hi19hi19 Packs Graphics Request Thread

[.Gazelle.]

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attempted meeting in the middle (hehe) because fuck those μs

[.Gazelle.]

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i should probably just start editing these in after this, last set for a while gotta study

[hi19hi19]

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OMG all three of those are beautiful.

Ant IDM is fine. I won't stop you if you want to redo it but I really find it quite nice as it is.
Church theme works perfectly for Apomnhmoneumai, and I like the compromise on language. Interesting for me to see how you use the same color casting technique so well in this banner.
And of course Atomic Orbital is great too.

Thanks so much!

Updated.

Made one more banner myself...

Using that same color casting deal a different way. Definitely makes the solid black text more legible but maybe there's a better way?
Also playing around with text size, I think the offset capitalization I came up with turned out cool.
Still the same problem with my love of big blocky fonts that need something more to make them interesting.

[hi19hi19]

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hehe


Dicking around with layers and such
Left a barely visible seam where I cut, couldn't figure out why or how to get rid of it...

EDIT- better, I think



p.s. the joke is that there's at least like half a dozen visible hands

[Buta-san]

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2/hu

[hi19hi19]

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Okay so that looks nice but I guess I forgot to mention...

.png format please, it's not like anyone super cares about filesize if they're downloading like 300mb of Stepmania so just use the higher quality format.

Also backgrounds should be 1280x720 and banners 512x160, wtf is up with all the weird sizes people are using?
Has something changed with regards to graphics sizing convention that I don't know about? lol
(yes I realize that they all scale to these dimensions, so I'm just confused)

I'll cross Resurrection Spell off but I'd appreciate if you could repost the images with these properties.
Also you can get rid of the "LeaF" on the background, it's not required that artist be on the background (or banner, tbh) and it does look a bit out of place.
And you seem to be missing a block of texture in the lower right corner, again not a huge deal but might as well fix it lol

Updated the OP accordingly.
Thank you for contributing though! I do very appreciate it.

[Kraezymann]

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Gazelle posted 3 sets at 1366x768 before you mentioned a size guideline. I think maybe buta's banner is just scaled larger because it would look better with higher resolution themes.

Even my bg for this set was larger when I finished it, since I was following Gazelle's lead.

Hope these work

[hi19hi19]

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Yeah I just left Gazelle's larger. I can scale them down at some point maybe or I could just leave them, its not a huge deal.
Sorry for not being clear earlier, I should have specified.

Those Skadi graphics are nice, I will use them.
Thank you, they are very similar to what I was envisioning

[Buta-san]

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i didnt really like the artist name being there in the bg myself, glad it was mentioned.

heres .png

[Cold Kitten]

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if i can ever get ps working again, i'd totally be up to make some of these 8) i miss having my gfx being for hi19 files </3

[.Gazelle.]

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i can resize if you'd like, but as far as i know sm5 scales them by itself, the larger it is the more resolutions the sets can fit while keeping the image quality, correct me if im wrong though i don't know for certain.

[.Gazelle.]

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just gonna keep doing them at this size for now because it'll be easier for me to scale them down than up

[hi19hi19]

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i didnt really like the artist name being there in the bg myself, glad it was mentioned.

heres .png

These are perfect now, thank you so much!

if i can ever get ps working again, i'd totally be up to make some of these 8) i miss having my gfx being for hi19 files </3

Funny that you mention it, out of all the graphics you made me years ago, the vast majority were released already in my first packs, but there were two files with your graphics that didn't make the cut for those packs. I redid one of those files and it is going to be released in this pack now. So in fact you already have a gfx set in this pack.
That said, I would love to have you contribute more now!

i can resize if you'd like, but as far as i know sm5 scales them by itself, the larger it is the more resolutions the sets can fit while keeping the image quality, correct me if im wrong though i don't know for certain.

just gonna keep doing them at this size for now because it'll be easier for me to scale them down than up

You are correct that SM5 scales graphics automatically. SM3.9 scales automatically too, which unfortunately means widescreen backgrounds get squished horizontally. But that's something 3.9 players should be used to by now haha
I suppose it's fine if you want to keep using the slightly larger background size. Like I said, filesize is kind of a non-issue so might as well.
I just wanted to make the guidelines clear in case people started going smaller, which is not okay.

These are... a little dark for a song that starts out sounding more or less like a slot machine.
Yes the lyrics are about a masochistic girl, but also hedonism and drugs and partying.

If possible, I'd like to suggest a few small changes:
First, make the Japanese a little brighter; it's almost invisible with grey against black.
And second, some kind of additional figure in the picture. The backdrop is already very nice for this. You could just slap an obligatory anime on there, or some party girl silhouette iPod advertisement kind of deal (sorta like this, which I think fits really well, but is unfortunately from a YouTube screencap and I don't want to just darkshark it for my own pack), or something else you come up with.

I'll go ahead and cross this song off, as I'll absolutely use these gfx if you don't want to edit them any more.
Sorry if this is being too picky... like I said, I'm super grateful even if you don't edit them at all.

[hi19hi19]

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Alternatively you could use that background for a different song that it might fit better (maybe Reminders, or one of the darker metal songs?) and make something else for Explosion Girl? idk up to you

[Buta-san]

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Yes the lyrics are about a masochistic girl, but also hedonism and drugs and partying.

mememe