Sizes for each separate part of skin
Friday, November 6, 2009 by diva42 | Discussion: Skinning
I am completely stuck with skinstudio 6.4 I was told to study other peoples skins which I have done with a few, I want to know what
Size to make each individual section ex. start menu top what size am I supposed to create it in photoshop?
Ther are no tutorials that I found to help the wiki doesnt help me nothing online leads me to understanding how to even make a
beggining there has to be a starting point what size is the start menu each skin Ive looked at all have different sizes so how am I
supposed to know if I should make it 1024x768 or 300x500 really there has to be a set size somewhere.
The only thing I do know is the wallpaper sizes which doesn't help me in the least as that is not sent into skinstudio for adding to
the skin.
What am I failing to understand?
Thanks, Lisa
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Reply #22 Saturday, November 7, 2009 11:43 AM
hmm do I have to do this in a certain order I did all the adjustments to each image and applied
and the white tip is still there
Reply #23 Saturday, November 7, 2009 12:12 PM
Ok I solved it I had to recrop leaving a bit more room above the top for some reason if the crop is snug it winds up like that.
Thanks Lisa
Reply #24 Saturday, November 7, 2009 12:17 PM
Best ways to learn...open a skin that works correctly by a good author and poke around.
If you ever just want to see how big something is just replace its image with a flat colored image (black or white or whatever).
Windows will then display it at its needed size...which you can screenshot and measure.
But,its really arbitrary what size to produce the actual graphic at because small graphics will stretch or tile to fill out the needed size. 
Reply #25 Saturday, November 7, 2009 12:19 PM
But oh well...whatever gets you moving forward.
Reply #26 Saturday, November 7, 2009 12:30 PM
Thanks for all the help Ive learned a lot I just got this program this past Wednesday so I'll be here begging for help for sure 
Reply #27 Saturday, November 7, 2009 12:43 PM
Now my next adventure is how to remove the icon on the top of the start menu and can I over ride the text too?
Reply #28 Saturday, November 7, 2009 1:17 PM
Start menu/ Top part/ extra tab/ scroll down to hide the user picture and check enabled.
To remove the text: in the same extra tab area find vertical text shift. Make it -1000
Reply #29 Saturday, November 7, 2009 1:18 PM
Those 2 options are under the Extra tab for the user pane (top part)
BUT you can insert this code into the code editor section of the top part
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HideUserPicture=1
TextHorzShiftNormal=250
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Then you can change the 250 to whatever you need 250 = # of pixles shfited to the left
Reply #31 Saturday, November 7, 2009 2:34 PM
Thanks it worked but the setting for the text I had to use 1100 instead because the negative didn't work for me.
Reply #32 Saturday, November 7, 2009 5:12 PM
nice to see you haven't gotten to discouraged diva42 and you definitely couldn't ask for better people to be getting advice/assistance from than the ones who are giving it 
Reply #33 Sunday, November 8, 2009 6:00 AM
Thanks and I appreciate all the help, I have another issue I made a start button and when I hover over it , it disaapears any idea what I need to do to fix this?
Reply #34 Sunday, November 8, 2009 6:29 AM
I would have to see the image you used and the settings in sks, Lisa
Reply #36 Sunday, November 8, 2009 7:05 AM
Ok.
1. I would suggest using a .png/.tga with a transparent background for that image (I try to avoid .bmp with magic pink when ever possible).
2. You have too much extra canvas on the end of the image. The startbutton has 5 states, so if you have a section at the end it messes up the spacing of the states. Look at this example:
I added the gray background to illustrate where the canvas ends. The actual image should have a blank background.
Reply #38 Sunday, November 8, 2009 7:32 AM
Yep it worked thank god for those who came before me else I'd be lost 
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Reply #21 Saturday, November 7, 2009 11:24 AM
also make sure u have transparency and alpha channel boxes checked for the image.