| If a Master rates a skin, it has more weight than if a Apprentice rates one. |
So i'm asking me if it's not worth sometimes
Just take a look here : https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=13&SkinID=4348
There's only one rating (so it's the admin one ...) and it's a
4 !!! (i did'nt rate it just to show how strange the rating system is)
Do u really think this shot, which in fact is not only a simple addition of existing skins, but gives some more by addition of personal work (even by porting) and a good feeling of well matching the whole ??
Some seems to think that screenshots are just nothing else than screenshots (just a picture). I don't think so and there's over here some guys who do much more than just press "Printscreen" with the skins they have downloaded ...
As far as i'm concerned, i'm not an artist (ART creator) and a designer (and won't probably never be, just because i've not the talent and the feeling for it), but as probably most of guys in the skinning community, i like to get nice desktops, and try to tweak them the way i like best (isn't it the goal of skinning and using softwares such as Stardock's ones firstly ?). So i'm using softs and skins to go with, but just on the WindowBlinds skins, there's always something i want to change / add (colors, buttons, backgrounds ...), it's not an artistic practice but i can tell u it's sometimes a real job to get them the way i want.
Porting existing pixels to skin other softs than the one they were done for is neither an artistic practice, but it's also a real exercice. And finally puting all this stuff together requires feeling. So yes if ratings are avaible for skins (and skinner ARTISTS) i don't know why they should not be the same for screenshots (and those who did them), otherwise, why keeping up ratings for screenshots ??
