Working with Skins

With QCD, you can change the way the player appears on your desktop. When you first open QCD, what you see (the player) is actually the default base QCD skin . To understand more about how skins work, it helps to understand some of the basics:

A skin is a file that changes the appearance of your QCD player. If you want, you can group multiple skins together ù when you group skins together, you end up with a skin family .

In turn, you can apply a skin family to QCD. Once you've applied the skin family to QCD, each skin kid (or skin family member) acts as a mode for the skin family. A skin mode is the skin you actually see ù it's a reflection of the currently selected skin. This feature allows you to group skins that are commonly used or have a common theme, and switch between them quickly and seamlessly.

You can switch the skin mode size at any time. Each family can have up to 9 different modes, and you can name the modes any way you like! For example, the mode names Kong (full display), Retro (display is somewhat smaller), and Runt (takes up the least amount of space on your desktop) are specific to the default QCD family skin.

You can also preview and download new skins. When you preview skins, you view a sample screenshot of the skin, and if you like it, all you have to do is click Install. After installing the skin, it can be found back in the 'skin browser' section under the Family or Kids tab, depending on the type of skin you downloaded.

Here are some guidelines as you work with skins: