@cap123: Nice work, m'man! I must say yours was my favourite out of this week's entries, but the rest of them were very much nipping at your heels. Great week o' shopping, guys!
@Zidd: That's going to be hard to follow up. I suspect we'll see many use that format for the TNT text (including mine, which I'll have up soon).
[Edit] OK, since there wasn't a folder in the Dropbox yet, I went ahead and made one. And without further ado, here's mine:
Made a little adjustment to the brightness and contrast of the screen shot. The original was just too bright. It actually kinda hurt my eyes. Looks a lot better now. [Edit 2] Changed the box art to be console neutral, since they'll be playing on both PS3 and 360.
@Zidd: I think you're better off with the magenta. It better replicates the game's logo. Another idea (for you or someone else) to try would be some pixilation to replicate video artifacts.
Here's my attempt. I'm thinking it might be a bit too 'busy', so I'll try it with some different background images later. But this is what I've got for now.
EDIT: Well, based on feedback in this thread I've changed my design slightly. I've just removed the white neon from behind the box art, made the TNT neon brighter and slightly altered the contrast and brightness in the background image. Here it is:
@B0nd07: I think so too since replicating the style of the games logo was in the design guidelines in the template. I like the idea of the artifacting but it will be hard to make it look really good.
@face15: If you take the neon off of the box art and limit it to just where the TNT is I think it would look great.
@RockAction: My first tip would be to save and upload images as .png files instead of .jpg files. That way you won't get the blurry distortion that you can see around the text in your images above. Other than that they are both pretty good, though I reckon they'd look better with a drop shadow on the box art, and instead of the pink T have a pink box with a black T inside it, to better match the games logo.
@Zidd:@B0nd07: I can't decide whether I agree with you or not, but I've made some other changes, so here's what it now looks like with and without the neon on the box art.
" My first tip would be to save and upload images as .png files instead of .jpg files. That way you won't get the blurry distortion that you can see around the text in your images above. Other than that they are both pretty good, though I reckon they'd look better with a drop shadow on the box art, and instead of the pink T have a pink box with a black T inside it, to better match the games logo."
Do that.
@face15: Without is better, but you might want to add a fade-to-black to the screen shot close to the middle, around where the box art is. That should help make things less busy in either one.
" Since when did TNT banners become so serious? Plenty of opportunities for funny stuff here. No need to play it so straight. "
Yeh, i wanted to do something with the image i found below and substitute Ryan and Jeff, but i'm not that good at photoshop, and it looked poor, and not even, as Ryan said, 'good bad photoshop' it was just 'bad bad photoshop'
but i thought it would be a good image to use for that
I'm not entirely happy with it, if I get the time I might come back and fix it up a little bit. Also, do I just need to copy the files into the dropbox folder? "
exactly what i was thinking of, thanks for making it, looks good
yeh place a PNG and PSD in the dropbox folder i think
" I made a few more edits and this is what I am submitting. Final entry for Kane and Lynch 2 "
That looks really good. I only wish it were a bit more stupid, like most of what GB community puts out. Obviously, don't take that to say I don't like it. It just might look too professional for this site. You know, without a Brad photobomb or Jeff doing something inappropriate.
There's nothing wrong with, as Ryan put it, good-bad Photoshop, but it should be in moderation. They kinda lose their charm if they're pushed through week after week. I'm sure, when the subject matter is right, we'll see them again in force.
Despite what I said earlier about good-bad Photoshop in moderation, I made this. I'm actually kind of surprised no one else made one, considering how many passing remarks have been made about it. This should help satisfy some of those seeking a more silly promo.
I give you President Brad Washington and Chancellor Ryan Von Bismarck:
A TNT and Endurance Run in one! Full size version here. Also: Yay, double post!
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