Hi,
I really do appreciate your work Sandra,
But I guess what I need to say first off is that they are too large, I've cropped and resized your last image to give you an idea of the "height" that the image must be. It can't be any taller than 109 pixels high.
Now as you can see when resizing images they lose a certain something which is why they are best to create them at the right size to begin with. I apologize if I didn't make it clear about the size, I guess I just figured that my examples would be taken literally, or maybe I just screwed up and uploaded the wrong sized images to begin with.
Anyway, I don't want to put a damper on anybody's fun but I am going to be keeping (for now anyway, so as to see what the response is) the image that is currently as the logo on the
www.mygameforums.com website. The one with the womens face, and the two masked villain type characters.
Oh, Kat, that "green blob" that you see is actually a rock, it comes from a game screenshot from Crysis, one of the most stunning (at least in my opinion) games of recent years, even if I hate First person shooters I sure to appreciate what they did with the enviornment, I'll try to attach a copy of the whole image that I borrowed the background from which makes it a bit clearer as to what it actually is.
So anyway, at the moment we don't need any more logos, but I am looking to make 128x128 pixel square icons. I also need some in the size of 85x85 square pixels.
With text on them such as the following:
Demo News 128x128 and 85x85
Gaming News 128x128 and 85x85
Game Review 128x128 and 85x85
General Info 128x128 and 85x85
Member News 128x128 and 85x85
Im looking for something modern and flashy, with a darker coloring but still readable in the text so as to blend in with the sites current color schemes. which is like darker blues, a bit of some lighter blues and some yellowy orange highlights here and there is what's on the site now that's pretty much gotta stay.
I've attached one of my attempts or two but I don't like them, they are too light colored, and they aren't flash enough, they are sort of old fashioned looking which isn't what I think I would like to portray with the new sites. I'll attach them to the next message since Im limited in how many images I can add to one message. Below though you'll see three images named off.png on.png and on2.png These are the images that show up in the MGF forums next to categories that have new posts in them or no new posts. In my opinion they are too large and really rather bla looking, but I really don't know what Im going for with them. I do believe they need to be smaller, they might even be nicer as squares, or staying circular but with some sparkle to them, I don't know. I do know that I hate them (sorry, that's such a strong word) in their current form.
So, Sandra, it's obvious that you have an artistic flair so maybe you could do something with these on, off, on2 png images to make them smaller, flashier, or change them completely, remember what they represent is what we need the users to understand. When the off.png image shows it means there are no new messages in the associated category, when the on.png image is showing it means there is new messages in that category, and when the on2.png image shows, it means also there are new images in there,and I believe that there is a new image to one of the users subscribed topics.
Kat as you can see by the last image (crysissmaller.jpg) if you look at that water how beautiful it is, and that green blob you see in our MGF logo header image is that rock out in the water. The reason why it's more of a green blob in our logo is because the image has to be compressed so that it's not 350kb in size else nobody would wait for it to load and would just leave the page, so the header had to be compressed which makes the image lose detail unfortunately.
Anyway, you all can have a laugh at my expense at my next post when I show you my attempts at the square icons that I mentioned Im looking for above in my next post.
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