Request a Forum Profile Cover Photo - Waiting List Added to the OP

[cmgravekeeper]

1 hour ago, Mar said:

 

Holy shit! This actually looks badass, and you nailed the golden aspect pretty much exactly as how I wanted. The colored JaD logo, which I didnt want, actually looks good colored to, though I expected the placement to be lowered towards the corner (small nitpick). And the size of the JaD logo is much more ideal to how I wanted. The Statue piece unexpectedily looks amazing to especially with the matching color scheme.

 

Only issue I see is Mar text getting in the way of a few things. Seems the extra lines helped make this issue. Id like for the text to fit in the middle without overshadowing so much of the good looking cover. Could you combine the lines to the precusor text engraved metal on both sides to regain some middle space for the Mar text to fit more gorcheously? You could make the lines skinner IF necessary. I noticed you have a little extra space left to push the lines up to, so that should further help.

 

And if you could just push/place/drag the JaD text down a bit more to make the text look more "liscenced-like", unless the redone precursor metal frames compliments its current placement. Everything else is good as hell.

 

 

@Reply. As for the render I was referring to in the other earlier reply, I actually was talking about the character JaD render. The logo itself has a lot of renders out there in general (the collection one is annoying though when placed on everything).

 

Also, I want to say both golden Mar text are actually awesome. In confusing (which I think is caused by the visual difference of mobile and pc/ps4 browser, constantly switching back and fourth) honesty, I think both get my vision across. The original might have a tad bit too much gold in the text itself but I really like that one to. I like both versions, maybe the original a little more, but the new one is good enough.

 

A lot of time and work goes into GFX work out of one's personal life. This is stuff that is done for free, this is not a paid service. If you really have this great vision for a cover photo, you should have made a very clear description of what you wanted in your first request. It actually seems like you're changing the request as you go. That not only is wasting the time of the person making your cover photo, but disrespecting his work as well. The whole point of requests is to request a GFX artist to make a signature based on what you want, but with their style and design. If you have a very specific and detailed vision of your cover photo that is going to go through a lot of changes till you find the perfect one, you should learn Photoshop instead of wasting the GFX artist's time.

[Dragon-Archon]

1 hour ago, Mar said:

 

Holy shit! This actually looks badass, and you nailed the golden aspect pretty much exactly as how I wanted. The colored JaD logo, which I didnt want, actually looks good colored to, though I expected the placement to be lowered towards the corner (small nitpick). And the size of the JaD logo is much more ideal to how I wanted. The Statue piece unexpectedily looks amazing to especially with the matching color scheme.

Wait, what!? So what was the text below about? You want an orange text after all?

On 12-1-2017 at 8:44 AM, Mar said:

The orange and other colors seem out of place, so Ill go with the original (natural) color, which was the JaD shade/color, but equipped with Mar. (Plus gold tint.)

 

1 hour ago, Mar said:

Only issue I see is Mar text getting in the way of a few things. Seems the extra lines helped make this issue. Id like for the text to fit in the middle without overshadowing so much of the good looking cover. Could you combine the lines to the precusor text engraved metal on both sides to regain some middle space for the Mar text to fit more gorcheously? You could make the lines skinner IF necessary. I noticed you have a little extra space left to push the lines up to, so that should further help.

Yeah, it's totally unexpected that the additional lines caused the Mar text to overlap other things. By combining do you mean removing the space between the precursor text and the horizontal lines? And by making them skinner I take it you mean reducing the height?

 

1 hour ago, Mar said:

Also, I want to say both golden Mar text are actually awesome. In confusing (which I think is caused by the visual difference of mobile and pc/ps4 browser, constantly switching back and fourth) honesty, I think both get my vision across. The original might have a tad bit too much gold in the text itself but I really like that one to. I like both versions, maybe the original a little more, but the new one is good enough.

So which one do you like more? Never mind, I made two versions.

Edited January 13, 2017 by Dragon-Archon

[DEMON]

14 hours ago, Mar said:

 

Theres also no point in a request if the artist wont nail the requester's vision or come extremely close to it... it goes both ways, not one. You also cant use your own judgment on the work done to justify that its complete or that the requester is being annoying when they give more feedback after a posted example. Youre designing it how you think the person wants it, you dont know how they want it unless they speak up. Only made worst by the fact were on the internet, so really you should be more forgiving. (Seriously, *ONE* edit?)

 

I was actually pretty clear enough on what I wanted. The (unfinished) samples that he showed me was only half of what I requested (I didnt expect for him to rid the extra lines in the image, as well as keeping the JaD logo as big as he did)... yet its my fault for speaking up about something I wanted, as oppose to accepting what was made for sake of politeness alone? Combined with the fact this would be a long term cover for me, its not like the work would go to waste.

 

That "take what I made and deal with it logic/attitude" is a pretty unwelcoming and repelling requesters' work method.

 

I only do one edit, because if I did as many edits as you wanted, it would begin to become a chore to me. I do GFX as a hobby, not a job. I've been a graphic designer for a company previously and obviously I would do more than one edit for them since was being paid to do so, but I was also expected to get it spot on first time, so it was rare where I misunderstood something; companies also tend to know that you are the brains of the graphic design and usually let you do your own thing too.. whatever makes it look more appealing.

 

And here I usually only have to do a signature once and most are happy with my first attempt at them. I have only ever had to redo text etc, never had to actually remake a whole signature (and personally, wouldn't even do that, if you came to request from me, it's because you liked my style most likely, if you constantly want it redone, then you obviously want it completely different to the style I usually do).

 

No you weren't, you submitted a pile of images.. how's anyone to know which one you want? There was also way too much "do this, do that", give an artist some freedom like.

 

It might seem unwelcoming, but we don't want people pushing us around either. It goes both ways. There's being reasonable and then there's being unreasonable. You have to understand we all have different mindsets. If you really wanted something done exactly the way you wanted, you would put some effort in and learn how to make graphics yourself. I never expect anyone to get what I have in mind for a graphics piece. Although most of my requests are "Here's the render, just have text DEMON in it somewhere and just make whatever." not often I do requests, but you get the idea, I give other GFX artists the kind of requests that I like recieving myself.

 

I also say, take it or leave it, if you are really disatisfied with an artist's work, and the artist is fed up redoing the work, you either just have to take what is made or not use it and then get blacklisted by said artist and maybe anyone else that seen this going on. If I've had bad experience with a requester before, I'm not likely to do anymore work for them in a hurry.

[Dragon-Archon]

2 hours ago, Mar said:

 

Holy shit! This actually looks badass, and you nailed the golden aspect pretty much exactly as how I wanted. The colored JaD logo, which I didnt want, actually looks good colored to, though I expected the placement to be lowered towards the corner (small nitpick). And the size of the JaD logo is much more ideal to how I wanted. The Statue piece unexpectedily looks amazing to especially with the matching color scheme.

 

Only issue I see is Mar text getting in the way of a few things. Seems the extra lines helped make this issue. Id like for the text to fit in the middle without overshadowing so much of the good looking cover. Could you combine the lines to the precusor text engraved metal on both sides to regain some middle space for the Mar text to fit more gorcheously? You could make the lines skinner IF necessary. I noticed you have a little extra space left to push the lines up to, so that should further help.

 

And if you could just push/place/drag the JaD text down a bit more to make the text look more "liscenced-like", unless the redone precursor metal frames compliments its current placement. Everything else is good as hell.

 

 

@Reply. As for the render I was referring to in the other earlier reply, I actually was talking about the character JaD render. The logo itself has a lot of renders out there in general (the collection one is annoying though when placed on everything).

 

Also, I want to say both golden Mar text are actually awesome. In confusing (which I think is caused by the visual difference of mobile and pc/ps4 browser, constantly switching back and fourth) honesty, I think both get my vision across. The original might have a tad bit too much gold in the text itself but I really like that one to. I like both versions, maybe the original a little more, but the new one is good enough.

Here you go, I made two versions: one with each text. That way you don't have to decide and can switch between them once you get tired of one. There are also two versions with an orange logo.

 

 

 

Edited January 13, 2017 by Dragon-Archon

[Dav9834]

3 hours ago, Mar said:

 

Holy shit! This actually looks badass, and you nailed the golden aspect pretty much exactly as how I wanted. The colored JaD logo, which I didnt want, actually looks good colored to, though I expected the placement to be lowered towards the corner (small nitpick). And the size of the JaD logo is much more ideal to how I wanted. The Statue piece unexpectedily looks amazing to especially with the matching color scheme.

 

Only issue I see is Mar text getting in the way of a few things. Seems the extra lines helped make this issue. Id like for the text to fit in the middle without overshadowing so much of the good looking cover. Could you combine the lines to the precusor text engraved metal on both sides to regain some middle space for the Mar text to fit more gorcheously? You could make the lines skinner IF necessary. I noticed you have a little extra space left to push the lines up to, so that should further help.

 

And if you could just push/place/drag the JaD text down a bit more to make the text look more "liscenced-like", unless the redone precursor metal frames compliments its current placement. Everything else is good as hell.

 

 

@Reply. As for the render I was referring to in the other earlier reply, I actually was talking about the character JaD render. The logo itself has a lot of renders out there in general (the collection one is annoying though when placed on everything).

 

Also, I want to say both golden Mar text are actually awesome. In confusing (which I think is caused by the visual difference of mobile and pc/ps4 browser, constantly switching back and fourth) honesty, I think both get my vision across. The original might have a tad bit too much gold in the text itself but I really like that one to. I like both versions, maybe the original a little more, but the new one is good enough.

I have a feeling you started to understand the amount of work that goes into photoshop/gimp, and started to realize you might lose any changes you might want, and became nicer and less demanding to Dragon. That's not a bad thing. Take what you learned and keep it in mind for any requests to anyone. 

 

I've done multiple edits before for some headers, but I wasn't interested in helping them later, and the gfx artists are a tighter community than most think, word travels about certain members to avoid. And what you said in one of your posts was very disrespectful and demanding. 

 

Learning how to use photoshop was one of the greatest things I've done. And it's not nearly as expensive as paying for work to be done in the long term. 

 

If you ever want something that's not free you can always Google/yahoo/bing "hire graphic designers". For the amount of edits you requested they'll just charge you more. Great way for them to make extra money. They may still complain though. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edit:This was my 2017 post! Get it! The new year! 

... Maybe only I find it pretty cool... 

Edited January 13, 2017 by Dav9834
Was my 2017 post(year of post!)

[Jak]

2 hours ago, cmgravekeeper said:

 

A lot of time and work goes into GFX work out of one's personal life. This is stuff that is done for free, this is not a paid service. If you really have this great vision for a cover photo, you should have made a very clear description of what you wanted in your first request. It actually seems like you're changing the request as you go. That not only is wasting the time of the person making your cover photo, but disrespecting his work as well. The whole point of requests is to request a GFX artist to make a signature based on what you want, but with their style and design. If you have a very specific and detailed vision of your cover photo that is going to go through a lot of changes till you find the perfect one, you should learn Photoshop instead of wasting the GFX artist's time.

 

Going back to my original request, I WAS CLEAR ON WHAT I originally WANTED. Do I need to quote? Some unexpected additions however were added, yes, SOME OF WHICH WERE UNINTENTIONAL like the Mar Statue (, and some of which werent my fault - I just listed two examples prior). I never asked for that or any character, Dragon went out of his way to incorporate a Jak and Daxter one then I stated how I didnt like it. Ruff then went out of his way TOO to make a render of a statue I never asked for then in the end I was impressed with it and Dragon put it in anyway.

 

Clearly people arent reading and keeping up here with the updates. General, intentional changes as you go along I agree is disrespectful, but feedback to improve a more visioned cover after a posted sample is fine to me. The logic here of expecting an artist to make a perfect cover on his FIRST attempt, even with specific details from requester, is very inconsiderate and naive (unless you think youre an artist god and dont need multiple attempts to make a high quality cover). Art takes time, effort, and repetition does it not?

 

I at times have tried to learn PS. However, I obviously dont have the tools for that. I dont have my own pc nor a good one to burrow to use a type of PS.

[Jak]

3 hours ago, Dragon-Archon said:

Wait, what!? So what was the text below about? You want an orange text after all?

 

Yeah, it's totally unexpected that the additional lines caused the Mar text to overlap other things. By combining do you mean removing the space between the precursor text and the horizontal lines? And by making them skinner I take it you mean reducing the height?

 

So which one do you like more? Never mind, I made two versions.

 

Nah I didnt want orange, but there seems to be confusion on that subject. I didnt think you was going to do 4 versions with the different colors (even though im glad you did). 

 

Back to logo color: 

Original/natural = original photo (I posted) color.

Colored = washed out orange (your personal touch), since its colorful, unlike the original image. Secondly, I actually love the non-orange color (the colored one/yours) you did with it. Despite argubly looking washed out, since it looks like a washed out orange by nature, it fits the tone of the cover, which is perfect. Thirdly, the placement is perfect, where I wanted it from the start.

 

Yes you nailed the combination I was talking about to, though I see the small cracked space inbetween. (People will think im rude for saying that but its just CC to make you a better artist.) What I meant by skinner was reducing the horizantal thickness of the bars, especially to also preserve the Mar text size.

 

Overall 9.5/10 for this cover. (Second one, and is my favorite.) If I myself made that, Id be proud. That means a lot coming from myself, especially a Jak fan, thus this is a fantastic cover made by @Dragon-Archon. Thank you Dragon for your patience, skills, efforts, time, and willingness. Youve made a great cover photo and a member here happy. @ruffedgz Obviously thanks to you to for The Mar render.

 

@DEMON You do realize a lot of ppl, especially on this website, are too grateful and nice to ask for extra things after a finished project right? I can be that way and I am at times, but I wanted a very specific cover, and I was part like this cause ill be using this cover for a LONG TERM period. (Look how long Ive been using your signature alone.) 

 

Again, part redoing the cover was NOT MY fault, I went over that to. Again, people arent exactly keeping up here.

 

That third paragraph is clearly false. Half if not most of my pictures were examples of a (golden) aura I wanted around text, again not reading. You might be getting mixed up with the PSN CP thread. "Too much do this do that" was explained, and me seperating each aspect by indents and spaces makes it seem like a lot when its really not. 

 

I am a loyal person, firstly. Secondly, I believed in Dragon. Thirdly (see how these transitions make it seem like im saying a lot, but really not), so play this out here... if I abandoned Dragon AFTER his efforts, how would that have made me look? I already look bad now, Id look much worse if I abandoned him, and SURELY I would have been written nasted replies like "youre so impatient, disrespectful, inconsiderate, a jerk, and you wasted his time". NOT TO MENTION, likely blacklisting AND other artist turn downs.  If people think im bad, theyve seen nothing. Ive actually seen genuinely rude and ungrateful ppl/requestors. 

Edited January 13, 2017 by Mar

[Undead Wolf]

You have my sympathy, @Dragon-Archon. You have the patience of a saint.

[Dragon-Archon]

12 hours ago, Dav9834 said:

Edit:This was my 2017 post! Get it! The new year! 

... Maybe only I find it pretty cool... 

Always remember this happened on Friday the 13th  .

 

10 hours ago, Mar said:

Nah I didnt want orange, but there seems to be confusion on that subject. I didnt think you was going to do 4 versions with the different colors (even though im glad you did). 

 

Back to logo color: 

Original/natural = original photo (I posted) color.

Colored = washed out orange (your personal touch), since its colorful, unlike the original image. Secondly, I actually love the non-orange color (the colored one/yours) you did with it. Despite argubly looking washed out, since it looks like a washed out orange by nature, it fits the tone of the cover, which is perfect. Thirdly, the placement is perfect, where I wanted it from the start.

 

Yes you nailed the combination I was talking about to, though I see the small cracked space inbetween. (People will think im rude for saying that but its just CC to make you a better artist.) What I meant by skinner was reducing the horizantal thickness of the bars, especially to also preserve the Mar text size.

 

Overall 9.5/10 for this cover. (Second one, and is my favorite.) If I myself made that, Id be proud. That means a lot coming from myself, especially a Jak fan, thus this is a fantastic cover made by @Dragon-Archon. Thank you Dragon for your patience, skills, efforts, time, and willingness. Youve made a great cover photo and a member here happy. @ruffedgz Obviously thanks to you to for The Mar render.

I'm glad that you like it.

 

Also for the coloured logo: I used the background colours for that, so it's still the original/natural colour. About that small cracked space: if you're referring to that line between the precursor bar and horizontal line, it's an optical thing that happened when a brighter part is put next to a really dark part.

 

10 hours ago, Undead Wolf said:

You have my sympathy, @Dragon-Archon. You have the patience of a saint.

Thanks  .

[Dragon-Archon]

On 14-12-2016 at 8:45 PM, TNekke said:

If anyone is interested to do this one for me, i really like the Fallout series.

i've searched some wallpapers but none of them fits perfect. The one i'm having now is 'meh' haha

I'm not looking for something specific, just fallout-theme.µ

If someone can make something really nice i maybe will print it out to have it in my gameroom on the wall...

Thanks in advance !!

What do you think?

 

[TNekke]

7 minutes ago, Dragon-Archon said:

What do you think?

 

 

Looking good @Dragon-Archon

Maybe 1 thing ( just asking ) now i see the design, could it be possible to add my name  ' TNekke ' in the style of the fallout sign ? in the middle or at the place of the sign now maybe ?? and removing Fallout4.

 

And if that won't work maybe just cutting the 4 off the sign so it just says Fallout ?

 

Otherwise it looks pretty badass..

[Dragon-Archon]

2 hours ago, TNekke said:

 

Looking good @Dragon-Archon

Maybe 1 thing ( just asking ) now i see the design, could it be possible to add my name  ' TNekke ' in the style of the fallout sign ? in the middle or at the place of the sign now maybe ?? and removing Fallout4.

 

And if that won't work maybe just cutting the 4 off the sign so it just says Fallout ?

 

Otherwise it looks pretty badass..

Here you go:

 

[KyuubiWarGreymon]

This is really cool of you guys to do for people. ^^ 

 

If it wouldn't be too much trouble, could i ask for one of WarGreymon with my name KyuubiWarGreymon on it please? Thank you. ^-^

[Dragon-Archon]

7 minutes ago, KyuubiWarGreymon said:

This is really cool of you guys to do for people. ^^ 

 

If it wouldn't be too much trouble, could i ask for one of WarGreymon with my name KyuubiWarGreymon on it please? Thank you. ^-^

Added you to the waiting list.

[KyuubiWarGreymon]

Just now, Dragon-Archon said:

Added you to the waiting list.

 

Okay, thank you. ^^

[Jak]

6 hours ago, Dragon-Archon said:

 

 

I'm glad that you like it.

 

Also for the coloured logo: I used the background colours for that, so it's still the original/natural colour. About that small cracked space: if you're referring to that line between the precursor bar and horizontal line, it's an optical thing that happened when a brighter part is put next to a really dark part.

 

But it looks different to the original : o. That's weird. I think Ive dealt with that issue myself somewhere before.

 

Too bad other artist despise me now, rip future creations.

 

That FO one is good to. If I went for a more creative cover im sure you would have made a nice cover - with your own freedom - but I wanted a Mar focused cover, which is why I didnt like the Jak 1 insertion, despite the cool non-colored, transparent aspect of it (that I liked). Only didnt like Jak in it because he didnt fit the "Mar" theme.

[Dav9834]

6 hours ago, Dragon-Archon said:

Always remember this happened on Friday the 13th  .

 

Ya couldn't just let me have my fun.....

Damn number ruins everything it touches... 

 

Edited January 14, 2017 by Dav9834

[Dragon-Archon]

27 minutes ago, Mar said:

But it looks different to the original : o. That's weird. I think Ive dealt with that issue myself somewhere before.

 

Too bad other artist despise me now, rip future creations.

 

That FO one is good to. If I went for a more creative cover im sure you would have made a nice cover - with your own freedom - but I wanted a Mar focused cover, which is why I didnt like the Jak 1 insertion, despite the cool non-colored, transparent aspect of it (that I liked). Only didnt like Jak in it because he didnt fit the "Mar" theme.

Technically Jak is Mar, so yeah.... Also are you not going to use the cover image?

 

3 minutes ago, Dav9834 said:

Ya couldn't just let me have my fun.....

Damn number ruins everything it touches... 

You're honestly surprised I pointed that out?  

[Jak]

41 minutes ago, Dragon-Archon said:

Technically ..........  so yeah.... Also are you not going to use the cover image?

 

That's a spoiler :\ Haha, as far as the storyline is concerned, there are

 

two Mars. Jak simply just having the shared name as The Mar. And the kid is more Mar than Jak is Mar, since the kid's name was always Mar whereas we knew Jak as Jak for a long time period (renamed). My profile is sophisticated: Not everyone knows the kid in my photo is actually Jak, so I get to rep "Mar" - avatar, name, and now cover photo.. technically is Mar - aka Jak without spoiling people, hence my Mar themed profile instead of Jak (a Jak avatar or name change to Jak would spoil ppl). Again, using Jak's older character wont match any of those 2 themes 

.

 

I tried using it (from mobile) but it doesnt fit the full space on my profile

Edited January 14, 2017 by Mar

[thegirlruka]

2 hours ago, Mar said:

I tried using it (from mobile) but it doesnt fit the full space on my profile

Mobile shows a different size than on a computer.

Edited January 14, 2017 by kuuhaku

[Jak]

1 hour ago, kuuhaku said:

Mobile shows a different size than on a computer.

 

Kinda vague. The image itself, or the image on the profile (which I know btw)?

 

And apparantly, the image is one way workable. Applying it from pc (mostly) shows it fine when getting on mobile, but applying it from mobile doesnt even work on itself, so it likely wont when signing on a pc from mobile (dont get confused, its not a contradiction).

[Dav9834]

3 minutes ago, Mar said:

 

Kinda vague. The image itself, or the image on the profile (which I know btw)?

 

And apparantly, the image is one way workable. Applying it from pc (mostly) shows it fine when getting on mobile, but applying it from mobile doesnt even work on itself, so it likely wont when signing on a pc from mobile (dont get confused, its not a contradiction).

You need a larger size for mobile unfortunately. It's posted in the OP

 

1. Normal ones are 1270x200 pixels. Using this one will show a black bar at the pop-up menu when hovering over a member's username. Having a 1270x265 image removes the black bar mostly, causing it to become a faded bar.
2. When using the mobile version of the site, the cover images have a limit of 1270x600. Take a look at this postfor some examples.

 

[thegirlruka]

1 hour ago, Mar said:

 

Kinda vague. The image itself, or the image on the profile (which I know btw)?

 

And apparantly, the image is one way workable. Applying it from pc (mostly) shows it fine when getting on mobile, but applying it from mobile doesnt even work on itself, so it likely wont when signing on a pc from mobile (dont get confused, its not a contradiction).

Yeah. I meant the image on the profile shows as a different size. It actually doesn't even show as the same size on every computer or on every phone. It's a dynamic size and ratio based on the pixel length of the screen viewing the site. It is extremely annoying that sly chose to do it this way—especially since it destroys desktop mode on mobile devices.

 

I did some testing with developer mode on chrome and the size it downscales from is 1920x1080. It changes the location of the cutoff in a way that I can't really guess at. For some, it starts cutting off the image for the first 50 pixels on the left on some sizes and on other sizes it starts cutting off from the bottom of the screen. The only thing that stays relatively the same is the hover card and that is best made from the 1270x265 resolution.

 

In my personal opinion, I think the image @Dragon-Archon made would look best on mobile if he made tiles of the precursor bars to the bottom of the image until it reached 600px high while continuing to have the statue of mar go down with it. That would allow it to continue looking the way it does now on your hover card and when viewed from most computers while replacing the black bar at the bottom on mobile with the pattern of the precursor wall.

[Dragon-Archon]

32 minutes ago, kuuhaku said:

In my personal opinion, I think the image @Dragon-Archon made would look best on mobile if he made tiles of the precursor bars to the bottom of the image until it reached 600px high while continuing to have the statue of mar go down with it. That would allow it to continue looking the way it does now on your hover card and when viewed from most computers while replacing the black bar at the bottom on mobile with the pattern of the precursor wall.

Dragon isn't available right now, please leave a message after the peep.

[DEMON]

3 minutes ago, Dragon-Archon said:

Dragon isn't available right now, please leave a message after the peep.

 

Lol poor Dragon. You have so much more patience than me to have done a long request like this.