Resizing the button is because of the fact that the standard button size to begin with is 76 x 76, is also saves SC2 one step of resizing to 76 x 76 since if you didn't SC2 would have to re-size it every single time it gets displayed.
Cropping out the border is there for the fact that if you didn't do this then you would totally hide the background image used for buttons and would end up looking funny.
Every step I made in this tutorial had a legitimate reason behind it.
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Resizing the button is because of the fact that the standard button size to begin with is 76 x 76, is also saves SC2 one step of resizing to 76 x 76 since if you didn't SC2 would have to re-size it every single time it gets displayed. Cropping out the border is there for the fact that if you didn't do this then you would totally hide the background image used for buttons and would end up looking funny.
Every step I made in this tutorial had a legitimate reason behind it.
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