mfitterer1 - Real Beisbol Banner

dbacks · 10-31-2003, 12:38 AM

Here it is, let me know if you want any changes made.

dbacks · 10-31-2003, 12:39 AM

Oh, and for what it's worth, the players from left to right are Greg Maddux, Torii Hunter, Ichiro Suzuki, Nomar Garciaparra, and Roger Clemens.

Big Willis 16 · 10-31-2003, 12:57 AM

That's awesome!

mfitterer1 · 10-31-2003, 01:37 AM

D' Backs I have to say that is the best banner I have ever seen in these forums, tons of gratitude out to you man, this is amazing, thank man, you are the one and only on these boards, everyone else is very talented but nothing matches the ability that you have. I thought it was gonna take days but you pumped ity out in a couple hours. wow man.

SanDiegoPadres19 · 10-31-2003, 03:09 AM

Holy **** batman!!

Now i must ask, what did you use to do that and HOW!?!?!?!?!

dbacks · 10-31-2003, 09:45 AM

Thanks a lot, guys.

I used Photoshop to do everything, and interestingly, it only took about 2 hours to do. I won't go into great detail, but I'll tell you basically what I did. First off, he wanted something similar to the S3BL banner I did earlier, so I had that open in a seperate window to look at and sort of copy from. I wanted a ballpark in as the background, so the first thing was finding a suitable picture (I didn't want to use the same one). After about 10-15 minutes of searching, I found this Fenway picture and cropped it a little to fit the dimensions needed (although I would have left it how it was if I had known it was going to be stretched on the website). Next thing I did was add in the website at the bottom left. I created a new layer at the bottom, and put in a left to right "see through" gradient (about 80% opacity), then added the website text. Then I created the logo that I placed right above that on the left side, then added the main text up at the top with the blue background. Lastly (and certainly the most time consuming), I had to get about 5 players to put on the right like I did with the S3BL Banner (and again, I didn't want to use the same guys). So I just started naming 5 all star players that weren't on the other banner, and started finding pictures. The other time consuming part was taking the player out of their original picture. I used the pen tool (most Photoshop users know what that is), and used that to make a selection around the player, then cut and paste him into the actual banner. Very last part was just touch ups. Ichiro needed to be sharpened, I needed to add some contrast to Torii Hunter, and stuff like that.

dbacks · 10-31-2003, 09:46 AM

Also - tonight, I'll try to make the banner a little bit larger without ruining it's quality. I noticed it's stretched a bit on the website, and that takes away some of the quality, so I'll try to do that tonight. Shouldn't take too long.

Andy · 10-31-2003, 10:19 PM

Wow! Great work as always dbacks...

dbacks · 10-31-2003, 10:24 PM

Thanks.

10-31-2003, 12:38 AM	#1
dbacks Hall Of Famer Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 2,735	mfitterer1 - Real Beisbol Banner Here it is, let me know if you want any changes made.

10-31-2003, 12:57 AM	#3
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10-31-2003, 03:09 AM	#5
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10-31-2003, 12:39 AM	#2
dbacks Hall Of Famer Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 2,735	Oh, and for what it's worth, the players from left to right are Greg Maddux, Torii Hunter, Ichiro Suzuki, Nomar Garciaparra, and Roger Clemens.

10-31-2003, 01:37 AM	#4
mfitterer1 Banned Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Beaverton, Oregon Posts: 466	D' Backs I have to say that is the best banner I have ever seen in these forums, tons of gratitude out to you man, this is amazing, thank man, you are the one and only on these boards, everyone else is very talented but nothing matches the ability that you have. I thought it was gonna take days but you pumped ity out in a couple hours. wow man.

10-31-2003, 09:45 AM	#6
dbacks Hall Of Famer Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 2,735	Thanks a lot, guys. I used Photoshop to do everything, and interestingly, it only took about 2 hours to do. I won't go into great detail, but I'll tell you basically what I did. First off, he wanted something similar to the S3BL banner I did earlier, so I had that open in a seperate window to look at and sort of copy from. I wanted a ballpark in as the background, so the first thing was finding a suitable picture (I didn't want to use the same one). After about 10-15 minutes of searching, I found this Fenway picture and cropped it a little to fit the dimensions needed (although I would have left it how it was if I had known it was going to be stretched on the website). Next thing I did was add in the website at the bottom left. I created a new layer at the bottom, and put in a left to right "see through" gradient (about 80% opacity), then added the website text. Then I created the logo that I placed right above that on the left side, then added the main text up at the top with the blue background. Lastly (and certainly the most time consuming), I had to get about 5 players to put on the right like I did with the S3BL Banner (and again, I didn't want to use the same guys). So I just started naming 5 all star players that weren't on the other banner, and started finding pictures. The other time consuming part was taking the player out of their original picture. I used the pen tool (most Photoshop users know what that is), and used that to make a selection around the player, then cut and paste him into the actual banner. Very last part was just touch ups. Ichiro needed to be sharpened, I needed to add some contrast to Torii Hunter, and stuff like that.

10-31-2003, 09:46 AM	#7
dbacks Hall Of Famer Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 2,735	Also - tonight, I'll try to make the banner a little bit larger without ruining it's quality. I noticed it's stretched a bit on the website, and that takes away some of the quality, so I'll try to do that tonight. Shouldn't take too long.

10-31-2003, 10:19 PM	#8
Andy Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Dayton, OH Posts: 2,270	Wow! Great work as always dbacks...

10-31-2003, 10:24 PM	#9
dbacks Hall Of Famer Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 2,735	Thanks.