Latin, instead of grumping around about how your work didnt pass moderation or how difficult it is to get permission from authors, maybe you should spend more time trying and learning to create the images you need for your themes. Terragen is a free program that renders nice landscape scenery and it's not hard to use.
If you employ your time in searching and reading things that can help you create better themes instead of posting messages every 5 mins, then perhaps you wont have to worry about having your work rejected because you've use an image without permission or waiting for a reply to your permission request.

Thats really cool
I always thought that terragen is hundreds of dollers

Latin, Latin. Listen and learn. Listen to those whose experience outweighs you many years. I've been making my own personal WB and it's been...what?...My word. Since 1998. Or before then really. I'll get it finished someday. Maybe. >

I am going to try out my digital camera after school today
I have uploaded a really funny cyber patrol bootscreen

o ya
heres a link to the screenshot
https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=13&SkinID=4613

I am the opposite
I have graphic talent but am bad at Skin Studio
I can never get the images to do what I want them to
I have made a few attempts but I can never get
A. The title bar to stretch
B. the taskbar to stretch
C. I cant change the color of the inside of a window
D I often lose track of which state in a checkbox or similar alpha blend of which frame is which
I dont know how to incorporrate animation

Once you come up with an idea of a theme start in one of two areas....either the windows section or the taskbar section. I like to start with the windows section, but other skinners build their start menu first and base everything else they do off of it. Don't worry about toolbar icons or animations for now. Get comfortable with the basic stuff first. So you want to build a skin that covers these areas...

1. Windows and Controls
2. StartMenu and Taskbar
3. XP Shell

And to answer your questions....

A and B....when you adjust sizing margins, everything outside the margin will paint on the screen pixel to pixel just as you drew. Everything inside the margins will either tile or stretch depending on the painting option you choose. When you a piece of your skin from the preview window, like the titlebar, in the bottom section of the program you'll have the option on the left side to set your margins and the option on the right side to set how everything in between the margins will paint.

C. I don't know what you mean on this one.

D. Every image titlebar, buttons, etc. has different states/frames (usually tiled horizontally) within one image. The Help tab in the bottom left-hand corner will explain it to you and whether the image is mandatory or not. Generally if your using the Blue XP skin and SkinStudio provided a image to work from, then it's mandatory. There can be up to six different states/frames for buttons and sometimes I have to move them around after playing with a skin. Something I thought looked okay as a pressed state ends up looking better as a mouseover state. It's all trial and error and the more you do it the easier it gets. Again don't worry about animations, compact menus, etc. right now. That stuff will come pretty quick.

Once you get a skin up and running, if you want I'll be happy to test it for you to find any bugs in it and offer any help I can give. Skinning takes time, you can't just sit down and crank one out in one sitting at the computer, unless you got the ability to sit there for 36+ hours straight with no sleep or eats

I do a couple of parts or so a day and then I create a part that looks different and maybe better than what's already done, then I have to go back and change a lot of things or dump the whole skin and start over with the new idea.

This might be happening to other parts of the skin but I havn't figured it out yet
Also How do u know which state corrosponds to what

latin....It's an okay WB skin, but it doesn't take any talent to recolorize the default GUI.

It takes more talent to recolor luna than it does to port I think.....

thank you guys
I still having trouble with the halo Wb however I am preoccupoied transfering AP_67"s Iboni sysmetrix to desktopX (with his permission of course )

Latin, its no good uploading a black skin of the default...
You said you did have graphic skills... Do you have any work I can see? (pure out of intrest...)

BTW, most pieces in your library are ripped, just for the record (inlcuding the halo bootskin, scriptcodes, halo icons etc etc.)

http://www.aleksyandr.com/tutorial.htm

Check that one out