How can I make this wallpaper better?

Monday, November 10, 2003 by JM_Zen | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk

Hi, I'm looking for some general feedback on my wallpaper. I created it about a week ago, and submitted it soon thereafter. Sadly, it was rejected, despite my high hopes. No offence intended to the fine folks running wincustomize - they have to go through a lot of wallpapers, and I understand, only the best will do.

So how can I make my wallpaper more... submittable, as it were?

Don't bother sparing my feelings; just give me the straight poop! Thanks in advance, to anyone who replies.

Oh, right, and here's the link: http://inkart.homestead.com/files/Trickle_Down.bmp
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Jafo
Reply #21 Monday, November 10, 2003 8:54 PM
horiz0n.....I may have to take you out back and beat you senseless.....
IPlural
Reply #22 Monday, November 10, 2003 9:32 PM


I've a hose you can cut down

Oh I know, you can tie horiz0n into a chair and fix his eyes wide open and make him read
an unmentioned exhiled childs threads over and over while listening to Bach in a darkened
room that's only light source is the wall sized display whit 2 foot fonts
Jafo
Reply #23 Monday, November 10, 2003 9:40 PM
....or extract his teeth without anaesthetic......'is it safe?'...
_footsie_
Reply #24 Monday, November 10, 2003 9:50 PM
LMAO IPlural hahahaha Sorry....it's been so long since I've seen money hehehe
paxx
Reply #25 Monday, November 10, 2003 10:10 PM

I don't know any way to say this nicely, JM_Zen, but you basically need to aquire some graphic skills.  Search on Google for tutorials using Photoshop or PaintShop Pro, or which ever program you have. And practice, experiment, go wild. Make 10, 20 wallpaper that you'll scrap and start over before you submit your first one.
Trying to get one wall better in hopes it'll get submitted will get you nowhere. Take the time to master some techniques. When you start being compfortable doing the things that you'd like to do with your graphic software, that's when you can start being creative, and using your new knowledge to make your own art. Then maybe you'll get one accepted here. But please, don't upload your practice material.

Weaksid
Reply #26 Monday, November 10, 2003 10:34 PM
JM_Zen

You should add a pic of Britney and maybe some dolphins.
Jafo
Reply #27 Monday, November 10, 2003 11:14 PM

OK, now I'm gonna get violent here....

Jafo beats the living proverbial out of Weaksid...

I.R. Brainiac
Reply #28 Monday, November 10, 2003 11:19 PM
#26 by Skinner Weaksid - 11/10/2003 10:34:41 PM
JM_Zen

You should add a pic of Britney and maybe some dolphins .

.Been there,done that.
JM_Zen
Reply #29 Monday, November 10, 2003 11:52 PM
Okay, so I suck. Well I'm glad someone finally told me.
I.R. Brainiac
Reply #30 Monday, November 10, 2003 11:58 PM
You dont suck,it took some skill to get what you did,you just need to learn some more techniques.
sig101
Reply #31 Tuesday, November 11, 2003 12:01 AM
patience, grasshopper. and practice.

oommmm (having a zen moment, sorry)
JM_Zen
Reply #32 Tuesday, November 11, 2003 1:29 AM
Sorry, I didn't mean to sound terse there. I'm just glad to have the fact of my... inexperience, laid out so plainly.

Now I know what to work on.


PS GROAN @ sig101 >
IPlural
Reply #33 Tuesday, November 11, 2003 1:44 AM
JM_Zen everyone has to start at some point

You don't suck, you are just starting to build a foundation is all, and taking your time and learning the skills and the things that work best for you with repetition and such will lend to creating a solid foundation.

really really

oh... something that always that was said to me many times growing up

: can't never did and quit never will :

stick with it, you've a desire or you wouldn't have started and you pretty much show in this thread
that your not flippant about learning

Online Tutorials, Magazines, Books, paper, pens and pencils, computer paint programs, editing software

paxx has the right of it I am thinking also
Peff
Reply #34 Tuesday, November 11, 2003 1:57 AM
JM_Zen, I like it. Simple, unobtrusive and functional (although I'm partial to grays). It is, after all, a wallpaper that may spend a lot of its time obscured by other windows (if you're anything like me ). By all means, keep working at bettering your skills, but keep in mind that you should create what YOU like. I'm sure your work will improve and before you know it you'll be bragging in the 500,000 downloads thread

Great start!



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