WebGizmos' ObjectDock Background Contest
Monday, April 16, 2007 by Zoomba | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Following on the success of the St. Patrick's Day Icon Contest, we've decided that these community mini-contests are a pretty good idea and want to do more of them. Our next contest idea was provided by community veteran, WebGizmos, and fleshed out over a good number of emails and conversations. Now, since this is a WG created and sponsored contest, it should be no surprise to anyone who has been around the community for any amount of time, that it's an ObjectDock one 
This contest is to create the best ObjectDock dock backgrounds you can. Well, it's not that simple actually, they have to be built to match an existing WindowBlinds skin. A lot of people who use ObjectDock usually find themselves scrambling to find a theme or background to match their favorite skin of the day, and usually have to settle with something that kind of comes close to matching. We want to encourage more people to make docks that are designed to go along with more skins.
Now, I know a lot of you out there aren't familiar with how to skin ObjectDock, and to that end, WebGizmos has you covered! About a week ago he emailed me a beginners tutorial on how to take an existing skin, and using SkinStudio, extract the needed visual elements to create a matching dock background. You can find that tutorial here.
Of course, what would a contest be without rules, prizes and deadlines?
Prizes:
- Grand Prize - ObjectDock Plus, and one premium suite of the user's choice
- 2nd & 3rd Prize - One premium suite of user's choice.
- Community Choice - 1 Year WinCustomize Subscription
Rules:
- Deadline: 5pm Eastern Time, Friday May 11th. You have just shy of 3 weeks to build and submit your docks.
- Entrants should not already own ObjectDock Plus. If you do already own it, and still choose to compete, you will receive the premium suite, and the OD+ prize will be awarded to the 2nd place winner (and so on if they also are already OD+ owners). It is possible to build and test your entries using 100% free tools (ObjectDock regular is free, and there's a basic version of SkinStudio available as well).
- You must obtain permission from any skin author whose skin you use in creating your matching dock. Permission must be included in the upload to WinCustomize.
- You must provide a link to the matching WindowBlinds skin in the comments section of your upload.
- After uploading the dock background to WinCustomize, post a link AND PREVIEW IMAGE to the comments section of this post. Entries without preview images posted will not be considered.
- Entries will be judged by WinCustomize moderation staff. The top 3 winners will be determined via voting. Judging will be based on overall quality, complexity and completeness of a dock background. The more detailed polished yours is, the better.
- The Community Choice winner will be selected by public poll on WinCustomize.
That about sums it up... so get to it! To go along with the contest idea and basic tutorial, the prize of a copy of ObjectDock Plus was donated by WebGizmos. Thanks to WG for your help in this!
P.S. If you're a skin author and would like to offer your skin up for people to use in creating their matching dock backgrounds, feel free to leave a comment below.
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Reply #62 Wednesday, May 9, 2007 9:41 AM
Blue ICE Object Desktop background skin @ WWW Link
Based on my Blue ICE windowblinds skin @ WWW Link
Preview of Blue ICE objectdock background:
Reply #63 Wednesday, May 9, 2007 11:10 AM
Mauve Boost v2 Object Desktop background skin @ WWW Link
Based on my Mauve Boost v2 windowblinds skin (recently updated) @ WWW Link
Preview of Mauve Boost v2 objectdock background:
Reply #64 Thursday, May 10, 2007 11:05 AM
Captain America objectdock background skin @ WWW Link
Captain America windowblinds skin @ WWW Link
Preview of Captain America objectdock background skin:
Reply #65 Thursday, May 10, 2007 11:32 AM
I would like to see some of those example by J.Aroche in working set as well.
Reply #66 Friday, May 11, 2007 8:59 AM
Reply #67 Friday, May 11, 2007 9:40 AM
Look great by the way!
Reply #68 Friday, May 11, 2007 9:41 AM
Canmandeco, I'm definitely downloading & trying it out; those backgrounds are awesome!!!
You did a great job - you have my vote for this contest!
Reply #69 Friday, May 11, 2007 9:52 AM
I uploaded them last night. They are still in moderation.
Reply #71 Friday, May 11, 2007 11:38 AM
Reply #72 Friday, May 11, 2007 1:55 PM
I think 1 or 2 need some details to be fixed, but I'm getting there it's just that I suck at coding hehe
By the way all the docks that are here are awesome! the Olphi ones, Lantec's, unclerob's, theyre awesome, and the old republic ones...wow! mines are very big I must say hehe, but the new objectdock feature to resize them works great with them!
Reply #73 Friday, May 11, 2007 2:27 PM
Reply #74 Friday, May 11, 2007 4:52 PM
The deadline is fast approaching!
To qualify, you must have the following done by 11:59pm Eastern Time on May 11th:
- Have a preview image of the dock posted to this thread
- Have submitted your qualifying dock to the WinCustomize gallery (does not have to have yet passed moderation, just submit by the deadline.)
Reply #76 Friday, May 11, 2007 7:14 PM
Reply #77 Friday, May 11, 2007 7:47 PM
Reply #79 Friday, May 11, 2007 8:28 PM
Oh and I'm sorry web, but I was only able to finish 4 docks
but I'll submit them and I'll try to finish the other ones later on Reply #80 Friday, May 11, 2007 9:51 PM
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Reply #61 Wednesday, May 9, 2007 9:08 AM