silver and red

[Barcrest]

You might do better using GIMP as it's free to download and you can do the same as you can with photoshop. It also has tutorials if you google them.

[jukejohn]

ok gonna sit up till late trying things out is there any dos and donts i should know about

[Barcrest]

Make sure you save images as BMP as the compression of JPG's messes up the transparency. BMP files or GIF files with a transparent background work best for buttons. Likewise if you are making a complete screen mock up if it's a BMP then the buttons can be cut out and placed easilly.

It will make the unzipped skin larger but the quality will be better.

[jukejohn]

well that explains it i was trying to move buttons from one skin to another
no intensions of keeping them just experimenting and genraly trashing
skins however i did have one proud moment with the metal skin i reduced
the now playing covers for fanart veiwing so not that bad heh 

[Barcrest]

Swapping the buttons over between skins will work as long as you name them the same as they are in the destination skin.

[jukejohn]

will have another play after weekend