Need Input on Start Menu Positioning

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Ok I'm brand New to Skinning and I finally grasped how to create the start menu a bit but have a problem

with the position of the slices they of course look fine in skinstudio but when I apply they shift position

 

here are screen shots the 1st one is how it looks in photoshop I cant seem to get into my post so Im linking

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  1. http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=ngsll2&s=4

 

2nd one is in skinstudio

 

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  1. http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=dbpqht&s=4

 

3rd one is applied

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  1. http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=eamgw6&s=4

 

if you look at the dragons wings you can see when its shifted any ideas what I can do to fix this?

 

Thanks, Lisa

 

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Make sure your painting [sizing] margins are NOT on areas of the image that the dragon is.

Also, make sure in the extra settings tab,  the image size corresponds correctly with the size of the actual image.

 

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Here's a suggestion - what if you apply the dragon as an animation that has only one frame? (assuming you have Skin Studio Professional).   I think, because the dragon is occupying so much of the right places, he's going to always get messed up because that part has to stretch.  If you apply him as an animation, you can just kind of paste him on like another layer and put him wherever you want and he'll stay in one piece.

Either way, it's going to be hard to read the text on your menu with him occupying so much of it.

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I'm baffeled by the fact that the right edge looks perfectly straight yet my dragon has shifted its very odd.

 

Thanks for the help I'm going to play with the info you gave me and see if it rectifies it.

 

I'll be back and btw the image is just me messing around not anything I would really use for a design. ^_^

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Oh boy I have no clue how to do the anmation thing is that something I would have to detach the dragon from the right side and bring him in alone?

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting diva42, reply 3
I'll be back and btw the image is just me messing around not anything I would really use for a design.
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Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting diva42, reply 4
Oh boy I have no clue how to do the anmation thing is that something I would have to detach the dragon from the right side and bring him in alone?
End of diva42's quote


Yeah.  To me, that seems easier than merging him with the start menu slices.