At MXskinz, it started out with two people skinning like crazy, and then as time went along, so many wonderful talented people have contributed to the site to make it the variety that it is!

Here as a big thanks to each of them, MXskinz will feature a skinner each month or so! Thanks so much to all of them!


Name: Donna Spadafore

Net Nickname: Sylva

Where do you live?: Ohio, USA

What programs do you skin?: Windowblinds, NextStart, ICQ, XXcalc, Quicknotes, Coolplayer, Winamp, and Beatnik. I used to skin Neoplanet, but decided thatletting windowblinds skin IE was better. I've also done a couple BoxBar skins, but don't ask me to remember how *s*.

What programs and graphics do you use to make your skins? : PhotoShop, PaintShop Pro, Colorpad, SkinStudio and Notepad.

Website URL: http://sylvadesigns.eyes.at

Hobbies: Skinning, sewing (I also design a lot of my daughter's clothes), beadwork, gardening, cooking, fish keeping (fancy goldfish).....

Do you have a favorite skin?: Usually whatever skin I am working on at the moment. Or whatever skin I just finished *s*.

How did you get interested in skinning?: I started with Neoplanet. I made a couple of really girly skins for it. Then I stumbled onto skinz.org, (right before or right after efront first bought them,) and got completely lost. I loved the idea that you could change so much on your computer and just had to figure out how to do it all. I tried too many programs to count, then settled on a few that I really liked and have pretty much stuck to them since. At first skinning was just fun, but after a while it became a challenge. I saw that my work was suffering from "sameness" and laziness. Challenging myself to create designs that are completely different from anything else I had already done keeps me interested in continuing to skin, and has inspired me to seek a career in graphics.

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