How to Make Opera Skins

You can change the theme and appearance of your Opera web browser using what's called a skin. The skin of your browser is the background behind your bookmarks, buttons, address bar, status bar and so forth. Using themes, you can change the skin's design and color to reflect your mood. You can download top-rated skins, editor's picks or brand new designs from your Opera browser. Each theme is stored on your computer until you get bored of it, then you can go through the process again to store a new skin.

Instructions

1. Open the Opera browser and navigate to the "Tools -> Appearance -> Skins" category from the toolbar. From this dialog box, you can also view already-installed skins or select and delete skins you no longer want to keep.

2. Check the "Enable Special Effects" checkbox underneath the skins list and choose a color scheme. You can choose from gold, purple, crimson, blue and so forth.

3. Click the "Find More Skins" radio button at the top of the window to download a completely new theme. You can preview each skin in the window pane to the left of the skin name to determine if you want to download it. You can enable new color schemes and special effects on these themes as well. Read the user comments as you scroll through the previews to make sure you're not downloading a theme with errors.

4. Click the "Download" button when you decide on the desired theme. Wait for the browser to download the theme to your computer before moving on.

5. Click "Yes" on the next pop-up box that asks you if you want to apply the downloaded skin.

6. Click the "Show Installed Skins" radio button under the "Skins" tab and click on the name of the skin you just downloaded. Click "OK" to save your changes and close out of the skins dialog box.

Tips & Warnings

• For quickest results, make sure you have only one Opera browsing session open during this process.

References

• Opera Help: Skins