Re: New forum banner... : Thu May 05, 2011 7:34 am  

FrodshamViking wrote:

New to posting on this site but thought i'd give it a quick attempt. Thought i'd take a different approach...please don't be too harsh



FV

Welcome aboard.

I like that.... it is different. It doesn't scream RL, but it is quite nice. Nice effort mate.

Re: New forum banner... : Thu May 05, 2011 7:37 am  

Pepe wrote:

Here’s my first attempt. It’s simple one, but I’ll try something a bit more complex, with Vikings, ships, and the bridge in it, etc, when I get the time. Obviously, this is not the full sized version. It is actually just a re-jigged sig banner.

I'd say that is a cracking start mate. I really like the font and text effect.
Looking forward to seeing v0.2 if you're looking to include the stuff above too.

The competition heats up.

Re: New forum banner... : Thu May 05, 2011 8:29 am  

Chris Dalton wrote:

Unofficial mascot surely?

Alex J wrote:

I liked the three eyed fish. It'd be a welcome return.

Leave it with me kids.

Re: New forum banner... : Thu May 05, 2011 9:01 am  

I do wish I knew how to do these

Re: New forum banner... : Thu May 05, 2011 2:07 pm  

J20 wrote:

I do wish I knew how to do these

Must be photoshop! I only have Microsoft Publisher!

Re: New forum banner... : Thu May 05, 2011 2:12 pm  

With me not being a Widnes fan i was limited to photos, its just what i could scrape together from google. You would obviously have your own wording, thats just an example.

For some reason photobucket is restricting the full size image, i have the full size version saved on hard drive.



Here is a small forum signature of the same image, feel free to use it as its no use to me lol

Re: New forum banner... : Thu May 05, 2011 2:25 pm  

Rob Wire wrote:

With me not being a Widnes fan i was limited to photos, its just what i could scrape together from google. You would obviously have your own wording, thats just an example.

Click on the image to enlarge it to full size.



Here is a small forum signature of the same image, feel free to use it as its no use to me lol

That's very good indeed and has caused me to put on hold any such plans I might have had to create one of my own. I'm sure mine wouldn't have made it into The Gallery on Hartbeat.

What program did you use if you don't mind me asking and do you use one of those fancy electronic pens to draw around images to lift them off their background?

Re: New forum banner... : Thu May 05, 2011 2:27 pm  

Also do you know of any fancy way of shrinking an images file size without it having too much of a detrimental effect on the image quality. Mine was originally 24k and looked sharp but is now 19k and looks pants?

Re: New forum banner... : Thu May 05, 2011 2:33 pm  

Chris, i use Corel Paintshop Pro XI. Their are a couple of newer versions of it, that version suits me fine.

You can resize images within that software above, i'm far from being an expert with graphics, if i can do something thats half reasonable then believe i'm sure anyone can with practice.

Re: New forum banner... : Thu May 05, 2011 2:38 pm  

It warms me inside to know that people still remember the three eyed fish!