What r u talkin about pink?? lol

Ok I started over on a transparent background, here's the preview I also saved each individual piece on a transparent background as a layer, is that right??

yes...put all the pieces in a skin and you have the beginnings of a start menu.

Magic pink is for non per pixel window frames...you will have to have them even if the main window frames are per pixel...but we are getting ahead of ourselves...Start menus can always be per pixel now.

  

Ok, I'm gonna try this again now that I have more time Here's what I got now (its all merged here bc I made it a jpeg but I have another one saved in pieces)

Oh and what extemsion do I give them to be able to open them in ss?

I'm keeping an eye on this post/tut for when I start on my next WB. I had to find out all this stuff by myself, and realize that I've been doing a lot of things the hard way! A great read for a WB newbie!

save the pieces as either .bmp,.png or .tga

Bitmap if the image is totally opaque or is using the magic pink for transparency.

png or tga(32bit)if the image needs translucency(like to be see thru or have a drop shadow)  

Ok so I am still a little confused how many pieces should I have all together besides the ones in the pic?

thats all,except for the all progs arrow(a seperate 3 state image) and the menu mouseover(a 2 state image)  

oh,and logoff/shutdown buttons  

Wel its been a long time since I 1st posted this and got side tracked  by college (graphic design) but due to that I think that I can better do this now I also noticed that SS is alot different now!

welcome back TTC!

 

Yes sks has changed a lot since 07. I think the current version was sks5 at the time. I'm using sks7.

and I have just read all that and I am still confused I learn better if I watch someone lol cos reading all that scares the clappers out of me