<b> GUI Contest and SKINBASE TEAM </b>

My submissions are complete and all sizes done ....now,a little later on I will package them in zips and submit to GUI COMP. I will send you a copy of the only one not completed pertaining to our discussion Rick and you can have a look at it and even tweak the colour to suit then fire it back. Expect it in the next twenty four hours......gotta eat and take a nap. :congrats 😎 ;) .....Surprise me Sally has any fingers left the way she spits out messages....... 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

GOOD LUCK TEAM;)

Captain America Thank you very much, we appreciate it.... :Happy

<br />Hey <b> Captain America </b> , why don&acute;t you join in the Skinbase Team? ;)

<br />Hi <b> Rick </b> can you please explain here the procedure needed for someone to join the <b>Skinbase Team </b> for the GUI Championships competition :aw <br /> <br /> <br /><b> More Members = More Chances </b> ;)

THANK YOU FROM ALL OF MY HEART! I’d love to participate with the team efforts BUT; I’m too pressed for time in the realm of the twenty-four hour rotation of this planet. Examples, family quality time, graduation in November, my pursuit of music. It I am spread THIN!!!! GO SKINBASE GO:AW I&acute;ll be here when the dust settles, with my shield or on it;)

*:aw*

Go to the GUI Champs website http://www.guichamps.com/ <br /> <br />Login with your Stadock Account info and if you don&acute;t have one, you&acute;ll have to create one. <br /> <br />There&acute;s a button in the upper left of the main page titled &quot;I Want To Participate&quot;. <br /> <br />There&acute;s a short list of things you can choose to do so select &quot;join a team&quot;. <br /> <br />Go to the Team Skinbase listing, join and then the next time I login the site, I&acute;ll see your name listed, hit the ole approve button and you&acute;re in. This last step I didn&acute;t know about until I looked under &quot;Edit Team Info&quot; and seen a list of names waiting to be approved so the trouble for the initial holdup was an oversight on my part... :-) <br /> <br />Come on Capt. America...if I can squeeze out the time anyone can, my friend... :-) <br />

navigatsio Hey bro...gonna take your advice, started from scratch a new windowblind, white and sort of grey. Lot of glass effects....absolutely no reason to refuse this one ! Think I am gonna call it Vista White LOL...Thanks for the advice bro.... :congrats

Sounds good, Bro...as you say, if it&acute;s a totally original design, there&acute;s no reason it shouldn&acute;t be accepted. If there&acute;s anything I can help you with, just let me know, my friend... :-) <br /> <br />I wish they&acute;d accept Bryce renderings...I know there are alot of preset objects out there although if you take a simple object (ball, square, circle, etc.) and shape it into something yourself, apply the lighting, material, sky, coloring, etc. it&acute;s not as simple as people may think. Oh well...

Is the Team full yet or can anyone (me, for instance :) ) still try out for scrimmage?

Please join the team Mary, we love to have you! :aw

:aw :congrats

First walls uploaded....more to come...four so far. 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

Come on in, Mary, we&acute;d love to have you, my friend...no scrimmage necessary! :-) <br /> <br />Thanks, Ian, and good luck to you, my friend! :-)

I tell you what Rick they would not get any prizes for the efficiency of putting images up......none of mine have appeared up there yet! Iain is spelt I-A-I-N in my case and it is important to me as it is Scot&acute;s Gaelic and my heritage is Scottish...not English, Irish or Welsh....nor am I a sassenach........I am proud to be a choochter.....a Highlander. 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

Sorry about that, Iain, and the correct spelling is duly noted, my friend. My dad&acute;s side of the family is a Scots/Irish mix (some of the first settlers in Western North Carolina), my mom&acute;s side Jewish (not by religion, by blood) so I guess I&acute;m sort of a mutt. :-) <br /> <br />Yes, it seems moderation is moving pretty slow...don&acute;t know if it&acute;s ineffeciency or just a weekend, Iain. Guess I better get a move on myself if it&acute;s going to take several days to get the work posted. :-) <br />

I love High School football... <br />but everyone knows the home team has a home field advantage. But then there are times the last place team surprises everyone by beating the champs and everyone cheers...even the home team fans! Then there&acute;s always a few who will be displeased with whoever wins. Just an analogy but I think it applies to contests too... :-) <br /> <br />I don&acute;t know, Iain, I&acute;ll stay optimistic about the whole thing. I wouldn&acute;t even want to be in their shoes on the other end of recieving, reviewing and approving (or not) no telling how many different entries. Whew, that&acute;s gotta be a nightmare! I still feel like we&acute;ve accomplished something worthy though...we&acute;ve represented SkinBase as a team and that&acute;s where my motivation was in the first place...and still is, my friend... :-)

😮 Interesting! Sounds like quite an experiment of yours, Iain. Do they think you are a beginner to encourage and or just like your like your one you call less advanced? If they are all bad over there, why take part? I should look into their system or ask them when I get around to it. <br /> <br />Not long ago understandably over HERE advanced artists were tired of photoskins - btw takes a while to PRACTICALLY get that across to new and old members inactive a while - and now you and Nikos do a thing I also like very much trying to be equally fair + supportive to ALL including new submitters. But in opposite to theory, practical decisions on these things can almost contradict each other. Right now its a bit transitional here. Maybe over there a different way... I wonder about their starting + end deadlines but artists involved should be able to find out by direct contact or in some general FAQs I would hope.. ☕ <br /> <br />We already had an Xmas, a winter, valentines and Easter contest of our own here in less than 365 days so I think its 😎 to see how it works elsewhere. Likewise, many nice WC artists etc read about Nikos´s thread on our things over at WC and came over, at least additionally, with some things. A big and challenging project - the interaction from these sites LOL

My sentiments exactly Nikos! 😁 ........ and to some degree I agree with you Toby....however my feeling is....and it is a gut feeling I have learnt to trust from years of experience......we got screwed. If people are going to run a competition and this one has run for a number of years now, they would know to some degree the popularity of it and make staff available and processes available to cater for the influx of work. I purposely put two low end works in to see what would happen. I am a suspicious old dog. As I thought, the worst of the bunch was accepted. Now that set alarm bells off. As I said further up the thread they accept work that is simply a Panopticum ice filter on a black background clicked once, they accept work that is just a spatter effect in photoshop, yet work like the standard of Mary&acute;d, Tommy&acute;s and mine that has taken time to create and is of a competitive standard they disapprove. They are not even good con artists. It is obvious. I make no excuses for them at all. It is clearly a biased competition. Apart from what I have already said, navigating the site, the amount of errors when clicking links, all adds up to them not being up to scratch. WinCustomize is the front door for StarDock Applications. Not a very good advertisement for them. As Nikos said....the best reward is posting the art here for the people who do appreciate our work. We just need to add this to the experience belt. Everyone in the Skinbase Team is of quality and we did do a great effort and I was and am proud to be associated with that team. :congrats 😎 ;)

😂 :aw YUM YUM you are sure right, Nikos! I wasnt watching there exact order but if the really apply skins and start up with them like icons, wbs, logons, evaluating could take MUCH longer than a later released mere image. <br /> <br />Inside staff masks for example if only 1 file unzipped appears, or a small zip checkable with object zip you can first scan for malware. Which new uploader even thinks that could matter. Of course well known artists cause a different type of work. Then you want to live in the suite a bit before saying anything wrong. Including many subfeatures and seeing what icon could be missing or which save file animation looks less or more like this and that... Some Wb skins dont support my additional buttons from external programs etc. With people you dont know yet its more like - does it work it all? Is a permit included? Did this one really make it all himself. In big coops its even more checking sometimes. <br /> <br />Seems more effective to stack sections and then do a whole separate block sometimes, like all sysmetrixes from one week. Our users would kill me if I did it that way before approving. So some are instead pulled off retroactively or get no comment from me which is worse. A matter of time and feeling but never perfect. <br /> <br />The team effect in a staff helps, but language and time shifts pour a different kind of molasses on the process. When people from other sites come together, you might be able to first approve whom you know you can trust with less checking. <br /> <br />And this is all system immanent without any personal things involved. Good thing I get to see it from several ends these days. In some cases team might wait for a certain helper to be available for speaking a lingo or being able to test something specific better... <br /> <br />I wonder when the contest started because of my voting problem as a visitor. Maybe just a harmless slipup of mine or cookies in different browsers and pcs contradicting each other from some prior event. No biggie. <br /> <br />

Good luck to the approved works of the SkinBase Team at GUI Chumps. :congrats :aw <br /> <br />For the works didn&acute;t approved, no problem, we will enjoy them, after some time, when you send them here at SB. The prize for those works will be the appreciation of the Skinbase people! Who needs more? ;)

😮 finally our windowblind and get released Mr Navigatsio&acute;s and mine..strange tho..both of our skin somehow get squeeze in under someone else skin..which mean...ours took longer to get approved compared to the other one? .. hmmm... I wonder....anyway...good luck to us all...... :D

Just been to have another look and I entirely agree with what Tommy and Rick have said about WinCustomize......I am not being egotistical but the three they disallowed or that have not come to view yet of mine are of a better standard than a lot of what is up there. I guess I knew it would be like this....the same old faces are cropping up there. At least here we have adventurous artists and not safe, conservative ones that all look like clones. We are a great bunch of innovative and unique artists here and we are not frightened to go beyond the norm. They seem frightened to put anything up that is different and anything that might demoralize their little glee club. I think it is a damned shame that none of Tommy&acute;s got through...he is one of the hardest workers here and his art has improved tremendously in the time I have had the privilege to watch him. There is nothing wrong with his work today at all and is on a par with some of the best. To ignore his talent as they have speaks volumes. We shall just enjoy his work as much as we did before and it is their loss. Well done team. As the Scots would say &quot; Here&acute;s tae us haes like us and damn the yin!&quot;....in other words...Here&acute;s to us who are like us and damn the rest! :congrats 😎 ;)

Must have voted some other time much earlier, :what now cookie says, no double votes and they might kill me. 😁

What makes me laugh Rick is the only one that has got through is one of two low skill walls and yet the two high end ones have not shown nor the second low end one. I have not been informed they have not been accepted either so who knows. Getting into the site has been hard enough for me and their links are god awful...errors everywhere from my experience. I participated to help promote SkinBase and never thought that I would get anywhere....nor does it matter to me....I know what WinCustomize is all about so yeah.....I agree with all you say. Don&acute;t worry about it Tommy.......they accepted two walls from someone who simply clicked the Panopticum Ice Filter on a black background twice........must need to do a three year course to do that with skilll 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

hi.. I have submit my 2 entry.. As <B>Hipno</B>. I want work in TeamSkinbase but i could not able to done. I dont know how i do this. <br /> <br />but if you need something from me.. i would be ready for this no matter my name is over there or not.. Yes I am happy my team will there :)

Goal : To promote Skinbase and bring attention to the work of the talented members here. If we win one of the prizes announced, that&acute;s fine too! <br /> <br />Qualifications : Proficiency in the creation of original Wallpapers, icons for IconPackager or Windowblinds desktop themes. The way I understand the contest rules, existing work, copies, reproductions or work other than that someone created themselves will not be accepted. New, original work only.... :-) <br /> <br />That&acute;s my perception anyway...if the other members have a different viewpoint, feel free to share it with the rest of us... :-)

what are the teams goals, and what do they request of applicants in regards to qualifications ;)

Good luck to you too navigatsio :D... :congrats :aw

Wincustomize is not encouraging at all! :congrats 😎 ;)

Wincustomize is not encouraging at all! :congrats 😎 ;)

Almost four days have passed since I submitted now and no sign of anything. I was going to submit more but I won&acute;t bother now......I think the process is seriously lacking. :congrats 😎 ;)

Thanks Basj! :-) <br /> <br />Hopefully they&acute;ll have them posted soon, Iain...at least the walls are now showing up on the Team&acute;s list...before the Wallpaper section was blank although I knew we had walls already submitted. Guess someone over there needs to put in a little O.T.... :-) <br /> <br />btw: Where&acute;s Yrgal? :-) <br /> <br />GOOD LUCK TEAM!!!!! :-)

Oh wait...does anyone do icons for IconPackager...or would anyone on the site who does be interested in joining the team? :-)

I am on iconPack right now..I am not sure if I can make it by the dead line..:)

Fantastic, Basj! :-) <br /> <br />I may try my hand at it but this is probably not the best time to start...I hate making icons! :-)

Hooray!!! Team Skinbase is on the board with our first accepted wallpaper. Thaniks for the great job on that beautiful wall, Sally. :congrats :love:winter

Makes ya wonder where the rest of our work has gone and what the hell they have done with it.......your wall is missing Mary and four of Tommy&acute;s and four of mine.....makes no sense at all! :congrats 😎 ;) ....I am glad that at least we are on the board after five days of waiting. :congrats 😎 ;) ...Well done Sally!

Maybe just be patient. They must have had quite a backlog. Probably still going through them.

No mystery about where my wall went :D - Got my rejection email, just like the ones that WinCustomize sends. Oh well, if at first you don&acute;t succeed...keep on sucking till you do suck seed. :D:D:D

Congrats on getting your wall accepted, Sally...I downloaded it and it looks great on my desktop! I know you&acute;ve been waiting a long time, Iain, but if you haven&acute;t recieved a rejection notice or anything they&acute;re probably still mulling them over. I can&acute;t wait until they get posted...hopefully by this weekend. :-) <br /> <br />Yep, hard to suck seed, Mary, (especially without a straw :-) ) but as long as you&acute;re having fun with it, my friend...that&acute;s what counts! :-) <br /> <br />There&acute;s still a couple of weeks before the blind cutoff...I may try to squeeze another in. Think they have a category for unusual, unique, something like that and I have an idea for something that hits that nail on the head... :-)

And now you can add Mary and Iain.

i have try to join <B>team skinbase</b> but some error coming ... I dont know how to join.. .. i will try again.. :-p but today is 30 sept.2006 :) <br /> <br />

I have no problem with patience Sally......I have a problem with something that a lot of people are having problems with and now the GUI site is unable to be accessed. :congrats 😎 ;)

Yes, congrats, Iain and Mary! :-) <br /> <br />I&acute;m patiently impatient as well, my friend. Just wondering how many people they have assigned to this project...if it&acute;s just the one, talk about overwhelming! :-) <br /> <br />Good luck to you all! :-)

Just a fast one to let you know that I should have my windowblind finished very soon...hope this one gets accepted..phew... :Happy

I made a yahoo email account for this competition and forgot the password. So I can&acute;t check the mail. Chances are my uploads didn&acute;t cut their &acute;cake&acute; and make it on board:cry. Honestly, I never &acute;cared&acute; for having to be monitored for artist quality and told my work is not &acute;accepted&acute;. Which is THE main reason I upload to this fantastic site. I&acute;m not sorry my wallpapers weren&acute;t accepted, rather reminded of why I don&acute;t care to participate with wincustomzie dot com:lol That being said, GOOD LUCK TEAMSKINBASE:aw I enjoy everyones uploads here and it reflects what others art tastes are and that in closing IS what skinbase is all about...being accepted for what you do:winter ROCK ON GARTH.

Sounds like a plan, Bro! :-) <br /> <br />Same here, Capt. I never had any intention of entering a contest as these things have a tendancy to be more about popularity than talent but I wanted to promote Skinbase since they&acute;ve been good to me (and countless others) over the years and they&acute;ve never asked for anything in return. That, to me, makes it a noble cause. Personally, if I were to win anything, I plan on giving it to my favorite charity anyhow (St. Jude&acute;s Children&acute;s Hospital) so there you go... :-)

CONGRATS, the team looks well represented over there now. 😎 Takes some days for approval it seems. Exciting 😎