GIMP Chat Banner Challenge

sallyanne · **Posted:** Thu Feb 12, 2015 1:45 am **(#681)**

Will look forward to it

MarFisk · **Joined:** Feb 28, 2014 **Posts:** 137

sallyanne wrote:

Will look forward to it

Thanks for the vote of confidence, but yours will be hard to match

. I'm working on cover art for my next release. Maybe I can figure out a spin off from that.

Nite Shadow · **Joined:** Feb 07, 2015 **Posts:** 66

Is this still happening? because I have one to submit.

MarFisk · **Joined:** Feb 28, 2014 **Posts:** 137

Nite Shadow wrote:

Is this still happening? because I have one to submit.
[ Image ]

Neat, Nite Shadow. I like how you did his face.

One typo, though. You're missing an "n" in innovation.

Nite Shadow · **Joined:** Feb 07, 2015 **Posts:** 66

Oh shoot, you're right.

And thanks BTW.

Odinbc · **Posted:** Thu Feb 12, 2015 4:43 pm **(#686)**

I like what your doing so this might be nitpicking; with your choice of font, in the tagline I would try it using all lower case and consider reducing the line spacing or font size, in Gimp Chat, to give it some breathing room from the tagline.

Edit: I just noticed a square artifact after 't' in Chat, just above the 'a' in innovation. Is that suppose to be there or is it my eyes? :blind

Nite Shadow · **Joined:** Feb 07, 2015 **Posts:** 66

Odinbc wrote:

I like what your doing so this might be nitpicking; with your choice of font, in the tagline I would try it using all lower case and consider reducing the line spacing or font size, in Gimp Chat, to give it some breathing room from the tagline.

Edit: I just noticed a square artifact after 't' in Chat, just above the 'a' in innovation. Is that suppose to be there or is it my eyes? :blind

An oversight due to my monitor being bright.
Looks like I had the background color offset when I shifted "Innovation" to fix the typo that was noted before.

How about now?

Hmm... it still needs something....
... I got it!

Nite Shadow · **Joined:** Feb 07, 2015 **Posts:** 66

GnuTux · **Posted:** Thu Feb 12, 2015 11:50 pm **(#689)**

Nice one, Nite Shadow. Can you attach the XCF containing the individual layers? I might need to tweak it slightly when adding into rotation on the website.

Thanks!

oldmangrumpy · **Posted:** Fri Feb 13, 2015 12:03 am **(#690)**

Thought I would have a try too and as I have been playing with path generation in my recent images - will this one work OK?

Nite Shadow · **Joined:** Feb 07, 2015 **Posts:** 66

GnuTux wrote:

Nice one, Nite Shadow. Can you attach the XCF containing the individual layers? I might need to tweak it slightly when adding into rotation on the website.

Thanks!

Ah shoot,
Give me a bit, I need to remake this thing since I somehow managed to avoid that step entirely. :oops:

Nite Shadow · **Joined:** Feb 07, 2015 **Posts:** 66

Whew.. okay, Kind of a rush job, I admit.
Some dissecting, dismantling, copying, pasting, and trying like heck to cover up any flaws in remaking, but I think I got about everything important in this thing.

GnuTux · **Posted:** Fri Feb 13, 2015 9:30 pm **(#693)**

@Nite Shadow - Perfect. Thanks!

@OMG - You didn't attach the XCF but I think I can work with yours without it.

oldmangrumpy · **Posted:** Sat Feb 14, 2015 2:54 am **(#694)**

@GnuTux - apologies, but I was just seeking confirmation/approval first; if you do require xcf please let me know.

Nite Shadow · **Joined:** Feb 07, 2015 **Posts:** 66

So, I know that I shouldn't have, but I managed to make my way in to the index directories where all of the banners are stored.

banners2/

A lot of these are actually pretty cool.

The Warrior · **Joined:** Jun 02, 2013 **Posts:** 2090

Nite Shadow wrote:

So, I know that I shouldn't have, but I managed to make my way in to the index directories where all of the banners are stored.

banners2/

A lot of these are actually pretty cool.

Not a big secret that they're there. GnuTux has posted it before. There are a lot of cool banners.

GnuTux · **Posted:** Sun Feb 15, 2015 11:28 pm **(#697)**

The new banners have been added and the two banner threads have been merged.

We currently have 80 banners in rotation, with a new banner appearing every 3 minutes, taking 4 hours to rotate though all of them.

Nite Shadow · **Joined:** Feb 07, 2015 **Posts:** 66

That's a bunch!
And thanks!

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Issabella · **Posted:** Mon Feb 16, 2015 11:07 am **(#700)**

I knew you would do a very good path banner. Congrats! :clap