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Title: Help me critique my CP!
Post by: Cero21 on November 02, 2008, 01:43:30 pm

Hey guys.  Some of you might have seen this before but after letting it sit for a while I decided to redo a bit of it.  I def want to be sure before printing so I decided to sit on it a bit.  Here is the result.  Comments?

Here is the cabinet as it stands now:
(http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/8273/img1251ep0.th.jpg) (http://img213.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img1251ep0.jpg)

Here is the proposed CP:
(http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/4783/cp2gq2.th.jpg) (http://img219.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cp2gq2.jpg)(http://img219.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif) (http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php)


Same thing with a little extra Gundam in the background:
(http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/7995/cpew7.th.jpg) (http://img220.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cpew7.jpg)(http://img220.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif) (http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php)

What do you think?

Title: Re: Help me critique my CP!
Post by: Numbski on November 03, 2008, 08:10:48 am

Looks good to me.  About the only scrutiny I might have is that the Gundam mechs themselves look a bit on the low-res side.  It might have served you to trace those out as vectors and use those instead.  Otherwise, nice work!

Title: Re: Help me critique my CP!
Post by: Cero21 on November 03, 2008, 06:46:07 pm

A little bit better?  I ran a sharpening filter on the gundam.

(http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/5296/cplp6.th.jpg) (http://img220.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cplp6.jpg)(http://img220.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif) (http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php)

Do you think the one with the middle gundum is better or should I keep it simple without it?

Title: Re: Help me critique my CP!
Post by: Numbski on November 04, 2008, 06:40:59 am

That certainly helps.  I think I'd recommend finding someone to do a "cheap" print of this to get an idea as to whether that translucent gundam will even be visible.  As I've been told - you want to make your primary element(s) pop out from the background.

Title: Re: Help me critique my CP!
Post by: Cero21 on November 12, 2008, 10:56:29 pm

Thanks for all the commentary Numbski!

I am still very unsure about all my choices so I've been working a little more on it. 

Decided on a colour scheme change and simpler text.  How about this?

(http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/2947/cp3ez9.th.jpg) (http://img217.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cp3ez9.jpg)(http://img217.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif) (http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php)

Also, if you have any suggestions for an image change at the center I'm all ears.

Thanks in advance!

Title: Re: Help me critique my CP!
Post by: Cero21 on November 22, 2008, 09:01:09 pm

No comments on the new image???

Title: Re: Help me critique my CP!
Post by: Necroticart on November 23, 2008, 04:31:17 pm

Nice cp I would keep the old txt looked much better or if you want to keep the plain text I would go with a more fancy font as for the image in the center it looks fine if you want to get a higher res image search on google images