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ETHIC Charter graphic; Come give your opinion & advice
Topic Started: Jan 25 2011, 12:54 PM (183 Views)
Senator Sid Sloth
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One of the graphics I've been trying to make is a header for the ETHIC Charter. My goal was to put it on a nice looking background of a scroll similar to the one under the word Ikariam on the games pages.

I have not yet been able to produce the blank scroll background in a quality I'm happy with so no version like that is included below yet. I need to learn to create shadow on the texture to make a from scratch scroll along with a few other techniques I don't yet know how to do.

UPDATE: There are now 7 samples to choose from. Please tell me what one of them you like best and give any "constructive" critique of any of the images.


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Edited by Sid, Jan 26 2011, 10:42 PM.
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Senator Storm Shadow

They are all good, but I like 1 and 4 the best.

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Senator Sid Sloth
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Storm likes 1 & 4, and Isis said she likes 4's texture so I made a version of 1 with the texture from 4. This new hybrid is listed now as option #5

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Edited by Sid, Jan 26 2011, 02:45 PM.
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Senator Storm Shadow

Yep, looks good to me.
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Senator Sid Sloth
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There are now an additional 2 graphics numbered 6 and 7. Opinions, any new favs or is 5 still the fav?
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Senator Isis

Okay - don't shoot the messenger but I still like No. 4. it appears to be a darker color and possibly, looking at the others, the size has something to do with my preference. Are you trying to reduce the size purposefully?
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Senator Sid Sloth
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*gets out my revolver* ;)

Yea the other ones still aren't quite as dark, I need to move the texture file around and find the darker patch. Its a huge paper texture file and I had moved it looking for different like wrinkles and things.

There are a few reasons I was going for smaller rather than larger. One is this first use of this graphic will be in the middle of an already very long post. Second is when a graphic isn't the main subject of the post but only the header its best to not have it be a dominate portion. Since its heading a long page of text It seems to look better long and thin at the top than so tall. I was going to head the charter with just simple nicely formatted text like I have it on our board but the ikariam board has very limited bbcode options for formatting text.

What do you think of six, its bigger than all of them but 4.

*bang* :D
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