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jakec · Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 3:16 pm

These are all looking great, nice job!

Raven · Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 3:41 pm

C-O-O-L!! Please be sure to email all these as requested!

jaded · Theme Guru Joined: Nov 01, 2003 Posts: 1006

He said that his email is down and provided a zip file for you.

alien73 · Involved Joined: Sep 15, 2008 Posts: 352

Raven wrote:

Nice, but, why do I suddenly have an uncontrollable urge to regress in time .....

That's funny... Raven :>)

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6044

Raven...I have lots of family in Tifton, GA, though none of them ride Harleys...

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6044

A lot of these look great in large sizes - but we need to see them in 16 x 16 (favicon) and 88 x 30 (button) sizes, too. The thing about the Mozilla icons is that they are recognizable even at small sizes...

alien73 · Involved Joined: Sep 15, 2008 Posts: 352

I don't own a Harley Either.. Maybe the art I did is a sign I'm yearning for one Dance-Stick

Raven · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 12:17 am

kguske wrote:

A lot of these look great in large sizes - but we need to see them in 16 x 16 (favicon) and 88 x 30 (button) sizes, too. The thing about the Mozilla icons is that they are recognizable even at small sizes...

True. And Topics (70x70)

spasticdonkey · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 8:47 am

Raven wrote:

WxH
16 x 16
70 x 70
120 x 200
254 x 300

So you want to add 88x31 to that? 468x60 too?

Raven · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 9:02 am

Sounds reasonable to me Smile

papamike · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 5:15 pm

Here's my submissions, please scrap the first one I designed.

The one above has added shadows just for effect.

jaded · Theme Guru Joined: Nov 01, 2003 Posts: 1006

Those are nice, Mike. I would probably do away with the drop shadow and inner shadow and maybe slightly bezel them. That is of course, just a suggestion.

papamike · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 5:39 pm

Thanks for the suggestion, jaded. The first one is just for display-something I was toying around with. I do agree with you on bezeling them though.

jaded · Theme Guru Joined: Nov 01, 2003 Posts: 1006

I find that inner shadow adds more depth than the drop shadow on most pieces. If you get time, I would play around with both. I am glad that you were not offended at my suggestion.

papamike · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 6:33 pm

Offended, not at all. I'm not in this to win anything, I'm just trying to help the commmunity and have some fun in the process. I am continuing to toy around with your suggestions as well as some of my own. I also have other ideas for a design.

papamike · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 11:43 pm

Here's a Raven I painted using Microsoft paint. Just playing around took about 3 hours.

jestrella · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 11:54 pm

MS Paint is the new Photoshop... ROTFL

jaded · Theme Guru Joined: Nov 01, 2003 Posts: 1006

Nice job, Mike. MS Paint is very difficult to work with.
I know that Photoshop is expensive, but you could look into Corel Paint Shop pro. It only costs about 70.00 and it a fantastic program. The learning curve is not that high and it would make the design work SO much easier for you and improve your overall results. MS Paint simply does not offer the options that a more full program has to offer and therefore, your results are limited.

Dawg · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 6:37 am

Fireworks is another real easy to use Graphics program that is full featured. It can do just about anything Photoshop can.

Dawg

alien73 · Involved Joined: Sep 15, 2008 Posts: 352

papamike it looks cool!

papamike · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 7:31 am

I already have Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop, GIMP, and several other graphic programs and I use them alot. I only did it using MS Paint to show what could be done using a simple graphics program. And there has been discussion here about what a Raven actually looks like.

Dawg · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 7:49 am

LOL...Making something like that in Paint would be a HEADACHE. My hats off to you. You are a better artist than I am.

The weekend is coming. I may make another stab at it....

Dawg

papamike · Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 1:07 pm

Here's another submission. I thought I was done but I can't help tinkering with the graphic.

16x16

32x32

64x64

70x70

128x

256x

468x60 Full Banner

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16x16

32x32

64x64

70x70

88x31 button

128x

256x

468x60 Banner

256x

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16x16

32x32

64x64

128

256

88x32 Button

468x60 Banner

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Transparent .png

16X16

32x32

64x64

88x31 Button

128

256

papamike · Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 8:59 pm

For the life of me I can't understand why Raven doesn't just use the logo at the top of the page. It's already recognized as Raven with the bird on top. Why change it?

Raven · Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 9:48 pm

As anyone can see by visiting this thread, the talent is awesome. One of my goals in running this contest was to give participants a chance to display their talent and hopefully drive business to their sites. How I will end up using these is still not entirely clear to me Wink

BTW, I intend to close the contest soon after the release of RavenNuke(tm) v2.30.01, sometime this month. Then the plan is to have a winner selected sometime in March. But, I do retain the right to change my mind if needed killing me