Holy Great Guacamole!
We know you are going to use the picture for your personal site, but how are you going to use the image? As in how will you manipulate it, incorporate it, enhance it, expose it? How will you use it to create a design…
its a splash page, its just going to say-enter [requirements flash plug-in bla, bla bla]
i’ll also stick in my name or somthin, nothing too busy looking…i dont want to overwhelm the visitor.
I dont think you know how to read. We all know you want to use this for your personal site - I am saying what Ethan said, you can use it in many different styles, its those styles that make or break the image that you choose. You can do a lot with it. Going back to what Ethan said about colours, its not the colour, its what you do with it. Same with the images.
and why do you need a splah page?
So you want a splash page with just a picture on it. Like a white page with a picture and your welcome blah blah text?
You’re not going to edit the photo at all?
i need a splash page, because what if someone doesnt have * the flash plug-in?
[U]* and i will edit the photo!!!**[/U]
I will add some components, i like what you did in that example u showed me…i’m trying to go for a modern fresh look. rite now i cant tell u for sure what i will add. i first need to see what is the most effective picture, and then i will decide what effects are most suitable to add to the picture.
Well the flash-check is a whole seperate thread, but you put a script to check for flash. I hate sites with enter buttons, but again that is preference.
I still think you’re doing things backwards. For me I collect photos like you have that inspire me, then I start putting together my design in photoshop. We could all say we like #2 best and then you go and create some horrible picture with it. Or vice versa.
but see, i dont have that much photoshop training, i dont know how to create my own images. i can manipulate though. i will take the favorite pic of this forum, and create a couple different ones, and make another vote on which is the best, and thats gonna be on my site!
I mean this in a genuine way, but is English your first language? It just seems like you keep taking the wrong meaning of my and other peoples words.
I never said create and image like from scratch. I said create one, meaning to start with something stock and create your own artwork from it.
LoL, fun.
By saying we need to know the application doesn’t mean we want to know that it’s for your site. Basically what we need to know in a nutshell is what your site looks like. You want us to choose for you but we have nothing to go off of. We don’t know how your site is themed. We don’t know how well the image will flow w/ your site. We need to know the aesthetics.
o.k. now i am repeating myself and you DO NOT need to remind me [this is for simplistik]
[1] i am making a personal site. [about me, blog, fav links, gallery…]
[2] i want a clean, fresh, modern look to it
[3] i will have a splash page [one of the 3 pictures, an enter button, and requirements]
i know flash animation well, and limited actionscript
im bad at photoshop, but follow tutorials very well *(hint hint)
[font=Century Gothic][size=3][color=royalblue]@ ethan, english is my 2nd language[/color][/size][/font]
Ok now I am repeating myself. You aren’t listening to what any of us our saying, so I’m not going to reply again as it seems like wasted air.
Simplistik rehashed what I said. We need to know the style you have or want. WE KNOW THIS IS YOUR PERSONAL SPLASH PAGE. What we don’t know is anything else. Well you said Modern, but that can be many things. I suggest taking your three images and playing with them in photoshop use the colors and styles you want with all 3 images and then we will decide which one fits best.
Take it or leave it, but my advice to you is to stop telling everyone how things are long enough to listen to those who have already made your mistakes and can help you learn faster.
good luck.
Would it be easier if i showed you 5 sites that all have the same style and then you would tell me which of the pictures would work in that style?
You said you have little experience with PhotoShop right?
Well you only have 3 images above. Why not get some practice and create 3 splash ideas using each photo. Think of it as practice. Then we’ll tell you which splash looks best.
ok
should i add the text [name, requirements, enter] rite away? or should i just work with just the picture?
Work on the Compostion. Which includes the images you like. Colors. Fonts. Manipulations.
Try and create 3 different finished splash pages, and we’ll tell you what is good.
one more question, how will i show these images? i do not have a server, and i would need to make them much smaller and therefore lose quality to put them onto kirupa as attachments.
Hmmm… there wasn’t a need to yell or w/e. But I don’t think that you understood a word that was said. We are only tryin’ to help you out. Modern means nothing.
Basically what you want us to do is paint a portrait of someone you know w/o the us the reference. It would help us if you had something to show us, that’s all I was saying.
im working on it, im done 2 of my crappy splash pages to show to ethan and the other members, but wen im done [in 10 or so minutes], i dont know how to show these pics, i am without a server, and dont know how to present them.
Why dont you just upload them to a free image host like photobucket or something? You dont need your own server to show images.