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[nascarkeith]

:ror: Thats pretty awesome, i may just have to use it"thumbsup"

That will be $100 for a consulting fee:mrgreen:



Nah, its not original. Hannibal said it on the A-Team movie.

 

[johnnyh66]

It's a little busy with the sign, tree, mushroom cloud and fence all competing for your eye.
Personally, I'm a fan of less is more... like the RCC header. Clean, simple and easy to read.

Drop off the fake beveling on the text... it's overkill.

 

[twisted]

If someone gets po'd that i used part of their art in the scheme of the overall image, then i'll take it off in a heart beat. But the picture was posted publicly with no author to be found, i cropped a bunch of it out, added elements to it...i didn't even want the tree to be honest, which seems to be the only piece of art on it, i can't tell if the bomb is a picture or a drawing...

i understand your where you're coming from but people get this idea that if its on the internet its free...and its not. there's alot of places you can get stock photos for reference or to use in your art. i can link you to such places.

it doesn't matter if its a drawing or a photograph, same rules apply.

just think, you might start doing work for a company doing banners, you're getting paid for it and most of the time the work is under contract. one day you come across some of your work in anothers piece. how would you feel ?

just trying to help ya out. i dont mean to offend ya or come off as a ass.

 

[losikid]

i understand your where you're coming from but people get this idea that if its on the internet its free...and its not. there's alot of places you can get stock photos for reference or to use in your art. i can link you to such places.

it doesn't matter if its a drawing or a photograph, same rules apply.

just think, you might start doing work for a company doing banners, you're getting paid for it and most of the time the work is under contract. one day you come across some of your work in anothers piece. how would you feel ?

just trying to help ya out. i dont mean to offend ya or come off as a ass.

No i understand, and if the original creator of the atomic scenery comes by to my itty bitty website and don't want it up there then i'll take it off in a heart beat. But only people who go to my website are people from the rc fourms (well google says this) and i only get 10-30 visitors aday. So i doubt the author will will be browsing by anytime, and if they do there's quite abit thats been change and may not even notice.

As for the photo, only so many people are allowed to take a photo of a atomic bomb going off :roll: so the author probably didn't take that photo.

 

[losikid]

It's a little busy with the sign, tree, mushroom cloud and fence all competing for your eye.
Personally, I'm a fan of less is more... like the RCC header. Clean, simple and easy to read.

Drop off the fake beveling on the text... it's overkill.

So your saying a website, overkillrc, shouldn't have a website thats overkill?

I have lots more to be added to the website, so the header just doesn't pop so much, but i'm working from top to bottom, i have my content area figured out for the most part, but converting all the colors and such on my store is a huge pita, the css for it is 1000's of lines, probably in the ten thousands :shock:

 

[twisted]

No i understand, and if the original creator of the atomic scenery comes by to my itty bitty website and don't want it up there then i'll take it off in a heart beat. But only people who go to my website are people from the rc fourms (well google says this) and i only get 10-30 visitors aday. So i doubt the author will will be browsing by anytime, and if they do there's quite abit thats been change and may not even notice.

As for the photo, only so many people are allowed to take a photo of a atomic bomb going off :roll: so the author probably didn't take that photo.

regardless if the author comes to your site or not doesnt make it right. as long as you dont get caught your good ?

 

[losikid]

regardless if the author comes to your site or not doesnt make it right. as long as you dont get caught your good ?

Its not his art directly, I cropped out at least 30% of the original image, i erased quite a few branches to open it up, the tree i cut out, there's alot more different than you see at first look, all sorts of leaves and branches are missing. Then i added my own touches to it. So if the original author has a problem with me using his art for the base of mine, then i'll take it down...i'd actually like to talk to the author so i can ask about getting the image without the tree, but there is no trail to him/her. If they are that worried about other people using their art its not hard to put a water mark on it.

How many redo's of mona lisa are there? You think they all have permission from Leonardo da Vinci...or the scream, did they have permission from Edvard Munch

I'm not trying to steal or claim someone else art as my own, so if the author has a problem with me having a edited snippet of their art, then i'll remove it...

 

[losikid]

That will be $100 for a consulting fee:mrgreen:



Nah, its not original. Hannibal said it on the A-Team movie.

I google the prhase, nothing shows up, i even threw in a-team and hanniabl...still nothing, rcc is the first search result too :roll:


Are you sure its in the A-Team movie, cause i like it more and more i think about it.

 

[losikid]

I've been considering making it more narrow, here are the two i'm debating, lmk what looks better

 

[losikid]

So decided i hated the tree's on the far right, so i put some of my ps skills to work, lmk what ya'll think

I'm gonna have to find a way to get a couple hundred bucks for the adobe suite, the web premium...although for not much more i can have the master, hmmm (I get a crazy student discount)

 

[DunkinMcNut]

regardless if the author comes to your site or not doesnt make it right. as long as you dont get caught your good ?

x2

Learn some manners and create your own artwork. You're right, the owner of the photo may never stumble across your little website but they could be pointed there pretty easily if someone felt like being an ass...

I mean, I'm sure you have access to all kinds rc related pics here. Why not get permission for someones pictures and use it? Not sure chain link, a mushroom cloud, and a joshua tree have anything to do with overkill or rc anyway...

Just sayin. Start with original artwork and you dont have to worry about it down the road at all.

 

[losikid]

I mean, I'm sure you have access to all kinds rc related pics here. Why not get permission for someones pictures and use it? Not sure chain link, a mushroom cloud, and a joshua tree have anything to do with overkill or rc anyway...
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Overkill, is the mass accumlation of atomic weapons, so yes it relates to the mushroom cloud, the desert (testing area), chain link fence (fence off the area), fall out sign, etc.

 

[losikid]

As for the whole image thing, i'm done discussing it. I did not simply paste it in there and am using it. Every element has been modified in some way. I have fixed errors, removed stuffed, added my own stuff, reshaped stuff, etc. If the original author don't like that it looks similar then i'll take it down, i'd like to talk to the original author, so by all means direct him/her my way.

Then to top it all off, its only part of the image as a whole, threes many more layers added to it.

 

[AZrcdriver]

Most people think that stuff posted online is free game to take and use as they feel like. They are giving you good advice about creating your own work or using a stock photo source.

I used to chase down a lot of my work in the past and make people remove it or at least provide credit/link to me.

The fact is with hundreds of web sites out there that I have done with content and images it isn't worth the time to chase it all down.

Once you alter an image more than 10% the copyright is no longer valid.
Sure the owner can still fight it but is it really worth the money it takes.

I have even had someone try to claim a image I did as there's and were threatening the client of the site over it.

 

[BFGcrawler418]

In my opinion, the "Making Everything Ok" slogan just does not sound professional at all, when I read that it gives me the feeling that your selling half assed products to patch something. I would come up with a slogan to give the visitor the impression that your producing high quality parts.

I personally would incorporate RC's or Crawlers into the banner as it gives the visitor an idea of what the site is all about, they should be able to get a general idea of what the site is all about based on just the home page only without having to read the text. I think your ideas were good when trying to incorpoate the whole "Overkill" idea into the banner but I think you would have better success with something more simple and more professional looking.

I have to agree with the others that have suggested ditching the theme from someone elses art work, It's not that it's not cool looking but it gives me the impression that you may be stealing others ideas when it comes to your products as well. I'm no professional photographer but I do have some high resolution RC photos that I'd be more than welcome to share if you need something for a logo. If you can design great products then there is no reason you can not design a great logo for your site as well, were simply providing constructive criticism, do work"thumbsup"

 

[DunkinMcNut]

Once you alter an image more than 10% the copyright is no longer valid.
Sure the owner can still fight it but is it really worth the money it takes.

Uhh, No. There is no amount of altering that makes it OK to use someone else's image. It seems you have experience in this field so I'm not sure why you would think that? How do you even gauge a 10% change? :roll:

So now this is a completely new photo that is exclusively mine?

http://djthem.zattevrienden.be/grot...n vrouwe/babes/myspace-For-Guys1-hot-girl.jpg

:shock:








Anyway, I really dont think what you have is working losikid. The bevels, drop shadows and mirrored tree convey a very amateur feel. Also, as has been pointed out, the slogan is odd.

Even if you did keep the theme you have going, the mushroom cloud isnt immediately discernible. Looks like a nice sunset to me the way its cropped. The blood, cracked concrete text and whatever you have going on to make the chain link are effects that don't say professionalism.

I know having access to all those effects is tempting but showing some restraint really brings out a better message than cramming them all in there.

 

[team3six]

you know what guys, I think its great to offer your advice, some of you have some good facts. But lets not turn this into a Diviant Art attack thread about copyright issues with photos.

Losikid, I know money is an issue when it comes to this kinda thing. not everyone can do this stuff either.

Please for the love of god contact Neil (Freq E tag0 and ask him what he would charge to do you up a logo that wont cross the copyright crap. You might be very suprised

Now I am not telling you this to ride coat tails.
Im telling you this because when I did paint shells, I did have a few run ins with certain companies regaurding replicating images or logo's.

The bottom line is I was warned. but it could of turned into something much worse.

 

[AZrcdriver]

The 10% thing was something I was told many many years ago but I have not looked at any new interpretations of what is right or wrong.

I know I created an image out of several that were all copyright free but was later sent a few notices of infringement wanting $$ because someone thought it was similar to an image they had done.

I told them to drop dead and do what you feel you need to do and the notices stopped.

 

[losikid]

Losikid, I know money is an issue when it comes to this kinda thing. not everyone can do this stuff either.

Please for the love of god contact Neil (Freq E tag0 and ask him what he would charge to do you up a logo that wont cross the copyright crap. You might be very suprised

Honestly i have no money right now, no seriously there's only a few $'s in pp...so in due time i'll have something else made up...i more than less posted up this thread for the general thoughts about the theme i'm going for.

But i have trail for adobe, i i'm going to push my skills to the max todo something with it other than just create a new template for the very limited web.com site builder.

 

[team3six]

Honestly i have no money right now, no seriously there's only a few $'s in pp.

Didnt say that, contaxct his and ask him. he doesnt charge to ask. and besides, Neil might need your services. Who knows.