Gallery Remote Icon Competition

Gallery Remote needs an icon and a banner/about box image, and we would like to appeal to the community to design one, so...

** WELCOME TO THE GALLERY REMOTE ICON COMPETITION **

What we are looking for in order of decreasing importance:

<LI> Icons: 16x16 (small icon), 32x32 (normal icon), 128x128 (Mac OS X icon), in full color, to be used as the executable file icon

<LI> Banner/Splash-screen/about box: any size, use your judgement

<LI> Web buttons that we can use to publicize Gallery Remote: any standard size

Of course, the more complete a proposal, the more attractive it will be, but we will attempt to use the best pieces of any proposal. I'm personally biased toward colorful and dynamic, yet legible, when it comes to icons and buttons :smile:.

All submissions will be posted on the community site for visitors to comment on, and will remain there. The winning submission will be used ruthlessly for Gallery Remote and the web site.

To submit a proposal, send it to <!-- BBCode Start --><A HREF="http://mailto:paour@sourceforge.net" TARGET="_blank">paour@sourceforge.net</A><!-- BBCode End -->.

Thanks for participating!

The Gallery Remote team.

Details:

<LI> the competition will run until September 15th 2002 at Midnight (California time)
<LI> in order to stimulate competition, all submissions will be posted to this community web site and can be viewed by all as they come in
<LI> submitters can propose multiple proposals each, and can revise them
<LI> as always in Open Source, drawing inspiration from another author is encouraged; blatantly ripping off someone else's work is not admissible
<LI> the winner will be determined by the Gallery team, which will itself be heavily influenced by the comments of the community
<LI> the winning proposal will be used as the icon for Gallery Remote starting with GR 1.0 and will be credited in the Gallery Remote "about box" along with the development team
<LI> all submissions will remain on the community web site
<LI> submitting a proposal implies agreeing to having it posted on the site and used in Gallery Remote free of rights, and modified by the Gallery team for the purposes of Gallery Remote and the web site

Naming and formats:

<LI> submissions will only be accepted in the following formats: Windows ICO, GIF, JPEG, PNG
<LI> in order to ease classification of submissions, please adopt the following naming conventions (xxx: your initials; n: any suffix you like, for example the name of the icon collection):
xxx_icon_16_n
xxx_icon_32_n
xxx_icon_128_n
xxx_about_n
xxx_banner_n
xxx_button_n

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I've received the first submission a couple days ago from Ross A. Reyman, and I've posted them in our <!-- BBCode Start --><A HREF="http://gallery.menalto.com/modules.php?set_albumName=GalleryRemote&amp;op=modload&amp;name=gallery&amp;file=index&amp;include=view_album.php" TARGET="_blank">Gallery</A><!-- BBCode End -->. Check it out, it looks great!

Speaking of which, I'm a bit disapointed that there haven't been more submissions yet. Come on you guys! :smile:

So the icon competition will run until Gallery 1.0 is ready to be released sometime next month at which point we'll pick one set.

Note: it turns out it wasn't a good idea to request .ico files (Windows icon files). So you can stick to gif or png, and .icns (MacOS X icons families; optional).

Yes, definitely, please do, we need more submissions. The more the better!