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Creating a Skin
Creating a skin is easy. There is an example skin that shows the basic capabilities of what you can do
and it has documentation describing all the fields and values needed in the skin file (this information
is in the .ini file)
Download Example Skin
Submitting a Skin
After you have created a skin you can choose to publish it and make it available for other POP Peeper users.
Submit your skin (see Checklist below)
Here's what you need to do:
- If you haven't already, register an account
- Click Submit your skin and fill in the following details:
| Detail | Max Length | Notes |
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| User Name | n/a | The username you created at poppeeper.com |
| Skin Name | 30 characters | |
| Skin Description | 255 characters | |
| Account Info? | Y/N | Does the skin display which account received new email? |
| Message Info? | Y/N | Does the skin display message information (ie. subject/sender)? |
| Filename | 25 characters | Use underscores instead of spaces. |
- You also need to include three attachments with the email. The name of each file will be based
on the filename you provided above:
| File | Filename | Notes |
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| Full Preview | [Filename].gif | - Actual-size Image
- Graphic should be a .png, .gif, or .jpg file *
- Use a white background if the image has transparency |
| Thumbnail Preview | [Filename]_tn.gif | - This must be a 150x75 thumbnail of the full preview.
- Graphic should be a .png, .gif, or .jpg file * |
| Skin | [Filename].zip |
- Archive must be a portable/max-compressed .zip file
- One skin per archive
- Archive must contain the subdirectory path (ie. "/MySkin/")
- All files must be contained under this subdirectory
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For example, if you created a skin with a filename of "myskin", you would include three files named:
myskin.png
myskin_tn.png
myskin.zip
* - When creating the preview images, please select the image format that creates the smallest file with
an acceptable quality.
Submission Checklist
- Attach THREE files:
- The skin archive
- Real-size screenshot
- Thumbnail screenshot
- The skin archive is in .zip format
- The zip file contains the subfolder name of your skin and all files exist under this subfolder
- The zip's filename is the same name as the subfolder
- The zip's filename (and the subfolder) does not contain spaces (use underscores '_')
- Use a white background for screenshots when accounting for transparency or resizing the thumbnail
- The dimensions of the thumbnail are exactly 150 x 75 (see below)
- You have registered an account on poppeeper.com (NOT the forums) and the ID number is included when you use
the "submit your skin" link. This is automatically filled in when you are logged in (login on the upper-right of this page).
How to create the 150 x 75 Thumbnail
It is recommended that you use a proportionately sized image for the thumbnail instead of simply resizing the image.
While the exact procedure is different in every paint program, the best way to accomplish this is to resize
the image using proportional dimensions so that the max width is 150 OR the max height is 75. Resize the canvas
to 150x75, and fill any unused space with white.
Changes from v2 skins
Skins that are designed for POP Peeper v3 have the following changes:
- Graphics can now be bmp, gif, or jpg (jpeg is not recommended in most cases since there may be problems with transparency)
- New Slider effects (see example.ini for more info)
- User can override certain values such as transparency and slider effects
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