State of the Industry

You know, I actually forgot I made this blog. It's been a year since my last post, and a lot has changed in the minecraft skin world. Back then the only way to make skins was to use the buggy program made by one of the community members, or painstakingly edit every pixel yourself in Paint or GIMP. Now there are online editors everywhere with all sorts of cool presets and features. I mean, even I can make awesome looking skins now with all this cool stuff. Back then the best I could do was, well...

Not pretty to say the least.

So, we've come a long way since Minecraft was "released" back in 2010. Skins now are just crazy, all this shading and whatnot. I'll admit I'm not privvy to all the proper lingo, but I do admire a lot of the awesome skins being made these days. I really can't believe that after 2 (almost 3) years I, and millions of other people, are still playing and enjoying Minecraft.

When you think about it now, it really has changed the gaming industry as a whole.Now there are a million other "Minecraft-genre" games, like Minetest and the soon-to-be Yogventures. People are also a lot more willing to spend money on games that aren't made yet, as evidenced by the millions of Kickstarter projects being funded recently (Yogventures being one of them).

Anyway, I'm not sure why I made this post.

How to Make Your Own Minecraft Skins

Creating your own Minecraft skins may sound like a difficult process, but trust me it is as easy as 1,2,3. You simply have to be acquainted with a photo editing software (such as Paint or Photoshop).

The first thing you’re going to require (aside from a picture editing software) is the template for the Minecraft skins. If you don’t have this you can go to minecraft skins in order to find it.

As you can see on the template every bit of the skin includes a different part of the template that it will likely be. So color in the some other part of the template, like the face, the legs, arms, hair etc. but keep in mind that when you are finished the image will be about one hundred times smaller. When you are finished and save your valuable finished minecraft skin it will likely be 64x32px.

If you need assistance then try using the default skin as a guide and then make small changes. Maybe give a hat, and then glasses, then you can alter the head. After that it gets easy.

Now that you have created your minecraft skins I can see you asking "But how do I put it on?!"

To use your different minecraft skins go to the minecraft homepage and sign in. Once logged in click on "Preferences" which should take you to your own user skin page. Now I’m sure you can see how to continue from here.

Simply click upload and choose the skin you want to use. It will take just a few minutes depending on your internet rate, but after you have uploaded your new minecraft skin it will show you a preview on the site.

If you want minecraft skins but do not want to make your own, then try the site listed above. They have lots of minecraft skins to acquire and use, I like it a lot.