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Post by Gilvan Blight on Oct 24, 2005 13:50:24 GMT -5
A fan o fthat third one myself.
I like Wyrd's idea as well.
The first one, or maybe second one Thardon submitted was nice, but I would kill the beer, movies stuff. Really that is stuff that was tacked on due to particular interests of certain members. The main focus is on Gaming and I think we should advertise that way.
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Post by ThardonBlackfist on Oct 24, 2005 15:21:31 GMT -5
I hadn't planned originally on adding the beer and movies.. but we ARE a diverse group and well movies and beer are pretty inextricably linked to our gaming.. but I understand trying to keep the core as is.. I'll tweak it and re-up it when I get a few minutes..
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Post by Gilvan Blight on Nov 3, 2005 8:58:36 GMT -5
Check out the poll section and vote for your favourite.
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Post by Gilvan Blight on Nov 24, 2005 13:00:36 GMT -5
Decided to try out photoshop myself. Not bad for a first attempt using the program. Can't figure out how to make the white transparent though.
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Post by Gilvan Blight on Nov 24, 2005 14:34:37 GMT -5
Testing There got transparency to work. Now I need to figure out how to do an animated gif
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Post by nightparade on Nov 24, 2005 15:46:33 GMT -5
That's a nice banner though.
We'll see if animation makes it better, or nerfs it.
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Post by Gilvan Blight on Nov 24, 2005 15:49:14 GMT -5
It made it better! Sorry, very happy with myself for doing this, first time using photoshop... which FYI you can make Animated Gif's in. Check it: Hmmm oldly it added a white halo to it though
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Post by nightparade on Nov 24, 2005 15:51:29 GMT -5
Yeah, drop the white halo if you can figure it out and it will be pretty sweet.
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Post by Gilvan Blight on Nov 24, 2005 15:57:22 GMT -5
Something to work on tomorrow, probably have to take the fade off the edges, when saving as a gif is messes with the transparency.
Could add more icons too, just can't decide what. Maybe a DVD or CD back. Need something for minis, maybe a paint pot, not sure. Now that I have the base photoshop files it should be pretty easy to re-create and add to.
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Post by PandoraGreen on Nov 24, 2005 18:06:51 GMT -5
Rather then a chess piece I think you need an image of a little wooden genero pawn, or a Settlers piece, or one of the dudes from Carcasonne. That would get across "board games" to me.
But yeah that's a great banner. With a few more icons tossed in it will be perfect me thinks.
Now, next time you're board can you make me one for Retro Toybox? ;D
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Post by nightparade on Nov 24, 2005 20:59:12 GMT -5
Um, i say stick with the chess piece. Nothing is mor world renown as a board game than chess.
Hell, nothing is more world renown as a game period.
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Post by Gilvan Blight on Nov 25, 2005 8:24:11 GMT -5
Actually I looked into that, and Go is actually more popular world wide, just not so much in North America.
Got rid of the halo, took way too damned long to fix. Silly photoshop trying to be smart and blending everything with the colour next to it, even when it's a transparent colour.
Thought of at least one icon to add, a magic card. Working on that now.
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Post by Gilvan Blight on Nov 25, 2005 8:25:24 GMT -5
Now, next time you're board can you make me one for Retro Toybox? ;D Yeah maybe. I will think about it.
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Post by Gilvan Blight on Nov 25, 2005 9:11:43 GMT -5
Okay this should be it:
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Post by Gilvan Blight on Nov 25, 2005 11:13:53 GMT -5
Had some free time so: Obviously could add more toys. What do you think?
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Post by wyrdsmith on Nov 25, 2005 12:05:22 GMT -5
The WGR one looks perfect. You might want to tweak the blocks a bit on the Retro Toybox to sharpen the break between "Retro" and "Toybox", but for a "Had some free time so:", it's very good.
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Post by PandoraGreen on Nov 25, 2005 13:10:27 GMT -5
Not bad love! But what are the toys coming out of there? I'm guessing the one is a Transformer.... and a....? I can't ID it. It looks like a wedge of cheese and something round and yellow. (Possibly Pickachu?)
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Post by Gilvan Blight on Nov 25, 2005 13:46:50 GMT -5
Come on... maybe you need to wash your eyes... looks clear to me...
Sneearrfff, Sneeeaaarf... Snarf!
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Post by MildlyAmusing on Nov 25, 2005 17:42:26 GMT -5
It took me a moment to ID the transformer, but Snarf is so obviously Snarf that I am shocked and appalled you couldn't recognize him Pandora. I'm afraid I have to disown you now.
WGR looks good and I agree there should be a bit more spacing between RETRO and TOYBOX. Maybe consider having a girl toy and boy toy pop up.
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Post by PandoraGreen on Nov 25, 2005 18:07:17 GMT -5
What can I say, I need new eyes. I couldn't "see" Snarf to recognise him... I mean did you read my description... my mind was parsing it as a light yellow wedge of cheese and a dark yellow ball. Now that I know it's Snarf, I see Snarf, and I think Geesh... what the heck was I thinking?
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Post by Gilvan Blight on Dec 2, 2005 14:08:34 GMT -5
A new one that better fits the neon text on the actual Toybox page:
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Post by PandoraGreen on Dec 2, 2005 15:02:05 GMT -5
Wow that's great! He-Man's got a really bad case of the jaggies and it's hard to make out the dark coloured Transformer against the black background. Other then that it rocks.
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Post by Gilvan Blight on Dec 2, 2005 16:05:33 GMT -5
Get me some good well cropped toy picks and I can animate whatever you want. I just grabbed a few quick one and used the photoshop magic wand to cut them out of the pics they were in.
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Post by wyrdsmith on Dec 2, 2005 16:55:11 GMT -5
Love the new ToyBox banner! It really stands out.
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