Buttons slash mini banners (G)

[Serenity]

Type of art: Buttons/Mini banners
Title: None.
Rating: G
Series: SotLQ, TIQ, PotSQ, TC & TQ, and CoM.
A/N: Isha made some beautiful buttons to advertise with, but I got the bug and decided to try my hand at a few, too. As you can probably tell, I've a love affair with the UK reissued covers going on. I will probably make more later, with various covers, and more sized closer to the third one. I hope you like them, and feel free to use.

[ubiquitous]

Ooh, these are very prettty. And I love how the font keeps in style with the covers. Great work!!

[rainstormamaya]

ooh, very pretty! (I want to make a Kel banner thing, now...)

[Katty]

Oh pretty! I love the emelan ones

[Serenity]

Thanks guys! The Tortall heroine mini-banner just refused to cooperate with me, for some reason. I may go back and redo that at some point, but for now, I am leaving well enough alone.

Isha, I'm glad you like it! It took me a while to find a font that was easily read and also matched the style, but I am lucky enough (or obsessive enough) to have hundreds of fonts to choose from.

May, you should go for it! I'd love to see what you come up with.

Aww, thanks, Kat.

[Wild]

Love them!
I just a quick suggestion for the bigger banners. I know it's possible somehow to just get the image and text to appear without the coloured backgrounds. I think that it would look nice on other colour schemes that may not agree to the grey or blue that we have.

[Serenity]

Thanks! I was just thinking about doing that, myself. I'll see what I can do about it. I am Photoshop challenged in that I have never been able to get invisible backgrounds to work for me, but I will poke around again!

[Wild]

I was so close once to getting them to work for me. I think maybe if you take the eraser tool and carefully go about the outskirts of the image it might work. I think I did that once when I was experimenting with Photoshop awhile ago.

EDIT:
Background Easer Tool, I couldn't save the text but I think you can easily add it in.

[ubiquitous]

Mar 28, 2009 18:00:27 GMT 10 Serenity said:

Thanks! I was just thinking about doing that, myself. I'll see what I can do about it. I am Photoshop challenged in that I have never been able to get invisible backgrounds to work for me, but I will poke around again!

If you delete/hide the layer with the background colour, you should be right.

[Serenity]

Got it. Thanks for your help, Isha. Allie -- it's actually super easy. I can show you, if you want to know in future. I am so technologically challenged. "I've wiped the file? I've wiped all the files? I've wiped the internet? I don't even have a modem!"

Anyway, here are the bars with transparent backgrounds. Let me know if there are any other modifications you'd rather have.

[ubiquitous]

No problem Yay, you did them with both text colours too! I'm spoilt for choice

[Wild]

Oooo! Prudy!

Mar 28, 2009 19:22:28 GMT 10 Serenity said:

Got it. Thanks for your help, Isha. Allie -- it's actually super easy. I can show you, if you want to know in future.

Heh, well I tend to complicate simple things anyway.

[boosette]

Okay, the first banner makes me want someone to tackle Kel/Nawat.

Because sparrows? ≠ that big. Even the obese ones I see around campus.

[Serenity]

Hah, Candice. I tried to use the Lady Knight cover at first because that very same thing was bothering me. I eventually resigned to using this one when it kept looking like I was taking Peachblossom's eye out every time I cropped it. And now that you mention it, it really does look like a crow.

Hm. Paging Kat.

[anilaurel]

Wow these are great, virtual cookies and karma for all.

[Serenity]

Aww, thanks! I'm glad you like them.

This reminds me that I'd intended to make more and never got 'round to it. Hmm. I may have to try remedying that tonight.

(By the way, your signature text is adorable. Three cheers for being able to thwart our computers when they eventually decide to take over the world.)

[Imogen]

These are really cute! I like the style of the UK cover art.