Make Your Own Graphics (Without special programs!)

[PaigeParker]

fast as an example... the middle play button is the "intuitive action" PLAY ME!

That red text with Lily's already cute color scheme looks kind of jarring in my opinion. That style of tv screen with a play button might look good on some profiles, but I think on Lily's it would stick out in a bad way, it just doesn't seem to fit in with the design theme of her profile.

Lily, I think your original looks really cute if you just change the video info placement like a bunch of other people have suggested! I really like the colors used too!

 

[AllisonWilder]

I agree with Paige. Even the black is too dark for the muted colors on the graphic and the profile, it would stand out, but not in an incredible way.

There's no need to put an HD symbol on the TV since it's clearly stated in the graphic that it's HD, that's redundant. The red really does stand out in a weird way. It doesn't blend at all.

 

[sexyvee_x]

Lilly that picture is so hot btw!

 

[RoxieRed]

I'd just like to say that I much prefer the look of simple elegance graphics (like Lily's graphic posted above) to the bright, flashy 'look at me' graphics. Bright graphics stand out in a weird way on a lightly colored profile.

I agree with CammiStar about making the font darker. It would pop then, but otherwise I think it looks great!

@mfc-css-pro: While your graphic is nice, it's busy. The font/color over the car on the photo is hard to read because everything is so bright. I can't even read the link because the color clashes with the car.

You said exactly what I was thinking, Allison! I much prefer clean and simple like Lily's graphic. When things are busy like the graphic mfc-css-pro posted it looks like an advertisement and my brain automatically shuts that information out.

Lily, the only things I could say about your graphic is that it's lovely. That picture is really really sexy and gives you a good idea what the video will be like. The font could be a tiny bit bolder or larger but I like the font used, and the color of the font against the background color. Also, I'd center the bullet point of the price for the video with the rest of the information above the picture. I think the original graphic you had is great! Elegant, simple, pretty, and informative!

 

[JoleneBrody]

Agreed with above! I MUCH prefer lily's graphic. It's pretty and elegant and honestly css-pro... your graphic while eye catching is a bit overwhelming and trashy. Sorry if that seems rude but since you came at lily like a graphics design professor grading a paper I imagine you can handle it.

I really enjoy the color Lily, it fits you perfectly and that's most important, fitting the product being sold. With the bolder texts and centered price I think it will be perfect! The image really draws a person in since it's not an image the eye is used to seeing on an MFC profile. Good choice.

 

[Evvie]

Evvie:
It seems like there is a big need for custom graphics but nobody out there to make them.

I offer commercial services ... and as reply for another question : yes earnings are ok, I don't earn from editing images like a medium model but it's ok

Have fun & b creative :violin:

This post was made before you joined the forum.

I understand that you are a big graphics editor, but this thread is specifically for using MS Paint.

Maybe you don't use complex editing programs but resources are free and available all over the internet ..

This tutorial is obviously not for making big, flashy images like you sell.

Also, I understand you wish to advertise your services but posting your own professionally made graphics in comparison to an amateur endeavor is inappropriate... in my opinion, Lily's graphic is great excepting that the text may be a little too light for my tastes. Please respect that this is a thread for learning, not for advertising your own graphic design company.

There is nothing wrong with being honest with your opinions, but please keep the scope of this thread in mind.

Also... please keep in mind that your opinions are not facts. The text doesn't have to have identical alignments (that's called design), the background color doesn't have to have something in similar with the rest of the image, the prices doesn't have to stand out, and the image doesn't have to be amazingly done to earn money. Please don't discourage models and make them believe they have to buy your graphics to make money.

0.2: Colors which look nice easily blend and blur together. Make sure text and background colors are radically different.

0.2.a: Unless the background is black, never make the background darker than the text.

Though I agree with Point 2 (and thing the whole post is excellent) I have to say that a couple of the examples used in 2a are hard for people with colour-blindness to read, especially the top right one. That one is almost completely impossible for me as the two colours bleed into each other.

As colour-blindness is a lot more common amongst men than women, it maybe something to bear in mind when designing a profile. What you may see as good contrasts aren't always what we see. Here are a couple of good examplea:

http://safecolours.rigdenage.com/palettefiles.html
How the Color Deficient Person Sees the World

I see you have proved my point!

That graphic was created to prove that you should use highly contrasting colors to make your graphic. Colors that bleed together (like the top two) should not be used to make graphics.

 

[CamillaJay]

I really love your graphic Lily, that picture alone makes me want to buy it.

 

[AmberCutie]

Not to be too incredibly rude...

... but I'd prefer Evvie's or Lily's graphics over the 1990's porny flashy looking graphics that mr. Pro has provided.

Great thread Evvie. Thank you for all your contributions on ACF!!

 

[AedanRayne]

@mfc-css That is a pretty bad example of a "good" advertisement. Sure, it is catchy and grabs the attention of the viewer but this does absolutely no good when the viewer cannot read a thing within your advertisement. The graphic design portion "VIP CLUB" looks alright, though too flashy/busy for my taste, but your font color for the body text was a poor choice along with placing said text over a photo of a limo; which makes it incredible difficult to read and turns the entire banner into a busy mess.

I must remember that not all web designers, coders and so on use common sense... I do apologize if I hurt your ego. Sorry If I upset you.

Thank you.

 

[Shaun__]

Can I have some more opinions from you guys, please?
Maybe also in regards to what mfc-css-pro has said?

Your stuff looks elegant, but mfc-css-pro's always looks tacky to me. I like the feminine touch your stuff has LilyMarie.

 

[BlueViolet]

I'd just like to say that I much prefer the look of simple elegance graphics (like Lily's graphic posted above) to the bright, flashy 'look at me' graphics. Bright graphics stand out in a weird way on a lightly colored profile.

I agree with CammiStar about making the font darker. It would pop then, but otherwise I think it looks great!

@mfc-css-pro: While your graphic is nice, it's busy. The font/color over the car on the photo is hard to read because everything is so bright. I can't even read the link because the color clashes with the car.

I have to say that I completely agree with everything Allison has to say here. I really love the softer images such as Lily's, it looks much more personal and definitely embodies a unique personality of the person creating the graphic. It's simple but elegant to me. The new graphic the mfc-css-pro made looks very... unnecessary and not visually pleasing.

Although I think that mfc-css-pro can create good graphics, I feel they are much more busy than what is necessary on an MFC profile. I feel they are more suited towards the newer camsites that are always popping up or a porn site that I'm weary to stay on the page for risk of viruses attacking my computer. They are very well done but I don't think they are suited to be on an MFC profile since MFC is all about personality and individuality among the girls and I feel it's necessary to make your profile reflect who you are to give everyone a good idea of what you are like.

 

[Rose]

@mfc-css-pro: While your graphic is nice, it's busy. The font/color over the car on the photo is hard to read because everything is so bright. I can't even read the link because the color clashes with the car.

These are my feelings as well. Honestly, I had to scroll past it quickly because it hurts my eyes. I get double vision from time to time and that graphic triggered it... :?

 

[Tia_Fae]

honestly mfc-css-pro, i like lily's pic a lot better than the example that you posted...i find it a lot more visually appealing...but that's me, i don't know...i'm in school for graphic design but not a "pro"

 

[AmberCutie]

honestly mfc-css-pro, i like lily's pic a lot better than the example that you posted...i find it a lot more visually appealing...but that's me, i don't know...i'm in school for graphic design but not a "pro"

:lol: I would say he's not either.

 

[mfc-css-pro]

thanks for your comments... agree with all of your opinions ... but here's mine... A banner is made to be clicked....in this context, why should you use images? just simple text and in the centre ad a printscreen or any other image, much easier if you don't need something flashy. The entire concept of a promotional image is ...doh' ... to be clicked?! :-D

Regarding links and text inside the sample i've shown... I do not know if you guys/girls know the css term for inherit! that means that links have the same style like your profile ... if you use comic san font or courier font, even if in my example is helvetica, the output will use comic font or courier... and yup the same size like on your profile.

True, my outcome is flashy, for flashy profiles... as a "visitor" of mfc models profiles I do not read much the texts, first 3 seconds that draw my attention are noughty/porn/sexy images... because... lol it's a adult-based site/service :-D
If I'm impressed by what I see, yup I read long blogs and journals on mfc model profiles.
This is a guy opinion, and sometimes I create/design or code outcomes of what guys want to see, not what models like.

But ye...we are different, we have other tastes, ideas, concepts and so on
Thank you all for feedback.
Again, I hope I did not upset anyone
Have fun and huge earnings to u all

 

[mfc-css-pro]

@mfc-css That is a pretty bad example of a "good" advertisement. Sure, it is catchy and grabs the attention of the viewer but this does absolutely no good when the viewer cannot read a thing within your advertisement. The graphic design portion "VIP CLUB" looks alright, though too flashy/busy for my taste, but your font color for the body text was a poor choice along with placing said text over a photo of a limo; which makes it incredible difficult to read and turns the entire banner into a busy mess.

I must remember that not all web designers, coders and so on use common sense... I do apologize if I hurt your ego. Sorry If I upset you.

Thank you.

Lol ... point taken and nope you did not hurt my ego :thumbleft: I do not use ego, bad karma

 

[PaigeParker]

thanks for your comments... agree with all of your opinions ... but here's mine... A banner is made to be clicked....in this context, why should you use images? just simple text and in the centre ad a printscreen or any other image, much easier if you don't need something flashy. The entire concept of a promotional image is ...doh' ... to be clicked?! :-D

Regarding links and text inside the sample i've shown... I do not know if you guys/girls know the css term for inherit! that means that links have the same style like your profile ... if you use comic san font or courier font, even if in my example is helvetica, the output will use comic font or courier... and yup the same size like on your profile.

True, my outcome is flashy, for flashy profiles... as a "visitor" of mfc models profiles I do not read much the texts, first 3 seconds that draw my attention are noughty/porn/sexy images... because... lol it's a adult-based site/service :-D
If I'm impressed by what I see, yup I read long blogs and journals on mfc model profiles.
This is a guy opinion, and sometimes I create/design or code outcomes of what guys want to see, not what models like.

But ye...we are different, we have other tastes, ideas, concepts and so on
Thank you all for feedback.
Again, I hope I did not upset anyone
Have fun and huge earnings to u all

I'm confused about a couple things you said. Why does this banner need to be clicked? It is an advertisement for a video that will probably be put on her profile, and people will usually be tipping for in Lily's chat room. I'm not really sure why you are talking about css coding either, it is pretty clear that Lily is just using an image, not coming up with the code to put that advertisement design in her profile.

 

[mfc-css-pro]

I'm confused about a couple things you said. Why does this banner need to be clicked? It is an advertisement for a video that will probably be put on her profile, and people will usually be tipping for in Lily's chat room. I'm not really sure why you are talking about css coding either, it is pretty clear that Lily is just using an image, not coming up with the code to put that advertisement design in her profile.

1. Why not? ...to drive traffic (visitors) on your room?
2. Doesn't matter. An simple image is an image, good as it is, soft-advertising.
-when you say apple, you see fruit, i see colour, shape, shadows... same here.

I guess my activity on ACF goes offtopic... 90% models think from their perspective and experience, I think and act from mine (simple user) so, I think we talk different languages

:handgestures-salute: Have fun and b creative :violin:

 

[Evvie]

I'm confused about a couple things you said. Why does this banner need to be clicked? It is an advertisement for a video that will probably be put on her profile, and people will usually be tipping for in Lily's chat room. I'm not really sure why you are talking about css coding either, it is pretty clear that Lily is just using an image, not coming up with the code to put that advertisement design in her profile.

1. Why not to drive traffic (visitors) to your room?
2. Doesn't matter. An simple image is an image, good as it is, soft-advertising.
-when you say apple, you see fruit, i see colour, shape, shadows... same here.

I guess my activity on ACF goes offtopic... 90% models think from their perspective and experience, I think and act from mine (simple user) so, I think we talk different languages

:handgestures-salute: Have fun and b creative :violin:

I think the reason we're a little confused is that visitors to her profile will be visitors from her room... The ad is not to bring people to the chatroom, but to bring the video to people already in the chatroom

 

[AllisonWilder]

@mfc-css-pro I think something you overlook here is that the majority of us models are also members. We have the ability and brain capacity to think as a model AND a member. We know what we like for our profiles and we know what we like to see in a girls profile. I, as a paying member on MFC, would be more apt to pay attention to a graphic like Lily's where I can see that she put some effort into it, not just asked someone to make it for her. This is a site for unique girls and stock images don't make you stand out, they push you to the back of the pack.

I used to have flashy information all over my profile. I asked some honest regulars about it (people that had been with me since day one) and they said that they'd never even tried to read it.

 

[LittlePikachu]

What Allison said. The kind of graphics this mfc-css-pro dude is posting are the kind that I see "too much" as is when I accidentally click on one of those porn sites that market exclusively to people who want to be on Jersey Shore. When I see that graphical style, I think of girls who resemble those "too much plastic surgery" pictures. I am not into that, nor do I generally have any appeal to people who are.

To each their own, but, um, no thanks.

 

[Kody]

Can anyone tell me how to actually put the image onto my profile in say, the 'About Me' bit?

 

[Evvie]

Can anyone tell me how to actually put the image onto my profile in say, the 'About Me' bit?

<P>
<img src='place the entire url of your image here'>
</p>

 

[LilyMarie]

I have a question about brushes, more specifically brushes in Paint Shop Pro, but maybe someone can help me even though they don't have PSP...?

A brush that i downloaded looks like this in reality:

...but in paint shop pro it looks weird and 'out of focus', like this:

Can someone tell me what I did wrong?

 

[JerseyAnne]

Can you guys tell me your honest opinion on this graphic I just made?
I was going to use this for advertising my new vid, but I'll still happily change it if it looks weird. I don't really have an eye for those things.

I do not wish to be an ass... but in on of your replays from this forum you write that you are good in webdesign or something like this. Ok...let's analyse your graphic . First of all the purpose of the image is to inform and present your 'product' as a label or a promotional image or flyer... Text colour is not the best choice, background colour is "coral" not to attractive, true...some girls are colour-blind ... not your case still, the combination of the font, graphics and position is not the best.

What should it look like or what elements are missing?
(I'm not just a critic, I offer a suggestion/solution)

-balance the graphics and texts (all centred, or all left )
-background colour/image of your outcome must have something in common with all the other elements
-the price is important so "450tkns" must stand-out .. bigger font or different colour
- point out the image element ... Maybe you don't use complex editing programs but resources are free and available all over the internet .. if this is a video you should use a graphic element or HD mark image to point that out .
This kind of images MUST be amazingly done if you want to earn from their content.
I've learned this method in school , for a few seconds close your eyes, open them fast ...what element from your graphic you notice first? Work on that graphic.

This kind of images must impress in 2 seconds, if this image does not stands out and impress me... I'll not click it or read the text.

Example of a graphic that captures the interest of the visitor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQv14cMuKag

I must always remember that not all people are web-designers, coders and so on.... I do apologise if my reply is not
"what a wonderful outcome..." . Sorry if I upset any of you.
Thank you

Not bashing you at all, but her graphic, while unaligned (which has already been stated) looks great, while I find yours too flashy, like myspace 2001. It's too distracting, and bright. Her's is low key, professional, and to the point. I would suggest for hers to align like it was said, and maybe take the adivce to change to the token amount's color. Again already been stated just agreeing with that. Otherwise I think she's done a great job. It's great.

 

[Jessi]

Neon is rarely done well. Especially on a dark bakground.
Its not 2001, we can ditch the cyan, magenta and lime.

Alignment and layout are somewhat universal but soft colors and gentle fonts are much more suitable to a girl-next door sort of camgirl. If the really done up, blonde pornstar look is what you're looking for then the super flashy stuff might work. But I think most of the girls on this forum are younger, girl-next-door types who are looking for something unique and cute. Yes, the really flashy stuff might appeal to a lot of men - but its not going to appeal to the ones looking for that type of girl. The design should be somewhat honest to what is actually being marketed.

 

[LilyMarie]

I'm trying to find out how to make a reflection underneath a graphic, like this.

Does anyone know how this works? I have Corel Paintshop Photo Pro X3 and I wasn't able to find anything on Google..

 

[Mott_]

Try this Lily:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x8ztvrgZJI

 

[AnaBeth]

Great work here in this thread, these forums have been of much help as I'm trying to figure out how to customize my MFC profile (despite the best efforts of their frackin' code limitations). Thank you guys.


I'm still a good ways from being done... I did my first graphics in Paint (i luv MS paint) with some custom fonts. Since then I've acquired photoshop, and will be adding/fixing from the fairly basic profile i have now.

in case anyone's curious:
http://profiles.myfreecams.com/AnaBeth

only a few days into this business.

 

[KayleePond]

Here are some great sites to help with creating pretty color palettes for your profile/website/graphics/etc

http://www.degraeve.com/color-palette/

http://www.colourlovers.com/

http://design-seeds.com/

I guess this takes away the idea of "Without special programs" but it could still be helpful!