Gimp rocks. It's fast, easy to use, powerful, and open-source (which means it's free, too.) A perfect skinning tool.

...Even if the skins are a bit on the simple side.

Sweet and easy,thats how I made the UT blue camo skin

Yeah, color find/replace would be nice, but PS's Select > Color Range, then a quick Hue/Saturation adjustment layer will do.

Hey, I actually tried that double-filter, and here's what I got:

Microsoft's wallpaper sucks. As do most Microsoft products. So why not jazz it up a bit?

Heres a way to get extra patterns:

FIRST: find a picture you like. EXAMPLE:

SECOND:Right click on it and click "save as" then go to C:Program FilesGIMP-2.0sharegimp2.0patterns

THIRD: then save it as any name you want.

Now open up gimp, look in he pattern palette and look everywhere til you find the patters you downloaded!

And voila!A unique pattern skin!

Hope this helped! ;)

I probably would have figured that out myself, I found out how to install Photoshop plugins the same way, but thanks.