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Mike Inel
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Posted: 10th Jun 2006 11:40 Edited at: 10th Jun 2006 11:46
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Wow...Maybe I'll join in!

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Posted: 10th Jun 2006 13:01 Edited at: 10th Jun 2006 13:02
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Sorry, it was too wide, here´s a new one:


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David Gervais
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Posted: 10th Jun 2006 13:19 Edited at: 13th Jun 2006 11:00
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Another day, another banner.. lol.. (perhaps more )



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Chris Franklin
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Posted: 10th Jun 2006 13:24 Edited at: 10th Jun 2006 13:24
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lol Nice one David I started another set to i'm surprised noone has made this yet


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Posted: 10th Jun 2006 13:35 Edited at: 10th Jun 2006 13:54
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And another one!


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Chris Franklin
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Posted: 10th Jun 2006 13:44 Edited at: 10th Jun 2006 14:02
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zzz that banner is awesome i'm just about finished with my 2nd one now i'll edit it in here

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Posted: 10th Jun 2006 14:14 Edited at: 10th Jun 2006 14:15
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I apologize for this one...



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Chris Franklin
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Posted: 10th Jun 2006 14:17
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lmao zzz

I might try 1 in mpaint rofl!

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Posted: 10th Jun 2006 14:27 Edited at: 10th Jun 2006 14:28
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My banner. Meh




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SpyDaniel
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Posted: 10th Jun 2006 15:06
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Here is my entry Rich:





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Kenjar
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Posted: 10th Jun 2006 15:10 Edited at: 10th Jun 2006 15:12
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Umm slugish has no meaning? Is that a promotion of Apollo, you a subtle jab at it? Sorry, I don't get it.

Anyway another one for me.



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Posted: 10th Jun 2006 15:14
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It means you wont be waiting hours to load pages and upload files with apollo.



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Posted: 10th Jun 2006 16:22
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My First Banner

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Man, there should have been a restriction to the number of times you can enter. There's alot of "filler" junk and some quality stuff. 3 enteries should be MORE than sufficient for any user. The whole quantity vs quality issue. I mean, do you seriously want to sift through alot of crap to dig up the gems?

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Posted: 10th Jun 2006 17:10 Edited at: 13th Jun 2006 11:01
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Tapewormz, the 'quantity' and 'variety' are what makes this contest fun. Besides, We're having fun aren't we? Speaking of fun.. here's another one from yours truely..



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Posted: 10th Jun 2006 17:13
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I'd have to agree with Tapewormz. What's also funny is how some people are submitting a dozen banners, all with the same or slightly modified typeface. If we're having "fun" here, can we atleast mix and match the fonts so we don't get 10 banners from each user that look exactly the same?


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Banner #1:


Banner #2:


Banner #3:


Banner #4:


Banner #5:


Banner #6:


Banner #7:


Banner #8:


Banner #9:


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Posted: 10th Jun 2006 17:29 Edited at: 10th Jun 2006 17:30
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Mine don't look the same.....Here's another....



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Posted: 10th Jun 2006 17:38
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Hence why I used the word "some".

Good banner!


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Posted: 10th Jun 2006 17:42 Edited at: 10th Jun 2006 17:53
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I'd like to think mine are different... But you're right that people shouldn't just submit a ton for the heck of it, and should put more effort into the ones they post. Not to say everyone's doing that, many here are making very unique banners...

My 3rd


Simple, but I like it...

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Posted: 10th Jun 2006 18:10
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And one more.

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Kenjar
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Posted: 10th Jun 2006 18:12
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It's not usual for banners from the same person to operate along a defainte theme.

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Posted: 10th Jun 2006 18:30 Edited at: 13th Jun 2006 22:34
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I don't have very many more but this one took a while.



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Posted: 10th Jun 2006 18:48
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Ok, aparently, 'Quantity' is starting to grate on peoples nerves, so I'll not post any more banners. (Althought I think I have made a point to make my banners as distinct and separate as possible, changing fonts and styles for each one.)

In an effort to help keep the number more managable, here are my top 3 choices for my entries..

#1


#2


#3


If the powers that be want to enter all my banners that's fine too.

I now enter lurk mode, keep having fun people, this contest is great.

Cheers!
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Posted: 10th Jun 2006 18:50
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Bah, as long as we all change our banners some from one to the next...
well... it's true Rich didn't set a limit to the number you could enter...

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Posted: 10th Jun 2006 18:59
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David I really like


Add that one to

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Posted: 10th Jun 2006 19:00 Edited at: 12th Jun 2006 21:06
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some pretty awsome banners...

Here is my stab at a forum banner:


i think its about 24kb.

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23.83kb biggadd

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ok..........

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David Gervais, Great style you go goin' there
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Posted: 10th Jun 2006 19:21 Edited at: 13th Jun 2006 23:59
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One of my last.



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Posted: 10th Jun 2006 19:49 Edited at: 10th Jun 2006 19:50
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Here's another one from me. I'm hoping the file size is closer to the limit.


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Posted: 10th Jun 2006 19:52
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26kb to big shame it looks nice as well

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That is rather nice Anime.

I've been using this compo as an excuse to learn how to use the GIMP, so heres my first attempt:


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Posted: 10th Jun 2006 20:12
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rofl c++ promo

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Yes but... 26 Kb is close to 24kb. But I can shrink the size a bit. So I'll probably go ahead and to that now.

Pfft, 25.9 Kb. =/

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Posted: 10th Jun 2006 20:20 Edited at: 10th Jun 2006 20:25
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And another one



I hope this is closer to "quaility" that people keep going on about.

Sorry about the font, but JPG is making a pigs ear of it even set to the lowest possbile compression level. I really do wish they'd let us use PNG, it's simular in size and supiour in quaility.

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Imho, and sorry if this sounds rude, Kenjar those just lack an aesthetic quality to them. They don't really capture anything TGC related either for that matter.

EDIT:
Rich, btw way. Is my banner at a size of 25.9 Kb too high over the limit, or is that acceptable? Because if I go anylower the quality becomes way too low.

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Posted: 10th Jun 2006 20:37 Edited at: 13th Jun 2006 22:49
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I have just a few more.


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Posted: 10th Jun 2006 20:58 Edited at: 13th Jun 2006 22:28
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Almost done.

I have had these backgrounds for a while and have been looking for an excuse to use them I guess this is it.



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Quote: "Kenjar those just lack an aesthetic quality to them. They don't really capture anything TGC related either for that matter."


I'm just sick to death of wireframe graphics and 3D Block Retro Text. As or aesthetic, I try for artistic, which is subjective in nature. Art doesn't need to make sense, it just needs to be.

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Art doesn't need to make sense, but some would argue it needs to look good...


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Quote: "Art doesn't need to make sense, but some would argue it needs to look good..."

Owned!

o and if anyone is intrested

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By way of demonstration, he emitted a batlike squeak that was indeed bothersome.

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Nice cropping in photoshop

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My next entry.



Hollywood

Wow, are you famous or something?.........Just because I am from Hollywood doesn't mean I am famous...or am I from Hollywood..... am I famous?

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This is not an entry, but rather a sample to show you that by browsing the gamecreators site you can find artwork and make your own banners.. no artistic talent is needed this is entirely edited from an existing source. Anyone care to name the source?



no, really, this is not a banner entry, trust me. I make my own source graphics. But it might inspire some people to hunt this great site and do some creative editing.

Cheers!

P.S. as proof that this is not a banner entry, I used my photobucket.com account to host this image. It is not 'uploaded' here and that is a requirement of the contst entry.

P.P.S. Yes I know I'm sick, but hey at least I'm not a spammer,.. oh wait,.. with all the artwork I uploaded to this forum I might just be a sapmer lol
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It's much cooler if you whip up something of your own though... I see so many people who do that, and it starts to look generic after a while.

P.S. David - what do you use to do those images? Photoshop or PSP or what? They look great.

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Quote: "but some would argue it needs to look good..."


To me it does, I did say it's subjective in nature. The text I used was hand made for all but my last entry. Fonts get so boring. That last one with Apollo I did has no character, shows nothing of my personaility. I'm redoing another version which people will hate, but it's fun making them!

Quote: "Owned!"


Geez, you have me there. I give up completely! *flippancy*

Quote: "It's much cooler if you whip up something of your own though... "


Agreed. I regrate using clipart in my last but one entry. But I was saying to a friend the other day, people are usually too close minded for anything different, they mostly like normal, predictable things because it doesn't take effort to think about it, and produces only a very small emotional response, if any.

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