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How to make a good skin

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Cenoxium's Avatar Cenoxium
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Hello, I'm Cenoxium and I will be your guide to:

HOW TO MAKE A GOOD SKIN


First off, you need a skin editing program. I suggest using PaintNET, because it's a good drawing program and it's free.
Now that you got your drawing program, you need a template skin. You can open the Minecraft.jar file (with WinRar), go to "mobs" and copy the file named "char". You can also download the skin named "Steve" from the internet, that's the name of the player and the default skin.
With the skin template to work with, you can now begin working on your skin! Just make sure you've got some inspiration!

Here are some tips to making a great looking skin:
1. Don't copy or steal content from other skins! This is less copyright issue than the fact that pretty much everyone copies and your skin won't look so different from the others
2. Don't overdo with the "Noise". Your skin will look like a teenager with too much acne!
3. Only use the given resolution! If you want to make a 32x skin, you'll have to build it into a texturepack or wait for Minecraft 1.3 to come
4. Have your friends like the skin so that more people can see it.
5. Don't advertise too much on the chat! Only one link per 15 minutes. This, however, does help.

Well, that's all I can think of. Be sure to check back for updates and good luck with making your skin!
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Yeeya
05/09/2012 10:59 am
Level 18 : Journeyman Pig
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I used Paint.NET to make the skin I am using, and I also use it to make all of my texture packs. Good tutorial, you can also get the default player skin at Minecraft.net!
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Clui
05/08/2012 1:32 pm
Level 20 : Expert Artist
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I only saw one thing having to do with making a good skin, not much noise, Having more views/keeping to the rules doesn't improve the skin. Add some tutorials about skinning or shading ect.
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MR_MM99
05/07/2012 10:53 am
Level 19 : Journeyman Ninja
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Nice...but it's simplier to make it at "miners need cool shoes":)
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Magne
05/07/2012 9:45 am
Level 12 : Journeyman Skinner
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Thanks dude!
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