Banners - Catching Up!

[candybouquet]

Here is a reference post as we're a bit behind in banners. ^^; Banner makers, please let me know if you're still able to do them or if they're in progress or if you need any help!♥ Any volunteers are welcome!

banners assigned to illegalsanity
week 31: flight
week 41: future
week 45: eternity (unconfirmed)

banners assigned to casper_san
week 38: limited color
week 42

Comments

[casper_san]

FINISHED MINE! ^.^

[candybouquet]

Hurray! Thank you so much! Would you like to be back in the rotation? :D

[casper_san]

yessem. that would be fine.

just a quick question though. How do you do your banners like that? I've been trying to learn and haven't managed ^^;

[candybouquet]

I really just improvise, the first thing I do is get the same image featured in the icon but if its too hard to find, I just find one similar to it (i.e same character). Then I try to see if I have any similar brushes/textures/gradients to it and just try to get it to match as much as I can. I'd be more than happy to elaborate more if you'd like. :D

[casper_san]

that would be awesome. i'm trying to improve my banners skillz ^^

[candybouquet]

Sure, do you want me to just pick any banner I made as an example or is there a specific one you'd like to see? :D

[casper_san]

any is fine ^^

[candybouquet]

Okie dokes, I'm going to choose one I recently made, which is the one I made for wicked_enough.

(I'm using Paint Shop Pro 8 but the stuff I do is pretty basic)

First I take her icon:

[casper_san]

Wow. I got of learning to do ^^ you have good eye for catching what's being used in the icons.

(I just tend to go "Oooooo Pertty" and that's about it XD )

Danku for showing me. I just might get the hang of this. ^^

[candybouquet]

A lot of it is just pure guessing and trial and error. I think you'll do perfectly fine. After all, your icons are just as pretty! *_*!