Blue Dress
Depeche Mode

Put it on
And don't say a word
Put it on
The one that I prefer
Put it on
And stand before my eyes
Put it on
Please don't question why

Can you believe
Something so simple
Something so trivial
Makes me a happy man
Can't you understand
Say you believe
Just how easy
It is to please me

Because when you learn
You'll know what makes the world turn

Put it on
I can feel so much
Put it on
I don't need to touch
Put it on
Here before my eyes
Put it on
Because you realise
And you believe

Something so worthless
Serves a purpose
It makes me a happy man
Can't you understand
Say you believe
Just how easy
It is to please me

Because when you learn
You'll know what makes the world turn





Blue Dress?
First off, you're prob wondering what's up with the Depeche Mode lyrics. Well, it may be about a Blue Dress but I think this song displays perfectly how I feel about winamp skins so the lyrics get to be on this page. Good band, good song, go listen to it.


What is a winamp skin?

A winamp skin is a graphic or pattern that you can put on your winamp player to make it pretty. ^_^ I know this is a very simple explanation but there's really no better way to put it. Most skins change the fire and or the oscilloscope color. Some skins may have edited out buttons if it affects the picture or pattern, but those functions that were edited out should still work in the same place where they were on the default.


How do I use the skins I download?
On your winamp player options there's a Skin Browser option. Select it and then go to Set Skins Directory... button at the bottom of your browser. Find the folder you saved the skins in and set it as the directory. The names of the skins you downloaded should come up. Double click on the one you want and you have a nice spiffy looking background for your winamp player!


How do I make my own winamp skins?

Three words, practice, practice and more practice. You can make a skin with a something as simple as MS Paint (I started out that way) but it really helps if you have PhotoShop or Paint Shop Pro and have a good grasp on how to use them. You can do it the hard way and unzip someone else's skin to use the format of the bitmaps from; or you can get a skinner program. I don't use one anymore except to color the fire but the one I do use is, Skinner (211 kb). It's a good program to start off making skins on. There's a bunch of different Templates that you can use, but you have to manually go in and put them in the Templates Folder once you unzip the skinner program. The one thing about Skinner is that it won't let you save the EQ or PL unless you're registered. Since I now do my skins by hand I haven't looked around much lately, but there may be better skinner programs out there now. I'd suggest you look around some if your going to use a skinner program. Word of advice: Good pictures make good skins. No matter how complex or simple your skin is a good picture will make a good skin.


Where do I get Winamp?
Winamp players can be found at www.winamp.com Many other spiffy winamp skins, plugins and good advice that can be found on the official Winamp site. There's an endless supply of winamp skins out there if you get to looking. I'm certainly not the best skin maker out there, but I enjoy making my skins and hope that you can enjoy them as much as I do.