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Tutorial Library

Sixteen follow-on tutorials that build real skins after the lead Blue Morpho butterfly tutorial. Sorted by difficulty.

Beginner

Tutorial Time What you make
Borderless music widget 25 min A star-shaped music widget skin
Star-shaped app window 20 min Practice authoring SVG window shapes
Custom brush from a photo 25 min Capture a tileable from a photo, save as a brush
Import a Figma screen 20 min Bring a Figma frame into the Designer
Lottie loading spinner 25 min Author a loading spinner from a Lottie file

Intermediate

Tutorial Time What you make
SVG icon-pack skin 35 min A skin that swaps icons via a chooser
Aether scaffold a settings panel 30 min Ask Aether to build a settings panel for you
Rig a 2-bone arm 40 min Bind a mesh + IK + paint weights
Cloth flag with wind 35 min A flag waving from a pole
Particle confetti celebration 30 min A one-shot confetti burst
PBR iridescence shader 45 min Author an iridescent material in Hypershade
Importing Photoshop brushes 20 min Bring a .abr set into the Library

Advanced

Tutorial Time What you make
Glass theme from scratch 50 min Author a full custom glass theme
Multi-window dashboard 75 min A multi-window skin with a docking pattern
Touch / pen painting app 60 min A pure painting app that ships as a skin
Publish to marketplace 30 min Sign and publish a skin

How to read them

Each tutorial:

  • Hero shot at the top of the finished result.
  • Prerequisites (which earlier tutorial / which Designer feature is required).
  • Step-by-step, screenshot-light, with exact menu paths.
  • Closes with "what you exercised" and see-also links.

See also