Morgan LeFlay Posted April 8, 2009 Report Share Posted April 8, 2009 I made these for someone to use as an example, it is my first pack. Apparently the render was made by Blood Rose and I used con's template. The only downside was I used my own text and bars because i don't have Photoshop. Anyway..any suggestions you guys have, particularly in the text? I want to get it looking good, and it looks okay now, but I'm still open for suggestions. Edit: A 2nd example Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yondaime Posted April 8, 2009 Report Share Posted April 8, 2009 Its ok, but bad text. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morgan LeFlay Posted April 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2009 Okay, but any suggestions on how to make the text better in GIMP? That's the one thing I can't find a tutorial for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yondaime Posted April 8, 2009 Report Share Posted April 8, 2009 I wouldn't know, ~Chidori might know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morgan LeFlay Posted April 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2009 I came up with a slightly different effect in the text, but it looks cool to me. Any opinions on the text in the last example? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkskeleton Posted April 8, 2009 Report Share Posted April 8, 2009 nice booster but,bad text its must be more 3D.Nice renders! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cin Posted April 8, 2009 Report Share Posted April 8, 2009 Apparently? I'd like to know how you got it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dream Posted April 8, 2009 Report Share Posted April 8, 2009 It is good. 8/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabi yugi Posted April 8, 2009 Report Share Posted April 8, 2009 i´m new and ihave a QUESTION how can i make a boosterhow can i make a deck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morgan LeFlay Posted April 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2009 Blood Rose, it was a request from my thread in the request forum..the person who asked me to make it credited you. Mostly, I want opinions on the text and bars here as everything else is using con.'s template. I don't know how to make them any better in GIMP and well they look okay but I still could use advice on how to make them look better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lelouch Lamperouge Posted April 8, 2009 Report Share Posted April 8, 2009 Well It's Good.Improve Your Text.Otherwise A Decent Booster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morgan LeFlay Posted April 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2009 Thanks for the comments. Again, any ideas on how I can improve my text? That's really the only part I had to do myself, and I have the right font, I just don't know what to do with it. I was basically trying to go with a Crimson Crisis-style text And well I decided to use a Gradient to give it more of a 3d look than 1 solid color. I decided to color the white background in the 2nd example because the text does get a bit choppy when I try to magic wand it. I really could use advice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kale Posted April 8, 2009 Report Share Posted April 8, 2009 i can tell that you are using an old template of con.'s.. ;) anywho, here are the things i would change: [1] the tech circle needs to have 12 pieces to it, not 8 like this one does. EDIT: i didnt pay attention close enough before, sorry, this is correct. ;)[2] the background of the tech circle needs to be color-coded to the same color as the background, or something similar. [3] the render should have an outer glow around it, as all Konami packs have some sort of line around the figure to define it more. [4] the text is close to right, but not close enough. try making it stand out more with some beveling, and shrink the size of the text: not in actual size, but it looks like it has been bolded too much.. ;) [5] i read your problem with the lines above and below the text, but those need to be fixed too. try not having a weird inner glow on them. it looks less like a bevel and more like its glowing.. :| other than that, it looks stellar. ;) to get a feel of what i mean, look in my sig for my english pack link (i know they are in Japanese, but there is a translation below them). :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morgan LeFlay Posted April 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2009 You're right, as I said i'm using con.'s old template but I am using his V5 tech circle and not his V4 one. What I did for the text was created a drop shadow of 3 pixels with 0 x and y-axis offsets. I duplicated that created layer about 30 times, and merged them all. Then, I used gradients. In the first two examples, I used the magic wand on the text and bars only, then applied the gradient which looked choppy. Then in the last example, I merged all together and applied the gradient throughout (which was an accident, but looked cooler.) Also, do you mean the shadow is too big or the text itself? I downloaded Neo Sans Black but in GIMP it calls it Neo Sans Heavy, is this a different font? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoboJoe Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 I like the second booster. Great job. Just needs the text adjustment, but you know that already. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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