Hey I need some help making skins. I dont even know how to get started. How do I get a picture in the background? Or how do I get a cool design on there, and not just a stupid freehand design in the paint program? Someone please help me because I am lost. Thank you.

A skin is a set of bitmaps, usually contained in a wsz(or was is wzs?) file. Take a look at other skins and try to edit them, they are installed in winamp's skin directory. For more info see the developer section of winamp.com. Good luck:)

Oh, and you can open any wsz file with a Zip utility.