The Furious Angels
FA Discussion => General => Topic started by: Anonymous on February 16, 2005, 12:26:25 pm
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Looks cool. I'll try it out when I get home!
//hacked by Ratio
Moved the off-topic and testing posts here from the sticky topic in order to keep the sticky clean. Source Thread (http://thefuriousangels.com/index.php?topic=1749)
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Yay!!! I did it :)
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ok lets see how this looks..
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Nice guys...I like 'em, and thanks fuse!
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Beleev, Im currently working on one, but I'm having to teach myself this stuff, so if you could please make me one in the mean time. (As this seems like its gonna take a while!) My specs are bellow:
1.) APOLLITHENES in all caps
2.)Everything you'd normally do
3.) and some sort of greek reference, either a helemt, Apollo's head, architecture... whatever surprise me.
Anything else you think would look cool. If you could also send me the .pdf file of whatever you make so I can figure out how you did what you did, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks in adavance.
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wheeeeeeeeeeee
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Testing 1.2..3...
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awesome job on the stamps of course.
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I love my Tux :D
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I requested a sig also, I jsut wanted to check the status of it, any word yet?
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Maduag, I have decided to start waiting until members have been accepted to a crew before releasing their sigs. As soon as this has been done PM me or post to the appropriate signature thread:
Signatures Revisited (http://thefuriousangels.com/index.php?topic=1422)
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thanks, i think i should be all set very soon, i turned in my RP sheet yesterday
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test
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*show off is brand new sig*
w00t! thank you Beleev! it looks great!
and thank you Cortico for the "it's not html FOO! it's pphb" hehe :D
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sig test!
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oops try again...sig test!
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My first attempt at a sig
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Thanx Beleev :) It's great.
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Now that's hot!
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Testing....
First time ever workin with PhotoShop and ImageReady! Pretty simple!! Tho I'm sure its power would blow me the hell outta the water!
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Damn nice for no XP in either. I'm impressed.
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Styan, you never fail to impress! I especially love the colors. Great job, man!
BTW, Phienyx, the color and shine of your letters is awesome, too. It's a really neat effect.
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I can't take credit. Beleev pulled off, very nicely, what I asked of him
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Thx Guys! :)
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I finally made my own sig!
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I like this one too! The colors provide a nice contrast. You guys have really inspired me to get to work in Photoshop.
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I finally made my own sig!
... Nice Tbone!
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While I've been fighting a losing battle with the flu this week, I did manage to create my sig. Let me know what you guys think. I'm new to Photoshop, and this quite a learning experience for me. :roll2:
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i like it ferris, but you might want to make the text of the ship and the text at the top stand out a little bit more, it kind of melds into the rest of the blue. but other than that, i like it ^_^
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You're right. Let me see what I can do. Thanks Grim!
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that reminds me ratio i need to install cs2 now that i've got it, i'm still working on cs, have you noticed any major differences though? I haven't really read up on this one yet.
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CS2 has a plethora of goodies. For instance, it supports compositing multiple pictures with different exposures to create images with High Dynamic Range Lighting (AKA the thing that makes our uniforms glow white ingame). That's one of the bigger features.
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HDR is not what makes our uniforms glow. It just means full 32-bit luminance. It's handy for photography because you can capture the same image at multiple exposures, do an HDR merge and have a large range of luminance to play with - it doesn't actually do anything if you took the picture at the right exposure in the first place. Heh. HDR does nothing for displayed images - it can't extend the dynamic range of your monitor or of a picture or anything else. It does extend the dynamic range of your image file, allowing you to choose what limited dr your monitor/print displays. It's a tool for tweaking. It's like being able to go back and take the picture all over again at an exposure setting that you didn't get when you took the originals. (When game makers/3d card manufacturers talk about hdr, they do mean 32bit lume, but it doesn't mean the same thing it does to a photographer. It just means that fake things look a little more real. It's handy for 3d cgi type work because you can render in hdr and then match the exposure of the render to what you have filmed for sexier sauce without having to re-render... which saves time.)
Other than that relatively useless thing :) - huge differences for me. The vanishing point tool is... well... I don't know how I ever lived without it. The warp tool makes texturing so much faster. I don't have to dork around (as much) in maya/max/blender trying to get a texture to wrap just right. The ability to manipulate groups like single layers is keen. Optical lens correction(!) for eliminating chroma aberrations, pincushions, etc. And non destructive transforms (aka smart objects) - which I've been complaining about since about 1992. Few other things like an improved font menu, spot healing (nifty!), etc. Mojikumi (including tate-chu-yoko/kumimoji) too, though I think most people could care less about that.
In illustrator, the trace tool is the greatest thing ever. I can actually draw on paper and vector it fast enough that it's not a waste of time anymore. I was thinking of picking up a Cintiq, but with live trace and live paint, I'm not thinking that anymore. I like paper better anywho. I do need a new scanner, tho.
OH! And monkeys. I like monkeys.
Photoshop 9.0 Codename: Space Monkey
(http://garth.hn.org/spacemonkey.gif)
Photoshop 8.0 Codename: Dark Matter
(http://garth.hn.org/darkmatter.gif)
See? Monkeys are much better.
edit #214: Just played with the new filter browser. It rocks.
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hmmm...i'm thinking i need to install this like now :) thank ya. Its kindof funny when I look back at the first time i used photoshop...(4.0) and I don't know how i lived without some of the new tools they've put in.
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Holy crap, Ratio...I didn't realize you did 3d work. God, there's a gaggle of us 3d people in here. Oh well. Anyway, yes, I've been wanting to get my hands on Photoshop CS2 to make my own sig, and just do a bunch of other things to try it all out. I <3 Photoshop
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How do I get my hands on these goodies? (Photoshop 9.0 and whatever CS is?) I wanna play too. :-)
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photoshop 8 == photoshop cs
illustrator 11 == illustrator cs
photoshop 9 == photoshop cs2
illustrator 12 == illustrator cs2
The cs is for creative suite and it was just a marketing ploy. Guess the numbers were getting too big. Heh. When people say just cs or cs2, they're generally talking about a the whole series... which currently is
photoshop 9, illustrator 12, indesign 4, golive 8 and acrobat 7. Imageready, designer, bridge, etc. are really just components of those 5.
http://www.adobe.com/products/tryadobe/main.jsp for the legit 30 day versions.
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Do these actually cease to function after 30 days?
I have a full version of Photoshop, but its Photoshop 7.XX
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Ok! What do you think?
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Represent, man! You forgot to put "Furious Angels" or "www.followtheangel" anywhere on there. Over all design is cool, though. :-)
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Niceley done,
/agree to phienyx' s comment. :)
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From a graphic design standpoint, you really probably shouldn't have blue on blue. Such as the sentence at the top of the sig; I can barely make it out. Different hues of blue can help. Also having a high contrast trace around the letters would help a lot, too
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Ferris, also ... your sig goes broken every once and a while too... Its gotta be the host.
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try photobucket.com
a lot of us use that, and it doesn't glitch very often :)
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Thanks Grim! I will definitely try that. I've been battling the flu for close to a week now, and it's hard to find times when I feel like sitting up long enough to make revisions. :) I've learned a lot already through creating my sig.
The broken link is my fault. I took it down for revisions, but I'll repost it ASAP.
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awww!! get better!! ^_^
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Thank you, Grim! I'm feeling a little better today, thanks. :D
Here is my sig, version 3.0. I replaced my quote with the FA address (Thanks Phienyz and Styan), added a white shawdow to the text to provide a better contrast with the blue background and changed the hues of the text (Thanks Kayda and Grim).
(http://brettchosewood.com/avatars/Ferris-sig.gif)
What do you think?
As you can see. I'm quite a big fan of blue. Maybe the new tones will make it a bit more distinct. Thanks for all your help!
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Looks good now, easier to make out the wording from the bg.
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mucho bettero
*thumbs up*
:)
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Thanks guys! It's up! Woohoo!!!
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Looks good ferris,much more legible, but still no furious angel? any reason why...i'm curious on a design standpoint :)
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Gosh, you're right! I can't believe I missed that. Looks like I have one more revision to make. Thanks Lelyl!
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Killer! Looks very electric :)
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No problem ferris thats what I'm here for...catching the most obvious things...cause I can't seem to catch much else :)
*realizes she just slammed herself...*
*runs off to get sleep asap*
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woot new sig, woot lots of blood and gore, woot butterfly knife... woot
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Kick ass sig bro!
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I already know my new one works, figured id pop it in this thread for kicks anyway, I dig it. wanted to make it a bit more crazy with animations and such, but got lazy.
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Well since a few of yas are starting to add your own creative backgrounds (aside from the text, images and effects), I thought I'd join the crowd......
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I like it, Ristan. The whole arrangement is unique, and the angel wings are a nice touch!
Nothing rocks harder than your avatar, though! :-)
Your sig is awesome too, Adrenaline! I especially like the lettering of your name. What does your symbol mean, if you don't mind my asking?
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Yeah, nice touch, Ristan. Looks good.
I was such a pain in the ass with my requests to Beleev with my sig, that I won't be changing mine any time soon. I haven't even taken the time to look into how to edit it yet
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ferris: it's a japanese shou symbol for longevity, or simply, 'long life'. it's also a tattoo I plan on getting under my left wrist at some point. :)
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just to remind yall i can make sigs too, if beleev is unavailble... i know he's the head-sig-guy and all but i have no problem helping him out and i do have the original FA sig templates... i've made tivod's, knocturnal's, imjice's and of course my own so far...
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I like the symbol, Adrenaline! Yeah, i know several people who have gotten japanese symbol tattoos. Of course, I have a feeling that some of their symbols don't actually mean anything, so you already have one up on them. :)
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yeah i'd never put one on if I didnt know what it meant, I hate when people do that, and even feel more sorry for the people who think they know what something means, and get it tattoo'd only to find out it means something completely different. hehe.
but yeah, getting that one on the bottom of my left wrist, and I'll be getting a different one that translates to 'thankful' on the back of my neck someday, though somewhere inconspicuous so it can easily be covered by hair or a shirt or just not noticed easily unless someone is purposely looking. :)
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test....
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I like the colors Heironymus! It's an interesting choice. My only suggestion would be to change the color of the widgets, so you can see them moving in the background. Good job. I like the quote too! :D
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hey adrenaline how do you find out what they mean? want to get one myself, but dont trust asking someone and finding out my tattoo means child rapist lol
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Zink: very good question, if you arent down for learning some japanese culture and kanji, katakana, etc, Id have to suggest checking the internet VERY carefully. I did probably something like 6 months of research for the one in my sig, (which is also good for finding out if you REALLY want that tattoo and wont regret it later). I had been looking into the second one I want for about a month and a half when a friend of mine told me he had a friend who worked at a local japanese restaurant we frequent, who had spent quite a bit of time in japan, and knew the language and culture very well, so I was able to verify the ones I wanted with him, and he verified the first one I decided on as well for me.
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oooo hairy and adrenaline, lovin the new sigs!! varay shexay!!! ^_^
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danke grim :) i was gonna mention in another thread, but your new one kicks some ass as well.
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ill be a veteran for life, as will my sig stay the same, until someone makes me a new one haha
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I concur with Adrenaline... Grim yours does kick ass...especially since that is really a pic of you.... and the scythe in the background is also a good choice... I just noticed it today...
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Heh, I could still dig up the old sig from when I first joined when we still used the matrix code at the top
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you guys can thank screem for the sig ^_^ he even worked on it on his bday for me, and didn't complain through the 243 changes i wanted ^_^
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heh tiz, funny you mention that, I thought about putting scrolling white matrix code in the background on my new one, but when I tried it out it made it too busy, so I left it out. :(
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yep.. changed the sig again...
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here is my new sig, tell me what you think. I have to add something at the top, just not sure what i want yet. Other than that criticize away.
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screem, that's sick ..... i love the rotating circles, puts a whole new ... spin ... on the sig ..... lol my sorry attempt at a pun is teh fail
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yo scr33m man hook me up wiht a uber 1337 updated sig!
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screem: not bad looking, if you want an honest critique of it, id say dont add anything, it'll make it too busy. other than that, rock on, dude
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Nice one Screem