Well, when I learned it, I done the hard way. Do it by trial and error. Change the setting one at a time, rinse and repeat. In fact most of the things in Skinstudios I learn with the same method.
There are only few area which you can play around in there. It should not take you too much time to figure out things.

Also do note that, StartButton animations does not work properly as it did in Windows 7. Guess, that goes with all the things that MS has changed Windows from bad to worst for GUI people like us.
Thank you,
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant