Awww ok sorry what a "Handsome Sweetheart"!!!

dialog bitmaps,no thats much later...stick to the start menu for now...finish astart menu in photoshop(the whole thing)then we will cut it up and set the margins and text colors.  

Oh u mean like do the whole wb for the start menu then cut those pieces up to use in ss?

you can apply anthing you do at any time...your not going to mess up the skin,you just may not like what you see and have to change it.  

LOL I posted that then read ur response lol

Ok so I don't need to click on anything in ss for now just open a pic of a start menu in ps?

damn edit keeps refusing me,makes our post look out of order...sometimes I'm responding to a post 2 replys back  

yes,do the entire start menu in PS...then cut it up...this is where I need a ss,damn Image shack screwed up my login.

Will see if I can fix.Does image bucket allow full resolution images?

Photobucket u mean really big ones??

your talking to a blond who just started usin a computer last yr lol

troll


and I hope he has an air supply

Hope this works

Cooooel! Full start menu image on the left,cutup on tha right.  

2 middle sections can be cut shorter,then tiled...but hopefully that makes things clearer.  

Oh ok, so I make it look all pretty as one big piece and cut it into those sections. But how did u get the pieces that are cut out (like in the 1st pic,not the cutting afterward)so perscise? Do ya know what I mean?

hehe aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

If you look at the PS file you can see they are just 2 shapes with styles applied(thats how you can make really quick changes to the appearance.They are just solid grey underneath.

Creating shapes is just something you have to play with,Mostly altering them with the selection tool and adding or deleting some of the shape.
The custom shapes tool has alot of ready made shapes and you can download zillions more.