[RandomTiger]

Try chucking some stars in

[RandomTiger]

Originally posted by Shinobi

EDIT: Actually, it doesn't look very good

I like it but it doesnt work being so dark against the rest of the launcher being bright.

Flipside, you should paste it in like Shinobi did to see how it looks in context. You might need to make the colour different or brighter.

Keep on going guys, if we end up with more than one good one perhaps we can have both alternate them by time or date.

Also remember I would prefer indexed coloured images.

[Carl]

no, you guys. thise are too overdone and flashy. they original one is perfect. it's a crisp, simple design. take a look at company logos some time. you'll see they usually have only a few colors, maybe 2 or three, and are flat, simplistic, and can be done in a vector based program. take it from someone who used to make logos for his job. the simpler, the better. RT, if i were you, i'd stick with the current image, if you want the scp to look professionally done.

[Flipside]

It's a bit of a problem on those edges, it's to do with high contrast and 256 colours I've had a go at smoothing them a little here, I don't think you are going to get much more without starting to blur the line between the icon and the background.

[Lightspeed]

I'll have a go at it. Those edges are horrbile

[RandomTiger]

Carls got a point but I'd feel bad if I didnt use them now.

[RandomTiger]

In context:

[Flipside]

hehehehe It's your launcher RT, I think it looks fine either way, but use whatever you feel works best, I won't take offence

[Lightspeed]

Perhaps something along these lines?

[Flipside]

Nice gradient filling! Looks much cleaner than mine

The only thing I'd say is that you need possibly a faint glow behind the words, or just something to make them slightly more readable?

[Lightspeed]

they're readable pretty fine. I wanted them to look really faint / weak as it's looking quite odd if they're there with high contrast.

On a side note, it's using one of my background nebulae as well

[Flipside]

LOL Well, you're probably right, but my eyes aren't 100%, so I sort of struggle to read it

Well, my vote goes to you to be honest, as I said when I started, there are people here who can do a much better job than I

[Lightspeed]

that's the advantage with having the brain directly connected to the computer

Might also be your monitor though, I kept it in the 'easy on the eyes' range. Makes it look a lot more professional than when using bright and lots of colours.

-edit: speaking of eye sight... Just noticed that our avatars look exactly the same if youre tired and looking at the screen without focussing. 2 Blue blobs + 4 identical ones.

[Corsair]

that last one there by Lightspeed was great. The others, the edges are all weird. That one looks good though...and not silvery. The silver bugs me.

[Flipside]

LOL Yes, I've always had a sort of deranged Magpie's taste for shiny things

Yes, should have worked against a black background to the area around the image as well, I'm sure theres a way to do that in Photoshop, that light grey seems to make me way over-intensify the colours, so it looks lurid when I post on here

[Lightspeed]

You know all my stuff is pure Photoshop, so yeah - everything's possible if you know how

[RandomTiger]

Is that 8 bit?

[Lightspeed]

nope.

8-bit JPG = no go, and I post all my images as jpgs

I can convert it to 8-bit for ya, though.

[Lightspeed]

Okay, here you go:

For comparison:

JPG (32-bit)


converted to

PNG (8-bit)


$1 to everyone who notices any difference. If PNG is no good for you, just tell me which format you need and i'll give you waht you want.

[Flipside]

Forget it, it's there now

Yup, looks good to me