Wallpaper compo

[OldBloke]

Yet another competition to whet your creative appetites.

Design a 'Dead Men Walking' wallpaper image.

The usual (and highly sought after) prizes pertain.  

[FrEnZy]

size?

[OldBloke]

size?

... isn't important :biggrin:    :lol:

However ...  1024X768 sounds about right.

[smite]

Bugger im not going to be on my pc for some time yet and i fear i may miss this one  :cry:

Oldie is this just a wallpaper or for a website?

[OldBloke]

Smite - I don't understand the question.  :oops:

It's a competition to design a dMw branded wallpaper. The type that users download and install on their PCs (if they so wish. Some will obviously not wish to overwrite their existing TellyTubbies).

[smite]

No worries
Wasnt sure if it was for a desktop wallpaper or for the new dMw website Frenzy is making :twisted:

[CiM]

Here's a simple one to start things off.

640x480
800x600
1024x768

Here's the 640x480 version:


Edit:
And variations on a theme...

640x480
800x600
1024x768

640x480 again:


- CiM

[OldBloke]

Nice ones CiM. Looks like Smitey boy has some competition in the Photoshop stakes.

C'mon Smitey. Stop trying to fit that kitchen, fire up your Poota and CREATE.  

[sheepy]

can ne 1 reccomend a good grafix program.

just want something simple to operate that looks resonably good.

ie diffrent text styles etc and the ability to edit pics.

at the moment i have no such program but have a good idea 4 this back ground thing.

[Anonymous]

I like Ulead PhotoImpact ( http://www.ulead.co.uk/ )which costs around £70 but it may be overly intricate for what you need. There is a freeware program called "the Gimp" available at ( http://www.gimp.org/ ). I keep meaning to try it but haven't got round to it yet. Another great favourite is Paint Shop Pro ( http://www.jasc.com/ ) which is going for around £40 - £50 just now. I'm sure other people will have their own favourites :-)

[CiM]

Adobe PhotoShop is widely acknowledged as the best and most powerful of the bunch.  I've never had a copy or access to a copy so I can't tell you any more than that.

Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7 is the runner-up.  It's a great program, with many of the features that Photoshop has and a generally uncomplicated way of doing things.  It's the best program for novices and tinkerers.  I finally got a copy last week, so I've been playing around with it a wee bit  PSP is generally sold for £80, but I got my copy for £50.

The Gnu Image Manipulation Program (the GIMP) is arguably the best free program.  They've released a few builds for win32 now, so it's no longer *nix only.  GIMP is much harder to figure out and I'm not sure how deep the features go, but it's a very capable program that you can get for free - and modify, should you have the skillz, because it's open source.

Lots of plug-ins for GIMP too.  The site is http://www.gimp.org/.

HTH.

- CiM

[smite]

C'mon Smitey. Stop trying to fit that kitchen, fire up your Poota and CREATE.

wish i could i just started making one and i cant get the text to work properly on Photoshop. Where i would normally make some text at 50 pt on a 300X150 pixels banner it has to be 1000 pt to even see it.  :cry:
Ive uninstalled and re-installed a few times but somewhere there is a file hiding that is keeping the old settings, ive searched under photoshop-ps7-adobe i have also removed all photoshop registries but still nothing.
D.loading the phothoshop 7 patch ATM lets see if that fixes the damn thing (as long as it doesnt look at my copy of PS7 and say oy that aint yours 8O )

So as soon as i sort this i will be back with my version.....

BTW CIM is that the best you can do hehehe   :twisted:  :twisted:  :twisted:

[MisterEggs]

Adobe PhotoShop is widely acknowledged as the best and most powerful of the bunch.

Except by me, who thinks it's awkward and s***, and nowhere near as good as Corel PhotoPaint.  

If i get time i'll try and throw something in the pot too, but i canna promise anything.

[CiM]

Adobe PhotoShop is widely acknowledged as the best and most powerful of the bunch.

Except by me, who thinks it's awkward and s***, and nowhere near as good as Corel PhotoPaint.   [/b]

Oh yeah, PhotoPaint.  One girl I know who's one of those insanely arty people swears by it - does huge amounts of anime (and some other stuff) using mostly Corel.

Edit: Except I've just found out that she switched to Adobe about a year ago

I've never used it though, and as I still haven't bothered to get the hang of vector drawing in PSP, I doubt I'd be any good with PhotoPaint...

- CiM

[CiM]

BTW CIM is that the best you can do hehehe  :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

Hey!  I like the second one a lot!

In fact, it's my current wallpaper

I like my branded wallpapers either big and glorious or simple and stylish.  I've got the simple part down... now I just need to move on to the stylish bit.

- Schim