good times!! :D

my first banner:


I use photoshop for web design and have never made anything along these lines before, your input would help massively.

Edit: Banner needed border

wow!!

sloppy, i like it mate its superb. I like the quote about wingmen to.

OUTSTANDING!

:o :o :o :o :o

Look at my beatiful new banner :grin:

Many thanks to Dazz for the great effort !

I'm working on this.... I have no ides how to finnish it?

http://i587.photobucket.com/albums/s...d-29-450-1.jpg

I'd say a background, maybe just a vague blur or something. And I'd smudge the props a bit, so you don't see the edges at the trailing side, near the motion blur. For the rest, it looks good. Did it all yourself?

Thanks. I have no idea on how to aply a Background with photobucket?
I tried, but then you have a colored background. I'm working on it,
I want to make a battle picture of it, tracers, blurr and all that comes with it? :) we'll see......:rolleyes:

You cant apply a background in photobucket (i don't think).

does photobucket let you add layers ??? if so add your background as a layer then make sure the background is the bottom layer ?? if that makes sence ?

well that is the problem i have right now. SIGH. :(

What program do you use? I recommend Photoshop, easy to make random backgrounds with it. I've heard Gimp is a similar program and free, but never used it. And good luck with creating tracers etc... that might be quite tough..

I had GIMP for a while, but then got Photoshop. PS >>> GIMP IMO

Thanks!! :grin::-P I never thaught about photoshop. i use Bucket at the moment, and thanks. I'll give it a shot as we speak. ( well, type).

Well, for some random, blurry background you can try this: select two colors and go to Filter -> Render -> Clouds. As far as I can tell that's what Dazz used for your current sig. Just google some tutorials if you want to learn more.
I can whip you up something if you want as well.

Have a Go at it, mate. ;)

This is what I've got so far. Since you wanted a dogfight seen I went with the realistic background instead of a blurry random one. I'm not sure how I'm going to make the tracers, but I'll figure something out. Tomorrow that is, I'm finished for today :).
P.S. Please don't mind the faulty details here and there, remember the image will be smaller in your sig ;)
P.P.S Wasn't Sonderkommando Elbe the crasher's squadron? :P
EDIT: Added a blurry background, maybe you like it more. Your choice.


http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/3163/reddisback.pnghttp://img42.imageshack.us/img42/475...backblurry.png

The first one with the landscape is the best of the two. However I think the aircraft is to large for the picture size, as it compromises the perspective and picture composition. Make it a bit smaller and the pic should be good to go.

As for adding in tracers, use another picture with tracer fire and copy/paste the tracers in to that one.

I agree.. I was thinking of adding another plane, but that's tricky with perspective, lighting, etc. I'll see what Reddisback's got to say about it.
About the tracers, I think it's a bad idea to copy/paste it. Tracers are kind of smoke-like, and therefore a bit see-through. I think it's better just to create them. It should be possible, I'll just have to mess around with filters etc. I'll see what I can come up with.

I was bored.......... :grin:

With a simple Blue and White clouds render:
http://i444.photobucket.com/albums/q...sig-clouds.png

With the Cliffs of Dover (awesome song btw) as the background:
http://i444.photobucket.com/albums/q...-sig-dover.png

No background (add whatever you want):
http://i444.photobucket.com/albums/q...background.png

Both of those looked cool. Thanks for this, I owe you both a match when I get my 360 copy. :cool:

So what do you guys think of my new Sig?

I like it mate, it looks good. Nice and clear :D

Really crisp image! Where is that from?? Also what app do you use?

Banner No.2 featuring IL-2M

http://www.hodgsonlunn.co.uk/backup/SC3.jpg

Verdict?

Last Reddisback creation:
http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/3163/reddisback.png

I'm not too happy with the tracers.. I could modify them a bit if you want.
Comments are welcome :)

very good mate nice and crisp i like it :grin::grin:

Its a random pic from Google images. And I used photoshot 7 to add in the "crispness" and lettering. In PS7 theres an option called "blending" that allows you to add in lots of effects to lettering, its a really nice feature.

Ahhh of course! That is a really good feature of PS, unfortunatly making 3d or styled texts in CS2 is far to much hassle for me to bother with!

Last one now:
http://www.hodgsonlunn.co.uk/backup/SC4.jpg

One I made today. Any comments?
(and yes, I'm sticking with the seraphim, for obvious reasons :P)
http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/3067/seraphabovex.png

Not sure AC, its not bad. I had a thought for one though. Might take a bit of time to make but its basically a diving frontal shot of a Spit in the lower half of the pic and above it a flight of golden seraphs "on the wing" as it were.

Sounds like it could work out.. it'll take some time though, especially because I have the drawing skills of a retarded monkey..:o. Worth a shot when I've nothing to do :). Sounds good.
This one didn't take that long.. an hour or two. The problem is wings don't look that good in sillhouette.

how about using a pic like this one but instead of the seraph coming out of the water have it coming out of clouds im sure if you look far enough you would find a good pic and i think it would look cool the seraph in the clouds and a spit in a diving attack under it would tie it all together well ??
just my two cents worth

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?im...%3D21%26um%3D1

[QUOTE=dazz1971;113072]how about using a pic like this one but instead of the seraph coming out of the water have it coming out of clouds im sure if you look far enough you would find a good pic and i think it would look cool the seraph in the clouds and a spit in a diving attack under it would tie it all together well ??
just my two cents worth
I don't necessarily need an image of a seraph to make one.. I can make a seraph out of a normal picture (see avatar), but it takes time. And I'd have to find an image of someone diving :rolleyes:. All in all it's possible, but it'll take time. The coming out of a cloud seems like a very good idea though..

[QUOTE=Ancient Seraph;113074]hows this image of someone diving ?? a bit of tweaking and some wimgs added would look good diving above a spit diving ?

http://i874.photobucket.com/albums/a...vingseraph.png

I just made an acount for photoshop. but to be honest it is really limited on what you can do with your picture. the thing that i really liked with Bucket is that everything was easy to make and to handle it. Shop however, has the oposite; it is too complicated?

Sigh, the name is Reddisback for those intrested. same goes with Bucket;

bucket:
http://s587.photobucket.com/albums/ss317/Reddisback/

shop:
https://www.photoshop.com/

dude forget that site mate wait till you get the full cs4 programme thats what you need mate :grin:

when you do get it the skys the limit as they say :grin:

yeah, how about that?

''the sky is the limit'' is what they are saying, but i go outer-space!
hahahahahehehe :grin:

Honestly who can afford CS4 though unless your downloading it illegally? It's $800 last time I checked. It's ridiculous, luckily there are free programs like GIMP which can offer most of the good features you need for sigs or any other kind of digital art (although I will say I've worked with CS4 before, and it's unbelievable how much easier and cleaner it is than GIMP)

The only problem is that for me it can take a while to make something really good, which I haven't had lately. I'm thankful dazz could make this one. :)

@ Reddisback: did you see the sig I made? I know it's not perfect, but it's something.

The problem for my new sig (spit diving out of cloud with seraphim following) is finding the cloud base :o. I've got the spit, will probably find a diving person, but I just can't find a cloud base... anyone who can find one?

There are cloud brushes available for free download, then you can brush clouds onto an image that doesn't have them:

http://qbrushes.com/nature/cloud-brushes/

I have these brushes myself and I've got to say they're great. :) Will that work?

The clouds are beautiful. But it's still not like the cloud base I'm looking for. At first I was looking for nice-looking clouds, but most good-looking clouds only look good from miles away. However, when you see a spit diving down from a cloud, it's from close by, and you'll only see the base.

depends if you have an uncle that owns his own I.T personnel company and has a licence to distobute certaint software im waiting on him to install windows 7 on my laptop next time he is up here anything has got to be better than vista :grin: i once met the chairman of barcleys bank when we went down to visit him on a business lunch in a strip bar !!!!!! the guy was a typical upperclass ahole tho lmao :grin:

You lucky B*sterd! ;) if you've got the change ask him if he could pass down a copy of Windows 7 for me, would ya? I cant wait to get my hands on it, it is a bit expensive though; last time i checked (yesterday) they were sellin' them for 374 Euro's. and no; I ain't that crazy :rolleyes:

Its is allway's good to have conections in certain' places. my Gramps had a Benz Dealership after the War. I still can have Discount there, as long as i was intrested.......( I'm not a Benz Guy)

i dont think his licence means he can copy software only install it on his customers machines or machines he supplies but i will check with him when he is up next

benz nice cars my boss has one of the new ones when i was a young lad i remember benz used to be about luxury cars :grin: but nowdays they seem to be more about sporty performance cars my fav benz has got to be 1970s 300sel 6.3 allways wanted a black one with tinted windows must of been all those gangster movies i loved when i was a kid lol :grin:

http://s463.photobucket.com/albums/q...=IMG_8250a.jpg

this is my new BG for my Tank Site.:grin:

bump. yet another great site err... topic that needs attention.
I just recieved CS4 from Dazz true airmail ( the UK one that is) and i'm trying to get that thing on my laptop this weekend or perhaps monday.

Anyway, that you for sending my an 'Original' copy of CS4. if you you guy's need anything? just ask.

no worrys redd:grin:

if you get stuck with anything give us a shout mate
and ill post some links later to some good tuturial sites:grin:

OOOPS.. sorry guys- totally misread the thread title


NSFW image removed.

lol.:):-P

anyone made a new Banner yet or are we still drunk from last Weekend? LOL