I like several skins out there and would like to try to make a skin of my own.
So my question is what is the etiquete on borrowing from skins?

Pirk I really like yours and I would like to start by playing around personalizing it. I can figure out how to change the colors so as to make my skin look differant but I'm not as good as some of you at creating new looking buttons and such.

If I did come up with something that was differant but contained parts of other skins I would ask the original owner for their permission to use the image or idea. Is this acceptable practice or do you need to create your skins from scratch?

Hi crlove,

No problem for me. Of course you can personalize my skin to your taste, as much as you need.. Skins are made for that! Personally I still edit my Crimson skin, the artist list letters lately.
You are welcome in the skin developers land! I'm longing to enjoy your mod.

Hi crlove,

the same for my skins. Everybody may use the files for new skins.

I'll hope to see your Crimson-edit soon. I'll started by editng the EJ-Skin.
But the most fun is to create a very new skin.

mchawk