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Comments on first draft of marquee.
Frostillicus:
I would lose the poem, but if you keep it I'd fix the typos and make the font bigger/easier to read. Maybe sharpen up the scottish ninja a little. any chance you could post it a little smaller - my desktop is currently 1280x1024 but I'm having a hard time seeing it in a full window.
Chris:
If you're going to light this marquee up, you may want tno consider reversing the text, using a dark border with light letters rather than the other way around.
--Chris
marcoval:
--- Quote from: Pixelhugger on April 17, 2003, 02:20:50 am ---Cool. I'd put Scottish Ninjas and Mame on the same line and make them a bit more prominent with the running ninja separating them. The poem does feel a bit out of place as a block of type but might work well as a line running along the top or bottom like a border. I'm a broadcast designer, so print isn't specifically my domain, but I've got some ideas if you're interested. I like what you've done so far :) Could you post another JPEG without the type so I can play?
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I acutally just downloaded it from the scottish ninjas site. It's on the main site under Aidan's character bio. However here it is anyway since I had plans to change it. I'm also considering the similar background of the other ninja's bios.
marcoval:
Thanks guys, this is helping quite a bit. The intro just has to stay, so I'll try the border idea. It's just such great text, and on the actual falsh movie after the narrator says those lines, Aidan pops in and in a heavy scottish accent says, "Aht's right ya stupid bastard" Hillarious.
Brax - I like both ideas but really have no idea how to implement them :P Don't have amazing PS skills so I can't move the ninja who is in just an all together inconvenient place. But having him charging out at you is such a cool concept. I have considered a picture that has his face profile on the far right side. I'll play with that and I'm also playing with the border idea, a bit more work but I think it will indeed work better to make it balanced. You are right, I wanted to avoid covering the sword but I think balance needs to be the primary focus.
Frostillicus - Yes, the poem must stay, but I am also considering putting it in other places on the cabinet. Readability is really what I'm shooting for and since my color printer at home isn't working and I don't have one at work I haven't been able to get an idea what it will look like lighted. I like Chris' idea of doing it white fill with black borders. Also, while the font is cool, it doesn't convey large blocks of text well, I may consider doing a different font. As to how to sharpen the ninja up, I wish I knew how! It is unfortunately a blown up JPEG which I really wanted to avoid. Fortunately the original art is intended to be a watercolorish like fuzzy look anyway, but blowing it up just makes it look a bit too fuzzy. Printed out, in greyscale it doesn't look too pixelated, just undefined. Ideas?
Chris- Good idea, I tried that on it and it looks good.
Here is another (Smaller) ninja who's art seems a bit more condusive to this idea.
Cue-Ball:
--- Quote from: marcoval on April 17, 2003, 12:32:03 pm ---Frostillicus - Yes, the poem must stay, but I am also considering putting it in other places on the cabinet. Readability is really what I'm shooting for and since my color printer at home isn't working and I don't have one at work I haven't been able to get an idea what it will look like lighted. I like Chris' idea of doing it white fill with black borders. Also, while the font is cool, it doesn't convey large blocks of text well, I may consider doing a different font. As to how to sharpen the ninja up, I wish I knew how! It is unfortunately a blown up JPEG which I really wanted to avoid. Fortunately the original art is intended to be a watercolorish like fuzzy look anyway, but blowing it up just makes it look a bit too fuzzy. Printed out, in greyscale it doesn't look too pixelated, just undefined. Ideas?
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You need to read Frosty's tutorial on vector graphics. It will solve all your problems. No more pixelation on the character or the font and you can make it any size you want.