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Title: New CPO layouts!!
Post by: cluck024 on April 02, 2009, 10:11:34 pm

So Ive been trying to decide on a cpo for a while. This is what Ive come up with, modeled after Knievel's (spelling??) cpo's. Please leave comments and suggest which you like the most!! Thanks--

--cluck

Title: Re: New CPO layouts!!
Post by: wooowman93 on April 02, 2009, 10:18:42 pm

id say good, but to out of this world and not enough arcade

Title: Re: New CPO layouts!!
Post by: drventure on April 02, 2009, 11:10:33 pm

I like the sunrise, but I tend to lean to the subtle and subdued.

Title: Re: New CPO layouts!!
Post by: bsweet0us on April 02, 2009, 11:11:52 pm

I like the top one the best for a CPO.

Not too cluttered but eye-catching enough to really stand out.

Very nice work!

Title: Re: New CPO layouts!!
Post by: Kayden on April 04, 2009, 09:19:54 am

Heh, the bottom one looks like a Journey album cover.
http://images.google.com/images?q=journey+album+covers&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=2V3XSeOnJ5CWMo3IxO0O&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title
 :laugh:

Title: Re: New CPO layouts!!
Post by: system01 on April 04, 2009, 01:46:07 pm

I also like the top one, but it's too squished.  I've seen that middle one far too much on arcades.

I ran across the NASA pic of the day (http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/) a little while back.  Clicking through them, you can find some pretty spectacular space images suitable for backgrounds (not by themselves, behind planets to fill space).

Title: Re: New CPO layouts!!
Post by: Ummon on April 04, 2009, 03:14:03 pm

I think they're bad, especially the last one. You could say kinda Journey-ish, yeah. But not. By the way, perhaps you want this put in 'Main'?

Title: Re: New CPO layouts!!
Post by: jasonbar on April 06, 2009, 02:58:24 pm

I like #2

In #1, the trackball sort of interrupts the nice sunrise image.

#3 looks as if it's out of focus or has some accidental repeating image.

-Jason

Title: Re: New CPO layouts!!
Post by: Ummon on April 06, 2009, 04:54:03 pm

Quote from: jasonbar on April 06, 2009, 02:58:24 pm

#3 looks as if it's out of focus or has some accidental repeating image.

-Jason

No way, dude. That slight diffused-ness of the image is bad. Could be a vision thing. I used to think stock mame display looked similar - until recently, in which I've noticed my vision has gotten better than it's been in a few years.

Title: Re: New CPO layouts!!
Post by: jasonbar on April 06, 2009, 05:03:00 pm

Perhaps I didn't use the best words to describe my impression.  In fact, I'm sure I didn't.

Rationally & logically, I know that there are no errors w/ the graphic.  When I look at it, my emotional response is "Something looks funny.  Out of focus?  Bottom half looks as if it's somehow repeating in error...somewhat like when I drag a window around on my Windows desktop & it leaves a trail of windows behind it b/c my machine's too bogged down at the moment to refresh the background."

Clear as mud?   ???

-Jason