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Like the welcoming home of a popular uncle or a bedraggled cat limping through the catflap of your back door, it's the return of the legendary Special Reserve Banner Competition!
*silence*
Okay, here's the deal - we've done several of these competitions before, but I'm sure there's plenty of newbies who'd like a refresher on the rules. We're asking you to design banners for our site, and the best banner/group of banners will win prizes. A banner is the long, oblong shaped image at the top of the page, and it's usually used to promote games, hardware or other Special Reserve services. What you have to do is use your artistic vision and create one or more banners advertising either games we sell, hardware we sell or any of our multi-functional services (see extremely massive left-hand sidestrip for inspiration).
Remember, we sell games, DVD players, cameras, gadgets, MP3 players, hardware, PC stuff, Freeola internet access, domain names, we do cheats, chat, hints, walkthroughs, reviews, prizes... we even nearly did garden sheds this one time. You don't even want to know what we've got in the pipeline. Seriously. There's plenty to go on.
There are a few rules you need to follow, namely the ones I'm about to type now:
The banners must be 468 x 60 in size.
They must be either in JPG or GIF format.
They must be 15K or less (bummer I know, but them's the breaks).
They must advertise a product/service that SR offer.
They must not be rubbish.
You can enter as many times as you like, and people usually like to set up a webpage of their own with all of their banners in one place (this also makes it easier to judge). If you so desire, there is a template available if you'd like to stick with the natty design we use for our games banners, but we're giving you a free reign to be as artistic as you like. Still or animated, the choice is yours. If you've got Photoshop, Paint or any graphics program like that, plus at least one iota of artistic merit, then you should be sorted.
Closing date is February 27th so you've got plenty time to get your groove on. If you're unable to host your own banners, then you can send them to the normal gameaday e-mail address and I'll view it that way.
Banner it up, fools!
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We have 3 lucky winners for this compo, and they are:
mikelar - http://www.geocities.com/mikelar10/banners.html
Edgy - http://uk.geocities.com/darkedgy/
Joe Dark - http://www.geocities.com/joedarkuk/2004bannercomp.html
We ll done guys. Expect to see some of your banners on our site soon ;).
*silence*
Okay, here's the deal - we've done several of these competitions before, but I'm sure there's plenty of newbies who'd like a refresher on the rules. We're asking you to design banners for our site, and the best banner/group of banners will win prizes. A banner is the long, oblong shaped image at the top of the page, and it's usually used to promote games, hardware or other Special Reserve services. What you have to do is use your artistic vision and create one or more banners advertising either games we sell, hardware we sell or any of our multi-functional services (see extremely massive left-hand sidestrip for inspiration).
Remember, we sell games, DVD players, cameras, gadgets, MP3 players, hardware, PC stuff, Freeola internet access, domain names, we do cheats, chat, hints, walkthroughs, reviews, prizes... we even nearly did garden sheds this one time. You don't even want to know what we've got in the pipeline. Seriously. There's plenty to go on.
There are a few rules you need to follow, namely the ones I'm about to type now:
The banners must be 468 x 60 in size.
They must be either in JPG or GIF format.
They must be 15K or less (bummer I know, but them's the breaks).
They must advertise a product/service that SR offer.
They must not be rubbish.
You can enter as many times as you like, and people usually like to set up a webpage of their own with all of their banners in one place (this also makes it easier to judge). If you so desire, there is a template available if you'd like to stick with the natty design we use for our games banners, but we're giving you a free reign to be as artistic as you like. Still or animated, the choice is yours. If you've got Photoshop, Paint or any graphics program like that, plus at least one iota of artistic merit, then you should be sorted.
Closing date is February 27th so you've got plenty time to get your groove on. If you're unable to host your own banners, then you can send them to the normal gameaday e-mail address and I'll view it that way.
Banner it up, fools!
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We have 3 lucky winners for this compo, and they are:
mikelar - http://www.geocities.com/mikelar10/banners.html
Edgy - http://uk.geocities.com/darkedgy/
Joe Dark - http://www.geocities.com/joedarkuk/2004bannercomp.html
We ll done guys. Expect to see some of your banners on our site soon ;).
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wha!?
CGJ wrote:
> Chad Niga wrote:
> I see them, they are average, but not winner though.
>
> Last times winners were proper good.
>
> Are they good work for a 13 year old?
They're good but tacky in places. You should look at the last times winners.
> Chad Niga wrote:
> I see them, they are average, but not winner though.
>
> Last times winners were proper good.
>
> Are they good work for a 13 year old?
They're good but tacky in places. You should look at the last times winners.
You need uber skills to win, m'boy
Damarus wrote:
> CGJ wrote:
> Chad Niga wrote:
> I see them, they are average, but not winner though.
>
> Last times winners were proper good.
>
> Are they good work for a 13 year old?
>
> They're good but tacky in places. You should look at the last times
> winners.
link please! i wanna know what you mean by "tacky", exactly...
> CGJ wrote:
> Chad Niga wrote:
> I see them, they are average, but not winner though.
>
> Last times winners were proper good.
>
> Are they good work for a 13 year old?
>
> They're good but tacky in places. You should look at the last times
> winners.
link please! i wanna know what you mean by "tacky", exactly...
Mattribute wrote:
> You need uber skills to win, m'boy
ill do some later, and win. i have uber fireworks skills, photoshop skills and GIMP skills.
anyone else use GIMP? i dont use it primarily, i use fireworks and just paint over stuff using that ever-so-useful paint tool to paint out stuff on the sr stock pics that i dont need. and arial looks really great when put with those pics that sr have on their sites.
i hope i wont lose points for using srs own image but adding stuff.
> You need uber skills to win, m'boy
ill do some later, and win. i have uber fireworks skills, photoshop skills and GIMP skills.
anyone else use GIMP? i dont use it primarily, i use fireworks and just paint over stuff using that ever-so-useful paint tool to paint out stuff on the sr stock pics that i dont need. and arial looks really great when put with those pics that sr have on their sites.
i hope i wont lose points for using srs own image but adding stuff.
Dont boast too much, coz if you do poor, we will rip you apart.
what with? a spam sword?
*makes it in photoshop*
*makes it in photoshop*
Watch your self. We are good at ripping people.
And im sure you're not that good on photoshop, you just know how to use differant paintbrush styles and the clone tool.
And im sure you're not that good on photoshop, you just know how to use differant paintbrush styles and the clone tool.
true im not that good at it
but im good at image editing in general.
but im good at image editing in general.
Yes, im sure you are.
Not as good as chad. Because im guessing the mention of clone tool put you down.
Not as good as chad. Because im guessing the mention of clone tool put you down.
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