Sorry your browser is not supported!

You are using an outdated browser that does not support modern web technologies, in order to use this site please update to a new browser.

Browsers supported include Chrome, FireFox, Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer 10+ or Microsoft Edge.

Geek Culture / Design a new Forum Header Graphic Mini-Compo

Author
Message
las6
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 2nd Sep 2002
Location: Finland
Posted: 1st Jul 2004 21:34 Edited at: 1st Jul 2004 21:36
Link
Quote: "Maybe another 1-2 weeks"

Uh-oh. Guess I should've saved those till the last minute then..
I'll prolly upload a couple more entries but that's it from me. I don't really have any 3d proggy where I could create proper abstract forms... so I'll leave that to someone else.

Van-B, yeh... the height is the tricky part... but perhaps the point is to make use of "imaginary space". Hard to explain, but if you look at the current header image, the text isn't fully inside the image - but it still works.


| Keyboard not detected. Press F1 to continue. |
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
BatVink
Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 4th Apr 2003
Location: Gods own County, UK
Posted: 1st Jul 2004 21:35 Edited at: 1st Jul 2004 21:36
Link
Batch 2...
























BatVink
http://biglaugh.co.uk/catalog AMD 3000+ Barton, 512Mb Ram, 120 Gig Drive space, GeForce 5200 FX 128 Mb, Asus A7N8X Mobo.
Terms & Conditions apply
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Jess T
Retired Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 20th Sep 2003
Location: Over There... Kablam!
Posted: 1st Jul 2004 21:54 Edited at: 2nd Jul 2004 20:48
Link

( 8 frames @ 12.627KB total )

Preview Here

Yeah, there sure are some pretty nice ones coming out right now.

Flibble, thanks man

Jess.

PS, can anyone spot the difference in mine compared to the rest?


Team EOD :: Programmer/Logical Engineer/All-Round Nice Guy
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Van B
Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 8th Oct 2002
Location: Sunnyvale
Posted: 1st Jul 2004 22:23
Link
Your forum text is throbbing!

I hope it's still <10k - my pic saved out as a 256 colour gif was 18k, damn sure I ain't going below 256 colours!, it's not normal!.


Van-B


The nature of Monkey was irrepressible!.
Back to top
Profile PM Email
mm0zct
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 18th Nov 2003
Location: scotland-uk
Posted: 1st Jul 2004 22:31 Edited at: 1st Jul 2004 23:21
Link
ok i'm going to post my whole folio so far, didn't spend that long on each, mainly just variations

















edit to put in spacing

http://www.larinar.tk
AMD athlon thoroughbred 2200, 512Mb ram, 40Gb HD, ati saphire radeon 9600 atlantis w/128mb ddr ram, good creative-labs soundcard, cd-rw + dvd drives.
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Megaton Cat
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 24th Aug 2003
Location: Toronto, Canada
Posted: 1st Jul 2004 22:51
Link
Quote: "I guess we don't need to run for too much longer. Maybe another 1-2 weeks.
"


Damn it! I thought the deadlne was today!
Oh well guess I'll make a few more.

Trying to get my sig up!
Damn you Angelfire!
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
las6
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 2nd Sep 2002
Location: Finland
Posted: 1st Jul 2004 22:55 Edited at: 1st Jul 2004 22:58
Link
tsk tsk guys... check the filesizes. that's half the challenge here.
and for Van-B, I couldn't get any of my stuff look better as gif's or take smaller space. It's all about what the image looks like. and on this kind of black backdrop, jpg compression is usually better. Oh and for the record, none of my entries would have been under 10k with 256 color gif. 33-128 would have been possible...varying from image to image. But they looked so horrible.
tool that can tell you the exact filesize BEFORE saving is very helpful here. You can tweak to the max!

1024x10 = 10240 bytes. That's it. (check the image properties)

final one of those I did at work:
l6_header9.jpg|preview


| Keyboard not detected. Press F1 to continue. |
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
mm0zct
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 18th Nov 2003
Location: scotland-uk
Posted: 1st Jul 2004 23:09
Link
oops, i forgot to check my later images, i'm shrinking them just now

http://www.larinar.tk
AMD athlon thoroughbred 2200, 512Mb ram, 40Gb HD, ati saphire radeon 9600 atlantis w/128mb ddr ram, good creative-labs soundcard, cd-rw + dvd drives.
Back to top
Profile PM Email
BatVink
Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 4th Apr 2003
Location: Gods own County, UK
Posted: 1st Jul 2004 23:16
Link
Quote: "tsk tsk guys... check the filesizes. that's half the challenge here."


Quote: "I hope it's still <10k "


.
.
.
Quote: "I may amend the byte limit to 15KB, depends on the quality of the entries. But allow for 15KB for now."


BatVink
http://biglaugh.co.uk/catalog AMD 3000+ Barton, 512Mb Ram, 120 Gig Drive space, GeForce 5200 FX 128 Mb, Asus A7N8X Mobo.
Terms & Conditions apply
Back to top
Profile PM Email
indi
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 26th Aug 2002
Location: Earth, Brisbane, Australia
Posted: 1st Jul 2004 23:22
Link
lol if you cant get it under 10k then go back to pixel school I say

If no-one gives your an answer to a question you have asked, consider:- Is your question clear.- Did you ask nicely.- Are you showing any effort to solve the problem yourself
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Megaton Cat
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 24th Aug 2003
Location: Toronto, Canada
Posted: 1st Jul 2004 23:26
Link
The program I'm using lets you export to extremly small sizes with good quality. I just made in 9 kb to be on the safe side.

BTW, mm0zct, can you upload one more banner for me please?

Trying to get my sig up!
Damn you Angelfire!
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
mm0zct
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 18th Nov 2003
Location: scotland-uk
Posted: 1st Jul 2004 23:31
Link
mine are all under 10kb, i made the ones that used to be over just under to keep the quality as high as possible but they look ok at even higher compression

http://www.larinar.tk
AMD athlon thoroughbred 2200, 512Mb ram, 40Gb HD, ati saphire radeon 9600 atlantis w/128mb ddr ram, good creative-labs soundcard, cd-rw + dvd drives.
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Van B
Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 8th Oct 2002
Location: Sunnyvale
Posted: 1st Jul 2004 23:33
Link
Indi,
What controls do you have over standard Gif? - I mean you get a lot more options when using something like Animation Shop, but when simply saving a gif in PSP - I assumed you could only really stipulate the colour depth to affect the file size.

Like hypothetically, I have an 18k gif that I want to be 15k, and I don't want to go less than 256 colours - what would you do?


Van-B


The nature of Monkey was irrepressible!.
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Megaton Cat
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 24th Aug 2003
Location: Toronto, Canada
Posted: 1st Jul 2004 23:36
Link
Ok my final one: (I'm getting too into this so I'll quit now)


Trying to get my sig up!
Damn you Angelfire!
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Dave J
Retired Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 11th Feb 2003
Location: Secret Military Pub, Down Under
Posted: 1st Jul 2004 23:44
Link
Well it looks like there's too many entries to keep scrolling and going between pages to compare them all, so I expanded my script so you can add them and they will all display on the one page.

Short URL: http://www.TGCApollo.tk
No Banner URL: http://ep.designex.net/Misc/Apollo/

The script has undergone intense bug testing (Both myself and Mussi posted a couple banners ) and it looks like it all works fine and dandy. So everyone feel free to add their own banners to the list, I might remind you that you don't have to, it would just be easier to see them all if they were on the one page and without all the messages inbetween.

Thanks,
Exeat


"Computers are useless they can only give you answers."
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Megaton Cat
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 24th Aug 2003
Location: Toronto, Canada
Posted: 1st Jul 2004 23:46
Link
Hey thats a great idea. Would be easier for Rich to go through them.

Trying to get my sig up!
Damn you Angelfire!
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
The Big Babou
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 10th Feb 2003
Location: Cyberspace
Posted: 1st Jul 2004 23:47
Link
ok something beautiful





... they call it a royale with cheese ...
Back to top
Profile PM
Dave J
Retired Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 11th Feb 2003
Location: Secret Military Pub, Down Under
Posted: 1st Jul 2004 23:48 Edited at: 1st Jul 2004 23:51
Link
Quote: "Hey thats a great idea. Would be easier for Rich to go through them."


lol thanks, I enjoyed writing it because I haven't used PHP in ages. It was a nice reminder of how cool PHP is.


"Computers are useless they can only give you answers."
Back to top
Profile PM Email
mm0zct
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 18th Nov 2003
Location: scotland-uk
Posted: 1st Jul 2004 23:48 Edited at: 1st Jul 2004 23:56
Link
@van b in psp7 you get control over the compression factor, there is also an optio called optimizer when you save it which opens a window containing preview of before and after, alterable compresion factor and before and after filsize

@exeat you can get rid of the banner in you .tk domain settings, also sorry i accidentally pasted the wrong url into your site, can you please delete the bad ones

i'm really sorry

http://www.larinar.tk
AMD athlon thoroughbred 2200, 512Mb ram, 40Gb HD, ati saphire radeon 9600 atlantis w/128mb ddr ram, good creative-labs soundcard, cd-rw + dvd drives.
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Megaton Cat
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 24th Aug 2003
Location: Toronto, Canada
Posted: 1st Jul 2004 23:49 Edited at: 1st Jul 2004 23:50
Link
Oh, dang, TheBigBabou is gona kick our ass.

Trying to get my sig up!
Damn you Angelfire!
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
flibX0r
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 14th Feb 2003
Location: Western Australia
Posted: 1st Jul 2004 23:53
Link
Yay! I put mine there. I'll put a decent one there later, but got to go to bed now, have to go to school tommorow


http://www.jellystudios.tk
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Dave J
Retired Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 11th Feb 2003
Location: Secret Military Pub, Down Under
Posted: 1st Jul 2004 23:58 Edited at: 2nd Jul 2004 00:01
Link
Quote: "@exeat you can get rid of the banner in you .tk domain settings, also sorry i accidentally pasted the wrong url into your site, can you please delete the bad ones"


Hmm, are you sure? I thought you had to pay to get rid of the banner. And your messed up ones have been fixed.

Edit: Wow, just saw the option. Never knew about that. lol.


"Computers are useless they can only give you answers."
Back to top
Profile PM Email
mm0zct
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 18th Nov 2003
Location: scotland-uk
Posted: 2nd Jul 2004 00:01
Link
@exeat: thanks, yes you can get rid of the banner easily, i don't pay and i don' have a banner, i'll sent you an email telling you how to do it

http://www.larinar.tk
AMD athlon thoroughbred 2200, 512Mb ram, 40Gb HD, ati saphire radeon 9600 atlantis w/128mb ddr ram, good creative-labs soundcard, cd-rw + dvd drives.
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Pincho Paxton
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 8th Dec 2002
Location:
Posted: 2nd Jul 2004 00:06 Edited at: 2nd Jul 2004 00:07
Link
Here's some more.





Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Dave J
Retired Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 11th Feb 2003
Location: Secret Military Pub, Down Under
Posted: 2nd Jul 2004 00:29 Edited at: 2nd Jul 2004 00:31
Link
We're getting a fairly nice list there, aren't we? lol, I hope no one's got lost when I edited out bad URL entries or duplicates. There is a chance that someone submitted while I was editing the file and in that case their's might not have gotten added, so just add it again if that happened to you (I know quite a few people were adding banners while I was editing so my apologies if that happened).

Anyway, that kept me up longer then I hoped, no one break the script while I'm sleeping! G'night.


"Computers are useless they can only give you answers."
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Pincho Paxton
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 8th Dec 2002
Location:
Posted: 2nd Jul 2004 00:31
Link
I thought Exeat was French. Exeat sounds French anyway.

Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Dave J
Retired Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 11th Feb 2003
Location: Secret Military Pub, Down Under
Posted: 2nd Jul 2004 00:33
Link
The term 'exeat' is actually latin.


"Computers are useless they can only give you answers."
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Megaton Cat
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 24th Aug 2003
Location: Toronto, Canada
Posted: 2nd Jul 2004 00:37
Link
Who in the hell is this las6 thats submitting those but kicking images???




Trying to get my sig up!
Damn you Angelfire!
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Megaton Cat
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 24th Aug 2003
Location: Toronto, Canada
Posted: 2nd Jul 2004 00:39
Link


Okay my last one and I quit, I swear. This competition is getting too intense for me.

Trying to get my sig up!
Damn you Angelfire!
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Mike Johnson
TGC Developer
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 13th Sep 2002
Location: United Kingdom
Posted: 2nd Jul 2004 00:40
Link
Ladies & gentlemen I believe we have a winner on our hands. Ravey and myself have spent some considerable time designing a banner to submit to this competition and here it is for you all to see.



We have decided to go for the simple look and managed to come in way under target on the file size and still able to retain the black colour required on the left.

I hope that nobody is going to try and copy our design so they can win the competition as a lot of time and effort has gone into creating this stunning design.

Mike & Ravey
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Dgamer
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 30th Sep 2002
Location:
Posted: 2nd Jul 2004 00:42
Link
Genius

This sig has been dullified!
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Megaton Cat
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 24th Aug 2003
Location: Toronto, Canada
Posted: 2nd Jul 2004 00:42
Link
God damn. Everyone, remove your banners from the list. Lets all stop trying. Congrats, Mike.

Trying to get my sig up!
Damn you Angelfire!
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Ravey
Retired TGC Developer
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 2nd Nov 2002
Location: Southern TGC Nerve Centre
Posted: 2nd Jul 2004 00:43
Link
It's the clear (and LARGE) winner.

Regards,
Dave Milton
Check out my games: Diode, Root, Binman & Skateboard Crazy
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
The Big Babou
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 10th Feb 2003
Location: Cyberspace
Posted: 2nd Jul 2004 00:46 Edited at: 2nd Jul 2004 00:49
Link
looks nice megaton and lassix' banners are beautiful too. but the creativity behind Mikes and raveys banner is purely stunning. the wide black area contrast to the pure white text is webdesign at its best.

and another one:



... they call it a royale with cheese ...
Back to top
Profile PM
Van B
Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 8th Oct 2002
Location: Sunnyvale
Posted: 2nd Jul 2004 00:56
Link
Awww, Babou's banners are blocked by our firewall! - must be rude right?

I've just had a great idea for a banner but I doubt Rich would use it!


Van-B


The nature of Monkey was irrepressible!.
Back to top
Profile PM Email
BatVink
Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 4th Apr 2003
Location: Gods own County, UK
Posted: 2nd Jul 2004 01:03
Link
Quote: "Awww, Babou's banners are blocked by our firewall! - must be rude right?"


hosted at t-online.de - I get spammed from that domain daily, it's probably on every firewall blacklist around the globe.

BatVink
http://biglaugh.co.uk/catalog AMD 3000+ Barton, 512Mb Ram, 120 Gig Drive space, GeForce 5200 FX 128 Mb, Asus A7N8X Mobo.
Terms & Conditions apply
Back to top
Profile PM Email
The Big Babou
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 10th Feb 2003
Location: Cyberspace
Posted: 2nd Jul 2004 01:05 Edited at: 2nd Jul 2004 01:06
Link
t-online.de is the biggest internet provider in germany. it is not possible that this on a blacklist

... they call it a royale with cheese ...
Back to top
Profile PM
Preston C
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 16th May 2003
Location: Penn State University Park
Posted: 2nd Jul 2004 01:05
Link
Try two, took me three hours to get the stupid scenes lighting right...



Cheers,
Preston


Intel Celeron 1.3 Ghrz 512MB Ram NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 128MB
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Van B
Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 8th Oct 2002
Location: Sunnyvale
Posted: 2nd Jul 2004 01:06
Link
Probably just a sponsor banner, you don't mention Porn, Big Brother, or Horses on your site do you?


Van-B


The nature of Monkey was irrepressible!.
Back to top
Profile PM Email
The Big Babou
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 10th Feb 2003
Location: Cyberspace
Posted: 2nd Jul 2004 01:08
Link
no i don't. wtf horses? because they are called logoX.jpg?

... they call it a royale with cheese ...
Back to top
Profile PM
BatVink
Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 4th Apr 2003
Location: Gods own County, UK
Posted: 2nd Jul 2004 01:12 Edited at: 2nd Jul 2004 01:14
Link
Quote: "t-online.de is the biggest internet provider in germany. it is not possible that this on a blacklist"


My Spam Filter says:

Quote: "Origin blacklisted by SpamCop"


Blueyonder are one of the biggest ISPs in the UK, they regularly take centre stage on the blacklists, much to my annoyance. If the ISP doesn't stamp out open relays on their customer's connections, they will be blacklisted.

BatVink
http://biglaugh.co.uk/catalog AMD 3000+ Barton, 512Mb Ram, 120 Gig Drive space, GeForce 5200 FX 128 Mb, Asus A7N8X Mobo.
Terms & Conditions apply
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Van B
Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 8th Oct 2002
Location: Sunnyvale
Posted: 2nd Jul 2004 01:17
Link
Yeah, Horses - Everyone hates horses right?

Nah, we have 2 muppets in human resources who go horseriding, and they love nothing more than sitting talking rubbish and browsing the internet for horsey stuff. So we block horses to piss them off. Wish I had'nt now though - one of them just got implants! .


Van-B


The nature of Monkey was irrepressible!.
Back to top
Profile PM Email
The Big Babou
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 10th Feb 2003
Location: Cyberspace
Posted: 2nd Jul 2004 01:18 Edited at: 2nd Jul 2004 01:21
Link
so what should i do now? is there any free webspace, where linking to images is allowed?

aaah i see. i just couldn't image, why one should block horses

... they call it a royale with cheese ...
Back to top
Profile PM
Peter H
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 20th Feb 2004
Location: Witness Protection Program
Posted: 2nd Jul 2004 01:23
Link
boy this competition really took off!...too bad my trial version of PSP8 expired


Formerly known as "DarkWing Duck"
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Van B
Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 8th Oct 2002
Location: Sunnyvale
Posted: 2nd Jul 2004 01:26
Link
Gimp? - It has some neat tools that should be ideal for making these banner things and it's free (my favourite price).


Van-B


The nature of Monkey was irrepressible!.
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Peter H
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 20th Feb 2004
Location: Witness Protection Program
Posted: 2nd Jul 2004 01:30
Link
ya...i got it and all the folder had in it was this weird thing that windows couldn't identify


Formerly known as "DarkWing Duck"
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Van B
Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 8th Oct 2002
Location: Sunnyvale
Posted: 2nd Jul 2004 01:35
Link
Probably part of an installer package, anyone installed Gimp recently? - It's been so long I have no recall.


Van-B


The nature of Monkey was irrepressible!.
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Pincho Paxton
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 8th Dec 2002
Location:
Posted: 2nd Jul 2004 01:39
Link
This is my last.




Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
David T
Retired Moderator
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 27th Aug 2002
Location: England
Posted: 2nd Jul 2004 01:42
Link
To make it easier, here's mine using exeat's php thing.

http://ep.designex.net/Misc/Apollo/Dummy.php?Img=http://www.davidtattersall.me.uk/temp/tgchead1.jpg

Get 15 new commands, all the date / time commands left out of DBPro for free!
DBPTIME plugin available here:
http://www.davidtattersall.me.uk/ and select "DarkBasic"
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
BatVink
Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 4th Apr 2003
Location: Gods own County, UK
Posted: 2nd Jul 2004 02:05
Link
BigBabou (and anyone else looking for a place to dump their images) - see my new thread...

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=34390&b=2

BatVink
http://biglaugh.co.uk/catalog AMD 3000+ Barton, 512Mb Ram, 120 Gig Drive space, GeForce 5200 FX 128 Mb, Asus A7N8X Mobo.
Terms & Conditions apply
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Back to top

Login to post a reply

Server time is: 2024-09-22 10:28:46
Your offset time is: 2024-09-22 10:28:46