Show off your Signature Banners
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Acemace,
Posted on: 2009-08-02 15:28 in Multi-Media Fan Creations
wow these banner are cool to make i decide to make an update one what you guys thing??
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Looks good. If you want to center it just add [ center ] at the beginning and [ /center ] at the end.
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Originally Posted by Lightslinger
First run trial on my Lightslinger sig banner, what do y'all think? I'm thinking I might need to size it down a bit.
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Paragonian Knights
Justice Company
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It says 600x120. Don't you take away my 20 pixels.|
Originally Posted by Scootertwo
When they get the upload feature actually working it states the limit of 600X100 of file size which ever is smaller.
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Originally Posted by ChristopherRobin
Ahh you are correct.
My pages load so fast on my gaming rig I never saw it but I fired up 3 instances of CoH to try and make it lag a little bit and for a brief instant I did see the white box background in IE6. It seems some programmers would agree with you that there are still many people using IE6 and older browsers and are using these java tricks to compensate for them. Actually I was asking how she made her sig transparent, not anything to do with IE6 but hey I'm always open to learning new stuff so thanks for that answer as well.  I'm more of a hardware geek(I build custom computers for a living)/pen and paper artist than fancy software tricks/digital artist, though I do have some basic Photoshop skillz  |
Oh, and, um, guess I mistunderstod the transparency thing. Yes PNG transparency (compared to GIF transparency) works quite well.
Not sure if I want it centered or to the left...
I tried to make mine as small (40px height) as I could and keep the information. Probably when I make one that's not for events, it'll be about 10-20px height. At least one line posts with my sig are about the width of my avatar.
Thought this would be the best place to post this...for anyone that would like a custom banner (using your screenies and/or other art), send me a PM here or a message on my deviant art page for more details. 
Globals: Johnnykat & Johnnykat2
http://johnnykat.deviantart.com/
I'm surprised I don't see many user bar type signatures which are 350x19. That's about as unobtrusive as I've seen. Stack 2 and still small. Perhaps that's the way to go.
Click my banner. Click it!
Damn Aero , when did you get so good... nice storytelling.
I need to do something more fancy with my signature. Any ideas guys?
You could tell us how you make an animated banner first
lol same way you'd have the regular picture in there. I just used the image tags on my signature while editing it.
I wanna maybe center it and have a photo link on either side of it if i can...
I know i saw somewhere how to do that...
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Originally Posted by Thors_Assassin
lol same way you'd have the regular picture in there. I just used the image tags on my signature while editing it.
I wanna maybe center it and have a photo link on either side of it if i can... I know i saw somewhere how to do that... |
So the banner is already animated, and you just linked it... *places TA in chair for requestioning...* once again, HOW, did you animate the banner?! TELL US!!!
Should we use the rack, chinese water torture, or electroshock, LJ?
Actually, I'm surprised that it's 600x120. I was under the impression that standard horizontal web banners were usually 468x60. (And I can see why they wouldn't want vertical banners on the site - ugh!)
Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
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Depends on the software program you have.
Photoshop comes with Image Ready. I used to use Ulead Gif Animator but currently sticking with ImageReady.
Ulead doesn't make the product anymore) although it seems you can still download the trial from CNET (it does not work with Vista): http://download.cnet.com/Ulead-GIF-Animator/3000-2186_4-10002057.html
TA is using a transition effect between each image. There are 6 frames for each drawing being shown.
1 is normal
2 has a touch of blue in the upper left corner
3 has a larger patch of blue in a wider area
4 has blue patch in a streak moving down toward the center
5 has the blue streak nearly covering the whole image
6 is a blank (white) image that creates the lighting flash effect.
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Originally Posted by LadyJudgement
So the banner is already animated, and you just linked it... *places TA in chair for requestioning...* once again, HOW, did you animate the banner?! TELL US!!!
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Ooooh lol. Sorry, i actually had a good friend work this up years ago. Maybe2 years by now. You remember Ondeon from DA? He did it. No idea how but i might be hitting him up again soon
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electroshock would be useless, as would the water torture, its not torture when your subject hasn't bathed... so I say we use the rack.
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Originally Posted by GrayHuntress
Should we use the rack, chinese water torture, or electroshock, LJ?
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Banners come in various sizes. 468x60 is just one. |
Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
Actually, I'm surprised that it's 600x120. I was under the impression that standard horizontal web banners were usually 468x60. (And I can see why they wouldn't want vertical banners on the site - ugh!)
Michelle aka Samuraiko/Dark_Respite |
http://www.designerstoolbox.com/designresources/banners/
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Oooh! Thanks, Alt, I'll be bookmarking that site! |
Originally Posted by Altoholic_Monkey
Banners come in various sizes. 468x60 is just one.
http://www.designerstoolbox.com/designresources/banners/ |
Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
Dark_Respite's Farewell Video: "One Last Day"
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)
I use PSP9, and Animation Shop 3 when I want to animate something.
Ya know, I find it kinda... silly-funny that the artist types dunno how to make a simple animated GIF!
I kid! I kid! I love you all, and enjoy being able to answer these kinds of questions. I've gotten some nice free arts, so I feel it's the least I can do.
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lacking the cash to get anything better than freeware, i threw this together \/
i like things that move.
( T_T )
Yay, save us from the zombie horde TT!
Finally got around to screwing around, and throwing something together to make up for the fact I can't really list any characters in my signature due to the line limits.
EDIT: And then the place I have it stored implodes. Awesome.