Diamond Graphic Request

[Alan Vende]

Would someone please make me a diamond in a circular background - like the graphic in the Helpful Members! thread?

The diamond is here:



I would like a blue, circular (if possible), background. Please put a small shadow on the background - like what's in the image linked above.

Thanks so much!

[Alan Vende]

Bump

[Tumbleweed]

I don't know if either of these will work. All I had was Gimp on my laptop to do this on, which isn't ideal. You also just said blue so no idea what shade of blue.

storage.proboards.com/3393080/i/BxzplYdMma0mYUTeFgrW.png

storage.proboards.com/3393080/i/1GpgsJ5K3iXyFy1TgWv7.png

[Alan Vende]

Thank you, Tumbleweed! And my bad. I thought I said "light blue" - like a teal-type color. Sorry about that! These look great, though!

[Tumbleweed]

Sept 11, 2015 13:19:52 GMT -8 Alan Vende said:

Thank you, Tumbleweed! And my bad. I thought I said "light blue" - like a teal-type color. Sorry about that! These look great, though!

I'll be happy to do it over but can you get the exact hex color? 

[Azy]

I gave it a bash, too

Big one for a master
www.dropbox.com/s/5jooqd8jufw36a3/Diamond.png?dl=0

16x16 one for the final
www.dropbox.com/s/g1drl9hf4xw26nm/Diamond%20Small.png?dl=0

[Alan Vende]

Sept 11, 2015 15:12:05 GMT -8 Tumbleweed said:

Sept 11, 2015 13:19:52 GMT -8 Alan Vende said:

Thank you, Tumbleweed! And my bad. I thought I said "light blue" - like a teal-type color. Sorry about that! These look great, though!

I'll be happy to do it over but can you get the exact hex color? 

I found the Hex color, but it's not a teal: #99CCFF. It's more of a blue, but it's not a 'dark' blue. Thank you, Tumbleweed!

Sept 12, 2015 11:24:22 GMT -8 Azy said:

I gave it a bash, too

Big one for a master
www.dropbox.com/s/5jooqd8jufw36a3/Diamond.png?dl=0

16x16 one for the final
www.dropbox.com/s/g1drl9hf4xw26nm/Diamond%20Small.png?dl=0

Thank you for this, Azy!

My apologies to both of you for my late reply, though. I just got back from a weekend vacation.

[Alan Vende]

Also, question for you both: storage of this image (and other images like it): Would it be better to put it on the theme and use the link from that in HTML and such or is it better to put it to an 'external' image host (such as PhotoBucket)?

Would love to know your thoughts. Thank you for taking the time out of your day to fulfill this request!

[Azy]

Sept 13, 2015 9:29:26 GMT -8 Alan Vende said:

Sept 12, 2015 11:24:22 GMT -8 Azy said:

I gave it a bash, too

Big one for a master
www.dropbox.com/s/5jooqd8jufw36a3/Diamond.png?dl=0

16x16 one for the final
www.dropbox.com/s/g1drl9hf4xw26nm/Diamond%20Small.png?dl=0

Thank you for this, Azy!

My apologies to both of you for my late reply, though. I just got back from a weekend vacation.

Hope you had a good time! 

I quickly redid the small diamond image in the hex colour you provided, and in a slightly larger 20px, which matches the image size used by the miniprofile plugin here on proboards. I also slighhtly thickened the diamon outline so it stands out more at the much smaller resolution.

www.dropbox.com/s/voegq5k9swdo28u/Diamond%20Small%202.png?dl=0

[Alan Vende]

Sept 13, 2015 10:02:39 GMT -8 Azy said:

Sept 13, 2015 9:29:26 GMT -8 Alan Vende said:

Thank you for this, Azy!

My apologies to both of you for my late reply, though. I just got back from a weekend vacation.

Hope you had a good time! 

I quickly redid the small diamond image in the hex colour you provided, and in a slightly larger 20px, which matches the image size used by the miniprofile plugin here on proboards. I also slighhtly thickened the diamon outline so it stands out more at the much smaller resolution.

www.dropbox.com/s/voegq5k9swdo28u/Diamond%20Small%202.png?dl=0

Thanks so much, my friend! I did! I went to the Casino, too, and made out good there! (LOL)

Thank you for redoing it. I didn't realize that that Hex color would look like that. I looked at it on the HTML Color Picker on W3Schools and thought it was a bit darker than that. Sorry about that!

And I also took a look at all of my themes. I think that the darker ones would work best with them (since I have a Black and Orange Halloween theme, for example).

Thank you for making the master, Azy!

[Azy]

Sept 13, 2015 10:02:24 GMT -8 Alan Vende said:

Also, question for you both: storage of this image (and other images like it): Would it be better to put it on the theme and use the link from that in HTML and such or is it better to put it to an 'external' image host (such as PhotoBucket)?

Would love to know your thoughts. Thank you for taking the time out of your day to fulfill this request!

I would recommend against photobucket as linking to images on their site has proven to be a pain in the arse for many 

Dropbox is also not the best for actual hosting, as it relies on files being in a certain place on my laptop. if I delete the files, or even rename or move them, they may come up as broken links on your site.
Imgur seems to be the most popular and user friendly 
Or just upload them to the forum's theme page, and grab the link from there. That's probably your best option, unless you're right up against it, capacity wise. All your forum related content is then in one place  


Edit to add:
And no problem! I'll keep the master safe at my end, and if you ever need a colour change, let me know

[Alan Vende]

Sept 13, 2015 10:07:47 GMT -8 Azy said:

Sept 13, 2015 10:02:24 GMT -8 Alan Vende said:

Also, question for you both: storage of this image (and other images like it): Would it be better to put it on the theme and use the link from that in HTML and such or is it better to put it to an 'external' image host (such as PhotoBucket)?

Would love to know your thoughts. Thank you for taking the time out of your day to fulfill this request!

I would recommend against photobucket as linking to images on their site has proven to be a pain in the arse for many 

Dropbox is also not the best for actual hosting, as it relies on files being in a certain place on my laptop. if I delete the files, or even rename or move them, they may come up as broken links on your site.
Imgur seems to be the most popular and user friendly 
Or just upload them to the forum's theme page, and grab the link from there. That's probably your best option, unless you're right up against it, capacity wise. All your forum related content is then in one place  


Edit to add:
And no problem! I'll keep the master safe at my end, and if you ever need a colour change, let me know

I have used Photobucket with no problems - but that's only because I keep forgetting that you can add custom images to the themes on PB. I mean, I was kind of afraid to put images on PB because I didn't want my themes to go over capacity with them and then not be able to code anymore - know what I mean?

I have used DropBox, but only for files, not images, but I completely see what you mean.

I never thought about Imgur. I have heard of it, but have never thought about hosting there.

If I ever need a color change, I will PM you since my original request in this thread has been fulfilled - the diamond, I mean - I hope that that's alright with you?

[Azy]

Sept 13, 2015 10:15:55 GMT -8 Alan Vende said:

Sept 13, 2015 10:07:47 GMT -8 Azy said:

I would recommend against photobucket as linking to images on their site has proven to be a pain in the arse for many 

Dropbox is also not the best for actual hosting, as it relies on files being in a certain place on my laptop. if I delete the files, or even rename or move them, they may come up as broken links on your site.
Imgur seems to be the most popular and user friendly 
Or just upload them to the forum's theme page, and grab the link from there. That's probably your best option, unless you're right up against it, capacity wise. All your forum related content is then in one place  


Edit to add:
And no problem! I'll keep the master safe at my end, and if you ever need a colour change, let me know

I have used Photobucket with no problems - but that's only because I keep forgetting that you can add custom images to the themes on PB. I mean, I was kind of afraid to put images on PB because I didn't want my themes to go over capacity with them and then not be able to code anymore - know what I mean?

I have used DropBox, but only for files, not images, but I completely see what you mean.

I never thought about Imgur. I have heard of it, but have never thought about hosting there.

If I ever need a color change, I will PM you since my original request in this thread has been fulfilled - the diamond, I mean - I hope that that's alright with you?

I do know what you mean! I used to have my own off-site server many years ago, in the early days of the Azayles brand, and that had unlimited capacity and bandwidth for, actually, not too much money  I was so worried about filling up my PB capacity in no time at all, but so far I'm coming up to 184 custom images, and it's less than a meg in total  The bargraph thing even says 0/50 MB.
And that's with replacing every single default image that I use on that forum! About the only thing I've not changed is the stars, because I use member/staff rank badges instead. And system wide.

Yeah, if you even have further queries, do shoot me over a PM, I'll be happy to help 

[Tumbleweed]

Looks like Azayles was making his version while I was making mine. Now you have choices. Sorry, Azayles, your posts were not there when I started messing with this but I took phone calls inbetween and so it too me longer totally missing your posts.

Alan Vende,

Thank for the hex color and thanks Azayles for pitching in here.

That diamond is very hard to see on such a small size and especially that lighter color but here is a 16x16:

storage.proboards.com/2955945/i/sDhlwmUMxZAAtkBtE8oq.png

And I did one a bit bigger with a border.

storage.proboards.com/2955945/i/MZsRXXRX3elHAf5v5RHa.png

As far as your images I'd store them in the theme and you really only need to upload them to one theme but can use them on other themes. The images above I uploaded to my theme on a test site. Just copy the url I provided, click on link in your themes images and paste it in and hit enter so you have them on your site via ProBoards because I eventually will delete them off my test site.

The only time I might use a host like photobucket is if there is a image I really don't ever want to lose by accidently deleting a theme the image was on or something like that.  

[Azy]

More choice is always good, I think  I grossly underestimated how quickly I could bash these out
plus Alan now has different styles, too.
I do like your one with the border, I wasn't sure a handful of pixels would be enough for the detail, but it looks really good!