You may NOT remix your own skin -- it has to be someone else's skin. The original skin may be a collaboration by two or more authors, as long as no portion of the skin has been made by yourself.

You may only remix skins you have received permission to remix by the original author. You must also provide us with proof of this permission in order for your remixed skin to be eligible for the contest. Read below on how to obtain this permission and how to provide us with the proof.

Hi, www.1001winampskins.com is running a "Winamp 2 Skin Remix contest". Contestants will be taking their favourite skin and adding their own artistic interpretation to it by 'remixing' it. I would like to remix your skin [INSERT SKIN NAME HERE] for my entry. However, 1001winampskins.com greatly respects skinners' copyrights, and I can only remix your skin if you give me your explicit permission to do so. I hope you do :) If you give me permission to make a remix of [INSERT SKIN NAME HERE], please let me know by replying to this email, and please ALSO let 1001winampskins.com know by sending the information at the bottom of this email to the contest organiser: db@1001winampskins.com If you have a personal website URL or any other information you would like me to include in the readme.txt of my remix, let me know. You can find out more about the contest here: http://www1.1001skins.com/contest.html If you have any questions about the contest, you can contact ¤db¤, the contest organiser, at db@1001winampskins.com or Max Bloch, the webmaster, at max@1001winampskins.com Regards, [YOUR NAME] ________________________________________________________ THE BELOW INFORMATION NEEDS TO BE FILLED OUT AND SENT TO db@1001winampskins.com and to the remixer applying for permission ________________________________________________________ I, [INSERT YOUR NAME OR SKINNING ALIAS] allow [INSERT REMIXER'S NAME AND EMAIL ADDRESS HERE] to remix my Winamp skin [INSERT SKIN NAME] and enter it into the 2003 www.1001winampskins.com Winamp Skin Remix contest. I allow her/him to publish the remixed skin at www.1001winampskins.com, on the condition that s/he makes it clear in the skin's description and the skin's readme.txt that the original skin was made by myself. OPTIONAL: I allow her/him to submit the remix to other skin sites on the condition that s/he makes it clear in the skin's description and the skin's readme.txt that the original skin was made by myself. (PLEASE SPECIFY "YES (I ALLOW THIS)" OR "NO (I DON'T ALLOW IT)"): I allow her/him to submit the remix to be published on a future 1001winampskins.com CD. More info here: http://www1.1001skins.com/faq.html?help=publish_cd (PLEASE SPECIFY "YES (I ALLOW THIS)" OR "NO (I DON'T ALLOW IT)"):

The criteria for judging these skins will be similar to what you would expect for a normal skin (aesthetics, creativity, completeness, functionality...) with the addition of these very important criteria:

HOW MUCH OF YOUR OWN SKINNING STYLE IS PRESENT IN THE REMIX:
If you change very little of the original skin (eg. just change some colours around and alter some buttons) or make just a couple of minor improvements, your remix will not be rated highly. What everyone wants to see is your interpretation of the skin - the old skin with a distinct new flavour.

WHETHER, BY LOOKING AT THE REMIX, ONE CAN STILL RECOGNISE THE ORIGINAL SKIN:
Although putting a lot of your own interpretation into the remix is a good thing, you want people to be able to easily see the presence of the original skin somehow - or at least its 'character' - otherwise it defeats the point of making a "remix". If you make what is practically just a new skin containing a few very small allusions to the 'original skin', your skin won't be rated very highly either.