Mike Ryan

Stocks are allowed, but try not to do much more than some icons. WSC goes better if a large majority of your work is hand crafted

New competition is up! Read the rules first, as this theme has some extras!

Weekly Skinning Competition THIS WEEKS THEME: PAINT.NET UTILITY WINDOWS | DEADLINE: 04/27/10 Hosted by Mike Ryan, Theme chosen by Pablo And the winner is... Congratulations to the winners ----------------------------------------------------------------- Congratulations to The Bird with a very narrow victory! Following very close behind in second place is L3ron, followed in third place by Sarkut. Congratulations all, and thanks for the participations! ----------------------------------------------------------------- Check the Weekly Skinning Competition Rules! If your entry breaks any of the rules it will be disqualified. ------------------------------------------------------------------ There is no maximum image size, but you are limited to THREE images per entry, and if any of the images are larger than 800x800, please LINK to it instead! No crude / offensive language, pics, et cetera. Unlike previous incarnations of Skinning Competitions, the theme focuses on a single element. Do not stray from the theme! Only one entry per person and no modifications to your image are allowed after submitting your entry. You must post the URLs to any and all stock images used in your entry. You are allowed one post in this topic. That post should include your entry, links to your source images. Beyond these rules, if the competition host finds that the entry is clearly inappropriate for one reason or another, he or she may disqualify that entry without warning Note also that the winner of the current Weekly Skinning Competition gets to choose the subject for the next competition! ------------------------------------------------------------------ This thread is for posting your entries only! Which means there is no excuse for making a non-entry post. ------------------------------------------------------------------ If you wish to talk about one of the entries you can do so here. If a comment or other non-entry post is mistakenly made in this thread, it will be moved without penalty to the discussion thread. Just don't be surprised when it magically jumps over there. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Good luck all, and thanks for participating

Pablo won. Congrats! The next competition will be up tomorrow evening.

Two stocks, from here: http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=226793 Large versions of stock images: http://www.rarityguide.com/images/mtg/roe/127295_CN.jpg http://www.rarityguide.com/images/mtg/roe/127262_CN.jpg

I completely forgot to submit my entry. I'll let it live here to remember it by:

Good entries! Now, go vote!

Voting is now up!

So far so good, guys! Keep up the good entries!

Don't PM Rick with moderation inquiries. Instead, Report the thread and the first available mod will help out

Just post them with your entry and make note that you did not create them.

I'm in favor of Mod Host Lounge over mailing lists. But that is just my personal opinion...

Private discussion of general rulings, better overall organization, and to ask other hosts to take over for you on leave of absence. Some of this can be done over PM, but I think it'd be a bit more professional to do it over a board. Edit: @Possum: Yes, that is a perfect example.

Can competition hosts have our own subforum? I think it'd be good for us, plus I think we should work on making a nice set of universal competition rules and formats. You don't actually skin anything, but you create mockups in Paint.NET. Check some of the older competitions Simon linked to in the Archives for an example of what I mean

Hey contest hosters! We've got mod powers over each other's threads. I don't want this feature removed, but hosters shouldn't abuse this, either!

...and vice versa. Thanks for reminding me.

Thanks a ton for this, Simon!

Weekly Skinning Competition WSC: DISCUSSION THREAD Hosted by Mike Ryan This thread is for discussion! Do not post your entries in this thread ----------------------------------------------------------------- Please use this thread to ask questions about the current theme, discuss the polls, discuss current entries, or make suggestions for future competitions! Compete in the current competition

Weekly Skinning Competition CONGRATULATIONS TO PABLO FOR HIS VICTORY! Hosted by Mike Ryan Pablo wins the very first WSC! To the victor goes the spoils. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Pablo won the very first Weekly Skinning Competition, and as such he gets to choose the theme for the next WSC! I'm not going to spoil his decision just yet, but check back tomorrow when the next WSC thread is up. Until then, skinners, jump in and give Pablo and a pat on the back. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hidden Content: Weekly Skinning Competition THIS WEEKS THEME: YOUR TASK BAR | DEADLINE: 04/16/10 Hosted by Mike Ryan Your Taskbar As chosen by mike ryan ----------------------------------------------------------------- This week's theme, as chosen by Mike Ryan (What!?) is your task bar. The task bar you are often dealing with is the thing at the bottom of your screen where you manage settings, launch programs, manage active windows, run tasks, and connect to networks. However, the abundance of options regarding your task bar ands the variations found across operating system releases shows that users have their preferences, and most importantly: their imagination. This week's theme challenges you to create your own task bar that suits your most common actions. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Check the Weekly Skinning Competition Rules! If your entry breaks any of the rules it will be disqualified. ------------------------------------------------------------------ There is no maximum image size, but you are limited to THREE images per entry, and if any of the images are larger than 800x800, please LINK to it instead! No crude / offensive language, pics, et cetera. Unlike previous incarnations of Skinning Competitions, the theme focuses on a single element. Do not stray from the theme! Only one entry per person and no modifications to your image are allowed after submitting your entry. You must post the URLs to any and all stock images used in your entry. You are allowed one post in this topic. That post should include your entry, links to your source images. Beyond these rules, if the competition host finds that the entry is clearly inappropriate for one reason or another, he or she may disqualify that entry without warning Note also that the winner of the current Weekly Skinning Competition gets to choose the subject for the next competition! ------------------------------------------------------------------ This thread is for posting your entries only! Which means there is no excuse for making a non-entry post. ------------------------------------------------------------------ If you wish to talk about one of the entries you can do so here. If a comment or other non-entry post is mistakenly made in this thread, it will be moved without penalty to the discussion thread. Just don't be surprised when it magically jumps over there. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Good luck all, and thanks for participating

I would like to run a modified version of the Monthly Skinning Competition. Instead of doing something as big as an entire operating system, chat client, or email client, I'd like to make it weekly and focus on certain elements of those programs. For instance, Weekly Skinning Competition: Task Bar, or Inbox. Additionally, I'd like to revive Large Art of the Week. And Lastly, does this deserve its own subforum? Why not place it under The Pictorium or the Grand Theory of Everything?

@Lance McKnight: This is a result of how the mod staff have setup permissions. This way, all subforums that deserve to be hidden are hidden while they have special permissions for subforums that should be open.

Then I think a relocation of certain forum games is necessary. These games rely on a poll system, and from experience it is difficult to manage it over PMs.

I can attest to Jackpelter, this morning neither of them were working. Hence why I went through the work of pushing out another.

Or, you can just click on each Subforum icon to mark the entire subforum read.