you can use tga (png), cut the png to 2 pcs, put 1 on the left, 1 on the right & play with the alignment.

it means your image is too big, resize it a bit smaller, also leave enough blank area at the top and bottom part

you can always learn from skins that already made by others.
extract the images, look at it, look at the code, you will figure it out.

Mine go backwards always

i dont understand what you mean.
have you solved it or still have problem with it?
i never read any tutorial, i learn by looking how others made their skins, looking at the images & checking the codes is enough to help me to understand.
if you still have problem with it, you can send me your image, i'll see where the problem is.

How could i have made that look better wait wrong picture

if i were you, i would put the glyph on the bottom right.
no need to put part of the glyph on the left because most part of the glyph will be covered by your big icons, it won't look good.
also when you resize the image don't forget to tick 'constrain proportions' so that the image is not distorted.

I agree with Basj, all my images in the start menu are a second layer, not a glyph, just like in my latest Master skin Sunset Lake, the duck image is a second layer, and I always make sure the image is the right size, so as not to interfere with the icons .   

Well I thought inorder to get that picture to look hole for the left and right place list cause the skin i got form another person thats what he used yea i just need some pointers on a better way to make my to half look good like i know what i am doing lol.

What i showed you above i am sure there is better way than what i am doing like i said i am so new to this and really don't knwo photoshop or skinstudio that well, so to make that picture better what do i need to do so next time i try one i'll know what to do

Thanks for everyones advise in advance. PS guess i did not need to use Glyph?

You're not wrong on using "Glyph" images on a start menu, if you're using it on the left/right side of it (for the most part anyways).  Now, if you want to have your image centered on the start menu, then creating an extra layer for said image would work, also, you'd be able to (through cutting of image, and painting margins) have the image shift according the size (width) of start menu, when you want to show icons as tiles within columns.  There's a place for "glyphs", and extra layers within a skin, you'll also notice every skinner will have their own idea/way on doing things, what I just explained above works for me, I can't speak for the other skinners, skinning is definitely a learning curve and also evolving, that's my two cents. Duces everyone...   

Well said Basj, I picked the brains of Andy (neone6), Tom (LightStar), and the late Dave Baxter (RIP my friend) they were my mentors in the start of my skinning, and I appreciated all of them, for their help, you couldn't ask for a better bunch of people to help/guide in skinning technics, anyway, as you stated Basj, trial and error works too, that and look at other artists skins, to see how they achieved there technics.   

So i take it witch they not expensive to buy there skin and put it in skinstudio just to see how they did it, that i can do just when i get to the part where it comes to that i want to make a animation start button that something i can not figure out mine always goes backwards.

But thats for another subject right now i am trying to figure out how to make my start menu to look perfect I well I well get this just going to take me time.

And yes 1nsomn1ac i do know the answer but been watching video on how to for photoshop but thers none for skinstudio i mean nothing.