Essencay, are you sure that these aren't images? A screen shot would be nice. On #2, it sounds like that maybe a menu separator. But, I've only seen that in the Start menu.

Just wanted to add the picts are from the actual applied skin. In skinstudio....none of this shows up

Anyway... to answer part of your question, the seperator color is controlled by "Button Hightlight", and "Button Shadow"......... change those, and you'll change a lot more than the seperator.

For the Control Panel ....
Left Tree... Special Folders > Control Panel
Right Tree... Background color

That's where you set the colors for the fonts also. Body color being the font color.

The "Do Not Modify" colors .... I dunno.

New color problem and I don't know if it has to do with WB or SkinStudio.

I'm using WB 4.21 Build 134 and SS 4.10 Build 887

I've finally almost done my first skin...left to do are Start Panel, Shell Animations, Toolbar Icons and Logoff and Shutdown Dialogs (Alright maybe I still have a ways to go P )

Right now I'm using my new skin to make sure it is working correctly and I found one problem that I cannot fix....in fact when I load other skins (Pixel8...as an example) I see the same problem. So I'm guessing it's a WB issue not something I'm forgetting.

Anyways the issue: The "These Files Are Hidden" Panel used when someone has their C:\ Drive, "C:\Program Files", "C:\Windows" hidden by default. Won't show the "ShStNoModifyPage.bmp", the text "These Files Are Hidden" stays the same color as the Normal Blue XP panel and the gradient separator color which I believe is set under XP Shell=> Special Folders=> Control Panel=> Control Panel Vertical Separator, remains the same colors as the Normal Blue XP panel. Everything else in Task Panel and Special Folders is working correctly.

I'm just wonder if someone who is using the same build WB (latest beta) can check a couple of different skins on their PC. It's easier to see in skins that don't use blue and gray. Thanks

Hopefully I made sense

I've changed the basic color for cremes to grays to avoid dealing with the problem in #9

I've finally almost done my first skin...left to do are Start Panel, Shell Animations, Toolbar Icons and Logoff and Shutdown Dialogs (Alright maybe I still have a ways to go P )

Getting closer.....Start Panel almost complete now....making it ultra-compact....no user pic or user name showing found a font to use that doesn't have any characters so they show up invisible

It's 'cause I'm left-handed

I actually start with the controls first, then set all my colors and fonts and expand out from there.

Thanks for your help Koasati...uploaded my baby to GUIO today