beckymegan Posted July 16, 2011 Author Share Posted July 16, 2011 Changed the buttons, again ;) Thanks for all the help Robin btw, I am learning tons ;D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helpmeplz Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 Improved….Alright lets see what happens when the white line is changed to a inner glow. Those buttons need to match the style of the contents box. Also you didn't anti-alias your text. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 Make the text smaller. Around 14px as I said. Set it to 'smooth' or something in the text system in Photoshop.Also change them to white and give them a drop shadow. Remove the double-lined white from the box in the middle. Change it to 1px of inner glow with overlayed white. Choose 'Precise' instead of 'Softer' for the inner glow.Oh, and choose better colours as I said before. That brown is horrible and clashes with the green in the middle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beckymegan Posted July 16, 2011 Author Share Posted July 16, 2011 Ok, I fixed the text (size 14 Verdana, smooth setting). I made the buttons have a drop shadow (2px right, 2px down) and made them a better green color vs. the weird brown. I also deleted the white border and made it a 1px inner glow like Robin suggested.Tada! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 Make the text smaller. Please. Look at all those GUIs I posted. The font selection is a big deal. Don't take it lightly. I'm still spending terrible amounts of time creating and modifying the fonts used in Crystalshire. You really need to work hard on getting it to look right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beckymegan Posted July 16, 2011 Author Share Posted July 16, 2011 Got it, sorry :\ Back to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 Oh, and make sure you centralise it properly when you do add it in. You can drag the text tool in Photoshop to create a box. Line it up perfectly with the width of the button and it'll centralise it for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beckymegan Posted July 17, 2011 Author Share Posted July 17, 2011 I'm liking this font much more, and I believe I'm done with this so far. Closing comments? ;) (Great improvement from the beginning, and I was so happy with it yesterday) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Posted July 17, 2011 Share Posted July 17, 2011 Not a fan of the font. You'll have to do a lot of work to make it fit in properly.In the mean time you can remove that 2px border on the main block. Set it to 1px.Also start adding in the actual form controls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dxxknight Posted July 17, 2011 Share Posted July 17, 2011 Glad you keep trying to improve it and attempting to listen to Robin most people don't and the GUI turns out horrible. I too am going to try making a custom GUI but it's a pain to get a good theme going but once you find it it makes doing the rest a bit easier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beckymegan Posted July 17, 2011 Author Share Posted July 17, 2011 Agree, I did look at some before I made my second GUI and a lot of the ones I was looking at were pretty bad. I am very happy Robin is trying to help. My latest GUI is much, much better than my first :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Posted July 17, 2011 Share Posted July 17, 2011 Just realised you added the drop shadow to the buttons themselves. I meant add the drop shadow to the text on the buttons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beckymegan Posted July 17, 2011 Author Share Posted July 17, 2011 Oh, ok, I'll fix. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beckymegan Posted July 17, 2011 Author Share Posted July 17, 2011 Sorry for the double post but, I finished! (Yay!)News (Probably will look better as I add more "news" stories, this part is still a WIP for sure)LoginRegister/Create a New Character Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Posted July 17, 2011 Share Posted July 17, 2011 No, no, no, no, _NO!_Okay, here's my ultimatum; To be a graphics designer you need to be able to look at your own work and decide whether it looks good or not. You don't need to have to spot all the flaws and you don't need to know how to make everything - that comes with practise.You need to be able to understand whether something looks good. If you look at this, see solid black and magenta on pea green and the most annoying font ever and you think it looks good then our business here is concluded.Understanding colour and fonts is something you can't learn. Oh sure, you can try and copy other people and you can _pretend_, but if you don't see the problems with this then there's no way I can help you to learn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dxxknight Posted July 17, 2011 Share Posted July 17, 2011 yeah i agree with Robin on this one not a huge fan of the color/font your using it looks to me more like a map then a GUI keep practicing though :P don't worry your not the only one i have to practice too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Connor Posted July 17, 2011 Share Posted July 17, 2011 Starting to look like a 1944 Warfare game. ;D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilbunnie Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 You're getting _much_ better. Good job. However I too dislike that font, it kinda ruins the whole theme you're trying to give off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nayte Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 Looking much better, but Robin is the one to give you the tough love you need, so I'll let him do his job :p Keep up the improvement, dude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beckymegan Posted July 18, 2011 Author Share Posted July 18, 2011 Tough love hurts :'( But thanks guys ;) I'm gonna go look at some fonts again (if anyone has a suggestion that will help ;) ) I completely overlooked the fact about the black box and the pink, but I've already changed it on mine and I'll upload again after I find a better font. Thanks again guys :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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