The Girl With the Pearl Earring

Probably the best thing Eons has done for its members so far is the creation of the skin gallery. Not only does it make things easy for members to "snag" a skin for their profile page, but for those of us who like to be a little creative, it gives us a chance to give a little back.

Lately, I've been seeing new contributors to the gallery and I think this is incredible. What I don't like is someone using your skin and then resubmitting it to the gallery.

When you spend a lot of time finding an image, securing permission to use an image (particularly if it is a photo from someone on eons), and take the time to find just the right font colors to make it legible, the last thing you really want to see is your contribution duplicated in the gallery. Yesterday, I ended up PMing another member and requesting that they remove their copy. I went into detail explaining why, and she was very understanding and removed her copy. Unfortunately, eons has not found a way to prevent duplications, yet. If you don't know what I mean, take a look at the gallery and sort it by "Name".

One of my friends contributed several skins to the gallery only to remove them after multiple copies of her skins started showing up "in the gallery". We want you to use our skins, and we want you to contribute new skins too, but please, if you haven't changed the background image of a skin, don't resubmit it to the gallery.

Thank you.