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I was curious if anyone knows of any tutorials on SKS and its painting margins. Or if some one can explain to me how exactly they work. Ive just been randomly clicking them and hoping for results but now im just getting stuck on some of them.
Cheers,
-J
I know that Avman has written a good tutorial about margins, but I can't seem to find it.
To put it simply:
when you adjust your margins, everything inside the margins will either tile or stretch (depending on the settings you choose). Everything outside the margins will stay static. So if you have rounded corners you will need to move the horz and vert margins in to avoid bad stretching.
That is very simplified, really
Yeah. Ive gathered that so far. It just seems I must be missing some kind of detail because I cant always get these to work the right way. Maybe its a graphic size issue or something.
Hey thanks for the response. Hope some one can find that tutorial link hehe.
-J
like 2of3 said its really very simple.. you put the margins in between whatever u want stretched.... or tiled and thats it.
As far as image size, that can be a factor.. if you import an image that is smaller than the one already being used in your template skin this can cause the existing margins to cross...which is a no-no and will need fixed, to make sure... Zero 0 out all the margins settings and start from scratch.
Aas image size goes, there are some areas with restrictions on size, if in doubt open up one of stardocks skins or a master skin and compare your image size to the image size they are using. if way off, use their dimensions or something close to it. Examining existing skins is also the best way to learn whatever it is.. you don't know.
Typically you can set the margins for the image at 4,4,4,4 and go from there, depending on how big the borders or corners are.. The margins will always have to be larger than the radius of the corners or depth of border
If you are just beggining I'd advise staying away from tiling and textures and start with plainer, simple images.
vStyler,
Ive pretty much been using one of stardocks basic Vista styled themes as my template theme. I think it might be there Diamond theme. Either way dont matter haha. Ive referenced several themes to get to answers to other parts that the template doesnt use.
In general my theme isnt anything overly complicated graphic wise. Ive been sticking with the themes image dimensions, and the effects are pretty much gradiants only when I do use anything. Whats more important to this theme Im working on is the colors. Much softer colors then typical colors. Also its a darker theme, so that of course seems to make it really fun when messing with system colors lol.
Thanks for the extra pointers there. 
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