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• Vazgen

  

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  October 20, 2013 6:16 PM EDT

  Control panel/Fonts

• Mason

  

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  October 20, 2013 6:17 PM EDT

  Only goes to 1px in my version of PS...

  I don't know if this will work Zim but...

  Try duplicating your text layer and then rasterize it...

  Place the new text layer behind your old one and then play around with the blur so that the pixels bleed into the banner a little more...

• Vazgen

  

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  October 20, 2013 6:20 PM EDT

  Goes down to 0.1 in CS6 

• Mason

  

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  October 20, 2013 6:21 PM EDT

  I'm a dinosaur mate (CS3)...does everything I need usually...

• Nelaf

  

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  October 20, 2013 6:22 PM EDT

  I done this real quick, I agree the white color looks crappy, but it was pretty quick. I can do better, but just wanted to show you the basic idea, and for everyone else.

• Zimbu

  

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  October 20, 2013 6:22 PM EDT

  0.5 didn't seem to do much.  Here's 0.7.

  

  

• Nelaf

  

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  October 20, 2013 6:23 PM EDT

  Btw, the magic cards font is awesome, thanks for that Vaz

• Mason

  

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  October 20, 2013 6:24 PM EDT

  Still looks a little blocky doesn't it?

  You hit your goal though mate, definitely very bold!

• Vazgen

  

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  October 20, 2013 6:25 PM EDT

  Uhm, it was Mason who posted it... 

• Nelaf

  

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  October 20, 2013 6:26 PM EDT

  Okies, it's still awesome!

• Vazgen

  

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  October 20, 2013 6:27 PM EDT

  Agreed, it's less apparent on the map version but still visible. And it is the best blur value I think. The value of 1 made it look too smooth

• Zimbu

  

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  October 20, 2013 6:27 PM EDT

  Yeah, it's still a bit blocky...  Using GIMP, so I don't quite have all the same options as you Photoshop guys.  Let me try something...

• Vazgen

  

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  October 20, 2013 6:30 PM EDT

  Too Nordic  Troll is neutral 

• Nelaf

  

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  October 20, 2013 6:32 PM EDT

  Here's another, I just mashed two images together in Photoshop real quick over rune background w/ the blood effect.

  

• Mason

  

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  October 20, 2013 6:33 PM EDT

  The original troll image is actually pretty noisy if you look close...

  Selective color--->Blacks+20%

  It crisps up really nice...

  

• Vazgen

  

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  October 20, 2013 6:37 PM EDT

  @Mason - it looks fine on the banner though  The original image's resolution is 1920x1080. Here

• Vazgen

  

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  October 20, 2013 6:40 PM EDT

  I think it's too dark mate (in terms of content, not lighting)  Blood, Imperial sign... It's not a Molag Bal worshipers' site after all 

• Mason

  

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  October 20, 2013 6:40 PM EDT

  Oh mate, no doubt about that! It's a really nice piece...

• Nelaf

  

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  October 20, 2013 7:02 PM EDT

  What about this? I got a quick sketch off the internet of a dragon, and edited it in Photoshop quite a bit, what d'ya think?

  

• Deleted Member

  
   

  October 20, 2013 7:23 PM EDT

  Just came back to say, current title on the banner is perfect, keep it like that.

• Nelaf

  

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  October 20, 2013 7:28 PM EDT

  There's no reason why we can't improve upon it. Settling for first best is silly. I agree, it's amazing and all, but y'know, we might find something that's even better.

  Thanks for the hard work Mason and Vaz. It's a shame more people didn't get involved really....

• Vazgen

  

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  October 20, 2013 7:30 PM EDT

  Sure, we will now bask in our badassery and let you to figure out how to surpass it 

• NobodyBeast

  

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  October 20, 2013 7:38 PM EDT

  I would have but Mason and Vaz are handling it pretty well.

• Zimbu

  

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  October 20, 2013 7:49 PM EDT

  I still don't like it.  The "The" looks out-of-place, and the letters still aren't thick enough.  I'm going to keep playing with the fonts.  See if I can beat GIMP into doing what I want it to.  My son woke up though, so I won't get back to it for a few more hours. 

• Mason

  

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  October 20, 2013 8:12 PM EDT

  I'd just like to point out that this has happened on every site re-vamp we have ever had...

  We find one theme quickly, it looks ok, and suddenly we stick with it like glue...

  Guys, it's seriously easy to change the theme. Keep throwing ideas forward!

  So far I honestly think this has happened too fast, we've only scratched the surface of things that could be put up...

  It doesn't have to be a done deal 24 hours after the revamp gets posted...