Show off your Signature Banners
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Acemace,
Posted on: 2009-08-02 15:28 in Multi-Media Fan Creations
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actually, the images in his signature look terrible because he's enlarged them further than the original image was, so it's a bit oversized to put it mildly.|
Originally Posted by perilX
I think something might be wrong with your forums, it's really not that big.
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So any flaw of the forum would be on your end if it's somehow small for you, i'm at 1920x1200 pixels, and it still looks big.
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Love the look of the character in your sig.
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Originally Posted by VexXxa
Peril, you are such a dweeb! Did they kick you off of the Victory forums again?
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Heh. It's so big I can't even see it anymore. |
Originally Posted by Hallway_Kid_RAGE
Your just jealous of my bigness.
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And to answer the question of mine being resized... here's the original from Zenvious:
As you can tell, I had to 'squash' it vertically by a considerable amount.
And yes, I do need to do some transparency masking on it, get the white background to go away.
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I got that reference. |
Originally Posted by Soul_Train
Heh. It's so big I can't even see it anymore.
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Your version of Photoshop doesn't really matter. There are sites for free fonts, I like to use http://www.dafont.com/ when I'm looking for a specific decorative font. |
Originally Posted by PowerStream
I totally agree. Papyrus was NOT my favorite choice but I am on an old copy of Photoshop at home and don't have all the great fonts downloaded like I do at work. Do you all have a good source for good fonts for things like this?
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Currently I have a ton of fonts, but more heavy on the decorative type, what I really need are good set of Old Style, Transitional, Modern, Slab Serif, Sans Serif and Script type, mostly because I'm studying graphic design. For just making a few sig banners though, you only need a couple of fonts and that free font site should help you out.
For your banner Arial Black would work or even Impact, if you spaced out the letters a bit, and those fonts are standard on most PCs.
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Thanx, Mortis. That is my VexXxa toon that Johnnykat made my sig with. |
Originally Posted by MortisEques
Love the look of the character in your sig.
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~*~VexXxa~*~
The City Scoop Art Correspondent/Writer "ART IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER"//"Don't hate because VexXxa is HOT and you're NOT." - JOHNNYKAT
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like this?|
Originally Posted by Soul_Train
Heh. It's so big I can't even see it anymore.
And to answer the question of mine being resized... here's the original from Zenvious: As you can tell, I had to 'squash' it vertically by a considerable amount. And yes, I do need to do some transparency masking on it, get the white background to go away. |
a bit jagged edges on the thing though...
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Here let me help you out. Instead of trying to make it fit a set banner size. Reduce the overall size of the image while still retaining the original look and readability. |
Originally Posted by Soul_Train
Heh. It's so big I can't even see it anymore.
And to answer the question of mine being resized... here's the original from Zenvious: http://home.pacbell.net/dcnblues/sou...r.zenvious.jpg As you can tell, I had to 'squash' it vertically by a considerable amount. And yes, I do need to do some transparency masking on it, get the white background to go away. |
280x120
175x75
If you want, I can make the original banner transparent, unless someone beats me to it.
EDIT I see someone did. :P
Soul, if you keep the aspect ratio on your signature it would help it look better. It wouldn't be as long, but you wouldn't have the distortion.
*Edit: Apparently Alty and I had the same idea at the same time o.O
This is what I could do with it.
Larger version for cropping here: http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/681...annertrans.png
That tie dye pattern mixed with a transparent drop shadow makes it a real PITA to edit. >.<
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No...
Is there some kind of post limit before you can have a signature pic? I have tried everything to get mine to upload or direct link it....no luck. GRRRRRRR!
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Originally Posted by WildShamrock
Is there some kind of post limit before you can have a signature pic? I have tried everything to get mine to upload or direct link it....no luck. GRRRRRRR!
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Originally Posted by LtZerge
If you can't get it to work "normally". Find an image hosting site like photobucket.com or imageshack.us and upload there then paste a direct link url into your sig text with the [img] [/img] tags. It should show up.
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It worked! Thanks PowerStream!
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Originally Posted by Suichiro
Grae, your powerset listing in your banner is almost unreadable. The outerglow combined with the non-serif font and slant is just too much to distinguish through.
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Originally Posted by Grae_Knight
Thanks, I just did not notice it. Maybe if I toned down the glow of the small letters it may be more legible.
I did shrink the banner from the original size so that may be part of the problem. |
Seriously though, it doesn't come in straight. XD
I cant help to try and turn my head when looking at your sig
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Here mine, a commission turned into a banner assigment |
Originally Posted by Seikon
Truth be told, I love your sig too. Eye-catching and piques the curiosity. Not to mention cute idea!
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and nicely done, love the thread and the creative banners. AV
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same goes to you lol ^^
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Originally Posted by tuter_king
I cant help to try and turn my head when looking at your sig
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I caught myself doing the same thing TK
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Originally Posted by Apollinaris
Aberrancy is such a bad-*** font it doesn't slant, it tilts the world.
Seriously though, it doesn't come in straight. XD |
Try taking off the outer glow, or removing the gold/white gradient overlay on the smaller text. It would be easier to read the smaller text.
Power Stream -Nice job on the font change! It looks great!
it's been a long time since I've made my own banners...used to have a ton of them...now which characters to use...*scratches chin*
*points*
My first. Mehh.
Here's mine
Those are kinda large :|
Peril, you are such a dweeb! Did they kick you off of the Victory forums again?
~*~VexXxa~*~
The City Scoop Art Correspondent/Writer "ART IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER"//"Don't hate because VexXxa is HOT and you're NOT." - JOHNNYKAT