I like new Ideas but I will say watch the texture as they can be tricky to get to tile correctly!Keep at it!

Other already taken 'yellows':

I think you should spend some time taking apart other people's skins in Skin Studio to get an idea of what's possible, and brush up on a few tutorials, so you can break out of the XP clone thing you've been doing lately.  There's a really awesome site for Photoshop tutorials for creating interface designs here:  http://fxzone.eyeball-design.com/frames01.htm

Also, as I posted in the comments section of your School Days blind, get these free layer style presets for Photoshop:

1. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&loc=en_us&extid=1044442
2.  http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&extid=1041614

They will help you create much more realistic-feeling images and when you play with them enough, you'll get an idea on how to create your own layer styles to give your images a third dimension.

Keep up the good work! 

Maybe I'll name it yellow submarine since that HUGE Beatles collection comes out today LOL not to mention Rockband... how I wish I had a newer gaming system now...we still have the PS2

TY k10w3 I downloaded the 2 layer styles, and I've been saving the styles I've created for my last blinds... but I guess they weren't original enough LOL...  I like the "eyeball" site... I will be playing with the tutorials in there for a few days... I took a photoshop class back in 07, but they didn't teach stuff like that... just the basics I am so loving all the free tutorials on the web. I made my 2yo into a mermaid the other day LOL she loved that!

Do you mean the buttons on the start menu? I believe those are the only ones I've made so far for this skin...

Yellow Submarine would be cool, I'm from Liverpool, a huge Beatles junkie.. of course.. u would need to add some cardboard cutout looking features

Darn

I'll have to check it out from home

I totally love the Beatles too don't think I could make a "true" yellow submarine blind... just not that experienced yet. I want to go to the UK so I can walk on Abbey road

The way I usually do it is to create the entire window in photoshop and than slice it up, so I don't have to pay so much attention to sizes and making them match.  If they match from the start, they'll match when re-assembled after being sliced.

**An example of how I do the window frames, is how the start menu is illustrated in this tutorial:  https://www.stardock.com/products/skinstudio/help/make_start_menu.htm

Also, the UIS2 top frame should be a bitmap in order for it to show up as the preview in the Windowblinds configuration interface.

Just to illustrate what Karen is talking about, this is the .psd that I did for my lastest WIP

Then it's just a matter of slicing up the bits and putting them in a blind.

Did you save it as a .png or a .bmp?  Because I'm pretty sure that the UIS2 windows have to be .bmp, and if the transparency your trying to give it is with alpha, that won't work, you'll have to use magic pink.

I did a few things when I first started using Skin Studio that didn't play well with my computer -- things like code input that was impossible, and it would shake my desktop view and then revert back to Windows classic, which IS very disturbing, but you learn from it and never make that mistake again.  

You'll get the hang of what can be done and what can't be done soon, I promise.

U have to deduct the width of the frames (combined) from the margins to have it match up as the rebar isnt as wide as the top frame. Although that is for per pixel frames.

if these are the older bitmap frames, just make sure the rebar and top frame are the same width and make margins the same and they should match up. Make sure the margins are over a plain area of the skin , not over a cheese hole