When my 30 days is up and if I decide not to purchase photoshop can I use the others that I have? What filters and things are a must have when making skins?

Ok, so now how/where in the world do I start?

You open photoshop and design your start menu.  You can see how I do them,a single image that gets cut into 5 sections(more on that later)

This gives your graphics an integrated look instead of parts stacked all together.

So...got any ideas for a theme?A well designed Start menu will give you all the image ideas you need for the rest of the skin.(and make it look professional and consistent as a whole)

OH,what did you name your new skin?  

Sorry about that I stepped away a min....

Um how the heck do I change the color of a splatter after I click on layers then multiply?

Ok so is this what I do then....

I just basically click on what part I wanna change in skin studio, then once it open in ps, do whatever with it? I'm a little confused, what if I wanns use a certain piece of a picture in one area but something else in another? Not sure what yet lol, but I think I got some splatter going lol

This is what I have going on...

That depends,are you just replacing the individual pieces or do you have an entire start menu to cut up(the best way)

Once you have a whole start menu,your gonna slice it into the sections you want.User pane,Programs,Places More Programs and Logoff area.

Easiest way to slice a graphic is to make new image with all layers from the start menu merged.

ctrl a(select all),edit>copy merged>ctrl n(new document),ctrl v(paste)

Now you have a single layer...Use the select tool to select the User pane area of your image,right click and choose layer by cut.Repeat for all 5 sections and you have your pieces.(once cut you can turn on and off each section easily to copy to the image you opened from Skinstudio)

Image size of the original must be changed to the size of your new graphic first.  

All I did was click on a piece and once it opened in ps I cut the blood from the pic added it to the pic from wb removed the white bgf then after that I just started to try and change the color of the blood but ended up changing all of it, I did'nt save anything though

I'm sorry...reply 35...in our thread DOH!  

I meant why is the whole WB green...its normally bluish,did you already recolor the whole wb or is colorisation turned on in WB config?
If its on,turn it off...your not getting the real colors of your work after you apply the skin...  

Oh no it's still blue in the ss,(like in the 1st pic I posted) I have mine set to green yes, but the piece I was messing with I changed to green somehow in ps

I think I'd like to put both of my loves together, blood and toxic theme

HEY! lol I have that lil grimlin thing its in my fish bowl lol