A new banner - Blue v.1

Giancarlo · Jul 19, 2003

Just though i'd try something slightly different. I've never seen anything like this banner anywhere...

It took more than 14 layers - since i merged layers in many places - and i did it all in Photoshop. I payed a lot of attention to detail here (like i always try to..

). So that's about it...

Comments, questions, tips? (I'd sure like tips...

)

Shannon · Jul 19, 2003

Originally posted by Giancarlo
Just though i'd try something slightly different. I've never seen anything like this banner anywhere...

It took more than 14 layers - since i merged layers in many places - and i did it all in Photoshop. I payed a lot of attention to detail here (like i always try to.. ). So that's about it...

Comments, questions, tips? (I'd sure like tips... )

Okay, I've been wondering for a while now; what the hell is m_nus?

Other than that, very original and well, impressive. How many filters did you use?

ALPHA · Jul 19, 2003

I would remove the white shape and let the blue strokes poke out with shadows. I would also remove the bullet points and shunt the text over to the left. - Just my constructive criticism no offense inttended.

Anyway I like! - I like very much! 👍!

Concept · Jul 19, 2003

I've seen many creations from you GC but this one just doesn't fit my fancy. Ones in the past blow this one away in my opinion. But hey, you're trying somethign new.

Initial Racing · Jul 19, 2003

Thats.........well I dont like it.

Giancarlo · Jul 19, 2003

Originally posted by Shannon
Okay, I've been wondering for a while now; what the hell is m_nus?

Other than that, very original and well, impressive. How many filters did you use?

M_nus is just Minus minus the i. It's a username on another forum...

And, i probably used quite a few filters. Creating all the stuff in the left...

Origianlly posted by Alpha
I would remove the white shape and let the blue strokes poke out with shadows.

Well that's what i first had in mind, but it didn't work out as well as i had hoped when i went to save the image as a GIF... :irked:

ALPHA · Jul 19, 2003

Use .png c00n, try saving it as a .png and uploading it if you can.

Giancarlo · Jul 20, 2003

Originally posted by ALPHA
Use .png c00n, try saving it as a .png and uploading it if you can.

PNG's don't allow transparency...

Are you calling me a racoon? :odd:

Shannon · Jul 20, 2003

Originally posted by Giancarlo
PNG's don't allow transparency...

Are you calling me a racoon?

Um, PNG does support transparency. I think it supports animation too, but I'm not to sure on that one.

ALPHA · Jul 20, 2003

There's a spcial png animation one as well.

PNG - Portable Network Graphics
MNG - Multiple-image Network Graphics

You may want to look here for more information : http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/

Shannon · Jul 20, 2003

Originally posted by ALPHA
There's a spcial png animation one as well.

PNG - Portable Network Graphics
MNG - Multiple-image Network Graphics

You may want to look here for more information : http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/

Interesting. Maybe Jordan should let us upload MNG files too.

ALPHA · Jul 20, 2003

I don't think so, because browsers still don't fully support the formats that well. Just like .svg (Scalable Vector Graphics) - Flash but made from xml coding, and it's backed by Adobe not Macromedia.

EliteRacer · Jul 20, 2003

Why not just upload them to Here , and hotlink them. Just name you'r pic somthing like "Item8373XDJDx7" or somthing.

CDailey · Jul 20, 2003

Simply amazing :drool:

rjensen11 · Jul 20, 2003

Jordan won't let us upload PNG or the like because of this single reason:

Bandwidth

Shannon · Jul 20, 2003

Originally posted by rjensen11
Jordan won't let us upload PNG or the like because of this single reason:

Bandwidth

Um, Jordan has allowed PNGs. The image below is even a PNG!

ALPHA · Jul 20, 2003

Silly rjensen11, he thinks he knows everything

- Shannon see if you can get alpha transperancy to work. - Make a thread in the test forum and we can test.

Shannon · Jul 20, 2003

Okie-dokey.

Vasco · Jul 20, 2003

So what does a PNG do?

ALPHA · Jul 20, 2003

Go to this post here : https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?postid=646964#post646964 - Then follow the link from there.

Initial Racing · Jul 20, 2003

Shannon, though it says PNGs are allowed, you cant upload them. Thats just how VB works. You gotta do some special thing to get it to work. And I dont remember anymore, I havent ran a VB for a year now.

rjensen11 · Jul 20, 2003

Originally posted by Shannon
Um, Jordan has allowed PNGs. The image below is even a PNG!

Wait for it...

Originally posted by ALPHA
Silly rjensen11, he thinks he knows everything - Shannon see if you can get alpha transperancy to work. - Make a thread in the test forum and we can test.

Wait for it... :trouble:

Originally posted by Initial Racing
Shannon, though it says PNGs are allowed, you cant upload them. Thats just how VB works. You gotta do some special thing to get it to work. And I dont remember anymore, I havent ran a VB for a year now.

Boo ya!

Giancarlo · Jul 20, 2003

So, to further kill my thread (

), you're saying PNGs give a better transparency? But how do you make PNGs support that in Photoshop?

Klostrophobic · Jul 21, 2003

Originally posted by Initial Racing
Shannon, though it says PNGs are allowed, you cant upload them. Thats just how VB works. You gotta do some special thing to get it to work. And I dont remember anymore, I havent ran a VB for a year now.

WRONG! I've uploaded PNGs before.

Shannon · Jul 21, 2003

Originally posted by Initial Racing
Shannon, though it says PNGs are allowed, you cant upload them. Thats just how VB works. You gotta do some special thing to get it to work. And I dont remember anymore, I havent ran a VB for a year now.

Um, the image I just uploaded was a PNG... I also started a PNG test thread where there a number of PNGs that have been uploaded.

Originally posted by Giancarlo
So, to further kill my thread (), you're saying PNGs give a better transparency? But how do you make PNGs support that in Photoshop?

File > Save for Web. Pick PNG 24 (PNG 8 sucks) and check the Transparency option.

Shannon · Jul 21, 2003

The following image is a PNG.

OmicroN · Jul 21, 2003

png makes for really good transparents. When I use my 3-d programs I save either .png or .eps.

Giancarlo · Jul 21, 2003

Sweet indeed. Thanks Shannon!

Pako · Jul 21, 2003

Originally posted by ALPHA
There's a spcial png animation one as well.

PNG - Portable Network Graphics
MNG - Multiple-image Network Graphics

You may want to look here for more information : http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/

Actually, users of PNG's prefer the meaning to be referred as a recursive acronym.

PNG = PNG Not Gif

and yes, PNG does support animation.

On and yes, I like it very much for an abstract symbol, doesn't really mean anything (to me) but it does look cool.

Good job man!

Giancarlo · Jul 21, 2003

It didn't seem to work, Shannon...

A new banner - Blue v.1

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