help with button backgrounds

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help please,

I'm new to creating skins and having aproblem with the background of buttons. first I could not get the background to disappear (was always white)

so I found the online tutortial and I have set background to "Magic Pink" R255 G 0 B255 as outlined in the online tutorial.

problem is that when I import my image it leaves about 1-2 px border of the magic pink background. as you can see the pic below is of the preview in SkinStudio, the pink border remains if I apply the skin to windows.

how can I get rid of this??

any help is appreciated.

 

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

The magic pink pixels must be 100% 255-0-255 and no transparency can be used. Magic pink images must be .bmp format.

You had it right when you got the white background. You just didn't have the right settings selected in skinstudio. Use a .png/tga image to get true transparency. There are checkboxes for transparency and translucency in skinstudio. check them both off for png images and just check off transparent when using a bmp.

 

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

How come alot of the people that are new to making blinds play around in SKS5 ?

Imo SKS 6 is easier to learn from scratch....

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Thank you Night Train,

the png worked.

I don't know what the deal was with the magic pink. I had it set to true 255 0 255, I had set the hue manually rather than just picking a color in the pink area. I did try using the transparent and translucent settings, the image was a .bmp but nothing seemed to work.

the solution was in the .png format. layer 1 tranparent, layer 2 image, layer 3 filter, merge down to one. Flattening the image was also part of the problem, that would render a white background also regardless of my setting in the studio, leaving as merged layers was the answer.