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Welcome, Everyone!
We're glad you stopped by to share or find a background to use to create your own skin. There are some great backgrounds that are available to use, and there will be more added as time goes on.

Feel free to browse through the photo section (Click on blue "Photos" button - top right) and feel free to upload any new backgrounds you would like to share. Please see the replies for more tips, suggestions and instructions.

If you need help in creating a complete "skin", you can check out the Creating a Profile Skin file from The Studio group. You can also find information in The Studio about adding widgets to your profile page, finding graphics sites and/or using online graphic editors, and much more. You're very welcome to visit.

Where to Find Ready-made Skins:
The Friends and Skins group - Find complete skin designs ready to use.
The Eons Skins Index - Eons Index to the Skin Gallery
The Eons Skin Gallery - Click on a skin to preview or click to use.

posted by Mimi58

Searching for backgrounds in the photo section:

The backgrounds have been placed in albums (folders) in the photo section of the group. You can browse the photos by

1) Date Added. This could be helpful if you have browsed the photos before and want to see what was recently added.

2) Album. Click on "Album" and you will see the pictures sorted by the albums in which they were placed. Here's a neat trick. You can use the drop down menu after "Sort by" to have the albums sorted in alphabetical order by their title. Might help when hunting for a particular type of image. The default is to have the albums listed by the most recently added album.

3) Member - Click on "Member" and you can see the images uploaded by various members of the group. You can "Sort by" Screen name or number of photos. This could be helpful if you can't remember whether you had uploaded a particular image or not, LOL. Just sort by member and look at what you uploaded yourself!

4) Date Taken - Click on "Date Taken" and the images are sorted by when the photo was taken. This way of sorting could be useful in a photography group, but probably won't be of much use to us.

posted by Mimi58
3 months ago

There are a few basic things to keep in mind if you want to upload some background images:

1) Please don't upload any image unless you have the copyright, license or permission to share them.
2) Understand that there is no way to keep folks from downloading an image, so please don't place an image in the photo section that you are not willing for folks to download and use.
3) Please check that the tiled images you upload will tile seamlessly. In other words, the tile blends together to look like one big image.
4) You are given the choice to add a title to the images when you upload them. This is actually the alternate text that would show if the image didn't load. But this will "pop up" when you hover over the image.

We'd love to see the images you create, so feel free to add to the Gallery! If you need help in any step of the process, just ask.

posted by Mimi58
3 months ago