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Old 06-09-2021, 09:07 AM
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Hi everyone ,

The Fan Forum Graphics Team is in the process of (re)customising message boards and now it's your turn!

If you have any picture or colour suggestions please post them in this thread. Don't post (hotlink) the pictures, links to them are fine. Make sure that the pictures are of as high quality as possible and that the top of the head of the person in the picture isn't cropped off. We also like to use photoshoot images when possible, preferably individual pictures of each cast member. When suggesting colours please keep in mind that some colours will work better than others. The Team usually tries to avoid really vibrant and dark colours because we have found in the past that they are hard to look at for long periods of time. If you would like some help coming up with colour combinations we recommend checking out the design seeds website. As we want every board to have their own unique look it is preferable that you do not link to the customisations of other boards as suggested colour schemes.

Everyone is encouraged to voice their opinions for this as you are the ones who will be posting on the board and we hope to make as many people happy with the finished result as possible. It does not matter if you are a board moderator, regular poster, or casual poster here. If you have a suggestion, please share it here with us .

Your suggestions for possible pictures and colours will be taken into serious consideration, but in the interest of seeing every board receive the best customised look possible the final decision concerning how this board will be customised will be made by the members of the Graphics Team. This is because we want to make sure that the selected graphic and colours fit into the overall design scheme that we've established for Fan Forum.

For a full explanation of the message board customisation process, see this thread. If you have any questions, please feel free to send Mel, Chelle, or Kate a PM or ask the Team on the message board customisation thread.

Please leave this topped until a week or so after the board has been (re)customised.

Note: It usually takes approximately two weeks for us to finish making the new banner and the sooner we know what you want, the more we can work on it (though it can take a few months or so to set it up with the new colours on the board), so please let us know your suggestions as soon as possible.

When the Team have finished making the graphic I will close this thread until the graphic and colours get put up. It will then be re-opened so that you can share your thoughts about it.

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Old 06-09-2021, 10:10 AM
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Thank you Kate, Mel and Chelle

How exciting! Everyone please do post suggestions here I’m looking forward to looking through some photoshoots and posting some of my favs
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Old 06-09-2021, 01:21 PM
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Thank you for posting this, Kate, Mel and Chelle

Oh boy, this is gonna be hard. But any choice will be good, so there can't be any wrong or rights to choose from
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Ohh how exciting

Thank you looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with
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I'll start with these
one
two
Or any of these
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I love the Mickey shirt one and that whole shoot and such natural colors to go nicely with any color scheme
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Old 06-10-2021, 10:22 AM
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Can you link to the photo shoot the first two photos come from?
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Looks like the 1st photo is from the album that was linked already.
The 2nd photo is from this 2015 photoshoot.
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Old 06-10-2021, 12:10 PM
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Jac, you're right

Fiona, those are a great start

My suggestion is four
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Old 06-10-2021, 01:59 PM
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Are there any more recent photoshoots that you like? We prefer to use photo shoots which are ideally only 12 months old at most but consider up to the past 3 years as recent. We prefer to use recent photo shoots since that will keep your graphic from looking outdated
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There really hasn’t been much in the last couple of years

This Absentia shoot is from the last 12 months.

This is a great one from 2019.

This and this one are also from 2019, though the latter may be too dark?

Then there's this one from 2018 (we've shared it previously on this thread but I think this link actually has more photos).

Hope this is helpful
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I'm good with all/any of these: lol:

I don't get who old photos in HQ will make the graphic look outdated. You mean that she will look so young but is older in the 'now'?

I'm genuinely curious, as I have no clue about graphic and these things

Also as for color schemes - you likely will match it up to the colors of the new header, right?
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I don't get who old photos in HQ will make the graphic look outdated. You mean that she will look so young but is older in the 'now'?
It is more about the age, yes. Sometimes celebrities do change a lot during the years so we try to stay as recent as possible. Unless the person truly hasn't changed that much and it matters less to the posters. It's more to make sure that in like a year or so we don't need to change the graphic again because the person looks nothing like the banner anymore. Does that make sense?

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Also as for color schemes - you likely will match it up to the colors of the new header, right?
Yep! We make the headers/banners based on what the posters what the colours to be, and then I will put together a colour scheme together for the actual board.
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Mel, that makes sense, yes Thanks for explaining

Also, good to know about the colors matching the header
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I haven't commented in here yet, mostly because whatever is created will be awesome!
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