Skin Consortium in association with Xion Audio Player and it's author Cliff Cawley bring you this exciting competition.

Think you have what it takes to design and create the ultimate Xion skin?
Well then this competition is just for you!

- Don't know what Xion is? (Where have you been? )
Xion is possibly the quickest Audio Player to skin (uses Photoshop PSD format directly) and it's fast becoming the best skinable media player ever!

Learn more: Xion Home Page [link]


Competition Time!

The competition will run for the next month and we're looking for some really cool skin designs.
With Xion taking care of the coding this leaves the design aspect to really flourish and we will be looking at the design aspect of the skins and clever use of layer control to get the best out of what Xion is capable of doing.

So put on your designing heads and pull out your graphics editors and show us your creativity.
Get skinning!

What do points make? Prizes

* 1st Prize $250
* 2nd Prize $100
* 3rd Prize $50
* Top skins will get exposure on both SC & Xion home pages
* Skin Author profile/questionare will also be part of the exposure


Sounds good eh? Well before you start you might want to check the rules!

Here are the Rules:-

* Closing date for all entries is Saturday, 30 May 2008 at - Midnight GMT
* Designs have to be by you.
* No limit on number of entries per person
* The skin must be "NEW" original (not already uploaded to any other site)
* The skin cannot be uploaded to another site until after the end of the competition.
* Skin Uploading will take place anytime during the competition, from Thursday 1st May to Saturday 30th May before Midnight GMT
* Skins have to be functional, usable
* The skin has to work on Xion v1.00 build 100+ [link] (should not be a design proposal, but a real skin!)
* Any skins working on new beta builds 100+ are also welcome - make sure to post which beta version (if using specific version functionality)!


Extra info:-

* Designs will be judged by SC staff and Cliff Cawley. Staff here (ADMINS) can't enter
* The Public can also vote for skins - these votes will also have an impact on the judges decisions! so make sure to vote for your favourite skin!
* The more points your skin gets the better your chance for the top prizes
* Skins will be featured on Xion & SC home pages
* Winners will be announced a week after the public skin voting poll is put up (at competition deadline), you will have 1 week to vote for your favourite skin!


How to skin?
- Here is the Xion Skin Manual: [link]
- Feel free to ask for help in Skin Consortium Forum [link] or the Xion forum [link]

How to submit:
- Submit yourskinname .xsf or .xsk using this form: [link]

We will post your skins in the SC forum so that people can give comments.

Prize money will be paid out via PayPal or other means if necessary.

Good luck to all and have fun creating the ultimate Xion skin!

Skin Consortium and Xion Audio Player