@ Rage, well nice gfx.. but no deathball stuff in it
For they who have no idear how to make such a signature-banner here a little easy tutorial idear "how i would do that"... i used photoshop, but that steps will work with other programms too!
1st of all u need an image with a skin that u want to have in the banner, i choosed my one from a radom screenshot from a tennis game :p ->
http://www.kermet.de/howto/1.jpg
If u havent any screenshots make f.e. a botmatch against bots with the skin you want and make some screenshots... or from record demos.
Well, i startet my graficprogramm, cut my skin out and flipped it. Than in used that "magic-wall" tool (or magic-cut, whatever its called in ur programm, but everyone have such a tool) and cuted out the outside around the skin
On the next step i copy'ed the cuted skin into a new white background image.
Than i just resized it so its suitable to the bannersize (like if the banner has a high of 100 try sizes like 80 to 120)
Then i open a new empty background where i copy all the thinks to. Fill it with a background Color and copy finally the resized, cutted, skin-image into the banner.. on my examble it looked like that:
Ok, on the next i decided to put a deathball into the picture i got one from "TAC|FaKe" he made good work cuting it out *g* (made a lot work!), again i resized it and copyed it in.
looks like there is misssing somethinkg to fill it out...
i put in my clannick with the text-tool with a nice font and got a goal which i easyly get while i "flyed" through the cube map and make via "print-button" a screenshot and use "paste" of my graficprogram to get it in, as a image.
I made the same things again, cuting... resize.. etc. and paste it into the banner image...
.. to fade it into the background i used the "opacity" tool!
and done it is!
to let it look realy well you need to invest more time into this steps and bring more details into it!
try it
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