Welcome to the Weekly Contest! If you have any questions or comments regarding the rules, please take them to the Rules Discussion. If you'd like to suggest a theme for next week's contest, please do so in the Suggestion Box. If you have any other questions or comments, feel free to send a PM to me, ExpiredRascals, or ISBPathfinder.
Theme
Due to this being the first week in a while the contest has been run, we're going to start things off pretty simply with a black and white theme. You're free to go in whatever direction you'd like with the theme as long as your avatar and banner are strictly black and white (no colours).
Deadline
Entries must be submitted before the thread for next week's contest is posted on Monday, September 2nd, 2013.
Rules
General:
A new contest and a poll for the old contest is posted every Monday (give or take a few due to timezones).
You may not vote for your own entry.
Gimmick accounts cannot submit entries.
You may not post just to list the people you voted for; you must provide some additional content, such as your reasoning for voting as such.
Submitting Entries:
You may send in entries until the poll is up.
Once you have posted an entry, you may only make minor changes to it. All such minor changes must be okayed by a contest moderator.
Entries that don't fit the theme are not allowed, unless allowed by the moderator.
All entries should be made in full by the submitter. This includes resizing
Your entry can only consist of one banner/avatar/wallpaper, unless otherwise specified. No rotating banners, no sets.
All entries have to be created for the contest; you cannot submit something you made for some other purpose.
All art must be cited. For card art, simple card tags will do, otherwise please provide the artist's name and a link to the art. Please note whenever any of this information is unavailable or if you used original pieces.
You may use non-magic art as long as the contest doesn't say otherwise.
If you have any question about whether your entry falls within the rules, please PM one of the moderators about it before posting the banner.
Schedule:
Every week that ends in zero, we'll have a wallpaper contest.
Every other week will be either an avatar contest, a banner contest, or both.
Avatars:
Avatars must be between 50x50 and 100x100 pixels.
Avatars may be animated.
Avatars must be usable as a forum avatar. This means that they should be less than 40KB in filesize.
Banners:
Sig submissions cannot be larger than 600x100 or 450x150. They can be no smaller than 300x50 or 225x75. Given the theme, the sizes can vary.
Banners cannot be animated unless the theme states otherwise.
Animated banners cannot have a file size greater than 500 KB.
Wallpapers:
Wallpapers must be between 800x600 and 1280x1024 pixels; no smaller or bigger.
Wallpapers cannot have animation.
Trophies:
Trophies will be awarded for every three contests a participant wins.
My skills at such things aren't great and the application I run for my basic image altering isn't great for any larger projects. I will see what I can do about getting an entry in this week though even with all that. I have a solid idea for this theme but don't know if I can follow through with it or not...
Also, I have no idea how to manipulate color out of images.... I will see what I can do though.
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I have officially moved to MTGNexus. I just wanted to let people know as my response time to salvation decks being bumped is very hit or miss.
I did some digging on how to convert to black and white and got this guide which is designed for photoshop which I don't have but I feel like his first method might be available in other image editors. I haven't played with it myself but it seems worth possibly sharing. If anyone has a better tutorial I would gladly watch it though.
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I have officially moved to MTGNexus. I just wanted to let people know as my response time to salvation decks being bumped is very hit or miss.
I did some digging on how to convert to black and white and got this guide which is designed for photoshop which I don't have but I feel like his first method might be available in other image editors. I haven't played with it myself but it seems worth possibly sharing. If anyone has a better tutorial I would gladly watch it though.
Thanks for sharing that, hopefully it'll help garner some more interest in the contest and get us at least another participant or two this week.
On a similar note, for those who use GIMP, all you have to do to convert an image from colour to black and white is go to the Colors section, click Desaturate, then choose what mode of desaturation you'd like to use. Simple as that.
Well, through much effort I managed to come up with an entry of my own this week. I apologize if it isn't very elegant. I really only have very basic skills with this and paint.net to work with.
Created with Dawn Charm + Midnight Charm plus this yin and yang img. I like playing on the concept of grayscale with the idea of yin and yang. I took a fire and water version of it to tie it into the colors of magic a bit better and then grayscaled the images. Technically, I should have put the midnight charm on the water side and the dawn charm on the fire side for a little more consistency with it but I didn't notice it until I was wrapping up and didn't feel like backtracking.
As for size.... whatever lol. I got something created at least.
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I have officially moved to MTGNexus. I just wanted to let people know as my response time to salvation decks being bumped is very hit or miss.
Well, through much effort I managed to come up with an entry of my own this week. I apologize if it isn't very elegant. I really only have very basic skills with this and paint.net to work with.
Created with Dawn Charm + Midnight Charm plus this yin and yang img. I like playing on the concept of grayscale with the idea of yin and yang. I took a fire and water version of it to tie it into the colors of magic a bit better and then grayscaled the images. Technically, I should have put the midnight charm on the water side and the dawn charm on the fire side for a little more consistency with it but I didn't notice it until I was wrapping up and didn't feel like backtracking.
As for size.... whatever lol. I got something created at least.
That's actually really cool, I was considering doing something yin yang related.
Well, I wasn't really gunna submit anything cause normally I don't like anything I make enough to actually want to show it to anyone else, but I see that you're making a sincere attempt at restarting the weekly contest. I'll participate till we either get it back up and running or fizzle out again.
Well, I wasn't really gunna submit anything cause normally I don't like anything I make enough to actually want to show it to anyone else, but I see that you're making a sincere attempt at restarting the weekly contest. I'll participate till we either get it back up and running or fizzle out again.
Black and White
Welcome to the Weekly Contest! If you have any questions or comments regarding the rules, please take them to the Rules Discussion. If you'd like to suggest a theme for next week's contest, please do so in the Suggestion Box. If you have any other questions or comments, feel free to send a PM to me, ExpiredRascals, or ISBPathfinder.
Due to this being the first week in a while the contest has been run, we're going to start things off pretty simply with a black and white theme. You're free to go in whatever direction you'd like with the theme as long as your avatar and banner are strictly black and white (no colours).
Entries must be submitted before the thread for next week's contest is posted on Monday, September 2nd, 2013.
General:
Submitting Entries:
Schedule:
Avatars:
Banners:
Wallpapers:
Trophies:
Banner:
Sources: #1 and #2.
Also, I have no idea how to manipulate color out of images.... I will see what I can do though.
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I did some digging on how to convert to black and white and got this guide which is designed for photoshop which I don't have but I feel like his first method might be available in other image editors. I haven't played with it myself but it seems worth possibly sharing. If anyone has a better tutorial I would gladly watch it though.
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Thanks for sharing that, hopefully it'll help garner some more interest in the contest and get us at least another participant or two this week.
On a similar note, for those who use GIMP, all you have to do to convert an image from colour to black and white is go to the Colors section, click Desaturate, then choose what mode of desaturation you'd like to use. Simple as that.
Created with Dawn Charm + Midnight Charm plus this yin and yang img. I like playing on the concept of grayscale with the idea of yin and yang. I took a fire and water version of it to tie it into the colors of magic a bit better and then grayscaled the images. Technically, I should have put the midnight charm on the water side and the dawn charm on the fire side for a little more consistency with it but I didn't notice it until I was wrapping up and didn't feel like backtracking.
As for size.... whatever lol. I got something created at least.
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[Modern] Allies
That's actually really cool, I was considering doing something yin yang related.
Awesome entry.
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Much appreciated.
By the way, that avatar's amazing, I'm in love with it. Good job.
(Slight personal bias because I love all of Miyazaki's works.)
Thanks, needless to say I was slightly inspired your submission. Yeah, I'll participate as long as I have time to.
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