Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your SKN file.
You'll see a preview.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to save your file in the format you want.
Convert SKN to another file type
The converter easily converts your SKN Skins to various formats - free and online. No League of Legends or or other Game software needed.
SKN to PS2
SKN to PSD
SKN to GIFF
SKN to FITS
SKN to RL8
SKN to PBM
SKN to TIFF
SKN to PI3
SKN to BPX
SKN to HDR
SKN to PM
SKN to PCX
Convert a file to SKN
To convert other file formats to the "Game Character Skin" file type, you need software like League of Legends or a similar tool.
About SKN files
The .SKN extension represents a highly fragmented category of "skin" files designed to alter the graphical user interface of applications or the 3D models of video game characters. They are prominently used by popular video games like League of Legends, Unreal Tournament, and the Eternity Engine. In the software realm, legacy media players like Winamp, TTPlayer, and MoonShell2 use .SKN files to store custom UI themes. Surprisingly, the exact same extension is also used in Israel for construction cost estimation databases by software like Shkalulon and Dekel.
The main disadvantage of an .SKN file is this extreme fragmentation. Because "skin" is a generic term, developers frequently invent their own proprietary data structures. An .SKN file from League of Legends contains 3D skeletal mesh data that is completely incompatible with a Winamp skin, which is often just a renamed ZIP archive or a Microsoft Compound file. This lack of standardization means your operating system has no idea what program to use, and you cannot view the contents natively in a web browser.
To safely edit, view, or archive the assets locked inside an .SKN file, conversion or extraction is required. For UI-based themes, convert .SKN to ZIP to easily extract the internal PNG images and XML configuration files. For game-based 3D skins, converting to OBJ or FBX allows you to edit the models in standard software like 3ds Max or Blender. Drag and drop your file here to analyze and convert it - free, online, and without installing software. convert.guru will automatically detect the internal format and provide the best extraction or conversion options.
Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your SKN file.
If you want to convert SKN file to INI, CFG, CONF, CONFIG, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, ENV, PROPERTIES or RC, you can use League of Legends or similar software from the "Graphical Interface and Game Skins" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert ZSHRC, CONF, RCFILE, GITCONFIG, RC, PLIST, BASHRC, CONFIG, PROFILE, INI, PREFS or CFG files to SKN, try League of Legends or another comparable tool in the "Graphical Interface and Game Skins" category.
The SKN Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our SKN converter.