It's visible on your Personal Page: [link]

This is a pretty 'sensitive' issue...loaded with emotion, that of the creator of the art. There are 'technical' reasons, as have been related to above, and 'artistic' ones, which are a real land mine.

Might I say just one thing...correct all the possible technical reasons you can, especially the junk mail one cited above. As for the artistic ones, you have to please yourself first and foremost. Be honest and 'Vulcan' about comparing yours to those accepted.

Finally, ask yourself whether you're submitting in order to be 'published' or whether you're submitting something you believe is art...your true art. If it's more the former and less the latter, then deal with that issue....also, you can always submit at other sites and see what their moderation and viewer comment say about it.

Thank you for the suggestions-I really appreciate them-I am really tring to learn and I truly thank you!!!

A wall can be simple in nature but still be a masterpiece.. While being a wall with only one specific item as the focus,  The main portion of the wall should not over power the setting surrounding it. One must compliment the other to achieve a visual flow.

In this instance If you were meaning to make the orb the focal point,I would have placed the Orb center'ish  ,softened the edges of it a bit, smoothed out the gradients, possibly added texture or design to the center of the orb. Maybe even some sort of an unimposing texture to the gradient it's self. I also would have Made the gradient softly eminate from the orb, thus bringing the viewers eyes toward the focal point, without having the orb having to Stand out to be noticed. This would also give the Orb meaning or belonging.

My best sugestion Is look at the galleries and study the works of a Master whos style suites yours, then study their walls. There are plenty of tips and ideas within them on what makes a great desktop wallpaper, just waiting to be discovered..

I hope my tips find you well

HG

Thank you all for the input--I really do appreciate it!!!!!

Crap-shoot Karen, as in, Pot-luck.

Appeal to what they like.. because there's no way they are going to accept it if you don't!.. but at the same time, don't lose yourself trying to please them, I've done that, and completely destroyed my work, editing it to what they appear to like, and it ends up being something I HATE.

Unfortunately, gushes of praise from your fans/close followers is not always going to be the most honest and unbiased critique available to you.

Even 'popularity' defined by download - count does not necessarily define something as 'good' or 'well made/executed', but simply as POPULAR.

Generally it will be a fair indicator of reasonable standard/functionality/success if a submission IS approved.  If anyone needs definitive feedback on possible reasons for a work's rejection the Mods are available for comment.

It takes something truly original/excitingly fresh to extract a 'wow' from moderators who have seen many tens of thousands of submissions over the better part of a decade... and as a reminder many have had appropriate experience for several decades.

I looked through my 'collection' of wallpapers the other day....there's about 2000 I have considered 'worth keeping' [people like Misery, Nuvem, faisal, MobiusCo, Dangeruss, Digital Blasphemy, Shinter, Kenwas, pixelcatalyst, Karsten, BoXXi, 7shadows...and several others as well].... needless to say the Net has considerably more than 2 thousand walls/images floating around....every PC has 'MS Paint' installed....so the 'potential' Picassos number in the hundreds of millions.

Sadly, skill, craft, and/or vision is not bestowed on them all equally....all three actually require aptitude and practice...

You obviously took the term 'crap-shoot' the wrong way.

Basically, in 'simple' terms, it's 50/50.. you never know if it's going to be accepted or not.. [unless you are Journeyman or higher, which I don't believe in, work should be viewed, NOT auto approved IMO, what if someone decided to be a smartass, and submit a blank Wall with a DOT in the middle, and they are a Master, and auto get 5 stars LMAO!!! ... I AM right, but we'll have to agree to disagree on that particular issue.] so hence the term.. 'Crap-shoot'.

Yes Karen, I agree with everything you said.

I've heard that before, and I don't agree with it, if I were a master, I would expect my work to be judged on what it is, not by my rank.. it wouldn't be fair, I wouldn't want that, as I said, we will have to agree to disagree..

Don't recall even talking about that.

1.. I'm a half decent skinner.

2. I'm definately, a decent person.

BTW.. I wasn't having a go at anyone, at any point in this topic.

I wasn't

Anyway scruf, as someone recently told me, don't let WC be the judge of your self-worth, keep on creating buddy!

As I have said before:

With Journeymen as well as Master skinners, by the time they are promoted to those positions they have shown they know what WC mods look for in skin's quality, asthetics, as well as have shown the maturity not to abuse the "free pass" given thru moderation

IMO it is fair, they have  shown the maturity to grow/learn from rejections and utilize the knowledge gained from them, to master their craft. They too once started at the bottom of the chain, but thru hard work and learning from their mistakes,etc,

Yes they automaticaly get I believe a "5" rating which is like 2.5 or 3 stars, but they also loose out on getting passed thru moderation with 5 stars for awesome skins. Most journeyman and masters skins Merit typically more than 3 stars, as usually thier works are top notch, so if any thing they are getting the short end of the stick.

Also they are generally at the public's mercy for ratings, unless we happen to see the skin in the library and rate it. Also by being not moderated, they can miss out on being featured etc, as since they dont get seen by us directly.

Every thing has its plusses and minuses. Some times the other side of the coin isn't so shiny when more closely examined.

On a side note I have been one of the Skinning community since 1997, and only last year became A WC mod. I feel no different Today as I did before recieveing the promotion.  Them as it has been put, Came from the community, and are trying their best to give back to it..  But hey screw me right?

People who have their works bypass moderation are quite specifically disadvantaged.

The 'auto-six' that is applied is a site specific system to enable the work to be seen by others...if it received no rating at all...[because it was not seen by a moderator to be rated]...it would thus be 'zero' and physically invisible to the public.

This auto-applied rating actually is DELETED automatically as soon as the first public rating is added.

Moderated [and approved] uploads receive a legitimate and permanently applied rating even before it goes public and thus receive/attract further ratings.

A by-product of this system is that those whom some may consider as 'favourites' because of their promotional status will upload works which are usually unlikely to even be seen/rated by a moderator at all.