Found a few things that will help me make better skins. Of course the best tools tend to cost money but i'm happy with what free sites i found today and these were;
a collage maker that is really simple to use, you can resize the images, move them around after laying down many images (unlike with paint), borders already attached to the images as soon as you lay them. you can do more stuff but the collage i made today looks ok.
a text creator with many effects and fonts that also has a clear background, the sizes of the font made are really good too.
some more code, i am getting a better idea of where to fit images now but not great at this yet.
Things i still need to work out;
how to get the status header to have borders that fit to the width of the section that is on. i've seen it done on here and looked at their code but haven't figured this out yet.
wtf i have done wrong with my DnA skin as i have lost borders and background color has gone to black as default because of something i have added or done because the code is still there for borders but something has stopped it from working.
I also have improved a few of my old skins with my new info, and made a Keanu Reeves 2 skin, but site lag means i don't feel inclined to continue making skins today. Have some ideas of how i am going to improve the first Keanu one but like i said, lag.
Nice to see some of my skins have been ripped a few times as well. Whether that was for the skin itself or the codes i am using it's all good.
And yes i am aware that my skins are mostly very bright and flashy, lol. I enjoy making things in that style.