Wow, I am really impressed and very much loving the contributions from all of you. I believe strongly in the idea as of late that having a great community means throwing out your notion of what is the "standard".
As for CPro and other applications I am all up for their usage. If the driving facet behind these applications is to make things easier and allow our not so creative brothers and sisters a chance at changing their winamp skin to a jpg picture of J-Lo then so be it.
I think personally and this is only an opinion which is in no way reflecting anyone other than my self and observations through the countless years of skinning; is that we as a group tend to flow and gravitate towards the elitist attitude, this does not help us to draw that new blood. There are many points that likely do not need repeating...
I even see that in the posting(s) above mind you... From the posts I see userA has a program written to further the concept of skinning and userB doesn't think it is necessary or wonders about the intentions of the program. In the sense of this we've effectively castrated userA for trying to help. (I've done the same previously - to many posting now.)
Of note: I could care less if I make one red cent of any skin I publish. I don't skin to make a buck but make a skin to make my idea's into a reality. Creation for the sake of creation allows me the knowledge and skills to apply to different arena's (web design, development, app design and development). This is me...and I'm only one person but, I feel that perhaps there could be an option to make your skin a paid for download skin or perhaps, apart of some AOL Premium Library.
In this model everyone makes out. .25 for the author and .25 for AOL. .50 per skin @ 1MILLION Downloads = 500.000 USD (who could complain?)
I really believe there needs to be an incentive to bring the skinners and designs back.
I appreciate all the answers...and look to read more.
As for CPro and other applications I am all up for their usage. If the driving facet behind these applications is to make things easier and allow our not so creative brothers and sisters a chance at changing their winamp skin to a jpg picture of J-Lo then so be it.
I think personally and this is only an opinion which is in no way reflecting anyone other than my self and observations through the countless years of skinning; is that we as a group tend to flow and gravitate towards the elitist attitude, this does not help us to draw that new blood. There are many points that likely do not need repeating...
I even see that in the posting(s) above mind you... From the posts I see userA has a program written to further the concept of skinning and userB doesn't think it is necessary or wonders about the intentions of the program. In the sense of this we've effectively castrated userA for trying to help. (I've done the same previously - to many posting now.)
Of note: I could care less if I make one red cent of any skin I publish. I don't skin to make a buck but make a skin to make my idea's into a reality. Creation for the sake of creation allows me the knowledge and skills to apply to different arena's (web design, development, app design and development). This is me...and I'm only one person but, I feel that perhaps there could be an option to make your skin a paid for download skin or perhaps, apart of some AOL Premium Library.
In this model everyone makes out. .25 for the author and .25 for AOL. .50 per skin @ 1MILLION Downloads = 500.000 USD (who could complain?)
I really believe there needs to be an incentive to bring the skinners and designs back.
I appreciate all the answers...and look to read more.
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