Hey everyone, seeing as we are having a little crisis with our current banner, I have decided to try to make something suitable that would spice up the site. Seeing that one option isn't usually enough, I have created 11 similar, but rather different possible banners, up for you guys to criticize but also like. I looked around and found that some other people were working on banners to, but personally after having a go at trying to fit a bunch of characters in to a banner, where they clearly didn't belong, I decided I would go the usual route.
Btw if we want (Staff + Members) we could have a different banner every month - just need one more xD I can always make another, or maybe make ones for themes like Halloween or whatever
Post by Oshime Enshoku on Nov 12, 2011 14:42:00 GMT -5
On a forum I used to admin awhile ago, I set up a system that would randomly choose a picture from a group you set up and set it as the banner and would change randomly each time you refreshed the page.
Sounds pretty awesome, though I'm pretty sure that only applies to Proboards/Zetaboards. Unless you can code it/find the code for it to happen, though that would be for the admins to do.
Uhm I was working on bannes for the site...actually...one is chosen randomly each time it refreshes (I've done this on a forumsmotion forum in the past; its fairly easy) that has a pic of a random character each time (see: my faceclaim-banner thread).
Not that I don't like yours or anything but...I wouldn't want to put any canon bleach characters in our banner. Even with the words "alternative universe" I think its misleading. I'd rather we just put our own character's pics up there.
Also I think your banners are a tad bit too large; I don't like having to hit the "arrow-down" or "pg down" key to scroll down the forum anymore than I have to as it is.
Size can be changed easily. In fact, here, voila. I will change one for you guys. The others, if chosen or whatever, can be re sized later.
And no I prefer using cannon characters, having seen what kind of pictures people suggested in your topic, which I think actually makes things a lot harder. A bad picture is a bad picture, and even if you're a genius, you can't quite make amazing art around it, to make the overall effect of same amazing quality. Instead, if people maybe gave you the pictures' character's names, then you could take a look around google or deviantart, and find suitable images, capable of working well. Frankly, I think only about one or two given to you fit.
Re-sized Banner (a bit is cut off, due to it being a tad too long. All of the banners are the same width as the current one of the forum.)
Yes...I tend to use a reverse google image search to find the character's names/artists names. Then I use Pixiv, Deviant Art, JGoogle Image Search and a handful of Boorus to find a good picture...
Post by Yuzuki Suzumei on Nov 12, 2011 20:06:00 GMT -5
Yes...I tend to use a reverse google image search to find the character's names/artists names. Then I use Pixiv, Deviant Art, JGoogle Image Search and a handful of Boorus to find a good picture...
I'm sorry Gareki your banners are fantastic, but we are an alternate universe using canon pictures would ruin the fact like Tenko said before. So using the face claims we have chosen to represent our site would be much more idealistic in my own opinion
Post by Hakuren Suzumei on Nov 13, 2011 2:13:00 GMT -5
Granted, that picture isn't canon. xD
So it would be allowed, in character, on our site? Didn't think so
It wouldn't be allowed. Loose bases ,sure, but not even two months ago we had a guy who more or less was Shunsui Kyoraku. He got a ton of flak for it and vanished. <<
That said you were asked to do the banner so just continue doing what you're doing.
Post by Aizawa Junko on Nov 13, 2011 11:24:00 GMT -5
Junko dosen`t have a official face claim, but i have pictures in my signature. Im also having a couple of pics edited to be used as a new siggy, so one of them could be used if needed.