Another Banner Thread (6/26 - Moved Gallery Thread)

**ManfredvonKarma** · Joined: 31 Oct 2007 Posts: 3783 Location: Toms River, NJ

Here in "Another Banner Thread," we (I, really) have a simple philosophy: banners should be for accomplishments that you are proud of, not accomplishments that I am proud of. It shouldn't matter what the community thinks something is an accomplishment; if you're proud of it, it's an accomplishment. With that in mind, I will make banners for just about anything. This includes harder things, too, so you hardcore players don't need to hit the back button on your browser.

A brief statement on the quality of the banners: The vast majority of these banners were made with very little knowledge of Photoshop. They don't look half bad with that in mind, but more recent banners do look better. If you see an obviously older banner, and would like it remade, I am fine with fielding that request. I am still learning new tricks, so I still ask that you bear with me.

Now, I have two requests for you:
Please host these yourself, and please don't request anything overly specific.
If you do not host these yourself, you jeopardize the existence of the banner, as the website I upload these to limits bandwidth. Additionally, should I wind up replacing a banner with an updated version, the tinypic url for it can and will get reassigned to something else, and it might be something that you don't want in your signature.
When I speak of overly specific requests, I refer to things such as "5 starred Visions Drums while wearing a tutu and drinking milk." Such novelty accomplishments are fun, but I'm not willing to make banners that only one person can/will use.

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Banners Added in Last Major Updates:

(6/13):
Young Man Blues Vocals FC
Young Man Blues All But Drums FC
Peace Sells OMB FC (x2)
Magnetic Baby OMB FC
Space Truckin' Vocals FC
All Right Now Vocals FC
The Hives All Songs Vocals FC
The Trees OMB FC
Locksley All Songs Vocals FC
Love Spreads Guitar FC
Gimme Shelter Vocals FC
Roy Orbison All Songs Vocals FC
You Got It Voxtar FC
Ooby Dooby Drums FC
Rob the Prez-O-Dent Vocals FC
Rob the Prez-O-Dent Drums FC
Rob the Prez-O-Dent Guitar FC
Let There Be Rock Guitar FC
Shackler's Revenge Vocals FC
Shackler's revenge Guitar FC
Welcome Home OMB FC
Sex Machine Vocals FC
Any Way You Want It Vocals FC
Any Way You Want It Guitar FC
Round and Round Guitar FC
Dani California OMB FC

(6/11 Part 2):
Hay Poco Rock N Roll OMB
Time-Sick Son of a Grizzly Bear OMB
Ballroom Blitz OMB
Epic OMB
Nirvana All Songs Voxtar
Muse All Songs Voxtar

(6/11):
Gluing Carpet to Your Genitals Does Not Make You a Cantaloupe Drum FC (x2)

(6/10):
Schrodinger's Banner
The Joker OMB
Action OMB
Sleepwalker Vox FC
China Cat Sunflower Guitar FC
the pillows All Songs Vox VC (wishlist)
Forever Vox FC
Psycho Killer Vox FC (x3)
EWWS FC (x2)

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Unpossible:

- Can only be earned by not using the banner, once earned, it must be displayed.

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Rock Band Series:

General:

(This one includes DLC)

(By GuitarHailz)

(By Prong1978)

(By Prong 1978)

(By Munzapoppa)

(By Nollaig)

(By Nollaig)

Track Packs:

Abnormality:

AC/DC:

All That Remains:

Avenged Sevenfold:

(By yur0wnstupidity)

(By yur0wnstupidity)

Bang Camaro:

(By Rawrspoon)

Between the Buried and Me:

(By fuse)

Black Tide:

(By Rawrspoon)

Blondie:

(By Nollaig)

(By MAYRAluvsYA)

Blue Öyster Cult:

Bob Dylan:

Breaking Wheel:

Coheed and Cambria:

Deep Purple:

Devo:

Disturbed:

(By yur0wnstupidity)

Dream Theater:

(By yur0wnstupidity)

(By yur0wnstupidity)

Evanescence

(By Nollaig)

(By Nollaig)

Evile:

Faith No More:

Foo Fighters:

(By yur0wnstupidity)

The Fratellis:

Free:

The Grateful Dead:

Green Day:

(By Nollaig)

(By Nollaig)

The Guess Who:

Guns N Roses:

(By Nollaig)

(By Nollaig)

The Hives:

In This Moment:

Iron Maiden:

(for the cover)

(By Nollaig)

(By Skyzorz)

(By Skyzorz)

James Brown:

Journey:

Judas Priest:

(By GuitarHailz)

Kansas:

The Knack:

Locksley:

Lush:

Machine Head:

(By yur0wnstupidity)

Megadeth:

Metallica:

(By drewbles)

The Mother Hips:

Motorhead:

Muse:

(That's the cover of the single)

Nine Inch Nails:

(By Prong1978)

(By yur0wnstupidity)

Nirvana:

The Outlaws:

(By yur0wnstupidity)

Platero y Tu:

Pleymo:

The Presidents of the United States of America:

Ratt:

Red Hot Chili Peppers:

(By EnblemFighter)

The Replacements:

The Rolling Stones:

Roy Orbison:

Rush:

Semi-Precious Weapons:

Silversun Pickups:

(By yur0wnstupidity)

Social Distortion:

(By GuitarHailz)

Soundgarden:

Squeeze:

Stephen and the Colberts:

Steve Miller Band:

Stevie Ray Vaughan:

(Okay, this one is just for the lolz)

The Stone Roses:

Sweet:

Talking Heads:

Tenacious D:

(By Prong 1978)

Testament:

That Handsome Devil:

Weezer:

(By captinbeefheart)

The Who:

(This was a funny accident)

Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force:

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Guitar Hero Series:

(By drewbles)

All That Remains:

Buckethead:

(By drewbles)

Def Leppard:

(By drewbles)

Die Fantastischen Vier:

DragonForce:

Metallica:

(By drewbles)

Joe Satriani:

(By drewbles)

Slayer:

Steve Ouimette:

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Banners for Unreleased Content:

The Locust:

the pillows:

**Deathblooms51** · Joined: 22 Apr 2008 Posts: 1686 Location: Toledo, Ohio

Not too bad, but the one thing that caught my eye is the way the fonts aren't smooth, try throwing something on them to smooth them down a bit, the edges just come off as a bit harsh around the text. It could also just be the font you're using, however everything looks good.

Keep it up.
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**BigSnatch** · Joined: 08 Jul 2007 Posts: 1569

Damnit! I really wanted that Rude Mood sig.

I really think you should run with this idea and make "Anti-banners" for shitty performance. This community is so caught up with scoring and FCing that we never take the time to recognize those of us who suck donkey balls.
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**sukergod** · Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 5:32 pm Post subject:

I think its a great idea as long as you can tell the diference. The thing is, the banner's are being made to show what amazing stuff people have donw, but there are alot of people who cant get the insane FC's that are required, so its a god idea as me fcing something on Hard is jut as important to me as it is to someone who fc's visions or something like that.

Any hard one's you want would be awesome

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**Icemage** · Joined: 11 May 2008 Posts: 3200

AA = anti-aliasing, which is a process that tries to smooth out all those jagged edges (at the cost of some blurriness). Very useful for typesetting fonts, since even stroked fonts can look jagged, especially when scaled.
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**ManfredvonKarma** · Joined: 31 Oct 2007 Posts: 3783 Location: Toms River, NJ

**ScreamingEvil** · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Posts: 726 Location: Leeds, UK

Those look pretty cool, and you they're obviously different to the others too (which is obviously good).

I'll definatly be keeping an eye on here, might actually be something I can acomplish lol.

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**GuitarHailz** · Joined: 11 Jun 2007 Posts: 4910 Location: Austin, Texas

High readability makes me like these more than inv4der's banners (and I mean no disrespect to him). I don't have to look twice to read what they say, mostly because of the text color choices. White on black, black on white, and slight variations in between. My vision is terrible, so thumbs up for readability. \m/ Whatever you do, don't fall in love with blending modes and bright colored fonts... please. It's just a personal pet peeve of mine.

What I would suggest is downloading this font. If that's not the typical Rock Band font, it sure as hell is very close. It would make everything look very crisp and clean, and really have that "Rock Band" feel.

For being new at Photoshop, these look nice. It will certainly only get better with time. Keep them up. And how about a "All talky songs FC club" ;)

Edit: I fail at reading the entire thread... on second thought, if the idea is to make these look very different from inv4der's, the font I suggested earlier probably isn't a good choice. I would peruse the sans serif fonts that are out there, or search for something different entirely. The problem with the current font is just how fat it is, and how it gets cut off on the top and bottom of the banners. I'm sure you can find something visually different that can fit more comfortably on the image. (Downloading fonts is like really fun for me <_<

you should try it sometime!)

Anyway, my $.02, good luck! If you need any help send me a PM. :P I'm a bit too familiar with font choices.. leading.. tracking.. kerning.. all of that fun typography jargon. I'd be happy to help. ^_^
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**mr-apples** · Joined: 16 Mar 2007 Posts: 963

I think this is a great idea.

**Farlus** · Joined: 21 Aug 2006 Posts: 640 Location: Baton Rouge, LA

I would be a proud member of the "Still can't pass Jordan and TTFAF club" and "YMB 3 star club".

**ManfredvonKarma** · Joined: 31 Oct 2007 Posts: 3783 Location: Toms River, NJ

**Muckytears** · Joined: 05 May 2008 Posts: 880

84/84 drum songs passed =p