Hi guys.

Seeing as how quite a few of you have so generously offered help with Banners and tags for the forum, Rhonda and I though that perhaps we should have a little contest, where you clever graphics savvy people can enter a banner and the whole forum gets to pick the winner.

That way everyone has an equal opportunity to win.

To make it tempting, all who enter a banner will be granted access to a special sub forum we'll create just for you graphics wizards and will have a special "Graphics Team" tag.


SO, would you be interested?

Lea

And Here is our first entry from Phoenix,






:praise :praise :praise

Phoenix you done a awesome job! :D

Well I'm only a graphics beginner, but I thought I'd give it a go. So here is my entry:



I know it's probably the wrong dimension but I just thought I'd have a bit of fun trying to make one as I needed something to amuse myself all night cause I couldn't sleep. But now I'm :tired so I'm off to bed.

Oh Phoenix and JayTech...they are both superb!

I love the pictures you've both used...very nice indeed!!

Hey thats real good Jay! :D

Oh My Goodness. WOW.

We have some seriously talented people on here..

These are so wonderful.
Thanks to you both. How on earth are we going to pick... Thank goodness its up to all of the members.

To make the situation even harder. rJays made a flashy banned to chose from.



May the best image win.

^ LOL!!
It looks like something I'd create if I tried to do one!! :lol:

You must be skilled.

Go to paint and show us what you got!

Ohhhhh...a dare?!?!

OK...but remember...you asked for it!! ;)

I'm so proud!! ;)

The thing took twice as long to upload as it did to make.

I wonder if I'll get a "Graphic" tag for this?!?! ;)

Damn I wish I could really do these things!
I'm in awe of those who can :yes:

Oh OK I so have to join in on this.. Cos I want to win. LOL.

It will have to be when I get home though..
*I will seek out a graphics expert at work and Cheat*

:o

ok I'm gonna have a go but there's no way I can do one anywhere near as good as the others :lol:

I know.


Rhodna you mayaswell call the competition off and declare me winner, i won by a long shot.

oh yes for sure you did! :praise :clap :praise :clap :lol:

ok well here's my entry, I figured I'd do one that doesn't just include the winners, since that isn't all the forum's for



god does it look as bad to everyone else as it does to me :unsure:

Rach thats fantastic. WOW sure looks good. Thanks sooooooooo much... :wub:

Very nice. You may have a chance against me. :clap

That's great Rach!! Any banner with a picture of Anthony on it is OK by me!! ;)


Now promise you all won't laugh...I attemted to make a banner, using Paint mind you, as I don't have PhotoShop.

This is the first thing like this I've ever attempted....so be kind! ;)

Wow did you really use paint? Thats great :D very well done! :music

OMG Lea thats soooooooooo good. Clever you.
Youll be getting requests soon.

:praise :praise :praise :praise

Haven't we had some wonderful banners posted?!?!

We're going to be very lucky to be able to post one of these at the top of the forum...great job all of you! :)

WOW Lea that is amazing!! Are you sure it's your first attempt?? ;)

Yes, we have some extremely talented people on here!!! It's going to be so tough to choose one as they are all fantastic!!

Lea that is great, pretty darn good for a first attempt - especially only using paint!!! You should have seen the first one I ever tried to make, hahahahaha, it was absolutely awful, lol. I have Photoshop but I don't really have much of an idea what I am doing, lol. Have been trying to teach myself how to use it for ages but as I have never used blending programs before that, I just play around with everything but I don't know how to use half of the features so I think I do everything the hard way which takes heaps longer, lol.

Well here's one I attempted to make on paint...



It's not that good. :rolleyes:

lvwrestling72 It is so good.

All these efforts are fantastic. Gosh i am so artistically challenged its not funny. I dont think even a good prgram would help me LOL.

Well done and thanks.

Oooh...I like that effect lvwrestling72, so unique! :clap:

Lea you so did not do that in paint :o That's incredible.

lol mine sucks, I couldn't put anything else on it in the background cos there wasn't room :lol: But all your ones with stars on them are so good.

Plus all I can do is blend :lol:

You are all amazing.
Do you want to see my best effort.

Well look up. Thats the best i could do. LOL
When our banner was taken off I had to find something quicly so that my entry. The one we have now LOL...

^ Going for the 'minimalist' look, huh? ;)

Hold on...let me enter one...I'll have it by tomorrow

The more the merrier.

Here's mine! Sorry that it's kinda bad

What do you mean 'bad'!?!? It's terrific!
Nice job Zach :)

Oh my goodness I dont think mine is going to stay there for too long LOL

Just a question.. once 1 of these banners go up the top, will they be bigger? because most of the ones made arent the right size..

Well once the members have selected the winner we will ask the creator to resize it.
Poll will be up maybe wednesday.

Sounds good. ;)