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Rayovac
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 Posted - 2010/03/26 : 02:16:11
This was kind of a spur-of-the-moment thing and I thought it could be some good PS practice (I'm atrocious at graphic design). I was wondering if anyone here good with Photoshop could give me some advice? My main problem so far is that everything looks so crunchy; I was aiming for the "pixel perfect" look but I'm either doing it wrong or it's backfiring on me. I also think the colors are clashing badly in areas.
http://imgur.com/Bpi5j.png
If you have any questions or suggestions about the design/layout do ask or tell.
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catlikethief
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Posted - 2010/03/26 : 02:33:39
Though I am not exactly good with all this stuff I think it's worth mentioning that I really like the font.
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Bonkers4Life
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Posted - 2010/03/26 : 02:36:37
its basically another happyhardcore.com no offense. the style is different but the events and everything else is already on this site :S
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Rayovac
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Posted - 2010/03/26 : 02:51:24
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Originally posted by catlikethief:
Though I am not exactly good with all this stuff I think it's worth mentioning that I really like the font.
Which one? Or do you mean all?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handel_Gothic
http://www.dafont.com/planet.font
The other is basically what Arial looks like under serious hinting and anti-aliasing.
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Originally posted by Bonkers4Life:
its basically another happyhardcore.com no offense. the style is different but the events and everything else is already on this site :S
The only reason I copied off here in regards to the forum section is because A: I wanted a better idea of how it would look and B: I'm lazy. It won't be like that in the end though (if there ever even is an end... oh wait, there will be. Curse you entropy, curse yooooouuuu!). :P
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atomsk
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Posted - 2010/03/26 : 07:06:45
Here are a few things...
The color scheme doesn't really match for me, to bright...green and blue?
Fix you anti aliasing on a lot of your edges and text..
What is the bar on the top right? That could be a pretty sweet nav bar thing, like mail, friends...ect..
From what it looks like now, it looks more like a mobile phone forum..(like for a phone browser) or like a old bbs or web 1.0 site, it needs to look more modern, more rounded edges, shadows.
What are the line & arrows? New post indicators?
What is th empty box thing at the bottom?
What is the site going to be for?
Tell me them and i could tell you a lil more..
This is all meant in a constructive criticism, dont take it in a wrong way :b
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Rayovac
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Posted - 2010/03/26 : 14:26:02
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Originally posted by atomsk:
The color scheme doesn't really match for me, to bright...green and blue?
I was wanting to get some good contrasting colors (greys, and then green and blue).
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Originally posted by atomsk:
Fix you anti aliasing on a lot of your edges and text..
As for the edges, I'm not entirely sure how to. I was intending for the background objects to look similar to this (although not indented). See how "pixel perfect" it is, but smooth instead of crunchy looking?
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Originally posted by atomsk:
What is the bar on the top right? That could be a pretty sweet nav bar thing, like mail, friends...ect..
Yes, it was going to be a navigation bar.
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Originally posted by atomsk:
From what it looks like now, it looks more like a mobile phone forum..(like for a phone browser) or like a old bbs or web 1.0 site, it needs to look more modern, more rounded edges, shadows.
Still working on that.
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Originally posted by atomsk:
What are the line & arrows? New post indicators?
I was originally thinking they could be that. Although now I'm leaning more towards the idea of when you roll over a certain category (such as "Off-Topic Chat") the arrows around that category would turn green. If you moved the cursor over the link for a subforum (or its corresponding folder icon), the folder icon would turn green too.
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Originally posted by atomsk:
What is th empty box thing at the bottom?
That's going to be forum information section. I haven't gotten to that part yet.
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Originally posted by atomsk:
What is the site going to be for?
Music. :p
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Sprakie
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Posted - 2010/03/26 : 14:31:05
Hey man, i used to own my own web design company when i was 16 till i sold it. So i have some kind of knowledge in this area :-P
But basically, it is a really nice design! good contrasting colours. The only thing i think you couild improve is do a bit more with the background, shove a gradient over it, or paintbrush something in, never leave a big space a plane colour! that tends to be my rule! :-P
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Rayovac
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Posted - 2010/03/26 : 16:27:19
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Originally posted by Sprakie:
But basically, it is a really nice design! good contrasting colours. The only thing i think you couild improve is do a bit more with the background, shove a gradient over it, or paintbrush something in, never leave a big space a plane colour! that tends to be my rule! :-P
You mean that empty space at the bottom? That's just extra space I ended up with after I got a general idea of the layout.
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Sprakie
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Posted - 2010/03/28 : 11:10:11
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Originally posted by Rayovac:
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Originally posted by Sprakie:
But basically, it is a really nice design! good contrasting colours. The only thing i think you couild improve is do a bit more with the background, shove a gradient over it, or paintbrush something in, never leave a big space a plane colour! that tends to be my rule! :-P
You mean that empty space at the bottom? That's just extra space I ended up with after I got a general idea of the layout.
noo, like behind the forum headers and stuff like that..
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Rayovac
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Posted - 2010/03/28 : 16:36:22
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Originally posted by Sprakie:
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Originally posted by Rayovac:
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Originally posted by Sprakie:
But basically, it is a really nice design! good contrasting colours. The only thing i think you couild improve is do a bit more with the background, shove a gradient over it, or paintbrush something in, never leave a big space a plane colour! that tends to be my rule! :-P
You mean that empty space at the bottom? That's just extra space I ended up with after I got a general idea of the layout.
noo, like behind the forum headers and stuff like that..
The background is a gradient. I guess I made it too subtle?
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