Site Graphics need some work, here are some ideas!

I made a title for the site, just to jazz things up a bit. The plain text I found dull.

I will make more later.

I'm using a templete, if you get togeather with Shah, and make me a templete/skin, we can change the look farther.

Ooooo, that's awesome.

Looks great Damen. Adds a much nicer feel to the whole site. Well done!

Aria is was Rohnan that made the top banner not Damen. Great job!

Aieka wrote:

Aria is was Rohnan that made the top banner not Damen. Great job!

She's thanking me for putting it up....

Ok, Aria wanted me to come up with a crest, but I really suck when it comes to making things from scratch, but this is what I got:



Rohnan may be better than me in post work, as I mostly just animate, if you want to, I can send you the raw file to touch up.
And Pro Res Publica is "For the Republic" in latin.

I think its sweet!
Could you send it to me in layers? I would like to make it more gritty, textured and old looking. I work in CS3, so that would save me some time.
Perhaps you could make the crest the image the new post indicator. The shield would be blue if there are no new posts and red if there are.

Lets make a new background! Any ideas? I could always steal some art off the official website. On my screen I only get a border of the stoneish looking background. but it looks so...1998 expages:P


EDIT-
I just amalgamated some art from the art book. It looks alright. kinda as if it were painted on a sheet of plywood:P

What format extention would you like, I'm using the GIMP (don't say crap, I love GIMP!), and havn't installed PS on the new rig.

Also, you can DL their fansite kit, it has some pretty good stuff in it.

haha, well I used gimp for a little while. I just could not get into it after learning in photo shop.
Save it as .tif then. I don't know if PS can read GIMP layers, so make each part of the image a separate layer. All I'll need is the swords, shield and banner.

I keep forgetting any version > GIMP2.0 can save in PS format. I don't use that format often, so I forget that GIMP can pretty much handle alot of PS things. Email sent.

theres my edit.I really like the shield but I felt i felt it was a little warrior tribe, and not republic enough. So I made my edit have a bit of royal flare. I was unsure of what to put in the background...so I found an image of Conans sword! I think it would be better with something else. Any ideas?

I love the shield, Rohan. It looks great. The details in the textures are beautiful. I wish I had that kind of talent.

One thought though, the text is a bit difficult to read on the banner. Any way to make that a bit more legible?

- Zaan

The shield is Damens work. As for the textures, it was all from this wonderful brush set I downloaded! But don't get me wrong I'll totally take credit for it:P

Okay, well hows this?

Ahhh, that's much more readable.

I really like the flair to the sides of the shield, and how everything looks like it's been through a big, hefty battle to get to us.

My only gripe is with Conan's sword being a bit too flashy and out of place. Though I don't know what to suggest to replace it, or where to get a replacement sword picture.

Lovely! Only sugestion is may be inside the shield have an open hand. Not only to signify a vote but a symbol of our non-aggression philosophy *shrug* just a suggestion but I like it this way too

yeah the sword is totally out of place. But I just wanted to share with you all what I did. I would draw my own sword but it would look really fake!
Damen think you could fill the hand request?

Kovina wrote:

Ahhh, that's much more readable.

You do know, it will be even less veiwable now? What I posted was at the size it will display on site, a taller pic means the words will be smaller.

Rohnan wrote:

yeah the sword is totally out of place. But I just wanted to share with you all what I did. I would draw my own sword but it would look really fake!
Damen think you could fill the hand request?

Sorry, my abilites lie in photomaniputlation, not creating from scratch, all those parts are from concept art, ot brushes.

If you can find spell icons from in game there is one called hand of Mitra that could offer a start. Would just need some coloring. Or if you like I can search out to try to find one to see what you boys can do

all the images i can find are far to small to use. i could just take a picture of my own hand and just edit that. though i fear i would be unable to create a shield that looks like anything!

Rohnan wrote:

all the images i can find are far to small to use. i could just take a picture of my own hand and just edit that. though i fear i would be unable to create a shield that looks like anything!

Thats actually a good idea, just edit out the back ground and your wrists. Then use a painting filter, giv it slight trasparancey and maybe some grundge, then over lay it on the current shield.

Well Damen, thats exactly what I did! But with the circles in the background it took away from the hand. So I clone stamped them out and then used the healing brush to make everything look smooth again.
I did a closed finger pose but it did not look very good. plus without shading you cannot tell what the image is of when made just plain white. So I went with the open fingers.

Oh my oh my it's incredible! Bravo! Want does everyone else think of it? I think it's awesome. Not only do I think the hand is a good symbol for the Republic I think it makes the whole design have more spice. Just what I think. I love it

and the best part is its got my grubby little paws right on it!

Any chance of bringing the fingers in closer together so it would look more like a vote than like a grab?