This tutorial will teach you how to create your very own jAlbum skin, but you will also learn how to:
Before you get started it's recommended that you learn the basics of jAlbum skin development by checking out the skin introduction tutorial.
When creating a new skin for jAlbum you usually never start from scratch, instead you take an existing skin and base your new skin on that. The jAlbum application has a built in feature that let's you create a new skin based on the "Minimal" skin. To find this feature select "Tools", "Skin developer" and "Create new skin" from the menu.
In this tutorial we will however not use this feature. Instead we will base our new skin on a sample skin called "MyFirstSkin". Click this link to download the skin and choose to open the file (do not choose to "Save on computer"). jAlbum will then notify you that it will install the skin.