LEADERHEAD PACK - Flags as Leaderheads!

[spincrus]

Finished! The thread is now open to comments.

 

[Yoda Power]

Very nice flags

 

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Another great resource is Heraldique européenne where there are symbols of aristocrats and states on Europe. Something like this:

This is Lumbardy on 1848, part of Austrian empire.

 

[raen]

Portuguese flag since 1910 (implementation of Republic) until nowadays:

 

[raen]

The files:

 

[spincrus]

Rufus: Great! I'll look there right now and try to get out as much as I can.

Raen: I can make era-specific Portuguese flags if you want... There is already one present in C3C's Napoleonic Conquest, which is perfect for the industrial era.

 

[Gogf]

Great flags! :goodjob I think you should make of of Israel though.

 

[raen]

Originally posted by SpincruS
Rufus: Great! I'll look there right now and try to get out as much as I can.

Raen: I can make era-specific Portuguese flags if you want... There is already one present in C3C's Napoleonic Conquest, which is perfect for the industrial era.

Yeah Rufus thanks for that site

@SpincruS: Please do I am a newbie in graphics making. Thanks

I made the royalty symbol that was in Rufus site and put a background (sea). The other flags of yours had very good graphics, if you can, do the four era specific of Portugal thanks once again

edited: correction: yes napoleonic fits perfectly into industrial era, so more 3 to go

 

[raen]

The files:

 

[spincrus]

@raen: I already made two Portuguese flags, but I'll have to fix some transparency issues first (I totally forgot to set the last two colors of the palette as transparency colors. I'm an idiot).

 

[spincrus]

While fixing the old files, I actually added a few more. They are all included in the file posted in the first page.

Click here to download version 1.5 of the leaderhead pack.

The new ones are as follows:

 

[spincrus]

Brazil (I made one for Mexico, too, but can't seem to find it anywhere...)

 

[spincrus]

Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) (Note, that I can do an East Germany [DDR] version of this).

 

[spincrus]

Portugal (just as raen requested - I didn't like the other Portuguese flags I made, so I'm not going to post them yet with this pack).

 

[spincrus]

Israel (just as Gogf requested).

 

[Dom Pedro II]

Brazil thanks you...

 

[Ekmek]

awesome you saved me a bunch of work! But if there happens to be US state flags...

by the waay, how did you get them to have the wavy look like C3C? I have a california flag but its stiff.

 

[spincrus]

Basically how I do these:


- I get a stiff, dull image of a flag, usually images which look as if they've been assembled on MS Paint or something similar of that sort. More realistic and detailed graphics are always welcome.

- I apply some textures on it which I created.

- If necessary, I play around with some grunge brushes that I've created to give it more of a "random" look.

- With a special filter I have, I make it look wavy.

- I turn the whole thing into a vector, pull it from the sides and all (on PSP8, with the help of the shift and ctrl keys, you can do a lot) to give it a perspective (the best that I could do with the perspective changes, though, IMHO, are the flag of Greece and Charlemagne's Oriflamme).

- I play around with the brightnesses and darknesses of certain bumps and all (with the tool on PSP8).

- I sharpen the parts where the colors intersect with the sharpen tool of PSP8, as well as the logos, if there are any (so that the blurryness that makes it look non-realistic is gone).

- Finally, I play around with the brightness in general.

 

[spincrus]

Originally posted by Ekmek
But if there happens to be US state flags...

You want me to do US state flags? I'll do it right away. I'll just open up a new thread then, and call it the "second pack".

 

[Mongoloid Cow]

You included the Gok Turks!