Please Help. Are these Bugs, or is it just me.

Hi,

Sorry if this is a double posting, but I couldn´t find my post after I submit it, so here is another try.

I´m new to the skinning thing, but have some experience in designing with several programs. Now I wanted to start skinning, but I found several problems. I hope somebody can help me.

At the moment I am evaluating SkinStudio Free to be sure if this is working for me.

Here are my observations:


First:
I draw a bmp or a tar file in Photoshop and import it into skin studio.
If I use "Selection" - "Select all" the values for the selection are at least 1px larger than the original file. If I use "Cut Image" I get an adittional white line on at least one side.
If I try to enter the proper values, it does some sort of auto-correction and again I get the wrong values. Only if I use the arrow-tool I can achieve the right selection. But as you can imagine, that takes a lot of time.

Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?

Second:
After I achieved to cut the image the right way, I again don´t get the desired results. Somehow The margins don´t work as I want them to. Please see the example.

I try to add a picture here, if you can´t see it, please use the link beyond:

http://www.amridesign.com/bilder/Bugs.jpg

The Image that SkinStudio calls "WindowFrameTop" is exactly 27 px high. If I enter this as the top margin of the image "WindowFrameLeft", I get the results seen in the picture (upper left red square), which is not what I expected. The same thing in the left bottm corner (margin bottom: 4px). I don´t know why, but it adds several pixels, that haven´t been in any of the bmp(the black "s" in the picture).


Please Help. Has anyone else experienced these problems?

Thanks
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Reply #1 Top
Looking at your screenshot it looks as if you havent matched the left window frame to the top window frame. The default template calls for the 5 pixels you are having a problem with to be in the left window frame image, same with the right and bottom. You are seeing your left and right window frame images. Make a template on how you want the window frame to look.
When you cut your images, do you have the toll set on antialize? It sounds like you are getting some transparent pixels, saving as a .bmp then sks is darkening out the transparent pixels. Just a guess. Its kinda early for me.
Reply #2 Top
I don't know if this information will help, but I'll give it a shot.

Your left and right frames extend to the top of the top window frame by the width that they are. The same for the bottom. For a visual example, look at the tutorial here (Part 2-The Frame)http://www.aleksyandr.com/tutorial.htm
Reply #3 Top
It depends if you are using UIS2 or 1.