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Dodo
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Hey as you can see(if my host is working) that my logos pretty lame. can anyone tell me how to make a better one please? ty in advance.

p.s. if you can't see the picture then try this link: http://www.freewebs.com/dodopictures/DodoLogo.JPG

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Neofish
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download the free trial of Fireworks MX 2004, master that, use that, pwn everyone

thats what i did (without the trial bit + i had already mastered it )

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Damokles
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Or download THE GIMP, it's as good as photoshop, but it's free
But sometimes it shuts itself down, for no reason :S

- Mind the gap -
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Dodo
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@N3OFI5H classy cheers.
@Damokles I used Photoshop I'm just not that good at it

thankyou people

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Ilya
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Posted: 22nd Sep 2004 05:51
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I need a bmp to make it cool.

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Ian T
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I've used various Paint Shop Pro trials (lifespan of years with 'em all -- gonna get 8 for Xmas I hope) to make my avatars and sigs. Except my current one is from the guys at Bethesda.

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Dodo
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Posted: 22nd Sep 2004 06:11
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@ Ilya cool you'd really help me? thanks. Heres a link: http://www.freewebs.com/dodopictures/DodoLogo.bmp

@Mouse hmm I'll test that for making future sigs alongside Fireworks

thankyou!

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Neofish
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Posted: 22nd Sep 2004 06:16 Edited at: 22nd Sep 2004 06:18
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@mouse: i want to know waht it means tho

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Flashing Blade
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try these:

http://www.clantemplates.com/?source=page&id=tutorials_photoshop


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Ilya
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Quote: " @ Ilya cool you'd really help me? thanks. Heres a link: http://www.freewebs.com/dodopictures/DodoLogo.bmp"

I can't do much with that because of the noise around it.
(What jpg compression does)
I have to go somewhere...

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Ian T
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Posted: 22nd Sep 2004 06:32
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N30: It's a volcanic O in Daedric script. You'd have to know a lot of Elder Scrolls (Games-> Arena, Daggerfall, Battlespire, Redguard, Morrowind, Stormhold, Dawnstar, Shadowkey, Oblivion) lore to understand its full implications, but basically it stands for the new game .

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Neofish
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Posted: 22nd Sep 2004 06:38
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cool, i borrowed Morrowind on Xbox, that was fun

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Ilya
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I'm back.

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Ilya
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I just made a nice 3d-looking one and animated it.

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Ilya
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Posted: 22nd Sep 2004 09:34 Edited at: 22nd Sep 2004 09:35
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Here it is:

(325k though)

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Dodo
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Wow thanks Ilya! what do you use to make them? thankyou!

p.s. what shall I credit you as? Ilya or something different?

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Dodo
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oops sorry forgot to change the sig!

ps thanks to everyone who helped


Thanks to Ilya for the Logo!
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Killswitch
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I made mine in flash MX while on work eperience (they couldn't find enough for me too do so set me up with a machine and a tonn of software).

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Ilya
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Just Ilya.
I made it in Texture Maker and animated in Microsoft GIF Animator.
Was easy (and fun) to make.

And freewebs won't let you link to images.
Get an account on photobucket(.com) or use the link to the one I posted.

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1tg46
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2004 09:17 Edited at: 23rd Sep 2004 09:29
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Great work Ilya.

What do people think of my sig.


P.S. I am not sure if it shows properly, I am still debugging problems with it.


1tg46 is my name coding is my game.
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Dave J
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2004 09:20
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Use [[/b]img] [[b]/img] instead.


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1tg46
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2004 09:29 Edited at: 23rd Sep 2004 09:30
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NOw that it is working.

What do people think of my sig?


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Ilya
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2004 09:39 Edited at: 23rd Sep 2004 09:39
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@Exeat
Here's one I made about your sig:


@1tg46
It's okay.

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1tg46
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2004 09:41
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cool exeat logo alternative.

How would I be able to make mine better?


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1tg46, the white-gold on white-silver is almost impossible to read. There needs to be contrast. Furthermore, it'd look better if you added some kind of a border... don't ask me why, but the transition from silver/white to the Apollo post background is rather glaring. Other than that, it's good.

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Quote: "the white-gold on white-silver is almost impossible to read"


Quote: "transition from silver/white to the Apollo post background is rather glaring"


Not to me.

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@1tg46
Fire spheres in Texture Maker work well.
(If you have Texture Maker, go to Special/Sphere/Fire Sphere)

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Perhaps impossible was overstating the case, but in my grumpy old age, I don't enjoy straining my eyes.

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Indian Homie G
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I somehow think that sig (the top one) is a little too... shiny. Too bright. Of course, i guess tahts what fire spheres do

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Quote: "@Exeat
Here's one I made about your sig:"


Uhh... yeah, I prefer my current one, thanks.


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Ilya, I too think that sig is a bit too bright. Anything else?


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Ilya
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I know.

I can't think of anything else.
(Well, there's one more thing)

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make teh text a textured black

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@Ilya
What color did you use to make the background of your image to be transparent?

@N30FI5H
Like text that is textured similar to your image.


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Quote: "What color did you use to make the background of your image to be transparent?"


Download something called InfranView.
Open your image with it.
Save it as a gif with transparency on.
I will pop up a window with your image.
Click on a color.
It will be the transparent color.

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@1tg46

Make a black outline of 1 px around your text, should be much more readable after that.

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@TheBigBabou
OK

@Ilya
I should be able to do that same thing with Animation Shop that came with Paint Shop Pro 8.


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Quote: "Like text that is textured similar to your image"

i used the invert thing on fireworks, it inverts the background where the object is

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????? I'll take your word for that.


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lol, i mean that you can get the image to invert the thing thats behind it, like in my sig

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I am sure their is some way to do this is Paint Shop Pro 8, but who knows.

Neat Sig though N30F15H


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The only way for an image to invert the thing behind it is for it to be an icon.

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its a fireworks thingy, it does do it, look at my sig, i dont know how it does it though

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Your sig doesn't seem to do anything.

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Quote: "Your sig doesn't seem to do anything."

Which one are you talking too, me or N30FI5H

If your talking to N30FI5H then at least it looks cool.


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N30FI5H

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Well that's good.


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Slightly off topic :

@ TheBigBabou

What the hell is that avatar - it looks like a burning Chest-Burster from the alien series. It's kinda psyco in a good way, if you ask me.

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And when he does tell you, you're going to keep saying "Why did I have to ask"

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