this is awesome Kitty, I remember talking to you one day when you came to our place  and I said I had trouble following tutorials cos they were either too confusing and or complicated,  I am so happy you have done this now I can give it a go it may take me some time all I can do is try ay

in step 3 dose the  start menue need to be transparent or is it plain white?

I agree with ya willistuder

HI Shaunna, for step 3 make sure you make your startmenu on a png background, and save it as a png as well.

does that help? if not, ask me more so I can help xxx

great thanks kitty i will try it lol xxx ty

to find it again

DC, these can also be found of in the wincustomize wiki section under tutorials.

http://wiki.wincustomize.com/wiki/Skin_Studio_7:_The_Tutorial

http://wiki.wincustomize.com/wiki/Skin_Studio_7:_The_Tutorial,_Part_2

tHANK YOU gmc2

yh how do you save a it to a dll so you can make a full theme and pass it on to other users like other ppl do  

You can't. Each of the skins described in these tutorials come with inherent copyright. You can't save then as a DLL and passing them on to others is considered theft unless you have the authors permission. There are links in your post. I suggest you check them out and read the TOS...terms of service that comes with you joining this site.

Do you mean the WD skin after you make it? if so it's done in SkinStudio 

If you mean a hole theme i.e. Cursor, Icons, Wallpaper, Etc. that would be Theme Manager

No dll's are Harmed in the making of a WindowBlind Skin...

EDIT

also what Uvah said. Excepted for theme Manager you can share it with your friends BUT DO NOT upload it to a torrent site ...

Why you can share a them Manager Suit cause you are not sending them the Skins your just sending them a Theme Manager Suit and they have to

have Impulse installed and any other Program from StarDock that is in the TMS i.e. Windowblinds, Cursor FX, Icon Packager, Etc. then TM will look for it and apply it ...

So if for Example you don't have Icon Packager installed it will not apply that part of it and so on ...

or something to that affect...

NOTE. Theme Manager is Available exclusively through Object Desktop^™ (Object Desktop is available for $49.95) 

Where did you get your image for the start menu?

she made it.

lol....ok, Well, then I'd be interested in a tutorial on that.

Thank-you sooooo much Vamps !!    You are T-totally INCREDIBLE !!!      -- Ace --