1 Transparent Glass skinning question 1 problem with my latest skin

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Question 1 I use Paint shop pro 7-9 to do alot of graphics and imaging editing creating I talked to keikonium last night and he said in order to make some tranparent glass parts for my skin he said I should use adobe photoshop, thing is I truly hate adobe photoshop and won't even dream about touching it! Can paint shop pro X or 11 handle 32 bit TGA's ? also when making the see through glass like parts will I need to use the color purple to make the parts transparent in order for skin studio 5.1 to accept it ?

Question and Problesm 2: I'm working with a new skin last night I call it Phantom universe with a light purple glow. the skin was looking perfect and I had save it to my flash drive and hdd. I closed skinstudio and I applied the skin to XP and some stuff came out really bad with major problems.... I managed to fix 95% of the problems but I still have one last bad problem. the drop button has took the image of ground image button and no matter what I do to give it the right button even from previous skins that are perfectly stable. Can somebody look at this screen shot and tell me why its doing this or could I email it to somebody and have them look at it ?

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I use fireworks mx 2004 and create the required .png files I need for my wb's.
I import the images into skinstudio and it creates the required tga files for my skins.
I'm not a big fan of photoshop either, I find working fireworks so much easier. Don't know about PSP v7-9, but if it can create png files and you can adjust transparency of those images while you're editing them I would think that would be enough. I don't think you need to use the color purple (or magic pink possibly you're referring to), I certainly don't.

As far as your 2nd problem, it's hard to say, are you sure you're using the correct image and does it have all of the required frames (or maybe it has too many frames?)
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top


Somehow when skin studio save the skin the first time something went horribly wrong and I didn't notice it until I tested the skin at 1:15am in the morning when I finished 2 weeks of work creating the blasted skin.

also is their good guide for creating transparent glass parts in wincustomize.net ?
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
SKS auto converts the .png to a .tga so it shouldn't matter what editor you use.

# 2, for the dropdown, there are three images, the border, the button and the button glyph image,.. looks like you have them mixed up.. remove em all and re-import to the correct areas.
Looks to me as if you have an incorrect amount of frames though, It should be 4 for all three images. Check your image and your frame count for each image and make sure it is set to 4.

#3, as much as you may hate PS, if you spend 30 mins a day in it, in a week or two you;ll get the hang of it. I was the same when I first ventured into it from PSP 7 back in the day.

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thanks guys I almost fixed my button problem its not picture perfect but at least its alot more decent I'm sending a pre beta skin to a friend of mine and sometime this weekend after work I'll experiment more with transparent images via through (Paint Shop Pro) only. me and adobe photo shop just don't get along that well.