Welcome to Symbian Theme Contest 15.

Topic: Landscape

Please read and understand the Voting Rules before posting your 5 votes.

1. X (5 points)
2. Y (4 points)
3. Z (3 points)
4. A (2 points)
5. B (1 points)


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All the best everyone and thank you for entering!


saraamir




thabull




galmed


Shutdown image


Startup image


Flip/Slide


Wait graphics




kashif85




swt_capri


startup animation


shutdown animation


wait graphics




igmonius




Happyyesh




cute_heart




sam1374




Sourav_Kumar




elaginn




Branislaw




_anuj_


screen saver




MissCharmingHeart




my screen saver




[b]shalu2173

Voted.

Sourav_Kumar...lovely theme..just awesome
elaginn..nice theme but only menu background should be darker
Branislaw...u are always making lovely themes...keep it up.

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sam_1374
Nice colour scheme and quite functional. Cosmetics: rounded corners of the Grid Highlight are pixely.

saraamir
Clean and functional with reasonable choice of elements and texts for good functionality. Well-chosen wallpaper, illusion of depth works quite good. Thumbs up!

cute_heart
Nice design of softkeys and highlights. Greenish tinge of the submenu backgrounds doesn't match the colour of the brown list highlight/middle softkey and the orange text colour; would be better in a light brown or orange-ish tone. Light brown list text colour in the submenues partially blends with the background image and is therefore hard to read.

kashif85
Imho your and Shalu's entry are the best S40 themes in terms of functionality and design this week. Your theme: clean, consistent in colours and design elements from the softkey down to the loader. Nice glass effect of Tab Highlights and Forms. Cosmetics: Black line of the statusbar clashes with the statusbar text, would be better a few pixels down.

Shalu2173
This came out really good - flawless in terms of usability, consistency and choice of colours; good choice of images and well-done submenue background image manipulation; appealing barwork and nice matching icons. Way to go.

igmonius
Looks good and quite functional on the phone with many details in it; status area 60 pixels from the top could be a bit darker to make the Navi Pane texts more visible; rounded edges of the Grid Highlight look pixely, would be better done in 9-piece-mode.

elaginn
Has some basic problems: three different background pics are irritating, like looking at three different themes. Texts in the submenue partially blends with the background images and is therefore hard to read. You forgot to put in a background image for the calendar and to skin the popup.

swt_capri
Has some usability issues: White text is hard to read in some submenues; submenue background image would be better with e.g. the famous semi-transparent black layer on it to increase readability of the text.
Bevel and emboss effects especially on the list highlights don't look good, makes them look bulky. In general, the bevel and emboss effect has to be handled very carefully to really look good, I'd rather experiment with subtle gradients instead. Yellow list highlight text blends too much with the light orange list highlight (especially on small list highlights) and doesn't stand out enough. Text on Selected and Unselected Forms have identical colours so it's hard to say which item is actually highlighted.

sourav_kumar
Good readability and colour consistency. Good you added a black semi-transparent layer to the submenue images so the texts stand out clearly from the background. Nice Grid Highlight design and funny loader. Flower rim around the main area is a nice design idea, would look even better with the green leaves forming a compact border I think.

galmed
Nice lightweight theme with good functionality. Good to see you paid attention to the latter, e.g. you softened the submenue and calendar images with a white gradient and you chose the text colours for selected and unselected forms in a way that they're clearly distinguishable. Nice matching icon set. You forgot to skin the Active Idle Row Highlight and its tab.

_anuj_
Theme is good in terms of usability, except for the calendar - black calendar numbers are hard to read on dark calendar background. Glow/outline effects on the statusbar and list highlight not-so-nice as they're erratic and unsymmetrical.

MissCharmingHeart
This would be quite usable with the submenue images a bit darker. As it's now, the grid and list highlights are sometimes hard to distinguish from the background. Nice illusion of depth of the wallpaper and nice semi-transparent water bubble icons - they match the main motive quite well.

Voted.

i donot have much comments to say but thatthere are many cute work in here and may the best win thats it

Voted.

some really excellent themes here and it was difficult to choose, well done everyone

Branislaw , nice work

Happyyesh , beautiful mate

Sourav_Kumar , u really doing well

shalu2173, weldone another great entry

kashif85 , nice one mate

well every one make beautiful theme , best of luck all of you

Voted.

Great Entries ya all...!!!

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Voted.

thabull
Great functional theme! The sofkeys is a little to easy for my taste imho

Branislaw
Nice background and softkeys. The grid high was very nice, also the icons looks great!
When it comes to functionality is no good having a transparent input. When you want to change say the date and time the input turns white and often the text colour is also white then it's impossible to change anything. Hope you don't mind i'm saying this. Just wanna help. When you think the theme is ready for the public test it on the phone. Test all elements! Often there is a bug somewhere. Keep it up!

shalu
Beautiful work! Not so much details this time but very neat and clean...Great work!

Kashif85
Awesome softkey. I don't own a s40 phone but it's looks awesome. Great work!

Happyyesh
Very nice too! Great wally, softkey and list high.
Like branislaw your input is almost tranparent too and it's not good


igmonius
I really like the the standby overall. The clock, wally and softkey. Great match!
I think you did great! One thing: The unfocused list frame and the setting list text is both white.


So my suggestion is also to you to test all elements on the phone. Like the screen to change date and time..


Cute_heart
Also very nice!" I like it and i must say i see improvment from you cute_heart


Sorry for not comment more themes...

Thanks for be one of the judge this comp. Thanks AW and rhtz
See you in the next round..

good luck everybody!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a wonderful week we have had! 16 very talented participants, who have been improving at a very good pace.. ..Those who haven’t won this time, please keep it in mind that not winning a trophy doesn't make you a failure, or even a bad themer.. ..Everyone here is pretty talented, and trophies are just a means of congratulating few of the many participants.. ..Every participant is a winner, so pat yourself on the back anyway and work harder for the upcoming week.. ..

A big clap to the 2 judges Bishop_Bacon and Longhairsteff .. ..Last but not the least, Thanks to ArthurWill for her support .. ..


And now.. ..Here are our Winners ::


Shalu2173

http://gallery.mobile9.com/f/880249/

igmonius

http://gallery.mobile9.com/f/873720/


kashif85

http://gallery.mobile9.com/f/872796/


saurav_kumar

http://gallery.mobile9.com/f/877452/


Public Votes::


Overall Votes::




Thanks for joining us this week.. .. Hope to see everyone next week .. ..

congratulation to all winner


@rhtz: abt STC16, link (page not found)

Congratulations to winners ..........

to all winners..............

Congrats to all winners

Woohoo! Congrats to the winners! Absolutely awesome themes!
And I'm not last as well! Although it was my first time!
Can someone tell me what is the difference between the "public" and the 'overall" votes and what is the purpose of judges.

Congrats to the winners..@Igmonius, @Kashif And @Saurav
Thanks to the judges@longhairsteff and @Bishop Bacon for their comment sn votes and thanks to all who voted.
Special thanks to @BishopBacon for her timely help And @Jasnasto for all inspirations I draw from her .

And So many thanks to dear @Arthur and @RHTZ for managing the thread and guiding us regualrly.Appreciate yoyr time n efforts!!

Congrats to the winners... and all participants... and judges...

@shalu - great
@kashif - wow..
@sourav- 2 in a row great.
@igmonius - congratz..

congrat to winners

congratulation to all winner

congratulation to all winners

congratulation to all winner

congratz winners..

well desrved..

Congrats To The Winners.


Thanks To All Who Participated.

Congrats to winners Shalu2173, igmonius, kashif85.......and to all participants..........
A big thanks to ArthurWill and RHTZ For their guidance and efforts in running the competition......
Also Thanks to the judjes longhairsteff and Bishop Bacon for their support...........

Congratulation to all winners,and thanks for comments

congrats to the winners and thanks to the judges

congrats to the winners
this one was tough....


@Bishop Bacon just one question.... the thing that 3 of 15 participant themes weren't commented by u means that

a. they were flawless?
b. u didn't noticed that these themes exist?
c. u didn't have any thing to say?
d. u didn't have the time to comment?
e. something else?

i think that u should refer to those 3 themes (at least with just a hi...) since u have commented 12 of 15 (almost all...). after all, u are a judge in this contest and it would be helpfull for us to know what u are thinking about our themes in order to become better, to correct our flaws
otherwise, since u are a judge most of the time, there is no point to take part in the contest, as we still make the same mistakes that u don't like...

(i wouldn't say these if i saw u commenting half of the entries, but 12/15.... ? )
with all the respect

Congrats to the winners and all the participants as well... especially to igmonius (rekoh li ti ja da ti je ova tema extra?), kashif and Saurav, for their very first trophies in theme making competitions of any kind here on m9...
Sorry I didn't vote, but the themes were all so very nice, so I realized that I will not have enough time in my already hectic life to make the right decision and pick the best 5...

Thanx for the mention, it's much appreciated and good to know...

congrates to all people

Congrats to all winners - nice to see three "first trophies" at one time

thabull:
The correct answer is e),
for time reasons and as I'm more S40- than S60-experienced (and as the second judge is mostly an S60 expert), I mainly concentrate on S40 themes when commenting. This time, I had a bit more time left so I commented on the S60 themes that imho were "Top 5", too. Sorry if this should have caused annoyance in you.
In fact, there are no mistakes I "don't like". The most important thing for me when judging a theme is its functionality and as for that, there is no such thing as personal preference.

Congrats to the winners.....

Thanks Jasna for your king words,i will do my best

thanks for making this clear for me......

c u in stc16

Yup, and just so you are clear about what I told judges (since they also have life outside theming) - "you don't have to provide comments if your don't have time. If possible, please at least comment on those you've selected as Top 5 so the others can see why those entries are best & can learn from there". But how they want to do it is up to them. They are already too kind to give a hand so I won't ask any more than that.