**Summer of Serenity Banners!** by PhoenixRose

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

I hear crickets...

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Friday, July 7, 2006 9:31 PM

RCAT

As, I've said before, all very shiny (nice choice of images and quotes). Thanks for making and posting them. Folks should consider adding them (or similar) to other forum/email sigs to help spread the word. The only criticism (not necessarly bad) is it only mentions this sight, maybe a ref to the BDM, BDS would intrigue some to rent? Just a thought.

Some people juggle geese!
-Wash

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Friday, July 7, 2006 9:34 PM

THEPISTONENGINE

Like them. Just remember to pick the ones that will appeal to people who haven't joined the 'Coats. Preaching to the choir is a wasted effort.

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Carry the Nuttin'

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Friday, July 7, 2006 9:40 PM

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

Most of them appeal to my mom, who hasn't watched any shiny Fireflyness as of yet, even though I talk about it all the time. She keeps saying she will.
I do mention the movie. Ish. It's called Serenity, ain't it? Heh.
No, really I'll try to work on that. Just don't know how to make it catchy and concise. The quotes are catchy and concise. And hopefully intriguing.
And I'm still waiting for news on the new site that will be aimed towards those who haven't yet been "hooked". Once that's up and running I can put it on my banners.

Thanks!

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Saturday, July 8, 2006 1:41 AM

I have asked Haken if there is a way to link the banners back to this site, but i haven't heard back from him yet. That would be shiny!

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Saturday, July 8, 2006 1:51 AM

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

That would be shiny!

Yeah, I got your message about that a little bit ago. Hey, in the meantime can you play around with linking to Amazon and other such sites? I can change the text on these anytime, or make new ones. I think having some that link to the show/movie on Amazon and places would be good too.

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Saturday, July 8, 2006 3:31 AM

ARCADIA

I love the banners, phoenix! mind if I put my avatars here, too? I'll edit them out of the post later, if so.

150x150

and

120 x120

and

I really have no idea how sucessful they are in terms of nonbrowncoat appeal. I hope so.

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"Objects in Space"

River: It's just an object. It doesn't mean what you think...
http://www.stillflying.net/ <-- Check it out!

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Saturday, July 8, 2006 3:37 AM

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

Oh Arcadia, those are wonderful! I wish I could do flashy icons! Keep them up! Make more! Shiny shiny shiny!
The Simon one cracks me up and the Simon/River one makes me cry. You are very good.
I have some icons in my photobucket I found and just love...

Yours are bigger, though. Much easier to see!

And... Here's my newest banner!

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Saturday, July 8, 2006 3:41 AM

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Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
That would be shiny!
Yeah, I got your message about that a little bit ago. Hey, in the meantime can you play around with linking to Amazon and other such sites? I can change the text on these anytime, or make new ones. I think having some that link to the show/movie on Amazon and places would be good too.

The problem is knowing how to link anything to the banners. If there is a way, we can link anything to it. I just don't know how to link with the way this site is set up. Hopefully Haken has a way!

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Saturday, July 8, 2006 3:51 AM

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

Oh, ok I get it! Heh. But everyone here knows 'bout the show (I assume). What about putting banners on other sites, like MySpace and LiveJournal and such? Are they set up all funky, too?

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Saturday, July 8, 2006 3:53 AM

PR.. you are doing such shiny work! All of these are so good and Arcadia's flashy stuff is amazing!

I don't know if you noticed on the other thread, but I used your Mal-centric banner over on my Appreciatin' Nathan thread on the other board.
Rave reviews. I got compliments! Told 'em who made 'em. If you make some more Mal-centric ones, we could post them over there and I'll bet my whole crew over there would switch to them for
awhile. No guarantees of that.. but for the SciFi Marathon push next week, I'll bet they would.

They are onboard with the letter writing campaign and I'll continue to post over there. Gossi's board is pretty big.. lots of folks to help over there.

Thanks for all you are doing!

I just want to add that if anyone comes up with a catchy phrase...one that just leaps into your head and it sounds just right maybe PR would be kind enough to do the art around it?

"You hold. Hold 'til I get back." Mal

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Saturday, July 8, 2006 3:56 AM

Ahhh, PR I really love the new River banner.

Lovely.

"You hold. Hold 'til I get back." Mal

Go here for more info: www.fireflyfans.net

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Saturday, July 8, 2006 4:02 AM

I think this will work on most other sites....

This is the code for your Mal banner (which is wonderful, by the way!)...

I think this will only work if it is used as a signature where you actually put in the code. I tried to do it on Myspace, but there's no way to change the code.

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Saturday, July 8, 2006 4:04 AM

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

Rave reviews? YAY!

I would love to make more Mal-centric banners! I keep coming up with ideas for River banners, though. I'm a little obsessed with River. Could we tell?
Anyone have any favorite Mal quotes, descriptions, or intriguing questions that they think will hook people?
Other than "Cap'n Tightpants". That is, you have to admit, an inside joke for those of us who have seen the show.
Thought maybe Arcadia could put together a flash avatar of that scene

And, as FollowMal suggested, I would be happy to use ideas for other characters as well.

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Saturday, July 8, 2006 8:59 AM

DESKTOPHIPPIE

Okay, this is my first attempt at something like this, so be gentle with the criticism so you don't upset my delicate baby feelings :)

Desktop Hippie

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Saturday, July 8, 2006 10:37 AM

GEEKMAFIA

Well here's my attempt at a banner, I think I may use it as a sig.

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Saturday, July 8, 2006 10:38 AM

I love your banners! I'd like some Malcentric ones too to use over at the Appreciatin Nathan thread at Serenitymovie.org.

Live Journal also has a place for Mal/Inara fic and I don't have an avatar or banner over there yet either-It's called very appriately-Ifs and Maybes.

I also have an idea for a banner but I don't know how to make it. Here it is. Use the pic of the galley and kitchen table lit by the lamp and use the words "Wouldn't you like this to be your home?" How's that?

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Saturday, July 8, 2006 11:40 AM

GEEKMAFIA

Hey i know that request was to PR and not me but i just thought i'd do a quick and dirty mock up of that idea. let me know what you think of it.

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Saturday, July 8, 2006 11:49 AM

Miss PhoenixRose...How do you make your text look so good?? Is there some trick you use?? Mine never come out looking clear.

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Saturday, July 8, 2006 11:53 AM

I like it! How do you do it? I've got several other ideas too.

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Saturday, July 8, 2006 12:01 PM

GEEKMAFIA

one of the features at the top of the homepage is serenity by gaslight:
http://www.fireflyfans.net/feature.asp?f=64
i've always loved the pic so i jumped at the chance to use it the cropping and text were done in GIMP (i know it sounds weird but it's a cool, and most importantly free photoshop program found here: http://www.gimp.org/)

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Saturday, July 8, 2006 12:27 PM

I go away for a bit and come home and what do I see....

MORE SHINY BANNERS!

Ya'll rock!

"You hold. Hold 'til I get back." Mal

Click here www.fireflyfans.net for info about the Serenity Summer Campaign and how you can help!

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Saturday, July 8, 2006 12:51 PM

JTSKIER1200R

I like the idea of the gaslight, but will it appeal to anybody outside the verse? Again, I think the home idea is powerful, but what makes that picture anything other than a dimly lit kitchen table...but maybe that is the power of it...

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Saturday, July 8, 2006 3:10 PM

JOY

OMG the Mandarin one is great! Can I put this up on my site?

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Saturday, July 8, 2006 4:01 PM

Just in case someone needs the Papyrus font...

http://www.spmccord.com/images/smilies/PAPYRUS.TTF

Put this file in your Windows/Fonts folder.

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Saturday, July 8, 2006 4:21 PM

Joy,

These are to use everywhere. We are trying to spread the word about Firefly to folks that may not know a thing about it.

If we share with some folks that do on the way ... that's nice too.

11th Hour will be contributing some official banners as well this week.

We're on our way folks!

"You hold. Hold 'til I get back." Mal

Click here www.fireflyfans.net for info about the Serenity Summer Campaign and how you can help!

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Saturday, July 8, 2006 4:28 PM

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Originally posted by jtskier1200r:
I like the idea of the gaslight, but will it appeal to anybody outside the verse? Again, I think the home idea is powerful, but what makes that picture anything other than a dimly lit kitchen table...but maybe that is the power of it...

I think the undertones of family and safe haven appeal to a lot of folks who see Firefly. I think it's a very powerful draw to folks who live our fast paced.. everybody scattered lifestyle.

That being said we still need banners that speak to folks who have no idea what we're talking about when we say Firefly. And I'm having trouble coming up with ideas just as much as the rest of you.

space pirates and honor among theives are the only catch phrases I've been able to come up with.

PR, you wanna try to bend those with your genius?

"You hold. Hold 'til I get back." Mal

Click here www.fireflyfans.net for info about the Serenity Summer Campaign and how you can help!

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Saturday, July 8, 2006 4:53 PM

ARCADIA

Here's another one.

they can all be found here: http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v206/KMF/Firefly/?sc=1&multi=1&addty
pe=local&media=image

peace.

ps -- I love the "teaching mandarin" avatar! It's hi-larious!

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"Objects in Space"

River: It's just an object. It doesn't mean what you think...
http://www.stillflying.net/ <-- Check it out!

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Saturday, July 8, 2006 5:45 PM

MALAYNADREAMS

Great banners, PR :) Very shiny work

Wow--Arcadia, I loved your avas! I love the idea of having little avatars like that...like for each episode. Little snippets of each episode to wet non-coats thirsts! They were fun to read too :)

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Malayna, oh how she dreams...a beautiful dream in which we are all apart of. But in this world, my name is simply Faith. We're family here, call me by name! ^_^
"I am thirst baby. I want you!"

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Saturday, July 8, 2006 6:20 PM

ARCADIA

Thanks!

Here's one more:

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"Objects in Space"

River: It's just an object. It doesn't mean what you think...
http://www.stillflying.net/ <-- Check it out!

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Saturday, July 8, 2006 6:37 PM

I just think that the table etc remind me of family which is what Firefly is all about. Now I'm thinking about the scene from Out of Gas with everyone around the table laughing.

Makes me think I'll have to download Gimp and give it a try.

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Saturday, July 8, 2006 7:18 PM

BELOWZERO

OK, so how do I copy the banner over into my photobucket account so I can use it as a sig? (I'm on gossi's board as well as here...)

Nice work BTW!! Mal....*wistful sigh*

"Do not go gentle into that good night....
Rage, rage against the dying of the light. . ."
--Dylan Thomas

Though my soul may set in darkness
It will rise in perfect light.
I have loved the stars too fondly
To be fearful of the night.

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Saturday, July 8, 2006 8:25 PM

Hey, BZ, nice to see you over here!

I don't know if it's right how I do it, but this is how I do it. I right click and save it to my computer. Then I go to my photobucket account and upload it to it. Then you just copy and paste the url followed by jpg into your sig line over here. Over at Gossi's board it's a little different. You have to copy the tag from your photobucket.

Hope that helps and works.

"You hold. Hold 'til I get back." Mal

Click here www.fireflyfans.net for info about the Serenity Summer Campaign and how you can help!

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Saturday, July 8, 2006 9:09 PM

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

WOW! This is fabulous!
Desktophippie, I love your Kaylee banner!
Geekmafia, I adore your Operative and Mal banner; very nicely done!
I can feel the signal spreading as I type...

Penguin, what program do you use for type? PhotoShop is very good with the type, as there are several options you can use to make it "strong" "crisp" "regular" etc. There's also layer blending options, like "drop shadow" and "glow" and stuff; doesn't always work on small type, but it can look very shiny. Plus I always try to make the color contrast well. If the type is no longer in a vector format (it's already been put in an image and flattened, in other words) you can't make it bigger without it going fuzzy. That's why layers are my friend.

I wanna hear more ideas now! I'm all excited!
I'll go work on an "ifs and maybes" banner for you.

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Saturday, July 8, 2006 9:39 PM

BELOWZERO

Quote:
Originally posted by FollowMal:

Hey, BZ, nice to see you over here!

I don't know if it's right how I do it, but this is how I do it. I right click and save it to my computer. Then I go to my photobucket account and upload it to it. Then you just copy and paste the url followed by jpg into your sig line over here. Over at Gossi's board it's a little different. You have to copy the tag from your photobucket.

Hope that helps and works.

"You hold. Hold 'til I get back." Mal

Click here www.fireflyfans.net for info about the Serenity Summer Campaign and how you can help!

Thanks! Will try this!
*grin* I actually started out over here, went over to Mal's Bunk at *your* urging!

Kindly let me know if there is anything else I need to do to help spread the word....

"Do not go gentle into that good night....
Rage, rage against the dying of the light. . ."
--Dylan Thomas

Though my soul may set in darkness
It will rise in perfect light.
I have loved the stars too fondly
To be fearful of the night.

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Saturday, July 8, 2006 10:03 PM

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

OK, big shiny If Maybe Malnara banner for your livejournal!

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Sunday, July 9, 2006 3:42 AM

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

I stole this flashy icon from Sweetserendipity (who undoubtedly stole it from someone else, who stole it from someone else...)

Shiny!

BTW, Arcadia, you keep those things coming! They are wonderful.

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Monday, July 10, 2006 8:52 AM

I hope all of you will keep 'em comin'!

With the new push to spread the word to other sites, it'd be fun to take all our shiny banners with us.

"You hold. Hold 'til I get back." Mal

Click here www.fireflyfans.net for info about the Serenity Summer Campaign and how you can help!

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Thursday, July 20, 2006 9:15 PM

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

Ok, the Browncoat Event thread for this is seeing some action, but I wanted to bring this one back.
I was worried it was burried forever! Google is a godsend.
anyway, check out the other thread for some nice banners with sketches, and thee are some avatars in the Blue Sun Room that are very shiny, plus some animated banners.

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Friday, July 21, 2006 1:44 AM

XEYRA

I kind of made one Summer of Serenity Banner too. It's very simple and done before I got my hands on Photoshop.

"People tell you things all the time, without talking. The way they move, the way they aren't talking." - River Tam

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Friday, July 21, 2006 1:55 AM

SIRIUS

wow....i really like the one with mal and the operative. how can i get that one?! also, i skimmed through the topic pretty fast but i didnt see any of simon or book.

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Friday, July 21, 2006 2:05 AM

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

I have one for Simon, should be up there somewhere. Couldn't come up with any for Book. If you've got an idea let me know!
"Getting them" basically just inolves saving the image. Check Penguin's tutorial in FFF.NET central for how to post them here and where to host for upload elsewhere. Can be found here: http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=5&t=22105

*edit* yep it was there in my first image-heavy post. Here it is again:

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Friday, July 21, 2006 2:56 AM

FUTUREMRSFILLION

Arcadia

The "This is my sister" one made me teary! These are all so excellent.

Excllent banners as well PR!

one of the Forsaken TM

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Friday, July 21, 2006 6:03 PM

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

Thanks, FMF!
Yeah, the Simon/River icon made me all teary, too.

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Saturday, July 22, 2006 3:35 AM

SIRIUS

for book you could say something about the R-57 sniper rifles with laser sights used to hunting rabbits. Just a thought.

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Sunday, August 20, 2006 3:21 PM

SEAOTTER

Where do you guys get your Firefly and Serenity still shots? Any particular website?

Thanks.

(trying to make my own)

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Sunday, August 20, 2006 4:00 PM

http://still-flying.net/index.php

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