time taken to make it!

* Make a small skin, for don't be heavy on the slower pcs!! This way, everybody can use it!

* Make all the grafics before go editing

* Save the grafics in a ZIP file, after done, u decide if keep it as zip or u can export as ipz... I rather zip, cause u can edit it just openning Winzip...

* Save your grafics as BMP, is the one that is more compressed on the zip and to make transparent images is just on this format(later on this tutorial you'll know why!)

* Is better if you keep Jpg background images, those ones with lots of colors and big size,in JPG format! If you save them as bmp it would be very big and wouldn't help in nothing!

* Send your skin to a good site, where it will be seen by thousands of peoples.

Ok then, next...