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Need Help...Which Side Art Location Looks Best?
« on: October 30, 2013, 08:04:35 pm »
About to finalize my custom SF II Mame Pedestal...it's going to be Red...wanted to put SF II CE logos on the side...which location looks best?  Sorry for the ---smurfy--- images, did this in powerpoint quickly...

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Need Help...Which Side Art Location Looks Best?
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2013, 10:16:41 pm »
I like the first on the left
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Re: Need Help...Which Side Art Location Looks Best?
« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2013, 01:46:30 pm »
I agree. Far left is best. Middle is 2nd place. IMO.
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Re: Need Help...Which Side Art Location Looks Best?
« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2013, 02:26:08 pm »
Far left (the first one), easy.
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Re: Need Help...Which Side Art Location Looks Best?
« Reply #4 on: October 31, 2013, 02:27:03 pm »
First one, for me...
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Re: Need Help...Which Side Art Location Looks Best?
« Reply #5 on: October 31, 2013, 02:30:44 pm »
Yep as others said Far Left but I'd adjust the size to fit better as shown far left below :
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Re: Need Help...Which Side Art Location Looks Best?
« Reply #6 on: October 31, 2013, 02:40:09 pm »
Quote from: JDFan on October 31, 2013, 02:30:44 pm
Yep as others said Far Left but I'd adjust the size to fit better as shown far left below :

Nailed it.  This looks great.
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Re: Need Help...Which Side Art Location Looks Best?
« Reply #7 on: October 31, 2013, 02:46:47 pm »
just a tad smaller and I think you've got it.
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Re: Need Help...Which Side Art Location Looks Best?
« Reply #8 on: October 31, 2013, 05:39:02 pm »
Quote from: Malenko on October 31, 2013, 02:46:47 pm
just a tad smaller and I think you've got it.

Adjusted it just a bit -- didn't notice the leg portion is probably inside the outer board so it did need to be a bit smaller to get rid of any overlapping of the edge of the side board !
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Re: Need Help...Which Side Art Location Looks Best?
« Reply #9 on: October 31, 2013, 06:15:53 pm »
Quote from: JDFan on October 31, 2013, 02:30:44 pm
Yep as others said Far Left but I'd adjust the size to fit better as shown far left below :

Yeah but you can't get that logo to fit like that without stretching it.  That would look dumb, no?
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Re: Need Help...Which Side Art Location Looks Best?
« Reply #10 on: October 31, 2013, 06:21:23 pm »
Quote from: kaneda on October 31, 2013, 06:15:53 pm
Quote from: JDFan on October 31, 2013, 02:30:44 pm
Yep as others said Far Left but I'd adjust the size to fit better as shown far left below :

Yeah but you can't get that logo to fit like that without stretching it.  That would look dumb, no?
Should be able to adjust it so that it still looks good - what are the dimensions of the side panel ? and are the legs a separate board or is the side panel one piece ?   
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Re: Need Help...Which Side Art Location Looks Best?
« Reply #11 on: October 31, 2013, 06:41:22 pm »
I believe it's one piece.  It's a dream home arcades pedestal.  They have lots of pictures on their websites.
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Re: Need Help...Which Side Art Location Looks Best?
« Reply #12 on: October 31, 2013, 06:54:30 pm »
Quote from: kaneda on October 31, 2013, 06:41:22 pm
I believe it's one piece.  It's a dream home arcades pedestal.  They have lots of pictures on their websites.

Do they list the dimensions by chance ? As it should be fairly easy to modify for example here are a couple versions one 15x8 inches and another 15x6 inches that has been adjusted : I uploaded .jpg format since .png is almost 5MB each so too big for this forum but if you want a png version to avoid the compression artifacts I'll upload a link to my dropbox with them.

As you can see it still looks fine stretched a bit ! -- If you know the exact dimensions you need I can make further adjustments if you'd like.
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Re: Need Help...Which Side Art Location Looks Best?
« Reply #13 on: November 01, 2013, 10:07:00 pm »
Quote from: kaneda on October 30, 2013, 08:04:35 pm
About to finalize my custom SF II Mame Pedestal...it's going to be Red...wanted to put SF II CE logos on the side...which location looks best?  Sorry for the ---smurfy--- images, did this in powerpoint quickly...

Far left is my favourite
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Re: Need Help...Which Side Art Location Looks Best?
« Reply #14 on: November 04, 2013, 02:15:17 am »
Far left is the best by far. If you decided to adjust the size of the decal then make sure you keep the aspect ratio or it will slightly stretch and look a bit odd. If you go 15% extra width ensure you go 15% extra height as well. Might seem obvious but I've seen that mistake a few times.

JDFan above has toyed with the image for you. The first looks great (is that original dims?) but the second looks odd to me. If it won't fit any bigger then leave it as original.
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