sizing margins for userpane, ect for vista skin

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ookay....here goes, currently doing my first vista skin.....(loving it btw) but i got a question.  when i did userpane and prog list and places list on the old skin studio, there used to be sizing margins, so i could adjust so there wasnt any stretching or distorted images.......  i cant seem to find that on skin studio 6?? anyone know where it is?  my userpane, proglist ect are mathmatically correct in size, but i still got a bit of a disfiguration...and its something id like to correct so the image is sharp.

i noticed there was a 'coloured' margin..but that didnt seem to do anything........kitty is lost.......

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
kitty ... in the Edit Start Menu window, the third tab 'Painting Margins' has the four settings for Top, Bottom, Left, and Right. That's where you set the unstretched/untiled areas ... used to be called sizing margins

The fourth tab 'Text' is where you set the text area ... used to be called content margins
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
thanks Pictor.... ;) 
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
currently doing my first vista skin
  :CONGRAT: 
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Yeah it's kinda confusing for us that are used to Sks5, but I actually like Sks6! I'm also doing my first Vista skin and have forced myself to use exclusively Sks6. Start panel almost finshed.... so far, so good! :CONGRAT:

One tip kitty: when doing the "sizing margins" (now called painting margins), select "Colour preview margins". This makes it easier to see which areas are inside the margins.
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
One more thing to be aware of ...

SKS6 doesn't have a place to 'Hide Start Panel Shadows' ... you'll need to open the skin in SKS5 to do that.