2007 Valentine's Banner Contest

Post by **Tiff** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 12:21 am

Love-Love contest time!

For the Valentine's contest, I'd like to use the Senshi of Love, Sailor Venus.

You may use a picture of her that's either manga or anime based, but your theme must portray a "senshi of love" theme. I need to be able to see a theme of "love" in the banner. You may use any form of her (Minako civilian form, Venus form, etc)

Rules:

1) Your banner must contain any form of Minako/Sailor Venus, with a "senshi of love"-type theme.

2) Banner must be 300 x 137 in size and in GIF or JPG format. You may submit up to 2.

3) You are allowed to use brushes, backgrounds, and edit any original images. Photoshop filters are fine, and I have no problem if you want to add extra pictures/clip parts. If you use a brush, credit the brushmaker in your post. Please be careful about text and fonts. I MUST be able to read it.

4) The banner needs to say "Sailor Moon Uncensored Forums" and have the url, "http://www.smuncensored.com" (url can be shortened if need be) on it. This must be done in a readable font (this includes size, style, and color)

5) In order to enter, you must have been a member for at least two weeks and an ACTIVE POSTER AS OF TODAY. Anyone who joins the forums after this is NOT ELIGIBLE. This isn't to be mean, but I don't want people joining just for the contest, and we have too many members who have never posted or have only posted once or twice. If you are unsure as to whether you qualify as an "active member", contact me.

OTHER GUIDELINES:

1) Please try to use a readable font. I cannot stress this enough.
2) ...I will smite anybody who doesn't know. >_>

THE DEADLINE IS SATURDAY, JANUARY 20.

Prizes are as follows:

1st: Banner displayed Feb. 4-17, avatar made by me.
2nd: Banner displayed Feb. 18-28, avatar made by me.
3rd: Banned displayed Jan. 21-Feb.3 avatar made by me.

I would like you to upload the banner to your webspace (if you have one) and paste the link here, so that everyone may view your creation. If you do not have webspace, email it to me, and I'll upload it for you. DO NOT POST THE IMAGE ITSELF HERE.

Have fun, and I hope we get a lot of entries! If you have any questions, let me know. ^^

Neon Heart · Post by **Neon Heart** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 2:53 am

2) CREATIVITY! ;o

I'll start working on mine right now.

EDIT: http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h114/ ... banner.jpg

I thought I'd try a little technique with the banner. I remember one other poster brought this kind of technique up a while back, but I can't remember who it was... Sorry that the picture is kinda blurry, V's especially. @[email protected]

Post by **Tiff** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 7:08 am

Neon Heart wrote:2) CREATIVITY! ;o

I'll start working on mine right now.

You will avoid a smiting. XD

EDIT: http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h114/ ... banner.jpg

I thought I'd try a little technique with the banner. I remember one other poster brought this kind of technique up a while back, but I can't remember who it was... Sorry that the picture is kinda blurry, V's especially. @[email protected]

WOO! FIRST BANNER OF THE SEASON!

NameGoesHere · Post by **NameGoesHere** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 6:17 am

O_O;

Aww, man. I hope I can find some time after work to make some entries before the deadline...

Post by **Tiff** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 7:09 pm

T_T guys..I posted this on Monday. I figured six days would be enough.

But I can see maybe not.

PLEEEASE try to submit!

Neon Heart · Post by **Neon Heart** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 10:56 pm

I can't believe you all made Tiff pull out Teh Crying Usagi banner... T___T

Post by **Tiff** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:00 pm

Neon Heart wrote:I can't believe you all made Tiff pull out Teh Crying Usagi banner... T___T

I KNOW. *CRIES*

SeiUsa · Post by **SeiUsa** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 2:53 pm

I'm sorry I made Usagi cry (and Tiffu too

)

EDIT: Resize:

http://www.freewebs.com/seiusa/VenusBanner1.JPG

*kicks Microsoft Picture Manger* I tell it to size things one way, but for some reason it thinks bigger is better so it makes it so >.< I need a new program.

Anywho....I will try to make another one by Saturday. =D

Tempest · Post by **Tempest** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:02 pm

Hey look, everyone! I'm being active. :D

My entry:
http://pictures.greatestjournal.com/use ... 5630/64536

Post by **Tiff** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:23 pm

SeiUsa wrote:I'm sorry I made Usagi cry (and Tiffu too )

Here's mine:

http://www.freewebs.com/seiusa/VenusBanner.JPG

I'll try to make another one before Saturday.

Seiusa, your banner is too big. It's 300 x 160, and the requirements are 300 x 137. Please try to fix =D

nap* · Post by nap* » Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:25 pm

Tiff did you get my e-mails?

Post by **Tiff** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 6:27 pm

nap* wrote:Tiff did you get my e-mails?

Yep, sure did.

NameGoesHere · Post by **NameGoesHere** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 9:13 am

== Entry ==

A picture from Codename Sailor V, volume one. Minako is on a mission to give Higashi-senpai a love letter, but he is surrounded by a mob of girls. Will her determination waver? *dun dun duuuuun*

I'm so glad I found some time to make an entry! I wish I could've done more. ;_;

Programs: GIMP, IrfanView, MS Paint

Neon Heart · Post by **Neon Heart** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 10:45 am

Here be my second entry.

I thought I'd get a little creative, and put part of the chorus from The Power of Love in the banner. After all, it's almost Valentine's Day, so you have to believe in the power of love!

Not exactly THE most creative banner, otherwise... But I'm actually pretty happy with it. It was all done in Corel Photo Paint. Hope it looks all right! XD

SeiUsa · Post by **SeiUsa** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 1:03 pm

My second entry:

http://www.freewebs.com/seiusa/venusbanner.jpg

It's a lyric from one of Minako's songs [from the live-action version], "C'est la vie."

Neon Heart · Post by **Neon Heart** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 5:52 pm

That banner looks a tad big.

Post by **Tiff** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:44 pm

Nope, it's the right size ^_^ Yay, more entries! *GLEE*

We still have until midnight Saturday, guys! don't give up!

Slrjoecool · Post by **Slrjoecool** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:28 pm

My one (and probably only) Banner entry.

Yayz, finally done. X_x

Butterscotch · Post by **Butterscotch** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 10:18 pm

I'll have an entry up tomorrow night! I only just now noticed this and MS Paint is a pain to work with, but I'll have an entry!

http://www.zombiefied.net/gallery/album ... venus_.JPG

Alexclow345 · Post by **Alexclow345** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 8:32 pm

I can't wait to see who wins. You all tried really hard. The banners tell all...