I like the idea as well. As long as that specific image is available in a high quality (Wallpaper-like), it'll be great...
By the way, I'm at university right now and thus use IE (usually I use Opera) - is it just the setting of the PC/Monitor I have to use here, or do some banners look quite different with IE? Much brighter, very hard transitions, and so on?
@Charlie: WOW! Nuff said!
Thanker-you mister Craven!
with IE, transparent PNGs have a grey background, like my avatar would appear.
I have that avatar in high-res, if you want. 500x500.
EDIT - Wow! Your profile picture is that funny Sproggle guy from that TV show isn't it? heehee, his voice is funny!
I know about PNGs (probably the only reason why I'm waiting for IE 7 where this should be solved), but I noticed that some of my banners that are fine at home (with Photoshop and with Opera) look rather stupid here at university - horrible transitions, strange colors, and so on. I just wonder if that's the fault of IE...
No, I don't think so...
If you don't mind, please look at this thread and tell me if the transitions between the first two pics is really that bad. (I'll probably fix it as soon as I'm at home).
It looks beautiful, Craven. No issue with the transitions at all. Unless you already fixed it.
Actually, you can animate it inside Photoshop if you want. Go to save as, change the file type to .gif. Then click on the "Layer as Frames" button and click save. Then hit the animate button in the top right and go from there. It isn't great on the animation front, but it does work. That's how I make animated avvys.
Just wondering, but can this week's entries be smaller than 600x100 or do we still have that rule? I'm trying something that's a mix of a couple different styles (one of them being similar to Blurrycloud's), and I think my banner would look a lot better at about 450x100 (possibly a little bigger). I have the art to make it the full 600x100, but 100+ pix of it just looks like filler atm.
Those are nice, Gray, particularly the banner. I tried making something like that, but I couldn't find high-res images and the end result was bad, so I scrapped it and skipped this week.
Well, I finally finished my submission. I spent a lot of time on it, and I think it turned out well (the banner at least).
Note: The banner is in transparent .png form. If you are using IE, it will look poor because that browser doesn't support that. Click here for a version with a white back if the one below looks funny.
Describe the change you intend to make, Charlie. Right now, especially seeing as how it's something suggested by others after your submission, I'd probably be forced to say no.
For the banners we don't follow the forum guidelines on size, just on height and width... generally can make it any size you want :/
Indeed. Also, incase it did matter, the banner I put in the link for IE users is a jpg and it is just over 55kb, so I could just enter than instead. However, I will enter the one with transparency because its works better if your browser supports it.
@Krashbot: Where is you banner? All I see is the avatar. Is it in a different post or something?
It's right below the avatar. It is a png, so that may be the problem for you, or it just may not be loading. In either case, try refreshing the page. If that doesn't work, just click the link I provided (or here) for the jpg version in a different window.
The hyperlinks I'm attaching to the word "here" in both of those posts. Just so you can see it, here's the URL just pasted into a post. I give up if you can't see this one.
-Blurrycloud-
-Jester-
Edit - Danny wins. Amazing - no competiton.
Thanker-you mister Craven!
with IE, transparent PNGs have a grey background, like my avatar would appear.
I have that avatar in high-res, if you want. 500x500.
EDIT - Wow! Your profile picture is that funny Sproggle guy from that TV show isn't it? heehee, his voice is funny!
maybe they aren't in 256 colours?
It looks beautiful, Craven. No issue with the transitions at all. Unless you already fixed it.
Avvy
Special thanks to Nex3 for making the PSD for the avvy into an animated GIF as my PC wasn't wanting to.
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Imageready.
Also, for all my animated avvies, I make the image in Photoshop (each frame on its own layer) and then transfer to imageready.
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Sig-banner
Sweet, here comes the animation from Feuerdrache.
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Note: The banner is in transparent .png form. If you are using IE, it will look poor because that browser doesn't support that. Click here for a version with a white back if the one below looks funny.
Winner of the Weekly Signature & Avatar Contest Weeks 51, 59, 78, & 118.
I don't care if I was framed for murder if I only got a warning I would let it go.
Question - Is adding a small animation to my avatar counted as a large modification? I might try it out like the others suggested.
Winner of the Weekly Signature & Avatar Contest Weeks 51, 59, 78, & 118.
I don't care if I was framed for murder if I only got a warning I would let it go.
Winner of the Weekly Signature & Avatar Contest Weeks 51, 59, 78, & 118.
I don't care if I was framed for murder if I only got a warning I would let it go.
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No, it's there. Might just be taking your internet a while to load it.
URL: http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d138/Krashbot101/Banners/AzuriosGMBanner.jpg
Edit: I removed the hyperlink on the URL, try just pasting that into the address bar.
Winner of the Weekly Signature & Avatar Contest Weeks 51, 59, 78, & 118.
I don't care if I was framed for murder if I only got a warning I would let it go.