If someone ports, you BETTER say yes.
Friday, November 21, 2003 by Z71 | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
This has been bugging me.
Someone (I won't name names) emailed me yesterday and asked if they could upload a port of one of my skins. I had to decline. (Reason being, it didn't look like my skin. Had square buttons, mine had round. Color was a pea green, mine was a blue and they added a bunch of things that just didn't belong.) I tried to explain to them that it was a nice jesture, but they should change the name of the skin and call it thier own and then upload it. They replied back and was a little hurt but they understood.
About a week ago, I got an email from a well known skinner. They do a lot of XPStyle skins. They wanted to use one of my skins for a package they were putting together. They had made everything but my skin, but needed my skin to complete the package. And they were going to call the package something else. I had to decline once again. I told them that it was already part of a suite and I didn't want my skin to be called something else and that I appreciated them emailing me and of thinking of my skin.
Let me tell you. They didn't want to hear that. I got a reply that wasn't G,PG or even PG13, it was rated R! They chewed me up one side and down the other. Needless to say, they are definitly off my Christmas list. (For anything.) I take it as a compliment when someone asks to port, but it should not be a given IF you port.
Sure I have ported a few things that were turned down, but I always understood when they declined for whatever reason.
I feel, even though these are free skins, there should always be professionalism in skinning, because sometime It can be a pretty bad sting.
Someone (I won't name names) emailed me yesterday and asked if they could upload a port of one of my skins. I had to decline. (Reason being, it didn't look like my skin. Had square buttons, mine had round. Color was a pea green, mine was a blue and they added a bunch of things that just didn't belong.) I tried to explain to them that it was a nice jesture, but they should change the name of the skin and call it thier own and then upload it. They replied back and was a little hurt but they understood.
About a week ago, I got an email from a well known skinner. They do a lot of XPStyle skins. They wanted to use one of my skins for a package they were putting together. They had made everything but my skin, but needed my skin to complete the package. And they were going to call the package something else. I had to decline once again. I told them that it was already part of a suite and I didn't want my skin to be called something else and that I appreciated them emailing me and of thinking of my skin.
Let me tell you. They didn't want to hear that. I got a reply that wasn't G,PG or even PG13, it was rated R! They chewed me up one side and down the other. Needless to say, they are definitly off my Christmas list. (For anything.) I take it as a compliment when someone asks to port, but it should not be a given IF you port.
Sure I have ported a few things that were turned down, but I always understood when they declined for whatever reason.
I feel, even though these are free skins, there should always be professionalism in skinning, because sometime It can be a pretty bad sting.
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Z71
Reply #22 Sunday, November 23, 2003 7:53 PM
Reply #22 Sunday, November 23, 2003 7:53 PM
Like I said, this skinner (if you want to call them that) does a lot of MSStyles skins. So, as far as I know, it's not any one here at Wincustomize.
After I made this thread, I thought to my self, That I shouldn't have. I sound like I'm a little weasel that got my tail stepped on.
I just thought that even though the quality of skins has fallen, that the quality of respect should always stay high.
After I made this thread, I thought to my self, That I shouldn't have. I sound like I'm a little weasel that got my tail stepped on.
I just thought that even though the quality of skins has fallen, that the quality of respect should always stay high.
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Reply #21 Sunday, November 23, 2003 3:16 PM
I have seen people scream RIP for things that were just the same color and material/texture as something else. If two guys accidentally make a green, aqua style skin with round buttons, it need not be a 'rip'. At the same time, others with no skill or imagination tend to take the images from a previous skin and Frankenstein them into something that looks nothing like it and call it a 'port'.
The point is that you either originally come up with the skin on your own, or you copy someone else's. If our community lacks ingenuity at any point it is during conception. I still think the vast majority of folks still go browsing the skin sections to decide what their next skin will look like.
Ideas should come from your head, from what you are, with maybe a bit of inspiration for the conveyance of that individuality. If you look to the same kind of art you make, then you are doomed to rip people off, consciously or not.
If people turned their head away from the monitor for a few hours they'd find all the inspiration they need, without having to ask to port things.