Quote Originally Posted by Pokemon Trainer Sarah View Post
Oh wow, your post is beautiful! :D

I really love this banner!

The colours are beautiful and I like the text!

Your large pieces are really nice too!
Thank you~

I love graphic art!!! I guess I have some comments on the 150x150 icons you did for all the Pokémon characters. I'm not sure if you blurred them yourself or the render was a bit off, but I think they would look better without the blurring. I don't feel like it really works well with Sugimori's style, since he has those thick black outlines. And if you get rid of some of the black outline, it looks a bit off to me.
I agree that they could've come out a lot better! I wanted to get them done as quick as possible since they were going to be used as default avatars for Slateport, so I didn't spend as much time on them as I do with my other graphics. (In fact, I didn't even notice there was a problem with the blurring until I looked at the Lisia icon afterward. That one really turned out badly x_x)

On the whole, I don't really like blurring stuff personally (but it works really well in the banner above! I guess it just depends on the art!). I like to sometimes put stuff on top of the render to make it look more cohesive, rather than blurring. Like use some brushes or lines in the corner or something, so it looks like it all belongs to one piece. Maybe you could give that a go if you wanna try something different? :D
I could try brushes...though I'd need to download some first XD I don't think I've used them in a good few years, though that's because I had to switch to ImageReady CS2, which was not compatible with many of the brushes available online. But PS CS4 is definitely compatible, so I should probably consider getting some sets!

Quote Originally Posted by Speed-X View Post
Where did you learn such freaking killer css?! Gah I love it! Especially the css in the OP. I have tried to teach myself css...with varying success. Any good resources you used to help learn the coding language? :D
By stealing people's codes. Seriously—back when I was 14/15 (~six/seven years ago) I used to use View Source/Firebug/what have you to look at the HTML, convert it to BBCode, then alter it so it wasn't a complete ripoff. However, W3Schools and PPN Studio/PokéCommunity's CSS Help & Resources guide (or any forum's CSS guide, for that matter) actually helped me get a better understanding of the elements that went into [div] and [span] tags. I especially like using W3Schools because you can test the HTML/CSS!

(Also, just to put it out there, I don't mind if people use my codes to try and learn how elements within [div] and [span] tags work. No credit necessary unless the code ends up being similar to the one they're messing with.)

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Since I'm now back from my trip to New Mexico, I'm going to try and update sometime this week. I took a lot of photos (I mean, I was taking a photography course, so I kinda had to take a lot of photos......), so I plan to share a handful of them!