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Elyvilon
United States13143 Posts
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prech
United States2948 Posts
On November 04 2014 15:35 nekotrap wrote: Nice work From the talks I've had with prech, it seems the admins have agreed to use the larger sized text when the banners are changed. Also, what do people think about how well the images blend with the light-blue banner background? Do you think there is too much contrast or is it fine? If not we've received a suggestion to crop out the image backgrounds and create something or use a design, which we could try I suppose (I personally like the planetary backgrounds that come with the image). There's also the possibility of doing something with the light-blue background instead. I think my simple gradients (because the left side's colors are just too dark) still contrast too much with the light-blue, while your friend's (very proportionately sized Hydra/Zlot heads ) are just faded a bit too much with some pretty color and detail being muted out. I just contacted your friend, but I wonder if s/he could do something creative with the background against the cropped image so we can get a nicer transition into the blue background while retaining the detail of the Hydra/Zealot... If only as a mock-up to see what we it looks like. Basically like the Dota2 design where the character is fully retained against a background that clashes less with the rest of the banner, but at the same time it doesn't look bare/naked like my #2/#4 Hydras because it has a really nice flame and deep red that is of the same color palette as the light red banner... | ||
nekotrap
130 Posts
With the dota banner, assuming this was the original image: + Show Spoiler + All they seemed to have done is flip it and created a fade gradient: + Show Spoiler + The flames already being part of the original image. Oh btw, the marine we did for strategy seemed kinda bulky in comparion to the others so I did a little resizing for it. Maybe this would work better. | ||
JieXian
Malaysia4677 Posts
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Lucumo
6850 Posts
I would rather get rid of that google+ thing. | ||
prech
United States2948 Posts
On November 04 2014 19:44 nekotrap wrote: The person you emailed was me btw lol but thanks I've forwarded the message to him. With the dota banner, assuming this was the original image: + Show Spoiler + All they seemed to have done is flip it and created a fade gradient: + Show Spoiler + The flames already being part of the original image. Oh btw, the marine we did for strategy seemed kinda bulky in comparion to the others so I did a little resizing for it. Maybe this would work better. Thanks, the Terran strategy banner is now live. Looks nice, Marine without the steroids Yea, I wish we had as easy to blend images, or as clean, as the Dota2 Lina image I wonder if the Dota team purposely chose that pastel pink/light red in the banner to work with their graphic, whereas we mostly have to work with our blue/blue-gray color palette. Then again, I really, really like the BW page's largely consistent blue hues, especially compared to Dota2's seemingly random mix of colors: grays on the left sidebar with gray-blue header "underlining", gray title header bars, white text background, etc. I can see why ours hasn't changed significantly for years | ||
HyralGambit
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prech
United States2948 Posts
Basically the unit itself is in full detail, but a gradient is created only onto the background. The benefit of this is the hydra/marine/zealot is in full color, but without cropping out the background completely. I've been playing around with Meru's Photoshop file to ensure the background isn't completely removed, else, as many others have said, the units just look "naked" | ||
HyralGambit
2439 Posts
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c3rberUs
Japan11285 Posts
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nekotrap
130 Posts
If you want prech you can send the pdf and we can play around with the background a bit and see what else we can do, but might not be able to do much until next week. | ||
prech
United States2948 Posts
I agree, Hydralisk may look bit better facing left with the blue background, but seeing how the Marine is facing right, and the characters on the other LP pages (Heroes, Dota, SC2) face right, salle (Liquipedia boss) recommended the Hydra face right also I'll forward on the Photoshop file to nekotrap... Next week's great | ||
prech
United States2948 Posts
Many thanks to Meru for the graphics work and FO-nTTaX for the implementation | ||
Fuchsteufelswild
Australia2028 Posts
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sabas123
Netherlands3121 Posts
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BisuDagger
Bisutopia19035 Posts
On March 07 2015 04:48 prech wrote: Main Page banner updated, at long last, with the hydra/zealot/marine graphic Many thanks to Meru for the graphics work and FO-nTTaX for the implementation On my tablet the banner is cut in half | ||
prech
United States2948 Posts
Yea, stinks... for the time being LP-SC2 is the only LP wiki working decently well on a tablet. Banners/main page are similarly broken on LP-BW, Dota, Hearthstone. The LP team and R1CH are slowly implementing more mobile/tablet improvements to make them more functional, accommodating the increasing number of mobile users | ||
Deathstar
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Cascade
Australia5405 Posts
Well done graphics team and liquipedia editors! As always! | ||
FO-nTTaX
Johto4738 Posts
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