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DJ Almix
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Posted: 7th Oct 2010 20:56 Edited at: 8th Oct 2010 02:00
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Edit: OK, sorry to be a downer, but you guys need to be aware of the quality of your banners. It's not a problem right now. Just be aware of it.

Edit2: Is there going to be any advertisement for this contest?

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Posted: 8th Oct 2010 15:38
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Here's one of my banners re-done. And yes, I did the smiley myself.



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Quote: "Here's one of my banners re-done. And yes, I did the smiley myself.
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can you bump up the quality, there's like a lot of noise in your image.

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Posted: 8th Oct 2010 20:39
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I would like to know what people think of my banner, so that I don't have my hopes up for nothing, or the other way around.

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Not sure if they quite fit , but anyway









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Posted: 8th Oct 2010 22:09
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Quote: "can you bump up the quality, there's like a lot of noise in your image."

Sure, here it is. The export settings of my jpeg's was set to a lower quality setting, that's what caused it. I'll redo some of the others too. I found it strange that the image was flawless in the paint program, but not when it was saved.



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Posted: 8th Oct 2010 22:44 Edited at: 8th Oct 2010 22:45
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And, here's the other one fixed, and slightly different. And, better, I hope?





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Posted: 8th Oct 2010 22:55 Edited at: 8th Oct 2010 22:56
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Quote: "And, better, I hope? "

It was better with "Take the red pill" because it is recognizably from The Matrix, but when you just say "this pill" it sounds like you are encouraging us to take drugs from strangers...

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Posted: 8th Oct 2010 23:23
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Well, here's another one:



Quote: "It was better with "Take the red pill" because it is recognizably from The Matrix, but when you just say "this pill" it sounds like you are encouraging us to take drugs from strangers..."

Yep, you have a point there, budokaiman. I'll re make that banner.

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Posted: 8th Oct 2010 23:37 Edited at: 8th Oct 2010 23:43
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-THESE ARE NOT FINAL- Just to show what I have chosen so far.

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Posted: 9th Oct 2010 00:09
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Just wanted to show the modified 'red pill' banner:





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Posted: 9th Oct 2010 01:19 Edited at: 9th Oct 2010 01:20
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DJ Almix, you might've noticed the "Watermark" at the upper-right part of my banner. Can you replace it with this one?



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Posted: 9th Oct 2010 18:41
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So how do we get our banners in that 'choices' section? People vote for it? Aw, I lost


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Posted: 9th Oct 2010 19:13
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Quote: "So how do we get our banners in that 'choices' section? People vote for it? Aw, I lost"


No, I forgot to add yours

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Here's my horrible attempt, first time Paint'net's been used for something other than simple format converting here in a loooong time...



And if you don't get the reference, shame on you, but tbh, I couldn't find a good colour on the text to stand out, and I couldn't add more to paraphrase the song better. I won't be surprised if this doesn't cut it...

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Quote: "CoffeeGrunt"


Added yours, but I don't know the reference ^

Is it from that Discovery channel song?

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Yeh, it was stuck in my head at the time I made it...thanks for adding by the way.

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Posted: 10th Oct 2010 21:22
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Oooh, ok that's fine lol I was like, "When did we vote? "

Sorry


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One of my banners made it twice,the bugger

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I got 2

Incongruences



Justin bieber



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@DarkJames
At least check the spelling and caps

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Posted: 12th Oct 2010 07:02
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At least check the spelling and caps"


Please, lol, other then that you really need to either get rid of TGC bubble or make it way less pixelated.

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im not editing them xD, had enough of Justing bieber....

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Posted: 12th Oct 2010 23:06 Edited at: 12th Oct 2010 23:08
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Make sure to put this in your signature to get the word out there



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Your signature has been erased by a mod because it's 320k in size
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Quote: "im not editing them xD, had enough of Justing bieber..."


I actually can't use that, it's against the AUP

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Posted: 13th Oct 2010 14:53
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Just made one more banner. Simple and catchy too. Hope the grammar is correct??



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Posted: 16th Oct 2010 19:11 Edited at: 16th Oct 2010 19:12
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This was about as quick and simple as I could be.



Tadada da, da da!

You can get further with a smile and a gun than you can with just a smile.

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I love the last one. Stalkertastic.

I'll add the sig - don't use my sig for much anymore, it feels neglected.

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Posted: 18th Oct 2010 23:59 Edited at: 19th Oct 2010 00:02
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Badaba ba ba ba! I actually put effort into this.


Oh, and I vote for Diggsey's eyes.

You can get further with a smile and a gun than you can with just a smile.

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I kinda figured I would have created a thread to advertise the few remaining days, but unfortunately that's not he case. I remember originally this was supposed to be going into the news letter to . Well we still have 25 awesome banners. Btw I made the thread because no one reads the stickies

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I have two...

My karma ran over your dogma.

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Number 2

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Posted: 21st Oct 2010 23:11 Edited at: 21st Oct 2010 23:12
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Why not eh?



http://lazerus-reborn.deviantart.com/

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Posted: 21st Oct 2010 23:15
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Quote: "DJ Almix, you might've noticed the "Watermark" at the upper-right part of my banner. Can you replace it with this one?"


Did you do it yet?


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And another while im at it.



an a deviation of it




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Posted: 22nd Oct 2010 00:08
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No one can escape! That's what this banner says! Mwuaahaahaahaaaaa!



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Posted: 22nd Oct 2010 00:45 Edited at: 22nd Oct 2010 00:46
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Quote: "Quote: "DJ Almix, you might've noticed the "Watermark" at the upper-right part of my banner. Can you replace it with this one?"

Did you do it yet? "


Can you re post it?

Quote: "No one can escape! That's what this banner says! Mwuaahaahaahaaaaa!"


Can you make the X look less MS-Paint-ish

Quote: "Number 2"


If you keep the smiles the original size I will accept them (so they don't look extremely blurred)

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Posted: 22nd Oct 2010 00:56 Edited at: 22nd Oct 2010 00:56
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Sure, here it is:




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Posted: 22nd Oct 2010 01:23 Edited at: 22nd Oct 2010 02:05
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I've got one.



I'm not sure about the position of the TGC logo though. Any thoughts of if I should move it or anything?

EDIT: Not showing up, let me see if I can fix it.
EDIT 2: Fixed.


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I'm not sure about the position of the TGC logo though. Any thoughts of if I should move it or anything?

EDIT: Not showing up, let me see if I can fix it.
EDIT 2: Fixed.


I'm not sure about the position of the TGC logo though. Any thoughts of if I should move it or anything?

EDIT: Not showing up, let me see if I can fix it.
EDIT 2: Fixed."


Get rid of it, I would say, and make the text a lot brighter

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Posted: 22nd Oct 2010 02:25 Edited at: 22nd Oct 2010 02:26
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Quote: "Can you make the X look less MS-Paint-ish"

Sure, but what do you mean by MS-Paint_ish? You want the X to be more straight?

Quote: "I'm not sure about the position of the TGC logo though. Any thoughts of if I should move it or anything?"

Hum, there are two options I can think of:
- Either you make the 'code' bit smaller, move it more to the right, and then position the TGC logo (scaled slightly bigger) near the left border of the banner;
- Or, make the TGC logo slightly bigger, and position it (vertically centered) just between the 'code' part, and the text part.
And, I would make the text in another color (brighter), choose another color for the glow (to suit the text color better), and center the text vertically.



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Posted: 22nd Oct 2010 02:44
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Quote: "Get rid of it, I would say,"

This is what it looks like without it (I do agree that it is an improvement)



Quote: "make the text a lot brighter"

Quote: "would make the text in another color (brighter), choose another color for the glow (to suit the text color better), and center the text vertically."

What colour would you suggest for the text/glow then?


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Posted: 22nd Oct 2010 03:15 Edited at: 22nd Oct 2010 03:18
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Quote: "What colour would you suggest for the text/glow then?"

Hum, orange, green (digital green), purple, lightblue, red. But, use a brighter color for the glow, or do just the opposite.
If you would make the text brighter (almost white) and leave the glow like it is, it would be better.



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Quote: "Quote: "Can you make the X look less MS-Paint-ish"
Sure, but what do you mean by MS-Paint_ish? You want the X to be more straight? "


Yes

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I added the second version, if you want to make revisions make sure you tell me to add the newer versions

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Quote: "Hum, orange, green (digital green), purple, lightblue, red. But, use a brighter color for the glow, or do just the opposite.
If you would make the text brighter (almost white) and leave the glow like it is, it would be bette"

Ok, how is this then (kind of an orange/yellow/green)?


Quote: "I added the second version, if you want to make revisions make sure you tell me to add the newer versions"

Thanks, the version that you added is uploaded in .png format though, the one on this post is in the required .jpg format.


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Quote: "Ok, how is this then (kind of an orange/yellow/green)?"

Hum, you forgot the purple, lightblue and the red.
No, but it is definately much better.
Personnaly, I wouldn't make the glow orange, because it doesn't fit quite well with the green. I would make it green too (lighter green) or yellow, or white or maybe light bluegreen. But, that's just my opinion.

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Quote: "Personnaly, I wouldn't make the glow orange"

I think that I'll leave it the way that it is. I tried a more green colour, but there wasn't enough contrast in the colours, and the text was difficult to read. I think that the way it is, the glow blends, but offers enough contrast to make the text easy to read.


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Posted: 22nd Oct 2010 21:38
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Here's the modified 'NO EXIT' banner:



And, another, more artistic banner (I kinda like this one a lot ):



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I just finished two more banners. The first one has two variations. Don't know which one is best, though?
Any suggestions?





And this is the other banner. Rather catchy too, I think?



@DJ Almix
I noticed that you have two times the same banner posted. I know that that selection wasn't the final one, but just thought you should know.

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