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Fan Life => The Endzone Dive => Topic started by: WildCatzPhreak on June 08, 2007, 04:21:45 PM
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I'm sure most of you have heard about Kelsey Smith. She's an 18 year old girl who was headed to K-state to go prevet and play in the marching band who was kidnapped and murdered on Saturday.
I'm the one that's been running the websites findkelsey.com and kelseysarmy.com, the first to find kelsey and the second to remember her and raise money to pay for her final expenses. Both have gotten a lot of national attention, the first supposedly being the third most 'googled' website in the nation two days ago, and being on numerous local and national networks.
Now to cut to the point: I need both a logo and a banner for this new website. Quite simply, I don't know anything about photoshop and since this is honoring a very important young girls life I want it to look as good as it possibly can, so I'm asking for your help.
I'd like the 'logo' to be a perfect square, decent size - we can always shrink if need be. It should contain a picture of Kelsey and the words "Scrubbed in Sunshine."
I'd like the banner to include the words "Kelsey's Army" again with the same picture of Kelsey
Here is the picture her mother requested we use:
(http://www.kelseysarmy.com/kelsey_sm.jpg)
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If I had any photoshop skills at all I would do everything I could, unfortunately I suck at it. Props to you phreak for doin all of this. Hopefully someone will get it done soon.
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i'd be honored to do this-if you'd let me.
timeline?
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i'd be honored to do this-if you'd let me.
timeline?
the sooner the better, but i'm practically living at the smiths house right now so I can wait as long as need be.
but - i'd rather wait longer for a really awesome product than rush for a mediocre one.
gracias
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i'd be honored to do this-if you'd let me.
timeline?
the sooner the better, but i'm practically living at the smiths house right now so I can wait as long as need be.
but - i'd rather wait longer for a really awesome product than rush for a mediocre one.
gracias
let's shoot for tomorrow nightish.
do you have pixel dimensions on the banner? or will you just shrink that too?
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i'd be honored to do this-if you'd let me.
timeline?
the sooner the better, but i'm practically living at the smiths house right now so I can wait as long as need be.
but - i'd rather wait longer for a really awesome product than rush for a mediocre one.
gracias
let's shoot for tomorrow nightish.
do you have pixel dimensions on the banner? or will you just shrink that too?
works for me.
as far as the banner goes, i actually really like the size the ksufans banner above is. but like is said, if need be we can always resize.
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Do you have a higher resolution or better quality photo? I can help do some post-processing to it and repost to be used.
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Do you have a higher resolution or better quality photo? I can help do some post-processing to it and repost to be used.
Yeah, it's on one of the other computers though. I'll get it later tonight.
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i got some banner concepts..wanna see them?
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give me a direction you want.
(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h137/KingslyZissou/KA1.jpg)
(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h137/KingslyZissou/KA3.jpg)
(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h137/KingslyZissou/KA4.jpg)
(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h137/KingslyZissou/KA2.jpg)
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awesome.
the mom really likes the top one, not so much a fan of the wings though. maybe just give her a little glow?
also, an FYI in however you want to incorporate it - her favorite color was blue and a lot of things we're doing are based off that color.
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(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h137/KingslyZissou/sis.jpg)
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awesome.
the mom really likes the top one, not so much a fan of the wings though. maybe just give her a little glow?
also, an FYI in however you want to incorporate it - her favorite color was blue and a lot of things we're doing are based off that color.
ok..wings...off....
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(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h137/KingslyZissou/sis.jpg)
LOVE the font. and the glow around her.
i like the idea of a bright background, but i don't know about that background.
sorry for being so picky, but with it being so important i want to get it right.
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be as picky as you want. i will make it to whatever you please.
(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h137/KingslyZissou/4a.jpg)
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ill still tinker around with other concepts, of course.
(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h137/KingslyZissou/sis3.jpg)
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no high res yet? :users:
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(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h137/KingslyZissou/222.jpg)
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really like the last two. i'll run it by the mom when she's available.
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(http://www.kelseysarmy.com/kelsey.jpg)
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...and that would be highres.
thx.
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If you actually view it from where I linked it it's a LOT bigger.
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the detail on that is amazing.
i tweaked it, just for fun.
(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h137/KingslyZissou/kelsey2.jpg)
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heres this one again..better res.
(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h137/KingslyZissou/sis3-1.jpg)
oops. its this one.
(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h137/KingslyZissou/sis3-2.jpg)
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(http://www.parkerrome.com/images/kelsey.jpg)
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i couldn't really get the creative juices flowing tonight, but i might try again tomorrow...
(http://www.parkerrome.com/images/banner2.jpg)
(http://www.parkerrome.com/images/banner4.jpg)
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I'm a fan of the simple/clean style, i.e:
(http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/2664/image2sq3.png)
Just an idea so far, I won't be around til this afternoon to try incorporating the picture & text. I'm more of a technical guy, I do perl & html/javascript for a living if you need a hand with that end.
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More the direction I was going:
(http://img472.imageshack.us/img472/6380/image4mf1.png)
Could maybe use a better image of the sky behind the text.
edit: and a logo size. Not sure if this is what you had in mind, might not resize very well.
(http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/1769/image8bl0.png)
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I like everything I'm seeing. Tonight I'm going to go over everything available with her mother and we'll decide what to use then. Gracias.
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I know it's probably getting late, but tonight I'd like to try my hand at it, if nothing else, provide some ideas for those who are futher along.
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Sorry for the late entry... I wish I would have seen this earlier; I would have committed more time to it. Best of luck.
God Bless
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j11/wildcatjerrod/KELSEYSARMY.jpg)
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j11/wildcatjerrod/KELSEYSARMY2.jpg)
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They're not really that pixelated, this forum is apparently compressing them and I don't know how to post them any other way. Here's the direct link so that your browser won't pixelate them:
1st banner (http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j11/wildcatjerrod/KELSEYSARMY.jpg)
2nd banner (http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j11/wildcatjerrod/KELSEYSARMY2.jpg)
I have higher resolution ones upon request. Any other ideas or suggestions for changing these, I'd love to help; and I still have my photoshop layered files so it wouldn't be to hard to make adjustments.
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You all did a wonderful job! Those all look amazing!
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(http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/5612/kelseycopyyw0.jpg)
(http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/5499/kelseycopy2js2.jpg)
After a long day at work designing, I come home and my creative tool is turned off. I'm not a terribly huge fan of this, but if there's anything you like about it, let me know. I'll look at it tomorrow when I get more time.
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now the mother has decided she doesn't want kelseys picture in the banner anymore. :banghead:
so, the coolest banner that says "Kelseys Army" wins.
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May have nothing to do with it but I'd think seeing her over and over again through a pic would start to wear on a parent. Not saying she should forget her face or anything like that, just, it's still so fresh............I know it would tear me apart. Oh, and you guys are great for helping :katpak: :katpak: :katpak:
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A couple versions of another try. (http://bwilken.com/images/ka/) (second one has a gradient on the left, first shows through to the background.)
Might have another version later. I'd be glad to adjust size, font, etc. Let me know.
*edit: third one without the trees
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I have a great scheme for the square logo. I started it here at work, and I'll shore it up tonight.
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(http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/5612/kelseycopyyw0.jpg)
(http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/5499/kelseycopy2js2.jpg)
After a long day at work designing, I come home and my creative tool is turned off. I'm not a terribly huge fan of this, but if there's anything you like about it, let me know. I'll look at it tomorrow when I get more time.
I know you said the Mother decided against the pic, But I REALLY like these.
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Ok, I did this over my lunch break. It is really rough (atleast to me), but I think I'm on to something. Let me know if I'm anywhere near close to what you and her mother wants.
(http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/868/kelseyhm8.jpg)
(http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/9210/kelseybannerdo4.jpg)
Again, any feedback is welcome. Be brutal.
PS. thanks for the compliments, CatWoman.
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One more idea. (http://bwilken.com/images/ka/index2.html) Not sure it turned out like I had envisioned...
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Bump.
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http://www.kelseysarmy.com
We're actually designing a brand new layout and using one of the new banners designed here(without her pic,) but now that we're all back at work it's moving a lot slower.
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TTT
http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/news/13649348/detail.html
Check the last video, "Tipsters to split reward 3 ways"
We've also got a professional web designer that's going to whip up a nicer site for us. (Although we haven't done bad for a bunch of 20-21 year old kids still in college.)
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I saw this before and I didn't have time to really set something up, but this could be one of those things we could get involved with in the future to help.
It looks like ChiefsCatchCold did the graphic work?
Let me know.
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I saw this before and I didn't have time to really set something up, but this could be one of those things we could get involved with in the future to help.
It looks like ChiefsCatchCold did the graphic work?
Let me know.
Yeah. I'm not the head webmaster of this new site, just an assistant that helps out when I have time now that I'm working again. I'll talk to the others and figure out what we need and get back to you.
And yeah, Kelsey's mom personally picked out the graphic.
btw, the original site that I created (findkelsey.com) was 2 of the top 10 google searches the day they found kelsey's body. damn thing kept crashing, despite having four webservers that were sharing the demands. just too little bandwidth. eventually had to move it to the only place i knew of that could handle that kind of demand - GOOGLE. it was probably the highlight of my IT career and I was too young/inexperienced to know really much of anything. frustrating.
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I saw this before and I didn't have time to really set something up, but this could be one of those things we could get involved with in the future to help.
It looks like ChiefsCatchCold did the graphic work?
Let me know.
Yeah. I'm not the head webmaster of this new site, just an assistant that helps out when I have time now that I'm working again. I'll talk to the others and figure out what we need and get back to you.
And yeah, Kelsey's mom personally picked out the graphic.
btw, the original site that I created (findkelsey.com) was 2 of the top 10 google searches the day they found kelsey's body. damn thing kept crashing, despite having four webservers that were sharing the demands. just too little bandwidth. eventually had to move it to the only place i knew of that could handle that kind of demand - GOOGLE. it was probably the highlight of my IT career and I was too young/inexperienced to know really much of anything. frustrating.
Thanks. For now, we can add her site to our Friends list. Ask them if they have a short description of they'd like me to use.
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Ah cool, glad to help. I hadn't even noticed because my Norton was ad-blocking /banner.* images.