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 Post subject: Re: GIMP Chat Banners
PostPosted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 7:14 am  (#181) 
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Let`s ROCK! :yes This style is awesome!

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 Post subject: Re: GIMP Chat Banners
PostPosted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 8:41 am  (#182) 
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I will give it a go. I love this style of art. It is so steampunk looking. :)

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 Post subject: Re: GIMP Chat Banners
PostPosted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 11:14 am  (#183) 
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Rod wrote:
I will give it a go. I love this style of art. It is so steampunk looking. :)
I was just reading 'The Painted Word' by Phil Cousineau yesterday which has a mention of Steampunk. Here's the quote, maybe it will stimulate imagination.

Book: The Painted Word, Phil Cousineau wrote:
STEAMPUNK
An amalgam of science fiction, high camp, and speculative
history. The game is afoot, Sherlock, in tracking down the
story behind this relatively new word. Imagine, if you
will, a word and genre built like the time travel machine
in the H. G. Wells novel, made up of bits and pieces of
every gizmo known to the late 19th century. Steampunk
resembles that machine, but in a retro sense, cobbling
together such genres as “science fiction, alternate history,
and speculative fiction that came into prominence during
the 1980s and early 1990s.” One of the hallmarks of steam-
punk is nostalgia. It is redolent of Victorian locations and
an era when steam power still held sway, and it celebrates
other forms of “anachronistic technology,” such as dirigi-
bles or mechanical computers or futuristic innovations, at
least as Victorians such as Wells and Verne may have envi-
sioned them. The steampunk sensibility can be enshrined
in the following anecdote: “When Professor John Henry
Pepper was demonstrating certain pieces of chemistry
[equipment] before an audience that happened to include
Queen Victoria, he is reported to have calmly introduced
one demonstration with: ‘The oxygen and hydrogen will
now have the honor of combining before Your Majesty.’ ”
Companion words include K. W. Jeter’s gonzo-historical,
and cyberpunk.

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 Post subject: Re: GIMP Chat Banners
PostPosted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 4:51 pm  (#184) 
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I think adding some new banners is an excellent idea. I'm kinda tired of the ones that are now in rotation.

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 Post subject: Re: GIMP Chat Banners
PostPosted: Fri Jun 07, 2013 2:56 pm  (#185) 
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I'll re-state that I'm not a graphic artist and therefore I'm going with my second suggestion which was basically anything goes ;)

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I've probably broken the rules by breaking the divider, but it gets in the way so I don't care ;)

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 Post subject: Re: GIMP Chat Banners
PostPosted: Fri Jun 07, 2013 5:32 pm  (#186) 
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Nice background, paynekj. I can contribute with some ornamented lettering:
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It is the biggest artistic contribution of which I am capable :hehe

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 Post subject: Re: GIMP Chat Banners
PostPosted: Fri Jun 07, 2013 11:20 pm  (#187) 
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gramg wrote:
I am curious...what are the proper dimensions for GC banner?
i think the answers to your question is in this thread:
viewtopic.php?f=13&t=4742&hilit=banner&start=100#p63173


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 Post subject: Re: GIMP Chat Banners
PostPosted: Fri Jun 07, 2013 11:41 pm  (#188) 
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Electric shock helmets, paint brushes, tools, banners, filigrees, textures and wings would be cool objects to make a banner like that with.

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 Post subject: Re: GIMP Chat Banners
PostPosted: Sat Jun 08, 2013 12:03 am  (#189) 
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Not that it fits at all with the request or anything but I felt like making one so there you go. I think I got it right. I hope.

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 Post subject: Re: GIMP Chat Banners
PostPosted: Sat Jun 08, 2013 2:00 am  (#190) 
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Just as a suggestion but why not try and use one tutorial per poster from the tutorial list in the banner for all the objects.

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 Post subject: Re: GIMP Chat Banners
PostPosted: Sat Jun 08, 2013 1:36 pm  (#191) 
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Thanks for great banner submissions!

There are a couple of important things to consider when creating a banner for GC.

The banner overlays the site's background gradient, explained in the link below..
http://www.gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f ... 100#p63173

An example is included in the xcf attached to that post. When you create a banner, there is no need to include the background gradient layer. Just click that layer off in your image and provide a banner with a transparent background. The gradient from GC will show though. Just use the sample background gradient to see what your final banner will look like, once it' has been placed in rotation.

Also, please include the site's slogan "Where Imagination Meets Innovation" somewhere in the banner.

The horizontal divider bar is needed, as well, or it just won't look right. The vertical position of the divider bar cannot be changed or it will not match up with the sites divider bar.

Transparent .PNG images are OK but I'd prefer to have an XCF with separate layers, so I can tweak the banner to integrate with the site, if needed.

Thanks again!

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 Post subject: Re: GIMP Chat Banners
PostPosted: Sat Jun 08, 2013 2:12 pm  (#192) 
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Ok, now that I herped and derped with it, I think I finally brained it out. Here's that banner again. As a png, and a messy xcf that I hope will make sense to someone other than myself. Good luck!

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 Post subject: Re: GIMP Chat Banners
PostPosted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 3:20 pm  (#193) 
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Here's another attempt that keeps the divider, just tries to hide it as much as I can without clipping the drop shadow.

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 Post subject: Re: GIMP Chat Banners
PostPosted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 5:08 pm  (#194) 
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Thanks for great new banners. I'll get them up in rotation tonight. :jumpclap

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 Post subject: Re: GIMP Chat Banners
PostPosted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 6:00 pm  (#195) 
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 Post subject: Re: GIMP Chat Banners
PostPosted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 10:03 pm  (#196) 
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Thought i would throw one out there. :)
All these images are mine Tux so no worries there.

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 Post subject: Re: GIMP Chat Banners
PostPosted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 10:10 pm  (#197) 
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Very cool, Rod!

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 Post subject: Re: GIMP Chat Banners
PostPosted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 10:22 pm  (#198) 
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Odinbc wrote:
Very cool, Rod!


Thanks Odin. :)

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 Post subject: Re: GIMP Chat Banners
PostPosted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 10:54 pm  (#199) 
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There are many outstanding banners from all our members posted here. :bigthup

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 Post subject: Re: GIMP Chat Banners
PostPosted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 11:28 pm  (#200) 
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rod: yours really is outstanding. great job!

paynekj: i really like the paper banner, very elegant!

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