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Author:  GnuTux [ Thu Aug 30, 2012 3:45 pm ]
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YAFU, I've put up the transparent animation and it looks good. The issues we saw on each side of the old gif banner are now gone. There was a little extra white on the left side of the gimp tools box in the BG but I erased that.

Molly, your bubbles banner is up. The horizontal divider bar was all the way to the bottom so I raised it up so it would overlay properly with the existing background. Attaching the tweaked xcf.

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Author:  molly [ Thu Aug 30, 2012 4:45 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: GIMP Chat Banner Challenge
Thank you, looks great.
Author:  YAFU [ Thu Aug 30, 2012 7:33 pm ]
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GnuTux wrote:
YAFU, I've put up the transparent animation and it looks good. The issues we saw on each side of the old gif banner are now gone. There was a little extra white on the left side of the gimp tools box in the BG but I erased that


Ok, thanks.
Author:  Barbie [ Sat Sep 01, 2012 4:01 am ]
Post subject:  Re: GIMP Chat Banner Challenge
AnMal
Thankyou for the kind and sincere apology AnMal. I understand. All is forgiven.
I tried to send you a Private Message but your settings do not permit it.

YAFU
Your animated Banner is incredibly fantastic !!!! So clever and innovative.
I am so impressed YAFU!

Image

GnuTux
RE: Animated Banner
What if you add a bit of CSS so that the Banner is static... but when you hover it then it will display the animation.
Then it won't be distracting or annoying.
There would have to be 2 Banners submitted. A static one and an animated one.
Something like this:

#logodesc
{background-image:url("STATIC BANNER IMAGE INSERTED")!important;}
#logodesc:hover
{background-image:url("ANIMATED BANNER IMAGE INSERTED")!important;}
Author:  YAFU [ Sat Sep 01, 2012 7:36 am ]
Post subject:  Re: GIMP Chat Banner Challenge
Thank you very much, Barbie! :)
Author:  GnuTux [ Sat Sep 01, 2012 12:35 pm ]
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Barbie wrote:
GnuTux
RE: Animated Banner
What if you add a bit of CSS so that the Banner is static... but when you hover it then it will display the animation.
Then it won't be distracting or annoying.
There would have to be 2 Banners submitted. A static one and an animated one.

That is an option but even then, some animated banners might still be annoying. :mrgreen:

2 wouldn't have to be submitted, I could just grab a frame from the one.

Another option would be onmouseover in HTML or Javascript.

I would prefer a static PNG for the banner. The image quality is much higher and there are no issues with the kinds of large file sizes that can occur with animated .gifs.

I do like YAFU's animated banner, though. It's not too large and it's clever. :hehe
Author:  Draconian [ Sun Sep 02, 2012 7:44 pm ]
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Been fooling around with my previous image and came up with three alternatives. (Needed more metal :hehe )

The third one may be too busy and I guess I could always tone down the light burst. Here's all three anyway. Opinions welcomed.

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Author:  GnuTux [ Sun Sep 02, 2012 7:55 pm ]
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Those are great, Drac. I think I like the 2nd one on the list best. :bigthup

I'll put it up on the rotation theme so you can check it out.
Author:  Esper [ Sun Sep 02, 2012 8:00 pm ]
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i like the second one best as well
loving the blues

maybe i would get rid of a few of those brushes, like everything from Wilbers nose to the left
think that would look better
Author:  he4rty [ Sun Sep 02, 2012 8:02 pm ]
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There all really good, I think and this is only just, the first one for me.
Author:  GnuTux [ Sun Sep 02, 2012 8:07 pm ]
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Anyone who would like to preview all the banners in rotation, follow these steps to switch to the rotation theme.

1) Click "User Control Panel" in the upper right just under the banner.
2) Select "Board Preferences" from the left menu.
3) Under "My board style" select "GimpChat2" in the dropdown.
4) Click submit.

This will switch you over to the test theme so you can preview the rotating banners. Just repeat steps and select GimpChat in the dropdown to return to the default site theme
Author:  YAFU [ Sun Sep 02, 2012 10:29 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: GIMP Chat Banner Challenge
The rotation works! All banners are very well integrated into the site, great work everyone!
But with the animated gif I have problems in Firefox. White detail is very noticeable in the hands shadow. With Rekonq looks better. Just in case here I upload one without hands shadow:
Image
Author:  GnuTux [ Sun Sep 02, 2012 10:38 pm ]
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Looks great, YAFU! I've updated it on the rotations theme. :bugthumb
Author:  AnMal [ Wed Sep 05, 2012 4:43 pm ]
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banner suggestion edit.png
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my edit. hope this works!
Author:  GnuTux [ Wed Sep 05, 2012 5:13 pm ]
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Thanks AnMal. I have it up in rotation on the test rotation theme.
Author:  AnMal [ Wed Sep 05, 2012 5:20 pm ]
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i saw 1 misstake directly and corrected it.

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Author:  GnuTux [ Wed Sep 05, 2012 5:25 pm ]
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Ok, the new one is up. Looks great except for the background, which is color shifted. I'll bet you're using GIMP 2.8. Can you post one with a transparent background (where the blue gradient background is now) or just post the XCF?
Author:  AnMal [ Wed Sep 05, 2012 6:08 pm ]
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here's the xcf, sorry about the trouble!

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Author:  GnuTux [ Wed Sep 05, 2012 6:25 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: GIMP Chat Banner Challenge
Looks good AnMal. :hi5
Author:  GnuTux [ Wed Sep 05, 2012 6:39 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: GIMP Chat Banner Challenge
Ok, the tweaked version of your banner is now active, AnMal. The paint brush hanging from the mouth of Wilber on the right is chopped off. If I had the original, I could have let it overhang the divider a little, but that's not really a big deal.
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