Fixed. Thanks for the correction.

@ Stramp. Your link requires me to sign into my DB account and leads me back to my own public folder.

Thanks Lantec at least I'm getting some new INFO to me from someone!   How many actually did vote? That would be interesting to know.

If the work is so bad to only get a HALF Star then why was the wall given 2-  and one half stars??? It is the same wall and is not distracted by the user icon!  mate Ckeck out link!

https://www.dropbox.com/lightbox/home/Public

I know what you are gonna say already! This is what I don't want. I just wanted to have it reviewed and considering the support and comments and being featured. I think you can see I am getting others opinions in favor of it.

The link takes me to my own public Drop box folder. I sent you a PM.

Do you mean this one? https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/logonstudio/11142/  

A soapbox for asking the public for an appraisal of your work is not the intent of this thread. These things never fly straight. They seldom go in the desired direction.

The Wallpaper gallery and Logon Gallery are two different things entirely.

A wall may be approved just fine but the exact same image is rejected as a logon...typically because logons really 'should' have some relevance to an Operating system .... although that doesn't always apply.  It certainly was more clear/made more sense when logons actually REQUIRED skinning, and weren't just some meaningless wall plonked into more than one category.

When it comes to deciding what is accepted and what is not....the Mods' decision is final.  They manage the galleries on behalf of the site owner [Stardock].  If anyone at all is adamant theirs MUST be accepted they are always free to host their images themselves on their own site.

If anyone is 'curious' about why something didn't make it into a gallery they are free to PM me [only...not in public].... but please come forward with a thick skin.  If I think something is 'crap' I will say so, but you will also get a 'why' which invariably people will disagree with....- they often do.

A decade ago I 'culled' the wall gallery from 700 to 400 without much effort on my part [other than it was done on dial-up] and even then could have been MORE critical and probably been left with 200.

....those 400/200 would have been at a standard/style that Stardock deemed acceptable.  The difference today is the percentage is likely not much different....good vs not so good ... but the numbers are bigger.

When it comes to Logons ....particularly the Vista/7 variety....I think I could easily cull 90% and have a semi-OK collection.

One more thing...specific to this logon.   If it were your OWN artwork and not someone else's.... [even with permission] it just might have been approved....but where is "the skill" or "art" or "skinning" - even in grabbing someone else's image and uploading it as 'whatever'?

ANYONE could simply grab any wall image and plonk it in on their computer as a

logon....or a wall...or anything else....why even need a third party?

Indeed. I find it frustrating to not be able to award less than ½ star

And there really ain't much to add once the subtractin's done
And since there ain't no ZEROes, I give you a ONE.

From the song Numbers by Bobby Bare

To be perfectly honest about the image that was uploaded, after reading the description by the uploader, I was very irritated by the fact that it was actually created by someone else and being uploaded here by his "buddy?" I mean really....what is this.....his personal promotional/marketing department ??  It just didn't seem genuine to me , thus I simply clicked off the page.          -- Ace --

As I posted in your accompanying walls comments section..

Not every logon with a matching wall, will get accepted even if it's counter part is, and vice versa..

This wall, I voted for particularly because I felt it would be a an interesting Halloween type of wall, But any other time I would have voted against, not due to lack of quality, but originality.

You must realize that we are regularly bombarded with anime,manga,cartoon,Game-characture types of wallpapers and logons, so unless it make me yell "OMGWTFBBQPUDDING!!! I got to have that". it's not often I give a thumbs up..

As for the logon, again originality comes in to play, again the Game-characture'ish type of image as well as it not being totaly of your own making weighes heavily,in the virdict.  With fewer mod's voting in this que the outcome can often be different than it's wall counterpart.

One must keep in mind the Mods selected for each Que have abundant experience in that particular area and we stand by their decisions.

Please remember, Mod's are Masters too. The works uploaded to the ques for moderation are not being judged by some inexperienced new comer..

Thanks... HG

recently we had a case of many accessories being uploaded for the same blind and someone wondering why others were appearing in the gallery before theirs...

it turns out they were unaware that journeymen & masters have their submissions uploaded straight into the gallery... so it kinda looked like they were being left behind, 'til explained...

 You know when I first started tough moderation was hard to swallow,.....

I remember having a windowblind rejected (from a certain very logical individual) because........ New skinners pay close attention........

There wre old unused wb4 block files from my previous skin and a couple unused graphics

  I was told "If (insert a very logical mod) moderates your WB it better be correct with no unsed data or parts cause he will open the WB folder and check all the contents!"

I remember thinking well basically ERRRRRRRR......

  HOWEVER

I cleaned the skin folder (back before there was a clean my skin button in SKS)

My upload went from over 2MB down to less than 1MB I thought WOW...

I have never not cleaned a skin folder ever again ....

Tough Mods = Better Quality

Without Fail Every Time

Thanks for the tough love Fuzzy!

Harley

[So that's what that does.  I foresee my WB directory shrinking substantially via the deletion of unneeded substyles and subsequent cleaning. Thanks for that tip. ]

Dave I suggest once your WB is complete make a wba package make a copy put somewhere then the clean skin button because the action CAN NOT be undone that way if there is a glitch or there was a mistake somewhere and SKS deletes a used image or part you have a back up ready to install .

Note: Me personally I still open my WB folder delete everything I need to 1 item at at time (old school) that way I personally see everychange .

The clean skin button reads the the code for the skin and deletes anything not used in the code .

But since I can't see it , it makes me tooooooo nervous LOL.....

Just part of the reason he's a Master skinner. The rest has to do with just plain Harley. 

Moderators can be tough and help people to follow the right direction. But at the end of the day all the skill you see in making a skin is down to the skinner A Master is a Master for a very good reason

This is why it grates when someone just pulls an image off the net and thinks they are being creative. That takes no skill at all.

I've taken that one step further -- I've taken the Diamond base skin, cleaned it up of all substyles that I don't skin for, removed all unnecessary images, renamed that skin "Test 1" and use that as my base skin, saving my changes over the images that are left, so there's nothing to clean (although I do run the cleaner anyway just in case I've missed something or accidentally renamed some image with a typo).  I also always create a .wba file after every successful skinning session, in case the next skinning session is unsuccessful and I have to revert back to the previous version (this is my way have creating a restore point to my creation).

In the past there's been some 'strangely' huge WB skins submitted....and once looked into were found to contain the psd files used in making the images.

That's definitely NOT clever since retaining the psd's is the sure-fire way of proving whose property it is.

If you 'release' them you expose yourself to some miscreant using them as 'proof' HE created it....;)

Now that is funny.....lol.

Oh,like this 24MB monster? Lots of psd's .   https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/windowblinds/7780/

on a lighter note,

my sister is the only woman i know who can stand on an "i speak your weight" machine

and it says "one at a time please"