Newbie needs a hint with the design of a skin - Window Title

Just a guess....try going over the magic pink areas again.....make sure the color is 255, 0,0.  Sometimes, if you don't have those areas colored exactly right, they will not look right.  Also check your left sizing margin, to make sure it is inside the actual image.  Hope this helps.

Jazzymir

Hero! You're right, of course it was the left margin, it was somehow overlapping with another element. The "pixel error" was just the upper left corner from the bitmap behind.

I spent so much time earlier today to check each pixel of the bitmap etc. etc. and at the end the solution is so simple

Thanks so much for this hint!

The other element is a "button". It's a mask for the rounded edge of the titlebar. To fix it, go to the tiltlebar buttons section (in the UIS2 frames section) and select the first button on the list (violaceous\b-bar.bmp) Go to the position tab and move the button to the left. To me -5 looks to be the correct position.

If I have been unclear, I'll post a screenshot for you.

I forgot to say that the image count for that button should be 6, not 3 like it is.

Thanks, forgot to tell that together with the fix for the margin I also corrected this.

I've adjusted some other things too, and now I'm very happy with my new old skin (although of course still some things are missing like start menu, taskbar, Internet Explorer 8 design etc.).

I'm impressed, it's really a cool thing this SkinStudio, unbelievable all the things you can modify! But it's a time killer, I spent the whole day with it - but at least it was worth it for this nice skin

Imagine how much time is spent building a skin from scratch

Yeah, that was my though as well.

Only the concept with a plan for all objects required and how they shall look like including the different states for buttons, checkboxes and so on. Maybe different styles. Afterwards the work with Photoshop. Testing. Different versions of programs (e.g. Internet Explorer), unforseen behaviour of WB or SKS.... 

Respect!

So it's a very intense hobby if one wants to create really good skins. But it's a very nice job, better than model railways (if this is called like this in English) or such stuff 

P.S. OT: sorry, I don't find a setting for notifications of answers/updates in a thread, can somebody tell me where this is located?

No settings for notifications (like email notification) but you have seen this, I'm sure:

Yeah, that's better than nothing. But if I had to visit each forum where a reply could wait for me instead of being informed by mail it would take a lot of time