@Michael_Palombi @Ken_Van_Vliet @Enzo_Pirrotta
Coming home from work I’m confronted with some angry designers. And I must say so, you’re correct for being mad.
But please let me explain what’s really going on.
Being the owner of a non-Android Wear smartwatch, I’m confronted with the bad news that we are not able to install custom watchfaces on these watches.
So, like many in this community we are looking for ways to make this happen.
I’m not a watchface designer, and needed a watchface that had all the elements I needed to test a new watchface engine so I could test it. Finding the V22 Osprey watchface was a blessing, because not only is it a beautiful watchface, it also had all the elements I needed to test the software I was trying to build.
The watchface was found on WatchaWear.com and was presented as giftware. It stated that the original authors have to be mentioned when using the watchface.
This I did, … the first time I posted my attempt for building a custom WF engine, here on this community.
Now, the second time I forgot. Which is to blame on me and posting in a haste to inform the community that a new app was build that could support custom watchfaces.
Looking at your comments, I’ve now noticed that the images used are watermarked with my name. I’m a photographer and used the wrong export in Lightroom to produce the thumbnails.
It was never my intention, with watermarking the images, to leave the impression that I’ve build the watchfaces. It’s just an oversight, I publish so many pictures watermarked, I never noticed this.
So, in retrospect, please accept my apologies for using your watchface.
I thought it was free to use, and I was building a watchface engine, not stealing someones design.
I’ve published the original authors the first time and forgot to do it with this post. My focus was not on the WF, but on the engine.
Please tell me what you would like to do.
#1: I could remain using your V22 as my demonstration watchface for the engine, who will accept ANY watchface when it’s finished. I will credit your design every post.
#2: On your request, I will remove the post and will repost it with another watchface (for which I’ll ask full permission to use)
Whatever you choose (please #1) I will respect your wishes.
Mea culpa.
Footnote: Please do not connect the owner(s) of this community with my post. This is on me, not them. I posted this because now we are able to use custom watchfaces. That’s the whole motivation. The V22 unfortunately was the best example to test the engine with.