is it wrong to use other designers ideas?
 

say you like something about someone's galleries, a specific style, is it wrong to emulate and adapt these ideas into your own galleries?

welcome to this thing we call the internet :321GFY

ever hear the saying "there is nothing new under the sun".

It applies to the internet. no matter how original someone believes there work to be it is a sure bet that someone has done something similar in the past. now straight up ripping a design off is wrong, but you cant totally avoid emulating something completely.

it's a fact and a reality...fortunes have been based on someone else's ideas and tweaking them

A true designer has "his/her" own style. I see things all the time that I say, "wow, now that is a cool effect" but I will ALWAYS try to add my own spin on it. :2 cents: