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Be The Next GelaSkins Artist :: Design Contest

By Allison Silber // May 22, 2012
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Be the next GelaSkins artist! Gelaskins works with some of the world's finest talent to bring stunning art to any device. You could be the next artist to be featured on GelaSkins and have your pattern available worldwide!

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GelaSkins is passionate about great design which is why you'll find some of world's most creative minds gracing their pages. A portion of each skin, case or print sold goes directly to the creator, helping to support and promote independent artists everywhere. Pretty neat, right?

The HardCase is the newest addition to the product family. It is a tough polycarbonate case made to protect iPhones and impact damage and everyday wear-and-tear. Simple to install and remove, the one-piece snap-on construction holds tight for maximum protection. The HardCase allows for easy access to buttons and is compatible with charging cables and screen protectors.

So let's get down to business! Here are the details to enter our contest and possibly win the fabulous prices below.

How to enter:

Submit one of your patterns here. Just select a pattern template that you designed and colored and apply it to the hardcase... Easy as that! Give it a try.

Prizes:

1st place prize: Winner will become the next GelaSkins artist, and will collect royalties on the sale of their design to our customers.

Runners Up: The 2nd-5th runners up will receive $100 gift card towards custom GelaSkins featuring your pattern.

The 1st place winner will be chosen by GelaSkins but the 2nd-5th place winners will be chosen via voting by your community. Once you create your submission, make sure to check out the other submissions and vote for your favorites.

Submissions will close June 4th and we will be announcing the winner on June 5! Good luck!

View all the entries here: Gelaskins Hardcase Entries.

Contest Rules:
All designs entered stay owned by the creators. The grand prize winner agrees to share their design rights with Geleskins, and participate as one of their designers. They will earn a part of all sales of their design.

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Written by Allison Silber

www.engagedandinspired.comAllison is the blog editor and gal behind the Twitter, Facebook & Pinterest at COLOURlovers. When she is not spreading color love around the web, she writes and manages Engaged & Inspired, a wedding blog and vendor resource for brides.

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daisychain

Posted May 29, 2012
Thanks for your kind response, Prax. I think you are slightly misunderstanding the core of my concern regarding colourings and palettes (possibly because our posts by-passed each other).

I am not concerned with other people stealing my content and reproducing it or putting it elsewhere on the web. Not because I agree it's right but because I don't have the means to do anything about it. But that doesn't mean CL shouldn't secure rights to their utmost ability.

For example, as you mention, they were very lax in this contest. Eighteyed was pointing out all the parameters of the contest that were not clarified in advance which opens the contestants (in particular the template makers) up to unnecessary disadvantage, rendering them unable to make an informed decision. Secondly, most have probably allowed "no commercial use' of their palettes in their settings. And yet their palettes are being entered in this contest for commercial use and profit without officially securing the palette maker's permission in advance or officially guaranteeing them a share in any potential winnings. It is clearly within CL's power to secure the rights of the palette maker in this case. But they didn't.

My particular concern is 1) securing (partial) rights to the pattern creations I make with my palette along with the template maker so I can make use of them, say on Spoonlovers and 2) participating in any potential profits for anyone else's patterns with my palette. I feel if the template maker allows someone to spend their time colouring their template in the first place, it is not fair to then disallow any use of them commercially by the "colourist", if the template makers themselves retain that right. In my opinion the pattern created is an artistic creation of value in its own right. CL is just as capable of protecting the pattern as the template itself. But currently (as far as I understand it) palette makers have no rights with regard to their patterns unless they are also the template maker. This is the central disregard I am concerned with. It is unfair and devalues the work of the "colourist" to zero.

My reference to Seamless was because I am now wondering why I spend time colouring others templates when they are not willing to grant me any potential commercial share in a mutually created pattern except possibly at their discretion. I haven't sensed any willingness by the template makers to honour those who devote so much time to colouring templates when it comes to allowing them access to the marketplace with their patterns. That's what I mean about CL being a community when no profit is involved but suddenly not when it is. So unless things change, I can only conclude that the only way to have any potential participation in the marketplace is by becoming a template maker.

(As an aside regarding Seamless Lite as a tool, there is no help or instructions anywhere to be found and on my computer it crashes continually and exhibits erratic behaviour. And there is no way to find any answers. But I don't want to get into another subject further now.)

Anyway enough of this for now from me,

♡ daisy


praxicalidocious wrote:
Sweet Daisy, I in no way consider you to be a " "stingy non-sharing soul whose foremost concern is being "proprietary about [my] creations". " ...I understand where you are coming from, and besides which, I am also a socialist to my very core. :)

Since you point out that this is a "real world of business" issue, I think that the heart of the matter is one of reproducibility. I don't think it's about worthiness, simply that some kinds of IP are easier to protect than others, and that is out of the hands of CL.

Honestly, I have little to no control if someone takes one of my template patterns (that 200px x 200px square 'preview' file) and uses it on a webpage, whether personal or commercial. ...However, since that same tile will print at less than 2cm square in a decent print resolution, I am insulated from someone using it to print, say, fabric, posters or iphone cases without my permission, because they do not have ready access to the vectors that make the image, making it impossible to print at higher resolutions.

There is simply no way to protect a colour palette the same way; anyone who can see it can copy the html code and reuse it howsoever they see fit. It doesn't mean I think you are wrong in wanting things to be otherwise, only that I am doubtful about the possibility.

Yes, we can set up stricter standards within the CL universe itself, perhaps most importantly along the frontiers of contests like this one, where we are interacting with a larger business community. But I believe that Linda is right - once something is on the internet, it is much harder to reclaim it as solely your own.

I also understand that you see an issue of monetized content - that only people who have purchased seamless studio can profit in the market as it stands, and I have to respectfully disagree. While there are definite advantages to using SS instead of SL (I must confess to creating exclusively in SS these days), I created my first 350+ templates using only SL, and that was before you could save your work in the form of shapes; there were no do-overs. Some of those templates are still among my favourites that I've made.

Also, when the Creative Marketplace is up and running, I believe members will be able to sell their shapes to one another - shapes made in SL.

Finally, since I'm not sure this fact is well advertised, the sticker price of SS is $49. If you have a paid membership, you can purchase the full version for only $19. (Which basically means you buy SS and you get a free full year's membership to CL!)

:)

(Edit: I wrote this before I saw your latest reply.)
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allikep

Posted May 30, 2012
I've noticed that A LOT of designs have shapes that are kind of squashed or stretched disproportionately.... I don't know if people are not all aware that when making a shape or group of shapes smaller, you have to hold down the 'shift' key in order for it to scale down proportionately.... Makes it look weird if you don't. Hope that helps :)
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AtomikB

Posted May 30, 2012
THere’s a problem in the encoding: look on page 8; you’ll find instructions to solve the problem :)

allikep wrote:
I've noticed that A LOT of designs have shapes that are kind of squashed or stretched disproportionately.... I don't know if people are not all aware that when making a shape or group of shapes smaller, you have to hold down the 'shift' key in order for it to scale down proportionately.... Makes it look weird if you don't. Hope that helps :)
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allikep

Posted May 30, 2012
Yea, I'm well aware of that. If you read the whole post, you'll see that's not what I'm talking about.....
I'm talking about the shapes in people's templates being squished or stretched looking. Kinda like some of the fish in your design. If someone doesn't know to hold down the "shift" key when scaling objects or groups of objects, they will tend to look weird.


AtomikB wrote:
THere’s a problem in the encoding: look on page 8; you’ll find instructions to solve the problem :)

allikep wrote:
I've noticed that A LOT of designs have shapes that are kind of squashed or stretched disproportionately.... I don't know if people are not all aware that when making a shape or group of shapes smaller, you have to hold down the 'shift' key in order for it to scale down proportionately.... Makes it look weird if you don't. Hope that helps :)
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AtomikB

Posted May 30, 2012
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TMia

Posted May 30, 2012
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o2bqueen

Posted May 30, 2012
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sec9586

Posted May 30, 2012
http://www.colourlovers.com/business/blog/2011/09/07/our-new-rights-management-system-all-the-colors-belong-to-you

I don't know if this helps clear anything up on CL's right management or not. I do know that the creative commons licensing of patterns and templates is fairly new. I know this won't necessarily answer everyone's questions that they've been having. Just putting it here as an FYI.
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bizee1

Posted May 30, 2012
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MichaelEdgerley

Posted May 30, 2012
Win a free iPhone! Somewhere.
Click to see all my entries.

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Whether its intentional or not, I still dont think template designers get the protection they deserve or need. If someone uses your template to make a buck, you should be getting paid. Designing a successful template is no easy task and worth plenty.

Not every palette works for every template. Colorists of templates needn't be reminded people pay plenty for color consultation. Many template designers get lost in color. In other words, if my template won with someone elses palette, I'm inclined to owe them for helping me effectively make the most of my design. And I don't mind saying I think that value can be calculated.

BTW, I remain unconvinced that changing the order and/or widths of colors in a palette makes it a new palette. So no, if I change the order of someone elses palette in my template, I did not just create a new palette.
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AtomikB

Posted May 30, 2012
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allikep

Posted May 30, 2012
I completely agree! It takes the right colors in the right places to make a template look its best. I've seen a lot of good templates done wrong with some hideous color choices.

And going along with your other point, I've noticed that it is really hard to tell if someone copies your palette unless they just click on it and work from it. If someone starts a whole new palette and chooses colors that are only like one pixel over from yours in the color chart, they can end up intentionally having essentially the same palette and you would be none the wiser. Whenever I peruse the site, I sometimes find palettes that are awfully similar to one of mine or someone else's. No idea's original, but when your palette is based off of one of your own photographs, for example, it seems a little weird that someone else would have the same thing.

Oh, and whoever thinks changing the widths of palettes suddenly makes it their original creation is crazy.

MichaelEdgerley wrote:


Not every palette works for every template. Colorists of templates needn't be reminded people pay plenty for color consultation. Many template designers get lost in color. In other words, if my template won with someone elses palette, I'm inclined to owe them for helping me effectively make the most of my design. And I don't mind saying I think that value can be calculated.

BTW, I remain unconvinced that changing the order and/or widths of colors in a palette makes it a new palette. So no, if I change the order of someone elses palette in my template, I did not just create a new palette.
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daisychain

Posted May 30, 2012
Michael and allikep, I agree with all that you say. I'm glad you joined the conversation.

Finding palettes recreated one pixel removed is probably something computer software would have to accomplish. But proving intent would probably be very hard if there was a certain degree of variation.
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iliveiloveandilaugh

Posted May 30, 2012
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iliveiloveandilaugh

Posted May 30, 2012
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maryjd

Posted May 30, 2012
Well it's my opinion that a palette consisting of five hex numbers can't and shouldn't be copyrighted. Think about it, we could be sued for reproducing a palette by shear accident and coincidence. It could easily happen. It's not as hard as accidentally reproducing the Mona Lisa. That's different from deliberately clicking on someones palette to automatically colour a design- which is fine for playing around, but shouldn't be okay for profit. What is really being taken advantage of is someone else's time and effort. I'm sure if they thought about the issue, Colourlovers could just change the program to disable that type of creation from being entered in a contest. Instead they made it so easy that people could do it in a couple of seconds, without a second thought.

daisychain wrote:
Michael and allikep, I agree with all that you say. I'm glad you joined the conversation.

Finding palettes recreated one pixel removed is probably something computer software would have to accomplish. But proving intent would probably be very hard if there was a certain degree of variation.
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daisychain

Posted May 30, 2012
I fully support the second half of your argument, Mary. But I find that your first statement is in some contradiction to it however. If a palette shouldn't be copyrighted then what's to prevent someone else using it without attribution for whatever purpose? (including contests). Where does this leave the credit for the artist's colouring of a template? What about people designing cards with them - like the calling cards and similar? If all palettes are created equal, then why are some better than others at doing it and some more favoured? Palettes determine artistic outcome and aesthetic.

The major argument you bring for not copyrighting a palette is the fear of being sued if you accidentally reproduce it. I personally don't think that is too great a risk even though we aren't talking about the Mona Lisa, especially if you know you are creating independently in good faith. What other arguments to your mind speak in favour of why they shouldn't be copyrighted?

maryjd wrote:
Well it's my opinion that a palette consisting of five hex numbers can't and shouldn't be copyrighted. Think about it, we could be sued for reproducing a palette by shear accident and coincidence. It could easily happen. It's not as hard as accidentally reproducing the Mona Lisa. That's different from deliberately clicking on someones palette to automatically colour a design- which is fine for playing around, but shouldn't be okay for profit. What is really being taken advantage of is someone else's time and effort. I'm sure if they thought about the issue, Colourlovers could just change the program to disable that type of creation from being entered in a contest. Instead they made it so easy that people could do it in a couple of seconds, without a second thought.

daisychain wrote:
Michael and allikep, I agree with all that you say. I'm glad you joined the conversation.

Finding palettes recreated one pixel removed is probably something computer software would have to accomplish. But proving intent would probably be very hard if there was a certain degree of variation.
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praxicalidocious

Posted May 30, 2012
...Is there anyone else who is ready to see the IP conversation moved to it's own thread? I feel as though we've heard from both sides now, and while there is certainly more to be said, I don't think it has to be said here. :)
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korylanier

Posted May 30, 2012
to be honest i dont think we should worry about the palettes as much as we do the art itself. to me pallets are nothing but colors line in a certain order. What is more important is the art. im not exactly familiar with this program. but everything should be marked with its original creator.
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MichaelEdgerley

Posted May 30, 2012
Just like names, palettes are patented, copyrighted and trademarked everyday. If one pixel in one color is moved, its a new copyright to argue. And the argument depends upon a conflict of use. If Steve Jobs had chosen a solid granny apple green for his logo, the beatles would have sued. And, in fact, they did sue him over the name.

maryjd wrote:
Well it's my opinion that a palette consisting of five hex numbers can't and shouldn't be copyrighted. Think about it, we could be sued for reproducing a palette by shear accident and coincidence. It could easily happen. It's not as hard as accidentally reproducing the Mona Lisa. That's different from deliberately clicking on someones palette to automatically colour a design- which is fine for playing around, but shouldn't be okay for profit. What is really being taken advantage of is someone else's time and effort. I'm sure if they thought about the issue, Colourlovers could just change the program to disable that type of creation from being entered in a contest. Instead they made it so easy that people could do it in a couple of seconds, without a second thought.

daisychain wrote:
Michael and allikep, I agree with all that you say. I'm glad you joined the conversation.

Finding palettes recreated one pixel removed is probably something computer software would have to accomplish. But proving intent would probably be very hard if there was a certain degree of variation.
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MichaelEdgerley

Posted May 30, 2012
Thanks prax. link? =)
praxicalidocious wrote:
...Is there anyone else who is ready to see the IP conversation moved to it's own thread? I feel as though we've heard from both sides now, and while there is certainly more to be said, I don't think it has to be said here. :)
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allikep

Posted May 30, 2012
Please do cuz I don't wanna get an email every time someone has something to say about copyrighting their stuff or whatever on this blog. I don't care about that stuff on here. It's not really real. I was just commenting because I don't like the principal of someone copying stuff.
praxicalidocious wrote:
...Is there anyone else who is ready to see the IP conversation moved to it's own thread? I feel as though we've heard from both sides now, and while there is certainly more to be said, I don't think it has to be said here. :)
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praxicalidocious

Posted May 30, 2012

No more IP discussion here, please!


I've created a new thread here. I will be attempting to summarize some of the debate there.

If all involved and interested could move the discussion there, it would be profoudly appreciated. :)

MichaelEdgerley wrote:
Thanks prax. link? =)
praxicalidocious wrote:
...Is there anyone else who is ready to see the IP conversation moved to it's own thread? I feel as though we've heard from both sides now, and while there is certainly more to be said, I don't think it has to be said here. :)
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pet

Posted May 30, 2012
QUESTION; why is every singla enrty ANd somment sowing up in my lOve notes on my profile. It's getting annoying, I mean i get up in the morning ande there's like 49 messeges and only like 4 are for me.
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korylanier

Posted May 30, 2012
idk its happened to me to. is it got to do with pallettes or something. if so it might be the sponsor letting all the users to beware of people stealing ur ideas. or perhaps wanting u to respond so they can try to solve the problems
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pet

Posted May 30, 2012
Ya well i'd wish it would stop
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korylanier

Posted May 30, 2012
im sorry!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!
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praxicalidocious

Posted May 30, 2012
coastmouse wrote:
QUESTION; why is every singla enrty ANd somment sowing up in my lOve notes on my profile. It's getting annoying, I mean i get up in the morning ande there's like 49 messeges and only like 4 are for me.

Every time you post in a thread or comment or fave a palette/pattern/template, you will follow the ensuing discussion. You can stop reading by scrolling up to the heavy black bar that reads "### Comments". Immediately below that, to the right side of the bar there is a small link that says "Mute'. Click it and choose 'OK'; you will not see any further messages from the thread you are opting out of.
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korylanier

Posted May 30, 2012
k thank u for the tip
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