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MikeS
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Posted: 13th Jun 2006 00:38 Edited at: 13th Jun 2006 00:39
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Preview




A book? I hate book. Book is stupid.
(Formerly Yellow)

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Posted: 13th Jun 2006 00:46 Edited at: 13th Jun 2006 00:47
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Here's 1 more with a color variation



[url=http://www.silver-dawn.net]www.Silver-dawn.net[url]

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Posted: 13th Jun 2006 00:47 Edited at: 13th Jun 2006 00:48
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And for the color variation




[url=http://www.silver-dawn.net]www.Silver-dawn.net[url]

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Posted: 13th Jun 2006 00:48 Edited at: 13th Jun 2006 00:49
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Coffee banner re done once again.



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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Posted: 13th Jun 2006 00:56 Edited at: 13th Jun 2006 00:57
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Sorry...



Eye candy!

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Grandma
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Posted: 13th Jun 2006 01:11 Edited at: 13th Jun 2006 23:57
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Can someone please give me a clue about why my banners get the annying size

25kb++ even when i save the quality as crappy 0

I use Adobe Photoshop CS2

Edit : Wohoo! Nevermind, i did some studying and searching and found out what

i was doing wrong.

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Posted: 13th Jun 2006 01:16
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UPDATED HTML FILE.







Man, I'm bored...

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Posted: 13th Jun 2006 01:21
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Re-did swirl banner.





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Posted: 13th Jun 2006 01:34
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Sunset banner re-did.




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Freddix
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Posted: 13th Jun 2006 01:54
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Here is a new set :







All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
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Posted: 13th Jun 2006 02:06 Edited at: 13th Jun 2006 03:00
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Flaming banner re-done.



Now that those are fixed I can work on new ideas.

-EDIT- re-done again.

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Posted: 13th Jun 2006 02:10
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two new ones .... the last for this night :p





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Posted: 13th Jun 2006 02:14
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@Hollywood, those are still unreadable.

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Posted: 13th Jun 2006 02:24 Edited at: 13th Jun 2006 02:25
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I can read them. Makes me want to start flaming every post I see mind you

Your signature has been erased by a mod because it's larger than 600x120...
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Posted: 13th Jun 2006 02:29 Edited at: 13th Jun 2006 02:31
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Bizar Guy how are they still unreadable?
Only one I see is unreadable and that is because I couldn't get it readable with the colors I wanted and that is the swirl banner.


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Posted: 13th Jun 2006 02:34
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They are mostly unreadable because they are reduced to about 12k, but they also have close colours to their backgrounds.

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Posted: 13th Jun 2006 02:36
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O.k, but most of them are readable except for the one that I said was unreadable, the swirl banner.
Are most of the banners good though?



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Posted: 13th Jun 2006 02:41
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Quote: "O.k, but most of them are readable except for the one that I said was unreadable, the swirl banner."


Most are hard to read, and as banners should be easy to read. Maybe your monitor is somehow making you see them more clearly.

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Posted: 13th Jun 2006 02:42 Edited at: 13th Jun 2006 02:43
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That is possible I will try to make the unclear ones readable.



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Posted: 13th Jun 2006 02:43
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Hollywood, everyone appreciates your efforts. However, to keep denying what everyone is saying is just pointless.

Most of your banners look like you've poured pudding over the top. In most cases, a light brown pudding.

You really should stop posting over and over about yourself.


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Posted: 13th Jun 2006 03:25 Edited at: 13th Jun 2006 03:45
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O.K I understand what everyone is saying and I redid almost every banner. If you want to see them please see page 10 of this thread I will only post on this site if I have a new banner.



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Posted: 13th Jun 2006 03:45 Edited at: 13th Jun 2006 23:09
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New banner




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Posted: 13th Jun 2006 05:01
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Make the words solid, and get rid of the rainbow in apollo. Then it should work well. I'm not going to crit your work though anymore...

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Posted: 13th Jun 2006 05:37
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Quote: "Make the words solid, and get rid of the rainbow in apollo."


Agreed. The best way to make your text unreadable and blended with the background is to lower the opacity of the text. I'm sure you've got yourself a really great background and all, but it just looks trashy with low opacity text.

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Posted: 13th Jun 2006 07:07 Edited at: 13th Jun 2006 23:08
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Fixed it.




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Posted: 13th Jun 2006 07:13
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I'm not going to say anything else either, except for this - one thing that's hurting you is that your words and cut-out pictures all have jagged edges. It looks bad. It all needs to be anti-aliased. Look at the jagged white edges around the text. You also need to find unified color themes, which you lack in most of your banners.

That's it. Good luck.


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Posted: 13th Jun 2006 07:38 Edited at: 13th Jun 2006 23:21
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I want to thank everybody for their help. And please do say things about my banners it helps me because I'm new to the banner making.




Hollywood

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Posted: 13th Jun 2006 10:46 Edited at: 13th Jun 2006 10:48
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Here is another one..

Preview..
http://exeat.phpnet.us/Apollo/Dummy.php?Img=http://forum.thegamecreators.com/xt/xt_apollo_pic.php?i=908027

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Posted: 13th Jun 2006 10:50 Edited at: 13th Jun 2006 10:51
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And yet another, I'm trying to make each banner distinct in style but maintain my quality. Variety is the spice of life after all.

Preview..
http://exeat.phpnet.us/Apollo/Dummy.php?Img=http://forum.thegamecreators.com/xt/xt_apollo_pic.php?i=908029

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I think this one turned out really well, has a totally different feel/look to it..

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http://exeat.phpnet.us/Apollo/Dummy.php?Img=http://forum.thegamecreators.com/xt/xt_apollo_pic.php?i=908098

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David, if I could vote for every banner you have, you'd get all of mine =) very very nice job on all.. easy to read and aestetically pleasing as well. You do graphics for a living, don tyou?

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Posted: 13th Jun 2006 13:14 Edited at: 13th Jun 2006 13:15
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this is my newest banner.

preview



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Saikoro, I'm an old school 2D artist. I try my best to make a living but 'Starving Artist' would be a perfect description of the amount of revenue I make from artwork. Unfortunately there is less and less demand/interest in 2D artists. I'll either have to upgrade my skils to 3D (but sadly my brain is not built for 3D modeling/texturing) or learn to love Kraft Dinner and Peanut Butter (not together) as my regular diet

My current work is on a game called Space Empires 5 http://www.malfador.com/

Sorry for the minor hijack/plug but I'm proud of my work on this game. (as proud of this as the work I did on an old classic game called Steel Panthers.)

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David - drop me an email please (rich@thegamecreators.com)

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Posted: 13th Jun 2006 15:13 Edited at: 13th Jun 2006 15:20
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Ok... I think if I upload the file with it attached to the post, it loads the file to somewhere @ files.thegamecreatrs.com right? Then I could just link to the file and have the image displayed here... right?

Attempting of said operation in progress...

Sweet it worked!
Oh! Most of youse guyz pictures are freakin' awesom-ness! I know my artistic skills are rather lacking, and perhaps my subject matter is a bit irrelevent in some cases... but I figured I'd just try and have a couple hours of fun with this idea.

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Posted: 13th Jun 2006 15:22 Edited at: 13th Jun 2006 15:24
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@David Gervais-

The ratio of the number of excellent banners you've submitted compared to the number of people that are not you is frighteningly disproportionate. Great stuff.


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Posted: 13th Jun 2006 15:24 Edited at: 13th Jun 2006 20:33
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I guess with that method there can only be one on each thing... phooey!



Apollo written in Elder Scrolls 4 Style text! Pretty messy looking though... Perhaps I'll revisit this one.

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<-- They are our friends!



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Who would put an Armadillo next to a Frog? Besides me I mean...



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Somebody had a quote thing after every post that made me think of this...

(I'VE REDONE THIS ONE LATER ON!)

I wish I had had a picture of the moon to put behind it... I'll get that ready for tomorrow!

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I used an Eggplant? This is my personal favorite, at least from the ones I've done... I wouldn't exactly recomend making salad from these engredients, but you can if you want!

(I'VE REDONE THIS ONE LATER ON!)

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Lovely bonkers banners, Daris/Benjy. I particularly like the aubergine/mushroom salad one Quite insane, but lovely. Makes me think of food.

Bento Lunch
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Quote: "Apollo Salad is "way-very-much-so" yummy!"

You should toss it...

Nice looking banner, btw.


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I tried to find the PlayBasic forums but I'm guessing this is the same place. With that assumption I made this banner..

Preview..
http://exeat.phpnet.us/Apollo/Dummy.php?Img=http://forum.thegamecreators.com/xt/xt_apollo_pic.php?i=908265

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@UFO:
I saw on the limefly forums that you´re making a sequel to bombroller. Is there any WIP-screenies somewhere?

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@Tinkergirl: Thanks! I love food! (doesn't er'ebody?) One thing I loved about Tales of Symphonia... The recipes! I could just read the ingredients and it would make me put down my Gcube controller and grab somethin' from the fridge. I'm very sensitive when it comes to food. ::munch:: ::munch:: ::burp!::

@Cash Curtis: I was half asleep this morning... (up all night like the idiot I am) and have thus changed my post to be more sensible.

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New banner.




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Hollywood, your banners are quite eye sicking to read, no offence.


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Non taken I really suck at banners but might as well try.



Re-did banner because I accidently stole original.

Hollywood

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That one isn't to bad Hollywood, but the rest do look like they where done in M$ paint.
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