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Okay, I attempted making this for myself but I think somebody here could do it better. I want it to look like my attempt (avatar i'm using at the moment), but with smoother outlines and general appearance. It looks a taaaaad messy at the moment... the lines are a bit disjointed and the colours not as blocky as they could be. If anybody knows what I mean and can improve upon it, i'd be really grateful. Thanks!

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NOTE (things I changed): Removed text, rotated a bit so it fix 120x100 perfectly, changed blimp to light blue colour #6fb3ff, and got rid of Conan's beard (don't worry about this though as I already removed it from the large version! :D)
 
Mistle said:
Okay, I attempted making this for myself but I think somebody here could do it better. I want it to look like my attempt (avatar i'm using at the moment), but with smoother outlines and general appearance. It looks a taaaaad messy at the moment... the lines are a bit disjointed and the colours not as blocky as they could be. If anybody knows what I mean and can improve upon it, i'd be really grateful. Thanks!
http://i.imgur.com/OVYS4.png

NOTE (things I changed): Removed text, rotated a bit so it fix 120x100 perfectly, changed blimp to light blue colour #6fb3ff, and got rid of Conan's beard (don't worry about this though as I already removed it from the large version! :D)
I think your avatar looks great as it is. Things are going to be a bit blocky when scaled down so much. You could maybe put a small black stroke around the ship (ideally like a 1-2 pixel stroke on the original size one) to make it pop a bit more but really I don't think you need to change anything. You've done a good job =]
 
Mistle said:
Okay, I attempted making this for myself but I think somebody here could do it better. I want it to look like my attempt (avatar i'm using at the moment), but with smoother outlines and general appearance. It looks a taaaaad messy at the moment... the lines are a bit disjointed and the colours not as blocky as they could be. If anybody knows what I mean and can improve upon it, i'd be really grateful. Thanks!

http://i.imgur.com/OVYS4.png

NOTE (things I changed): Removed text, rotated a bit so it fix 120x100 perfectly, changed blimp to light blue colour #6fb3ff, and got rid of Conan's beard (don't worry about this though as I already removed it from the large version! :D)
Rotating is always going to give you slightly off line thickness and so on. Also, it's best to choose a resolution which is an integer scaling of 100*120 to avoid issues that odd resolutions can cause. Here's my attempts at improving it:

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Both used a 300*360 cropping of the original, unrotated image. I cut the text out, shrank it separately and overlayed over the image for the first one. I forgot to change the ship colour, but I like orange anyway and you can always just edit mine to redo that.
 
Could someone help me out with this one, I have absolutely no Photoshop skill at all.

I want the characters from this as my cut out and where the background was be invisible, so the forum colours show through...if you know what I mean.

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If anyone could whip this up, I'd really appreciate it!
 
I'm really getting frustrated because I spent a long ass time making this avatar, I save it as a gif or png for it to be transparent, and it shows up with this f'ing gray background. Figures the most obscure shit always happens to me. The image is transparent anywhere else but when I use it as an avatar it turns gray for no reason. Here it is transparent.

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<<<<And there it is with the stupid gray background. Does anyone know how to fix this?
 
DJ88 said:
I'm really getting frustrated because I spent a long ass time making this avatar, I save it as a gif or png for it to be transparent, and it shows up with this f'ing gray background. Figures the most obscure shit always happens to me. The image is transparent anywhere else but when I use it as an avatar it turns gray for no reason. Here it is transparent.

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<<<<And there it is with the stupid gray background. Does anyone know how to fix this?

try this one

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weekend warrior you are the best, and I'm sure yours would've worked too orangecaramel. Many thanks to both of you. I had a hunch it may have been the image size (which I had stupidly mixed up and made 120X100 instead of 100X120). Question though. How did you guys resize it so easy? When I tried resizing it in photoshop, the sprite turned all blurry/fuzzy.
 
DJ88 said:
weekend warrior you are the best, and I'm sure yours would've worked too orangecaramel. Many thanks to both of you. I had a hunch it may have been the image size (which I had stupidly mixed up and made 120X100 instead of 100X120). Question though. How did you guys resize it so easy? When I tried resizing it in photoshop, the sprite turned all blurry/fuzzy.

I didn't resize it, only cropped out the sides to make it 100px wide. If an image turns blurry/pixelated when you resize it most likely means it' was in "indexed" image mode. You should never be in indexed mode when you resize, always RBG mode. Not sure how to change that in PS but GIMP has a dropdown option in the Image tab.
 
Derp, I can't believe I didn't think about just cropping the sides haha. I went back and checked though and it was in RGB mode. Here's some shots:


Original 120 x 100:



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After resize to 100 x 83:



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Any idea why it does this?
 
Not sure.. All I did was open up the PNG you posted, used the select tool and selected only the character, made a new 100x120 document, pasted it, deleted the background (Layer 0/Background Layer) so it's transparent and then saved it as a PNG. Pretty simple.
 
DJ88 said:
Derp, I can't believe I didn't think about just cropping the sides haha. I went back and checked though and it was in RGB mode. Here's some shots:

Any idea why it does this?

Hmm, strange. I checked and the image opened in indexed mode in gimp. then when i tried scaling it it scaled cleanly. but after changing to RBG and scaling it it came out blurry. So maybe this is one time when scaling in indexed is better? I don't know why it would scale poorly in RBG though. I guess sometimes you just have to experiment to find the best result.
 
Indexed mode will not create new colours, it will stick to the existing palette. When you have such a reduced palette like that image, when it needs to decide what a pixel colour should be after scaling, it just flops to one of the two existing colours that might be necessary for that spot rather than merging the two colours into a new one. Thus indexed is probably a better way to go when scaling sprites.

Edit: And DJ88, I'm just checking... you did understand that weekend_warrior cropped your image to the right size instead of scaling it, right?
 
randomwab said:
Could someone help me out with this one, I have absolutely no Photoshop skill at all.

I want the characters from this as my cut out and where the background was be invisible, so the forum colours show through...if you know what I mean.

4gxRw.jpg


If anyone could whip this up, I'd really appreciate it!
Something like this?

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Clipper said:
Edit: And DJ88, I'm just checking... you did understand that weekend_warrior cropped your image to the right size instead of scaling it, right?
DJ88 said:
Derp, I can't believe I didn't think about just cropping the sides haha.

Yup, I did. It was a much easier solution to fix my wrong size avatar. But I still wanted to know about the resizing because the original image/sprite I pulled from a screenshot was much smaller and did have to be resized larger to avatar size.
 
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Just saw you wanted the gears logo, not just the dorag xD if you can pick one of the ones above you like and I can put the gears logo, or cog etc ontop or someone else can (Damn social life xD =P)


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Toppot said:
Just saw you wanted the gears logo, not just the dorag xD if you can pick one of the ones above you like and I can put the gears logo, or cog etc ontop or someone else can (Damn social life xD =P)
Went ahead and made a set of three with a red logo and three with a black one.

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Feel free to request more specifically as for the logo, LifEndz.
 
Glad you liked it.

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I kept the black border as per your original request, but feel free to ask for a different color you may find more suitable.
 
Perfect! Thank you so much!

Yeah, I guess the black border goes the best. Actually, can I see how it would look with no border? Sorry I'm being so anal. lol
 
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