Want a sig pic?

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  1. Sheriff Fatman

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    I've resurrected this one for now, but I'm working on something more ... porcine.
     
  2. Milo

    Milo New Member

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    Alright, Jinxed. I messed around with that pic you sent me. Here's what I came up with:

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    I interlaced the picture because the quality was kind of low. I also decided to overlay the text rather than just place it in the corner or off to the side. Lemme know what you think.

    Also, I was messing around with some tutorials and came up with this:

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    This one is up for grabs. If anyone likes this one, I can change the "Ray of Light" to your screenname or whatever. I can also mess around with the color of the lighting if you prefer a different color.

    EDIT - Yeah, Fatman! I love that pic.
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  3. Jinxed

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    I love the way you handle these things man. The only thing I would want to change is maybe the font to that of the other sig pic. Or some other font. Your concept is awesome!!
     
  4. Milo

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    M'kay. Check it out:

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    I tried it with the font from the first pic, but couldn't get it to look right. I picked this one because it's also oriental style, and I think it fits the picture better.
     
  5. Jinxed

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    Yaaayy Praise Milo! it rules! Thank you so much. BTW why don't you come to irc? Now...
    Let's talk dirty there..
     
  6. Milo

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    Ok, let me reply to some of these posts first...

    It's possible. The pencil sketching could be made darker or more defined by duplicating the layers and then multiplying them, so that's not a problem.

    There's just a few things with the pic. One, it's more vertical than horizontal (if you get what I mean). This means I'll have to crop out a major portion of it, like almost everything except the head. I could shrink it down to get a little more of the body into it, but it won't be much.

    Two, if I do just use the head, there'll be alot of whitespace off to the side. There should be room to squeeze in a little text in addition to your screename.

    Three, the jpeg that I grabbed off the fan page looks compressed all to hell. I don't know if they compressed it to make the file smaller or what, but if you have a higher quality jpeg or bmp of that pic, mail it to me.

    I notice these are leeched directly off the allfunnypics.com servers. Please don't do this in the future. Either save the pic(s) to your hard drive and upload it to your own space, or just post the link to the image. When pics are hotlinked to other servers, the webmasters will see that Terra Arcanum is leeching their bandwidth. We don't want Calis recieving any hatemail from allfunnypics.com, now do we? :wink:

    Anyway, the first one looks good. I'll work on it and post it up soon.

    "Host from your own server" means put it up on your own webspace. Just like all these pictures I've been posting are located on my own webspace. In my original post, I'm asking that if you have your own webspace then it'd be nice if you saved the pic I made for you and put it there, rather than using mine. But, since I'm on a free host, I don't really give that much of a shit, so I'll host it for you if you can't.

    The pics you can find all over the web. Google Image Search is a good place to find stuff. They're all over the place. When you see something you like, just Right Click --> Save Picture As. Just try not to violate too many copyrights. :wink:

    EDIT - Shit, no time for IRC right now. Gotta go... I'll try and catch you some other time.



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  7. Jinxed

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    Damn there goes the experience factor. Got me there, next time I'll watch for that too.



    Iyaan-na Kanji Nigecha dame da
    I'm gonna dance on your grave

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  8. Jarinor

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    That "Ray of Light" pic is pretty cool Milo - is it taken yet?
     
  9. Milo

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    Jarinor - Nope, it's yours.

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    I messed around with the font a little. This one's "Black Chancery." I thought it looked nice. But if you like the original one better or prefer another one, just let me know. I'll change it sometime tomorrow.
     
  10. Zen

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    Hm..

    Let`s screw the familiar pic Milo! It wouldn`t be any good anyway would it?!?

    Over at the Inn I`m doing a thread where I post how I picture the different Inn-habitants in the Inn setting... Perhaps you, based on how you think we (read I) come across here, could make some sigpics you think fits the intended poster?

    Just a thought...

    - Zen
     
  11. Ring lord

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    COOL stuff!!
    can you get one for me?
    btw,at the IRC,where do you guys hang around?
     
  12. Milo

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    Ok, I made some changes to Jarinor's pic.

    Here it is, take two:

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    Lemme know what you think, Jarinor.

    Check what I posted previously about the pic, Zen. The compression isn't too noticeable when it's shrunk down. Rather than just cropping out the head, I'm thinking of shrinking the image way down. Maybe pasting it on a nice looking background along with some of the other fan art you drew (great stuff, btw. I mean that). Add "Zen" along with some other text... Eh, anyway, I'll come up with something.

    As for the second point, well... maybe. I'm having fun just messing around with text and images. If I see a pic that really strikes me, where I say "that's perfect for xxxx!" then I'll make one up. Otherwise, I'd prefer people give me an idea of what they want. It's tough trying to find the perfect thing for someone, and I don't want anyone to feel left out if I can't find one for them. In other words, it's easier all-around if someone just told me what they wanted. :smile:

    Sure, I'll make one for you. If you have a certain picture in mind or can give a few suggestions on what you'd like, that would be helpful.

    The IRC channel is #arcanum on the Gamesnet server.
     
  13. Ring lord

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    i need something that will replace my sig...
    something ancient-looking....
    can you find something like that?
     
  14. Jinxed

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    more likly you will find us at #ta-regulars on gamesnet server.
     
  15. Dragoon

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    You're doing awesome things with these pics Milo. Think you could make my cig pic look better, perhaps to make the background look more like old, yellow, paper (something like all those really old books do) and the text to be smudged a bit. Could you?

    BTW, what program, besides your personal talent, do you use?

    EDIT - What's the name of the fonts in Jinxed's sig (the previous and current one)?

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  16. Milo

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    Sure, no problem. If you could tell me what font you used and where I could find that dragon pic, it would make it alot easier. Then I could put them all on seperate layers and mess with them seperately.

    Photoshop 6.

    The very first one (the anime girl), is "electroharmonix". The second one is... "boron" I think. And the one on his current sig is either "Chinese Take Out" or "Chow Fun"

    I found all of those at 1001 Free Fonts.
     
  17. Ring lord

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  19. Jarinor

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    First, you have to find somewhere to host it. It also needs to allow you to 'hotlink' your pictures (i.e. adding them in your sig). Then you just need to put a link to your pic in your sig (with the img tags), and you're done!
     
  20. Etalis Craftlord

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    I never knew Jinxed was such an attractive female...

    :wink:
     
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