User-Created Badges

[Shinigami]

Two^Three more...

Palkia(pearl),  Venusaur[for the original pokemon green] and Blastoise for Pokemon Blue.

Dialga is a pain though...nothing I make really captures it's uniqueness...

Sorry for using so many Pokemon in the badges

[Charon]

Dang, you've been busy! I've accepted all your badges, but it'll take a bit for me to put them up.

Even though we have the new badge system set up, I'll still accept new User-Created badges. So keep them coming!

[Rolina]

Two^Three more...

Palkia(pearl),  Venusaur[for the original pokemon green] and Blastoise for Pokemon Blue.

Dialga is a pain though...nothing I make really captures it's uniqueness...

Sorry for using so many Pokemon in the badges

Don't apologize!  When they don't have their own logo, the title mon is the way to go!  You did the best you could with the limited resources you had to work with.  You should be proud of the quality, too!

[Shinigami]

Here's a rayquaza badge for emerald

[Charon]

Hmm, looks a bit too sharpened. Try resizing a slightly different crop, that tends to yield better results. You can also (mildly) mess around with the blur feature.

[Shinigami]

I normally work with crops that are 100px² and then resize them to 50px². <--- Random piece of information.


Messed around with blurring the edges and increasing contrast (a little).

[Charon]

Good work, I'm doing other things at the moment but consider that added. (thanks for making all these badges! Really!)

[Shinigami]

:D
So...
That means it's Pokemon Black, White, Platinum, Diamond, Crystal, FireRed and LeafGreen to go...
D:
Suicine here for Pokemon crystal

[Shinigami]

Pokemon black and white badges...

[Charon]

All accepted.

[Shinigami]

[Charon]

Giratina's good, Dialga looks too sharpened.

[Rolina]

What do you mean by "too sharpened" exactly?  Just not enough anti-aliasing, or what?  Because I honestly think the first emerald badge they made looks better than the second one.  Background was a big factor there.

[Salanewt]

In Dialga's case, I think Charon is specifically talking about his horns. If you can see the pixels, it should be slightly blurred.

Otherwise, nice work so far Shinigami. Please keep at it, your badges are really good.

[Charon]

What do you mean by "too sharpened" exactly?  Just not enough anti-aliasing, or what?  Because I honestly think the first emerald badge they made looks better than the second one.  Background was a big factor there.

It's mainly two things that I didn't like:
-The picture was scaled poorly; while Gira looks relatively smooth but crisp, Dialga looks really pixelated in comparison
-The horns, like Salanewt stated, are very uneven looking in comparison to the background

In the case with the first Rayquaza, he looks really icky on the background with all those pixels sticking out. I liked the second better although imho its not his best.

[Rolina]

If you're using paint.net, it's got a feature that allows for various types of scaling to do it in a better way - the default is optimal, I believe.  Look into it - it does a much better job than would, say, MSPaint.  Dunno about how to do it in photoshop, but I'm sure they have a way to do smart scaling in it.

If nothing else, send me the cropped, un-resized pic, and I'll scale it to show you what I mean.

[Shinigami]

<--- New Rayquaza, old background...



I use GIMP Image Editor.

[Rolina]

Ah, I see.  Yeah, there's a reason I don't like Gimp, Shini.  Consider looking into Paint.NET.

[Charon]

Gimp actually has 4 different scaling options (although you should never use "none" under most circumstances).

The stock for Dialga you're using must be really low quality, because it still looks ugly... ;-; Are you using it from Bulbapedia? Usually they have really large images of the stock available for download.

[Shinigami]

@Role: I run Ubuntu, not windows... I'll try running it through WINE... but personally I'm happy with the GIMP and don't see your problem.
@Charon: Badge created with the image from Bulbapedia

I'll do Touhou character badges next...