UTC backGrounds

[Carrie]

well seems how we lost them all I guess I will get it started again!!! This time I am going to jut put previews, but if you you want the zip, please PM me and I will get it for you:)


Ill start with the one I made per request for ABOU. This one will have the zip

[Carrie]

And here is the zip:)

[Carrie]

ok here we go:)

[Carrie]

next....

[Carrie]

:cool:


Anyone who wants a UTC flag made for them I would be more than happy to make one for you let me know what flag:)

[Carrie]

:D

[Carrie]

:p

[Carrie]

;)

[ABOU (old account)]

hey FW thanks alot that is sweet

[Carrie]

NP ABOU, anytime:)

[The Boinker]

yeah, this one is ok, but i forgot to turn on AA again (i was working with pixel fonts before hand) but since i resized to 50 percent it looks decent. i also put the PSD in for the enjoyment of my pals :)

broadband
http://hannah.aventurehost.net/~flinger/utc/utc1.jpg

56k
http://hannah.aventurehost.net/~flinger/utc/utc156k.jpg

PSD ZIPPED
http://hannah.aventurehost.net/~flinger/utc/utc1.zip

comments welcome, as always

[kittykat]

Now that's pretty kool theflinger! I like that alot, Great job!!!!:D

[The Boinker]

thx...im fooling around with some more effects, and then im gonna make some proper sized ones with AA

[The Boinker]

1024 by 768, i really cant make it any bigger....as it was, it took me 3 minutes to apply one of the filters i needed xD

http://hannah.aventurehost.net/~flinger/utc/utc2.zip

this has a 85 percent jpeg, which is not different from an uncompressed copy. enjoy. a preview can be seen above, the only thing i changed was the text.

bye

[yousuf]

wow these BG's look pretty cool.
i might make one when i have abit of spare time (im rubisg but ill try :) )

[bluetailfly3]

hmmm.I am too too lazy...Is there anyway I can get someone to make me a background with a mixture of Ohio State,Cleveland Browns,Cincinnati Reds, Kevin Harvick, and Dale Jr? It doesn't have to have all of them in it just maybe a slight mixture of a few of them.If not it's cool because I need to get off my lazy butt and learn how to do this stuff.

[The Boinker]

sorry man, i sux at getting/mixing pics together

[Carrie]

Ill get on it right away:) thats alot of pics but I can do it...just give me a couple of days:)

[Carrie]

ok so it didn't take days only hours:) most of that time I spent trying to find a good picture of harvick.LOL (not as easy as it sounds.) But at any rate, I hope this is what you were looking for..........

[Carrie]

All Zipped up..........

[bluetailfly3]

looks sweet..thx for taking the time to make it FW.

[Carrie]

NP BTF3! its my pleasure...I love working on wallpapers:) kitty and I have opened a site just for that:) my newest ones arent on there yet, but Kitty has some new ones on there:)


http://www.geocities.com/kfwcreations/

[Carrie]

Heres the newest UTC BGs

[Carrie]

:thumbsup:

[Carrie]

:D

[Carrie]

My favorite

[Roadblock]

Hubba Hubba! Nice!

[kittykat]

Originally posted by feenies-wife
My favorite

Very, very kool!!!!! Awesome work you did with the blending to make everything look tied together.

IMO your best one yet!!!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: You go girl!!!:clap:

[Carrie]

kitty

[Carrie]

latest work...

[Carrie]

My new desktop

[Carrie]

:o

[bluetailfly3]

ahhhhh.I think FW just made me have nightmares tonight when I go to bed....lol..j/k..looks cool FW

[Project-Buckfast]

here another UTC background I made for anyone that wants it pm me and there will be no problems adding it to a zip file for you!!
NOTE : This is only preview size.:thumbsup:

http://img73.exs.cx/img73/7038/utc22jv.jpg

[The Boinker]

thats great, can you post a bigger version?

p.s. zipping JPG , as i have found, generally is a waste...it makes one click preview of these attachments gone and it only saves a few KB

[rastagard]

The site has a 550 pixal limit for posting pics fling.....errrr boinker.


It's very close to that size now.

[The Boinker]

thats why i use my webspace!

course, now its broken and my friend who hosts me hasnt been online in a while...but thats besides the point.

[Yoda]

ok this sounds stupid but I like the Detroit Tiger's baseball logo (The english D) if some could cook me up a background with that that would be really great :D

See ya

[Project-Buckfast]

Originally posted by The Boinker
thats great, can you post a bigger version?

p.s. zipping JPG , as i have found, generally is a waste...it makes one click preview of these attachments gone and it only saves a few KB

I would upload it to my website but im havin problems with it at the moment. Once my site is up and running again I will post all of my images at full background size. Ill keep you guys informed!!

But for now heres an idea that might work.
You could try right clicking the image and click "set as background". If the pic shows up tiled on you desktop right click any part of your desktop and choose "properties" select the desktop tab and in the bottom right corner you'll see an option called "position" select "stretch" from the drop down menu and the apply the changes.

This may make the quality of the image become distorted but its worth a try.

:thumbsup:

[Carrie]

well you could do all of that, or you could just DL irfanview, and resize it with little or no damage or pixelating to the pic:) just a thought:)

[The Boinker]

little or none is relative when you have to blow it up about 400 percent :P

[Project-Buckfast]

I just tried it boinker FW was right very little quality loss you shud try it!!

[Carrie]

For anyone who wants irfanview, you can get it here (http://www.irfanview.com/main_download_engl.htm)

[Carrie]

;) I couldn'd find the original D but this seems to be the new one. Let me know if this is ok:)

[Carrie]

:eek:

[Carrie]

:thumbsup:

[The Boinker]

Originally posted by project-buckfast
I just tried it boinker FW was right very little quality loss you shud try it!!

yes, i know, i use irfan view...but it wont look right...trust me lol


/me punches his LCD

[Carrie]

Its been a while but I finally sat down and played with my Paint Shop Pro LOL. I am not one for the whole Tech style but I thought what the heck, So I gave it my best shot LOL It was rather fun and I may try it again some time, but for now I think I will stick to the frilly stuff:)

[kittykat]

D*** thats one kick*** wallpaper! Awesome work FW!!!!!!!!:coolio: :coolio: :coolio: :coolio: :coolio:

[Carrie]

Heres my latest UTC background to add to the collection:)

[Carrie]

Damn this is crazy...I have to start over LMAO any way...heres the new one....

[Nilly_Chipples]

lookin great!

[Nilly_Chipples]

also made into an av.

[Nilly_Chipples]

i like how this turned out, ive been playin w/ this forever!

[kittykat]

My Christmas UTC background :squint:

[rastagard]

Ewww, nice one kitty! That would make a real nice banner also..............


lil_amb, it may just be me, but I don't want my desktop lookin back at me.....................:p

[Carrie]

Kick ass Kitty! As always:)


Amber...great work! Your getting really good with that program!

[Wobbel]

Some backgrounds for you artists to work with, zipped up a few, just an example, got more, pm if you want 'm.

ps, i had to really scale 'm down, original format is 1600x1200, was way too big to post here.


*edit* Removed the zip file due to copy rights, if you want those images go here (http://www.digitalblasphemy.com/dbhome.shtml)
Wobbel.

[Nilly_Chipples]

thanks wobbel those are awesome!

[Project-Buckfast]

I havent posted a BG in a while so here ya go.
Enjoi !! :clap:

http://img73.exs.cx/img73/3199/utc11bn.jpg

[Carrie]

Very nice! What program did you use to create that?

[kittykat]

Very very nice project-buckfast! I love the way you layed out the center! ;)

[Project-Buckfast]

Thanx, I used photoshop 7 for everything except the middle. For the middle I used Bryce 5

[Nilly_Chipples]

.

[Project-Buckfast]

its amazing what you can do with a lot of time and photshop.............:urock:

[Nilly_Chipples]

that one is awesome hun, less is always more and that one really proves that point . Great Work!~

[fireydeviant]

i like the one with bryce in the middle, great use of 3d, not often used. they all look really great, i might have too try makin one...

[rastagard]

Never done a wallpaper before...................

[Nilly_Chipples]

koolies

[rastagard]

This might be habit forming.

[Nilly_Chipples]

oooooooohhhh oooohhhhhh weeeeee........................ thats friggin awesome rasta, looks great on a desktop!

[rastagard]

Don't mess with that crummy .jpg.........


Heres a zip.

[Carrie]

.

[Project-Buckfast]

good work rasta very nice indeed. Heres another one from me....... :type:

[Project-Buckfast]

and another ............

[Project-Buckfast]

and last (For Now) but not least...... "UTC Gold"

http://img62.exs.cx/img62/6633/utc56jg.jpg

[NealT]

You guys/gals are making me SICK!

(bawls)

I do not have enough imagination or patience to do that kind of work if it were the only thing that would keep me alive...yet you continually come up with OUTF@@KINGSTANDING work. I think I am going to have to go find a Doc who will give me a whole lot of happy pills to get over this depression now...

(slinks off under his rock to sulk)

[kittykat]

FW love that background girl very mystical!!!
absolutely love that "graphic" one project-buckfast!
Clean and simple and BLUE! Awesome!

[rastagard]

A kooky little wallpaper inspired by the band Freak Kitchen. (http://www.freakkitchen.com/freak_gallery.html)

[Project-Buckfast]

Originally posted by kittykat
FW love that background girl very mystical!!!
absolutely love that "graphic" one project-buckfast!
Clean and simple and BLUE! Awesome!


Thanx, Glad you like it. Ill have some more soon, as ive been busy over the newyear.
:argue:

[Carrie]

Hey PB, I have bryce 5 and I have NO IDEA what the hell I am doing....any good tutorials that you know of?

[rastagard]

moooooo..........

[NealT]

I don't see Bessie anywhere...

Where is she?

[Project-Buckfast]

Originally posted by Feenies-Wife
Hey PB, I have bryce 5 and I have NO IDEA what the hell I am doing....any good tutorials that you know of?

Yeah you'll find a lot of tutorials here (http://www.cadtutor.net/dd/bryce/resource/resource.html) . But it will take a fair bit of time to learn to create your own good looking graphic!! check it out newayz

;)

[fireydeviant]

Bryce is really confusing at first, it hides stuff from you.
the basic install comes with basics tuts. go too the help menu if you want them.
Tip:
to get object texture pre made select the object you wwant and hit the little arrow next too "edit"

btw, ty for the link PB. never have figured out the animations yet :)

[Carrie]

Thanks for the link. I looked around a bit looks like something I can follow. The only real question that I didnt see a topic for was how to save the work. I have created a few neat little things but then when I go to save it I only have the choice of saving it in bry5 format. Any ideas what it is Im doing wrong?

[DreamCaster]

If you choose File-Export image you'll get few choices you can save it in ;)

[Carrie]

Thanks DC:) Now Im getting some where LOL!

[Carrie]

none of these were done with Bryce LMAO!

[Carrie]

:rolleyes:

[Carrie]

:clap:

[Nilly_Chipples]

pretty nifty!!!!!

[Nilly_Chipples]

for the cowgirls

[Nilly_Chipples]

plain n simple

[Carrie]

The spider is cool as hell amb!!!


This one is pretty girly Rasta...ya better hide your eyes!

[Nilly_Chipples]

omg fwv thats cool as hell

[NealT]

extraordinary work FW...simply extraordinary...

[Nilly_Chipples]

.

[taddzilla]

Nice work lil_amb. I likes cowgirls:squint:

[Carrie]

thems are neat lil_Amb!!!

[Carrie]

..

[Nilly_Chipples]

new

[Carrie]

thats pretty cool
:clap:

[Carrie]

Strange to say the least..........

[NealT]

Well, Here is MY first attempt at a UTC background.....

[Nilly_Chipples]

AWESOMEST!

[Carrie]

I love that blue! what did you use to make that?

[Carrie]

Im pretty damn proud of this one:)

[Nilly_Chipples]

my new one

[Carrie]

I think thats your best one yet lil_amb!

[NealT]

Originally posted by Feenies-Wife
I love that blue! what did you use to make that?

I wish I could remember.....

If you wish...I could send you the .psd file and you could dissect it a bit...(I think I still got the main part saved that way)...

[Carrie]

nope, I dont need the file I was just wondering which program you were using, but I guess I now know:)

[Carrie]

My latest Work .... Available for Download at KFW Creations (http://www.geocities.com/kfwcreations)

[Carrie]

Available for Download at KFW Creations (http://www.geocities.com/kfwcreations)

[Carrie]

Ok Heres one I made exclusively for Unitethecows.com. This will not be put on KFWcreations. I will post the preview, and then in the next post I will put the zip.
800x600 and 1024x768

[Carrie]

as promised...The Zip....

[rastagard]

Very nice! Did you do that in PS or PSP? Or both? :thumbsup:

I especially like the grid in back.

[Carrie]

I did it all in PS:)...and thank you:)

[Carrie]

My new one

[Carrie]

:)

[NealT]

Hmmmmmmmmmmm.....

Not a post here in a while...perhaps this might liven it up a bit?

[NealT]

And if that does not tickle your fancy...

[Project-Buckfast]

I havent contributed in a while, so here goes...

[Carrie]

:clap:

[unite]

Originally posted by Feenies-Wife
:clap:

Damn I like that way that sounds....(players club)

We need dreamcaster to post a few in here..... Where ya at dream?

[Carrie]

Blacklight! :squint:

[Nilly_Chipples]

that is slick!

[unite]

Come on dreamcaster give us a background from your artistic mind.

[unite]

I would also like to see one from omega...

[Nilly_Chipples]

:flush:

[sepia]

You guys are all so good with these backgrounds--especially the text effects I see going on here. Everyone in here is doing fantastic!!!
You sure none of you guys didn't go to school for PS? I've spent 3 years in school studying the majority of Adobe products and 3D apps, and yet only 2 days were spent covering backgrounds--yet they are needed for almost everything. You guys are as good if not better than the Mac geniuses I shlep with

[Carrie]

Nope no school, self taught my self most everything I know....and read tutorials on what I don't.

Wheres your works of art sepia?????

[unite]

OK here is a quicky

[NealT]

Originally posted by sepia
You guys are all so good with these backgrounds--especially the text effects I see going on here. Everyone in here is doing fantastic!!!
You sure none of you guys didn't go to school for PS? I've spent 3 years in school studying the majority of Adobe products and 3D apps, and yet only 2 days were spent covering backgrounds--yet they are needed for almost everything. You guys are as good if not better than the Mac geniuses I shlep with

Everything I have learned has been through tutorials and experimentation.

[Project-Buckfast]

I started PS when I was bored in skool, every free class I had I tried to better my knowledge through experimentation, and this is where im at now!


Originally posted by sepia
You guys are all so good with these backgrounds--especially the text effects I see going on here. Everyone in here is doing fantastic!!!
You sure none of you guys didn't go to school for PS? I've spent 3 years in school studying the majority of Adobe products and 3D apps, and yet only 2 days were spent covering backgrounds--yet they are needed for almost everything. You guys are as good if not better than the Mac geniuses I shlep with

[Project-Buckfast]

This is my new background. It's UTC Euphoric.............

[DreamCaster]

Looking good in here people :thumbsup:

I'll try and contribute when I can. It's hard to be creative when you're sick though :sick:

Keep up the good work :)

[Carrie]

Until you do DC, Ill keep posting my crap in here. LOL

[Project-Buckfast]

The Players club one rocked FW!!

Get well soon, DC;)

[kittykat]

Wow! What a bunch of talented cows we have, Great work everyone! :clap:

Something I whipped up real quick.....

[Carrie]

Thats pretty cool Kitty!:clap:

[kittykat]

Spin off of the players club.....

[Project-Buckfast]

Whooo Me likes that one kitty! :urock: :clap:

[Carrie]

;)

[ISOSES]

you know your stuff im still playing with microsoft paint

[Carrie]

LOL....I never could get paint to do anything! absolutely nothing, no joke!!! When i first recieved PSP8, the first thing I read was, "if you can use Microsoft paint you will have no problems with PSP" I thought OH SHIT! Turns out, PSP and PS are WAY easier than paint :laugh:

[Nilly_Chipples]

thats cool as hell:thumbsup:

[NealT]

I apologize for being so delinquent on my submissions in this area...I whipped this up on the fly...hope you enjoy...

[Carrie]

Originally posted by NealT
I apologize for being so delinquent on my submissions in this area...I whipped this up on the fly...hope you enjoy...


We were just talking about you mister....where have you been!:doh:

[Project-Buckfast]

Ok here's my new one. I hads to shrink it because of size restrictions but ill offer a zip aswell. I liked it too much to do anything else except add a bit of text!!

[Project-Buckfast]

Ok somethings up with my winrar and zipping that file so ive put on imageshack so they can host it. Heres the link to the full size version!


http://img27.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img27&image=simplybetter800x600.jpg

[Carrie]

:thumbsup:

[Carrie]

For you lovely Cowboys:bigwave:

[sepia]

Where's my stuff at? In a folder on various computers and disks here and there.
You know it took me months to put up my photo, you are one of the few who has been over to my DA thing, adn I think you had the wrong one since you said I was poetic--I don't write, I had someone else make my sig banners (he just assumed I couldn't), and I have only put one twisted picture up here that I have done and a couple avatars.

<y backgrounds just so suck compared to you guys. I have no imagination at all. And the little I have is really demented. Like reallllllllllllllllllllly, demeted.

[ISOSES]

nice work FW looks just like my girlfriend ..except for the body the face the hair the legs ..and the weights a bit diffrent too:bigwave:

[Carrie]

Originally posted by ISOSES
nice work FW looks just like my girlfriend ..except for the body the face the hair the legs ..and the weights a bit diffrent too:bigwave:

Wo what your saying is they have the same shoes?

[Carrie]

My newest addition to KFW Nascar (http://members.lycos.co.uk/kfwnascar)
Go there to download the full size.

[Project-Buckfast]

A new one for the 2 new sites,

Clickity (http://img62.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img62&image=utcimagestrictly7ud.jpg)

[Project-Buckfast]

Image just for UTC, without the other two sites.

View Me!! (http://img71.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img71&image=utcig5uz.jpg)

[Carrie]

Very kick ass!!!

Great job!

[Nilly_Chipples]

I found this pic and messed with it a bit then added our name...I liked it so here ya go.

[Project-Buckfast]

Very Nice Amb!!:thumbsup: Keep up the good work!

[sepia]

Originally posted by kittykat
Wow! What a bunch of talented cows we have, Great work everyone! :clap:

Something I whipped up real quick.....
Did you use Illustrator for this one kitty? That looks like the envelope distort feature in there for the UTC page.

Does anyone here use Illustrator?

**ISOSES, I think Paint by MS is impossible, I can't do anything with it. Gimp with its tools is a good free program (download the tools first, then the program) and is just as good as PS I think. And, there are lots of tuts and communities out there on the web for it.

[kittykat]

Did you use Illustrator for this one kitty? That looks like the envelope distort feature in there for the UTC page.

I'm an all PS girl! The effect is created by first "Free Transforming" the image to the size you want. Then go to your Filters and use "Pinch", play around till you get it how you like it. Go back to "Free Transform" and tweak it up a bit. Drop a shadow behind it and there you go! :thumbsup:

As for Illustrator I played around with it a long time ago when I first started getting into making my own backgrounds and never really liked it that well. I found that I could create the same effects with PS. Now as for newer versions of Illustrator, they may have added features that made the program better, I couldn't say as I haven't used it. I know thats not much help, maybe someone else can give you more feedback on it. (*bump*)

[Project-Buckfast]

Im all photoshop aswell. I use bryce a little but very rarly:type:

[Nilly_Chipples]

im psp8

[sepia]

I've been put into this very stiff mindset about what goes where in which programs--and I think that has really inhibited a lot of the work i picture in my head.

Yes, Illustrator 10, like PS7 introduced many new tools. When I took it, I felt there was nothing that I could do in there that I couldn't emulate just as well in PS, which I had bewen using since Version 6. I actually sat in the front of the room, behind a (fortunately) huge Mac Monitor, shedding tears--I actually cried over that program. But, then suddenly it clicked.

I am one of those people that evry prof writes at the top of my paper 10/10, but RTFM. I used the manuals just like reference books and that was it.

When I hit my first logo job in Quark, I cried "why can't I just make a Text Box, fill with red, use white print in the typeface the client desires? And InDesign was the same way, except that I found there were many times I couldn't import from other Adobe products. Crap, InDesign is the Quark of Adobe, why wouldn't it work well?

I have never used PSP, but I love a lot of the pics I have seen from it.

I think I need to throw everything out the window that has been drilled into me as far as traditional how to and just go for it, I just seem to be afraid to jump over the edge. I am one of those terrible snobs that has for years felt that these computer programs were fun, but definitely no Art. Art is paper and brush. But, i have since changed my mind.

[Carrie]

I was bored...so I made this...

I kept the full size, if any one wants it PM me and Ill send it to you...

[Dragon]

hehe.. Nice to meet you all. Im Dragon :)

[Carrie]

Welcome to the herd Dragon,

I have to say thats a pretty kick ass pic there:)

[Dragon]

GettyImages.com

pretty cool free img site

[Project-Buckfast]

Welcome to the herd Dragon:bigwave:

Nice Pic:thumbsup:

[sepia]

Welcome Dragon. You might also enjoy playing in some of the Challenges down here in the Graphics Area.

BTW, very nice.........

[Carrie]

Originally posted by Dragon
GettyImages.com

pretty cool free img site

Accually we have a free image hosting site, if you would like to use it...

www.imagebug.net or www.imagegator.com

Both are free to use:)

[Project-Buckfast]

We now have www.imagerocket.net aswell :thumbsup:

My new pic...

Click me!! (http://www.imagegator.com/uploads/cab18393e4.jpg)

[Nilly_Chipples]

I got all artsy tonight...

#1

[Nilly_Chipples]

#2

[tiremonkey2000]

Here's mine

[Nilly_Chipples]

wow , did you make that? it's kick ass!

[tiremonkey2000]

No i did'nt make it i got it from a screensaver site but when my puter crashed 2 weeks ago i lost everything lucky for me i saved it too disk

[sepia]

try digital blasphemy some time--got some very cool stuff

[kittykat]

;)
you know where you can get it!

[Nilly_Chipples]

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[Nilly_Chipples]

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[Nilly_Chipples]

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[Carrie]

Ok I made some new BG's for the UTC Memebers :foru:

You can find the full size backgrounds at the bottom of This page! (http://www.kcnascar.cutpage.com/carrie/other/nonnascar.html)
Enjoy :clappb:

[mathmission]

Nice new ones there Carrie

[Carrie]

Thanks sweets :)

[riscy]

Very cool pics, Carrie.

Unfortunately I get a
Network Error (dns_server_failure)
every time I try to access your site - it is probably the ISP/server at this end.

[comrvf]

i like i guse now that ive got some graphic programes ill have learn how too do this stuff

[Carrie]

Very cool pics, Carrie.

Unfortunately I get a
Network Error (dns_server_failure)
every time I try to access your site - it is probably the ISP/server at this end.


Must be, I am not having any problems...anyone else having problems?

[riscy]

Same problem still, this end obviously. Will access your site from elsewhere when I travel.

Must be, I am not having any problems...anyone else having problems?

[comrvf]

its utc theme

[comrvf]

Must be, I am not having any problems...anyone else having problems?
no proplems for me i just checked