THE POCKET PC PHONE EDITION SKIN DESIGN CONTEST!

[Yorch]

Finnally the Dialpad Skin Contest is here and with more prizes than anything!

The purpose of this contest is to encourage people to make these easy to do skins. The participants in the contest would compete in the creation of graphical "skins" for the pocketPC phone interface, making a skin that would be compatible with DesignLabs XDA skin chooser.

The Prizes are:

-GRAND PRIZE!

Courtesy of Seidio (http://www.seidioonline.com), a choice of 14" Windshield PDA Handsfree Powered Mount (http://www.seidioonline.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=SMK4O2XDA) or the Seidio Data Power Pack (http://www.seidioonline.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=SDPP2O2XDA)
Also, courtesy of DATANYWHERE.NET (http://datanywhere.net/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=DI&Category_Code=XDA&Affiliate=pph) a Voucher valid for $50 for anything on their store.

-Second Place

Courtesy of SPB Software (http://www.softspb.com/index.html), the
GriffinTech Total Remote (http://www.griffintechnology.com/griffinmobile/index.html) and Spb GPRS Monitor (http://www.softspb.com/products/gprsmonitor/index.html)

-Third Place

Courtesy of SPB Software (http://www.softspb.com/index.html),Spb GPRS Monitor (http://www.softspb.com/products/gprsmonitor/index.html)

For more info and to post your skins click here (http://pdaphonehome.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2964)

http://home.earthlink.net/~yorch/images/Skins/BlissXp%20skin.gif

[Monty Gibson]

Finnally the Dialpad Skin Contest is here and with more prizes than anything!

Yorch,

Is there a program; similar to the one Microsoft released for themes, that we can download that will expedite the process of making these skins? I read somewhere that someone had a "template" for making these skins a little quicker than the "slice and dice" method. Any suggestions? I actually have been working on one for a few days now and would be willing to give it a go.

[Yorch]

if you go to my website, there are 2 photoshop templates, unfortunately, yeah, you have to dice'n slice, but pretty much all of the skins for any program work like that. Let me tell you once you get the hang of it, is not really that hard, it might take you an hour or less, and that if you are a perfectionist, but is not really hard. If you need help, I'll be glad to help you, or anyone. If you have skins, please post them!, those are very good prizes there :wink:

[Bully]

Yeah, come on Monty, no pain-no gain! How're you doin'? :D

[Monty Gibson]

Yeah, come on Monty, no pain-no gain! How're you doin'? :D

:morning: <--- Me lately. I've been so busy with work and worn down with malaise. I've started a personal web site for my family to interact with each other and that has slowed down my T-Mobile Skin. However; I still plan on releasing it, but I want it to be as good as I can make it. If I make the contest in time then that's great, but I want to try and put some polish on it. The dialpad skin is just part of the "grand theme" of the entire phone itself and plan to release all of it at once. I don't understand how one can have a theme on their phone without having something similar on the dialpad. Once I get the hang of it (which I'm quickly grasping) then I can make them faster. But, I only do the themes which interest me, and with that said it's usually of the Disney variety... hence the name and avatar :-).

By the way, I don't use Photoshop, I use Micrografx and I appreciate the chance for your templates Yorch, but unfortunately, as you know, they won't work for Micrografx. Thank you anyway, your help is appreciated.

[Monty Gibson]

Yorch,

I renamed your templates and got them to work on Micrografx! Isn't that cool? I don't know if they look the same as you made them, but they definitely will help in the process in the future. Thank you again!

[Yorch]

If you could send them to me I could post them in the website to download, for other people that are interested to use them, send them to [email protected]