YouTube banner creations

imglitchypoo

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I did my best to make something I can be proud of to have as my YouTube banner. Here's the results:

It may not look like it but the last two are different, just adding a red tint to the top and bottom bars in a separate layer. And believe me.. These images had more layers than an onion.
 

imglitchypoo

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More layers than an onion? All i see is a blue background with text up front and some light work in the back.
The background can be done in 2 or 3 layers. when looking at an onion and i didn't count it all but i came past 3 for sure...

Maybe you're not looking into it hard enough ;)
 

TwilightPrinze

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Maybe you're not looking into it hard enough ;)
Hmm depends on how your hard and my hard of the word is in this matter XD

Bad joke, but in all honesty when i use gimp and pick a basic blue background and add some light effect to it i almost get the same result or there are like you say some things i am not seeing. Maybe there is some dust on my glasses :p
 

imglitchypoo

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Hmm depends on how your hard and my hard of the word is in this matter XD

Bad joke, but in all honesty when i use gimp and pick a basic blue background and add some light effect to it i almost get the same result or there are like you say some things i am not seeing. Maybe there is some dust on my glasses :p

Or I use PDN and layers are a lot more fun to use. To get that shade in the middle with the fade alone I used 5 and to get the rest just right I used several more layers. If it's easy for you congratulations I guess, not all of us are a natural talent anyways ;) here's a pat on the back and my finished product
 

TwilightPrinze

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Or I use PDN and layers are a lot more fun to use. To get that shade in the middle with the fade alone I used 5 and to get the rest just right I used several more layers. If it's easy for you congratulations I guess, not all of us are a natural talent anyways ;) here's a pat on the back and my finished product
Not too sound harsh but when i look at you channel it doesn't fit, the words 'The' and Channel are cut off. Besides that it is a pretty basic banner. If you like it then no offense but with the people nowadays that offer free banners you could obtain so much better then this.
 

imglitchypoo

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Not too sound harsh but when i look at you channel it doesn't fit, the words 'The' and Channel are cut off. Besides that it is a pretty basic banner. If you like it then no offense but with the people nowadays that offer free banners you could obtain so much better then this.

If I do that I can't say that I'm self made. I declined offers for twitch teams that "help grow" simply because I want everything that I do to be from myself. I don't like hand outs. It might not be the best with flashy colours to attract people in simply because as I grow as a content creator people would come for my content, not that my stuff looks pretty, but thank you for your words. As for it being cut off I'd just re-crop it, I thought that'd be a pretty basic thing to recommend other then asking for handouts.
 

TwilightPrinze

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If I do that I can't say that I'm self made. I declined offers for twitch teams that "help grow" simply because I want everything that I do to be from myself. I don't like hand outs. It might not be the best with flashy colours to attract people in simply because as I grow as a content creator people would come for my content, not that my stuff looks pretty, but thank you for your words. As for it being cut off I'd just re-crop it, I thought that'd be a pretty basic thing to recommend other then asking for handouts.
It is always good to have the motivation to do things yourself and i can agree in this matter as all my content, banner and thumbnails are my own without help of others :)
 

Xellius

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looks fine for the first few tryouts
with more practise u can make better headers/banners/thumbnails
just try around with more then 3-5 layers^^ look at youtube there are plenty of tutorials for almost all programms

i do use gimp 2.0 everything exept the banners are made by me^^