I could also zoom in on the icon so that less of the details are lost in the eagle itself, though wings and claws would probably get lost. Either way, it’s an example, I’m going to see what can be done about a spartan helmet for the founder Emblem as well, see how that looks and functions.

Honestly, it’s a bit hard to make out what I’m looking at with the eagle on the link. Might even need to be more heavily stylized so that the features pop even when really tiny? Although, it’s clearly recognizable as “different” from the others, even if it isn’t obvious what it is. So that’s good

Changed my mind after seeing it on the page. I removed the text and scaled the Emblem examples to 20px tall, some margin adjustments and they’re ok. Check out the example on any of the news articles I have posted.

Most recent is here. You will notice there are now 3 images to the left of my name where it says “Posted by * * * xsuicidesn0wmanx…[Read more]

How about something like this for the founder Emblem? It’s an eagle… ended up on the idea while searching ‘early adopter’ which led to ‘early bird’, then ‘bird’, and finally ‘eagle’.

I’m also not so sure how well these scale, so the 20×25 version is most likely not going to happen, these will only be used in areas where the 50×63 can be used.…[Read more]

How about something like this for the founder Emblem? It’s an eagle… ended up on the idea while searching ‘early adopter’ which led to ‘early bird’, then ‘bird’, and finally ‘eagle’.

Here is a bad example of what I was thinking for the cumulative likes. Something similar to this would be awarded to users who have received at least 100 more likes than dislikes(i.e. 125 likes 21 dislikes). Also right now I’m leaning towards these being permanent once earned, meaning if you drop back below +100 likes you still keep the…[Read more]

Here is a bad example of what I was thinking for the cumulative likes. I’m not a photoshop expert so this is obviously very rough. I’m sure our designer or my co-worker can make something very similar but much more defined and appealing to the end user.

Well….I’ll hopefully have a job soon, so maybe Sony Vegas will be my choice.

It won’t be able to have a lot of detail since one of the areas these will display is to the right of your name on reviews and news articles. I believe these will end up being anywhere from 15×15 icons on that page to 50×50 on the forums and profile pages. So something easily recognizable will have to be used like the heart icon and the thumbs up…[Read more]

I don’t know quite how complex or stylized you wanted it (e.g., purely a symbol?) – something like this could be cool (Emperor Augustus, founder of Rome). I just set the image tone to red and “cartoonified” it with Gimp

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https://flic.kr/p/KtMD6D

I don’t know quite how complex or stylized you wanted it (e.g., purely a symbol?) – something like this could be cool (Emperor Augustus, founder of Rome). I just set the image tone to red and “cartoonified” it with Gimp

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I recommend Sony Vega Movie Studio. It’s pretty good, pretty easy and pretty cheap. Should be about $60 or so on Amazon Software. Plenty of tutorials on YT for it. It’s what I use.

If you go the professional route, you can do Adobe Premiere for like $12 or so a month.

I recommend Sony Vega Movie Studio. It’s pretty good, pretty easy and pretty cheap. Plenty of tutorials on YT for it.

If you go the professional route, you can do Adobe Premiere for like $12 or so a month.

I like that idea a lot. I just need good video editing software

Well one thing to keep in mind is that these will all be very simple and in the same shade of red used throughout the site. So nothing will be gold, just a mix if #171717 / #FEFEFE and #dd0000 on a transparent background. I do like the ideas for alternative Emblems. I was thinking of maybe having an emblem for each user level, but I don’t even…[Read more]

I don’t think the entire country’s population should have an education equivalent to an engineer or anything. I just wish everyone understood the basics. That they learned about critical thinking. “I see your numbers, now show me where you got them.” That they were skeptical at the right things. Instead of “global warming is a conspiracy, I don’t…[Read more]