Designing new rank icons

Lady ElDi wrote:I'm astounded by the amount of interest by our users
I'd be happy to try my hand at it though, any particular ideas in mind?

TUN3R wrote:They are just stars, what do you expect?

Here goes you:

rajaerry wrote:Hey admin,
Here's some nice rank images that you might like.

http://www.smfforfree.com/starpreview.htm

Hope I helped!

Narong30 wrote:just put  my face , replace the star

rajaerry wrote:Yeah, those rank images are actually for SMF forums.

rajaerry wrote:Admin, SMF stands for Simple Machines Forum. :DIt's a forum software lol.

Admin wrote:Hi there,

Thank you for your contribution, TUN3R, but it's a little big and not exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for trying though.

Admin wrote:Hello everyone,

Anyone interested in designing new "star" rank icons? The ones we have now look bad and old; it's time for something new.
I'm looking for something that looks... I don't know, something that looks better than this, lol.

Let me know if you're interested and feel free to post a preview. I'll think about some kind of reward for the winner in the meantime.

Thank you!

Hello,

I've been thinking a bit about this - and did some experimenting:


for the Admins.


for the Moderators. I chose a shield to..well, to "represent" the primary task of Moderators, namely "protection" in a virtual sense.


   and for the "Sims Helpers". This is the point where it got more difficult. I was experimenting with plumbobs in different colours ("Sims Helpers" and another colour for the "Helpers"), but this is the result for now.

So far these are my suggestions; but I haven't really thought about the other groups yet (the average user, Helpers, Developers, V.I.P's, etc.). But for the sake of simplicity, we could just take the stars from the Admins - and just re-write the rank below it.


By the way, I'm only a beginner of "Photoshop"  

Carlos G. wrote:

Admin wrote:Hello everyone,

Anyone interested in designing new "star" rank icons? The ones we have now look bad and old; it's time for something new.
I'm looking for something that looks... I don't know, something that looks better than this, lol.

Let me know if you're interested and feel free to post a preview. I'll think about some kind of reward for the winner in the meantime.

Thank you!

Hello,

I've been thinking a bit about this - and did some experimenting:


for the Admins.


for the Moderators. I chose a shield to..well, to "represent" the primary task of Moderators, namely "protection" in a virtual sense.


   and for the "Sims Helpers". This is the point where it got more difficult. I was experimenting with plumbobs in different colours ("Sims Helpers" and another colour for the "Helpers"), but this is the result for now.

So far these are my suggestions; but I haven't really thought about the other groups yet (the average user, Helpers, Developers, V.I.P's, etc.). But for the sake of simplicity, we could just take the stars from the Admins - and just re-write the rank below it.


By the way, I'm only a beginner of "Photoshop"  

Admin wrote:Might be an idea for Helpers:


... and for normal users a world symbol. (As in Games4theworld)

(reaching out to Adam) in the Sistine chapel in Vatican city    Is that a coincidence, Admin ?




But the idea is not bad, and also the one about the "world" icon for "normal" users. I'll continue working on this.

Carlos G. wrote:

Admin wrote:Might be an idea for Helpers:


... and for normal users a world symbol. (As in Games4theworld)

That looks almost like the hand of God (reaching out to Adam) in the Sistine chapel in Vatican city    Is that a coincidence, Admin ?




But the idea is not bad, and also the one about the "world" icon for "normal" users. I'll continue working on this.

Admin wrote:Hello there,

Thank you very much for these AWESOME logos, Carlos. They are nice and original and (in my opinion) quite modern, finally something different to look at.

I'll indeed finetune them a little bit, to remove the black background and perhaps change the font size.
You'll notice when they're up!

Thanks again!

I have to say: they turned out INCREDIBLY CUTE !  

Now here's this:

And thanks for the hint with the .png format; I didn't know that...    I guess I'm still very far away from a Photoshop Pro.  

Maybe I'll come up with something new for our "dear" banned users too. How about that ?  

Carlos G. wrote:

Admin wrote:Hello there,

Thank you very much for these AWESOME logos, Carlos. They are nice and original and (in my opinion) quite modern, finally something different to look at.

I'll indeed finetune them a little bit, to remove the black background and perhaps change the font size.
You'll notice when they're up!

Thanks again!

I have to say: they turned out INCREDIBLY CUTE !  

Now here's this:







And thanks for the hint with the .png format; I didn't know that...    I guess I'm still very far away from a Photoshop Pro.  

Maybe I'll come up with something new for our "dear" banned users too. How about that ?  

Admin wrote:Oh lol, that was fast.
Indeed, they look great!

I've changed everything now. Also double-checked everything.
Please do let me know if there's something wrong! (Sometimes things can get messed up, especially when it's 2.37 AM   - Did I tell you about that time when everyone on the Forum had the "Moderator" rank for a few minutes?    )

Nah, don't worry, everything's still normal.

This is for our dear Lady ElDi...




And who knows ? Maybe the following one will be used too ("one day")....  




Woah, that's it for today, lol.   I'll come back to you again for our "dear" banned users, but I guess everything's done for now.

IN THE MEANTIME (!!!) I will also think about what I could ask you and Lady ElDi as a reward for me (remember your opening post here ? ). Stay tuned !