i thought this was really cool. i'm a graphic designer myself. been totally uninspired to make anything for upwards of two years now. but i really liked this. i saw a few flaws in the design, and just a few things that i would have done differently, but i liked it so much that i got around to doing them.

(i know this is going to sound really critical but i actually really loved the overall design and i thank you for creating something that inspired me to open up CS3 again)

i extended the horse's mane to fit in a perfect circle to fit the perfect circle it sits in (O_o). i then sharpened up some of the edges, changed a few shapes, and changed some of the pixelated ripples and brushes at the bottom. this part is more of my opinion, but i also thought that because of the irregular shapes of the emblems (especially the protoss emblem), they didn't look quite right, as they all had different sizes in their frames. it looked off; the zerg one was circular so it fit nicely in its frame, but the terran and protoss ones were smaller and had a lot of void space around them. i also shifted the image to the right and raised the TL text to reduce the chances of them being obscured by desktop incons/taskbars.
so it ended up looking something like this.

http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/6207/tlwprevised.png

alexpnd

Canada1857 Posts

November 16 2010 18:12 GMT

#83

On November 17 2010 02:31 Hexaflex wrote:
alexpnd's is in 4:3 and I don't have Photoshop installed T.T

yeah i seriously closed the original without saving....... so uh.. damn.

Maybe I should just re do it, it wasn't very difficult. The hardest part was learning some gimp, but thats over with

. What size?

Ajunta

Germany522 Posts

November 16 2010 18:25 GMT

#84

On November 17 2010 03:12 alexpnd wrote:

Show nested quote +

yeah i seriously closed the original without saving....... so uh.. damn.

Maybe I should just re do it, it wasn't very difficult. The hardest part was learning some gimp, but thats over with

. What size?

all sizes :D

Ohdamn

Germany765 Posts

November 16 2010 19:17 GMT

#85

i'm going to take this opportunity to post my own TL wallpaper:

http://s1.directupload.net/images/101116/2p37kh7c.jpg (1920x1080)

+ Show Spoiler +

if you like it but need a different size just ask for it!

DROPPINBOMBS

United States312 Posts

November 16 2010 19:21 GMT

#86

so fucking sick.

MindRush

Romania916 Posts

November 16 2010 19:31 GMT

#87

please make a 1600x1200 version also
other 4:3 versions are not so clear

Hexaflex

United Kingdom70 Posts

November 16 2010 19:46 GMT

#88

On November 17 2010 03:12 alexpnd wrote:

Show nested quote +

yeah i seriously closed the original without saving....... so uh.. damn.

Maybe I should just re do it, it wasn't very difficult. The hardest part was learning some gimp, but thats over with

. What size?

Wooooo \o/

For me personally 1680 x 1050 so 16:10, but if you want to just do one version probably go 1920 x 1080 16: 9 cause I think that's getting more common these days, and they usually still looks good chopped or stretched to 16:10.

I just like your version because it has extra detail around the edges with the stars - the plain black versions are nice enough, but that extra bit of interest really makes it for me. Plus I like the fading on the central logo, again because it adds a little bit of extra visual appeal. To me, anyway.