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« on: April 12, 2005, 03:19:53 PM »
Can someone come up with better images for when there are new posts and when there aren't?  They need to have a transparent background and generally match color-wise with the default theme (but it'd be nice if they were universal colors that matched with Fitlike's variants).

Others have expressed concern about the logo.  I personally like it, but if there is a better offering, we could always replace it.

So... off you go. :whip:

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« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2005, 03:21:03 PM »
I like the logo as well... but it needs to be cleaned up a bit.
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« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2005, 03:21:06 PM »
Oh if only IE could render PNG alpha channels correctly. :(


And as for the logo, it's OK, but I think it could be better, something that represents the people here. :cool2:

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« Reply #3 on: April 12, 2005, 03:42:50 PM »
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And as for the logo, it's OK, but I think it could be better, something that represents the people here. :cool2:
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« Reply #4 on: April 12, 2005, 03:49:49 PM »
[burns] excellent [/burns]
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« Reply #5 on: April 12, 2005, 03:52:30 PM »
How about an icon of 1?
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« Reply #6 on: April 12, 2005, 04:07:01 PM »
As for cleaning the logo up i'll post the photoshop file (i'm in glasgow at the moment), because the background its gif transparency its alittle yucky on a coloured background, by changing the colour of the background in photoshop it should look ok. But if someone does something better post that, i just got sick of looking at the VB icon.

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« Reply #7 on: April 12, 2005, 04:09:00 PM »
Here's something that I just threw together; it's just the start of an idea that I have. I plan to make a few changes. Font is currently a maybe, the stroke amount is still a maybe, and the little swirl of the "entropy sink" (jesus does that sound dorky) is going to change a bit. But here's what I have so far:
« Last Edit: April 12, 2005, 04:13:14 PM by -KEN- »

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« Reply #8 on: April 12, 2005, 04:09:21 PM »
Annndd I need to make the transparency a helluvalot better. I HATE IE.

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« Reply #9 on: April 12, 2005, 04:10:45 PM »
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« Reply #10 on: April 12, 2005, 04:12:31 PM »
Fuckin hella cool man!1!!1

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« Reply #11 on: April 12, 2005, 04:13:13 PM »
I LOVE IT!

I do like what you have going on there -Ken-... just needs some tweaking.

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« Reply #12 on: April 12, 2005, 04:14:05 PM »
I made a quick change to the transparency. It looks a bit better, but it's still jaggedy. Maybe someone else is better that this than I am; I can never make transparent GIFs look right.

Here's the PNG for the non-IE folks.

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« Reply #13 on: April 12, 2005, 04:15:39 PM »
Yeah, -KEN- wins! Thats really cool!

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« Reply #14 on: April 12, 2005, 04:15:56 PM »
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I made a quick change to the transparency. It looks a bit better, but it's still jaggedy. Maybe someone else is better that this than I am; I can never make transparent GIFs look right.

Here's the PNG for the non-IE folks.
I wish the GIF image format would just die already. Like floppy drives, GIF is deprecated and frustrating considering there are better alternatives. (PNG :cool2: )