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Ive seen people make themes where in the start panel, the items (i.e. my documents, firefox, etc) were a custom image, not a blue color. how do i do this? thanks
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
In SKS5 its Start Panel > Item in the tree on left.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
ok. one more question (not related) i made this custom start menu, saved them as a PNG, and SS puts these white lines on all the sides i cant get rid of. do u know how?
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Check your transparency settings in Skinstudio for the images. The settings are not correct for a .png (.tga).
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Make sure that you have the checkboxes for transparency and translucency checked in SKS or else it will be treated like a non-trans image.
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
i did that. i also set the transparenty thingy to PER PIXEL ALPHA. did i do something wrong to something more i need to do?
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
not that I can think of unless your not saving your PNG's correctly.
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
upload it to www.sendspace.com leave a link, I or someone will take a look.   
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Margins might be out of place. Pumakitten has a great set of tuts here.WWW Link
Think I read something about the margins leaving white lines. Wish I could help you more but I am still trying to make a skin myself. Good luck.
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
ill use a differant host


why?
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
jesus.......try also looking in 'painting options' and make sure perpixel is set to 1 not 0. check the Background Effect and set that to 1 also.

Also click on STartPanel and enable hide shadows.......

hope that helps....
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
what i did was edit the file with xp paint and filled in the wite with magic pink! then make sure that you do what vstyler said in reply#5
Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
ohh also in accordance with my last post:::

i dont know witch version of skss you have but if it applies, select the transparency options pull-down menu and set it to"use magic pink" i dont remember the exact wording but its a pulldown with three options (use magic pink, use alpha blening, or use per-pixel blending