The hero card was born after Rook and Kerridoc became moderators. Garanwyn created the first one when Zephyr1 became a mod. Garanwyn did such a nice one for Zephyr1 that when I learned that his moderator hat was imminent I felt it was only fitting that he receive one as well. The second card cemented the desire for more cards to be made. They are quite labor intensive and require a bit of creative flare, so are slow in coming. Jedon is instrumental to this community, and we felt that his card needed to be created STAT. And, now that there are three cards, we needed a place to showcase them. Hence this thread.
If you would like to volunteer to create cards that would be fantastic! Anyone can create one! It would be fun to see many more spring up.
I use microsoft 3D paint (don’t judge) and a free cartoon app (Cartoon Photo). I believe @zephyr1 uses photoshop because he is a stud, and @Garanwyn will have to enlighten us on what program he uses. I’ve been pulling cards from Hero Cards from 7DD, but with the new talents some of the cards are outdated. Basically, just strip the card and go from there. We think the text is Myriad Pro, but you’ll have to kearn (spacing between letters) the text super close.
For @zephyr1’s card, I did all the graphics work on my phone, using a variety of the free Adobe tools (such as Lightroom, Photoshop Mix, and Photoshop Express), as well as Pixlr, Photo Retouch and Ultimate Background Eraser.
Photoshop Mix is great, because it allows you to use layers to handle composition tasks. While a layer based composition tool isn’t essential (as @Hrairoo, our graphics studette, proved), it makes life way easier.
For @Jedon’s card, I decided to save myself some pain and suffering and used my desktop for most of my pieces of the design and composition, with Paint.NET (which is free) being the primary tool. There are several plugins I’d recommend, if someone wants to use it.
That said, I recolored Jedon’s jacket and ring on my phone (with Ultimate Background Eraser to take the image apart, Lightroom to recolor, and then Photoshop mix to reassemble) while we were still in the “figuring out what we wanted to do, design-wise” phase. The posterization-style effect was done with Prisma.
The biggest challenge on a mobile platform is doing the lettering effectively. Usually the apps are pretty font-limited.
Thank you @Garanwyn. I will try out a couple different things. I used the cartoon photo app, @Hrairoo recommended, and 3d MS paint. I am think on using a collage maker. (Hope i spelled that right. There’s college, and collage, which ever is not a higher form of education)