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[Frandae]

Hi!

I just want to check if these badges are ok

Hey there! The badges are way too zommed out; so when resized in smaller size they would look way too small and it would be impossible to recognize them at all sorry!

 

[Frandae]

Just wanted to clarify something - the fandom agreed on voting for an alternative group badge for ITZY, and it looks like the majority wants to do a separate voting round instead of just using the 2nd place winner, so I think we're going to open up suggestions again for a few days in case anyone wanted to submit any other suggestions after seeing the winning badge. If we do get more suggestions, do we need to post all of the badges in the pre-approval thread again before we start the voting, or only any new suggestions?

Hey there! I'm sorry but alternate badges don't work like that!

If you all agreed on having an alternate badge for the group, you need to vote among the already suggested suggestions; you can't suggest new ones at all.
In case you wanted new suggestions you can still do a wildcard round but only for the main badge; alternate badge must be an already suggested badge.

As for your question about the suggestions being posted in the preapproval thread, you don't need to repost them at all if they were already posted there; you'll only need to post your new ones.

You can read all the info here!

 

[tokki]

Hey there! I'm sorry but alternate badges don't work like that!

If you all agreed on having an alternate badge for the group, you need to vote among the already suggested suggestions; you can't suggest new ones at all.
In case you wanted new suggestions you can still do a wildcard round but only for the main badge; alternate badge must be an already suggested badge.

As for your question about the suggestions being posted in the preapproval thread, you don't need to repost them at all if they were already posted there; you'll only need to post your new ones.

You can read all the info here!

Oh okay, so if we had 5 options, the alternative badge can only be from one of the 4 losing badges? We couldn’t include the 4 losing badges and new suggestions?

 

[Frandae]

Oh okay, so if we had 5 options, the alternative badge can only be from one of the 4 losing badges? We couldn’t include the 4 losing badges and new suggestions?

Correct! Alternate badge can only be one of the already suggested badges that lost; no new suggestions can be used sorry!

 

[tokki]

Correct! Alternate badge can only be one of the already suggested badges that lost; no new suggestions can be used sorry!

No problem, thanks for clarifying that!

 

[tokki]

more questions keko

1) Do we need to wait to submit the main group badge and the alternative badge at the same time? Or can we submit the main badge and then come back later to submit the alternative badge? + how should the form be filled for the alternative badge - I don't think there's an example in the approval thread and no other fandoms have submitted any yet to use as an example, either.

2) Would this fall under “official photos” or "unofficial photos" since it appears that it was taken by an actual photographer in the caption, but it was posted on Instagram? I'm not sure any good mocks would even come from it, but I was curious in case I come across more stuff like this in the future.

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3) Can I get some feedback on these mocks please? I've been staring at them in Photoshop for far too long.

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Lia:

Chaeryeong:

Yuna:

+ for these, I attempted to make the members look less pale, but I'm not sure if I maybe overdid it since the colors are looking weird to me and I don't know if that's just a result of staring at them for too long or if they need further adjustments...

All of the badges look blurry to me but hopefully they look alright for others (I have a Retina display and it's impossible to tell if things are sharpened enough so I tried to barely sharpen them so it wouldn't go overboard).

Original images: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

 

[soozie]

Hi! Is there a limit to how many suggestions we can give?

 

[moon_ravn]

Hi! Is there a limit to how many suggestions we can give?

Suggestions are determined by each OP, some limit it, some don't.

 

[Frandae]

more questions keko

1) Do we need to wait to submit the main group badge and the alternative badge at the same time? Or can we submit the main badge and then come back later to submit the alternative badge? + how should the form be filled for the alternative badge - I don't think there's an example in the approval thread and no other fandoms have submitted any yet to use as an example, either.

2) Would this fall under “official photos” or "unofficial photos" since it appears that it was taken by an actual photographer in the caption, but it was posted on Instagram? I'm not sure any good mocks would even come from it, but I was curious in case I come across more stuff like this in the future.

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3) Can I get some feedback on these mocks please? I've been staring at them in Photoshop for far too long.

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Lia:

Chaeryeong:

Yuna:

+ for these, I attempted to make the members look less pale, but I'm not sure if I maybe overdid it since the colors are looking weird to me and I don't know if that's just a result of staring at them for too long or if they need further adjustments...

All of the badges look blurry to me but hopefully they look alright for others (I have a Retina display and it's impossible to tell if things are sharpened enough so I tried to barely sharpen them so it wouldn't go overboard).

Original images: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Hey there!

1) You don't need to wait and add them at the same time don't worry! You can add them whenever you want! As for the form you just need to fill it like a normal group badge but when you put "Type of Award: group" just add (Alternate badge) next to it and you'll be fine

2) Sorry this one won't count as an official picture at all; it might be taken by a professional photographer sure but it's still kinda private? As in it's in a instagram account and we can't use that; we can only use free pictures that don't need specific credits; I would put it as in "unofficial picture by an official photographer" lol but yeah this is a no sorry!

3) First three are good to go (I would suggest a little bit of more zoom out for the first one but thats just personal opinion tbh) about the others, I think the colors are somewhat dull and greyish tbh? And the last one is too LQ tbh. Sorry about that!

 

[tokki]

Hey there!

1) You don't need to wait and add them at the same time don't worry! You can add them whenever you want! As for the form you just need to fill it like a normal group badge but when you put "Type of Award: group" just add (Alternate badge) next to it and you'll be fine

2) Sorry this one won't count as an official picture at all; it might be taken by a professional photographer sure but it's still kinda private? As in it's in a instagram account and we can't use that; we can only use free pictures that don't need specific credits; I would put it as in "unofficial picture by an official picture" lol but yeah this is a no sorry!

3) First three are good to go (I would suggest a little bit of more zoom out for the first one but thats just personal opinion tbh) about the others, I think the colors are somewhat dull and greyish tbh? And the last one is too LQ tbh. Sorry about that!

1) Alright, thanks for clarifying!

2) I figured as much (I don't think it would result in good mocks anyways), just wanted to make sure about it in case since it was kind of a grey area~

3) Yeah I thought so too about the colors...I'll keep playing with them and see if I can fix that!

 

[Galaxy]

All of the badges look blurry to me but hopefully they look alright for others (I have a Retina display and it's impossible to tell if things are sharpened enough so I tried to barely sharpen them so it wouldn't go overboard).

Original images: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5[/spoiler]

I'm butting in lol but since some of them are mocks I made, just another version/crop... since you're looking into re-doing them, maybe I can try again? These ones are indeed very dark and, even though some are a pass, they might not look the best next to other badges.

 

[tokki]

I'm butting in lol but since some of them are mocks I made, just another version/crop... since you're looking into re-doing them, maybe I can try again? These ones are indeed very dark and, even though some are a pass, they might not look the best next to other badges.

That'd be fine^^ between the 2 of us hopefully we can manage to get them looking more natural~

 

[Galaxy]

That'd be fine^^ between the 2 of us hopefully we can manage to get them looking more natural~

Can you please copy/paste my mocks here and write what you'd like to change for each badge? (like colors on a specific spot, contrast, etc). I'll give me more indications on the result you aim at reaching

 

[tokki]

Can you please copy/paste my mocks here and write what you'd like to change for each badge? (like colors on a specific spot, contrast, etc). I'll give me more indications on the result you aim at reaching

most of them are fine actually compared to mine lol I just wanted to play with them while I was waiting for yours too and see which result looked the best~

the colors seem really edited on this one to me though especially for her skin? she almost looks orange in a way to me...she is very pale in real life which makes editing mocks for her....interesting lol i was struggling a lot with it myself

 

[Galaxy]

most of them are fine actually compared to mine lol I just wanted to play with them while I was waiting for yours too and see which result looked the best~

the colors seem really edited on this one to me though especially for her skin? she almost looks orange in a way to me...she is very pale in real life which makes editing mocks for her....interesting lol i was struggling a lot with it myself

Yeah this is actually the first one I worked on from that batch and thus she looks more orange than the rest, true. I'll re-do it later!

 

[tokki]

Do the colors on this one look any better? I think I'm just going to scrap the rest of the ones that had dull colors, they didn't turn out that well and Galaxy's versions look nicer.

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(the 2nd one has a bit of vibrance added)

 

[Sweetheart]

I want to make the badge voting thread for F(x)
can i include sulli too?​

 

[B612]

I want to make the badge voting thread for F(x)
can i include sulli too?​

Yes, you can include her, if later fans decide to list her as a soloist then we can do it

 

[Sweetheart]

Yes, you can include her, if later fans decide to list her as a soloist then we can do it

Thank you ​

 

[Mina]

Yes, you can include her, if later fans decide to list her as a soloist then we can do it

I have a similar scenario with Jessica, do I put up a poll later about it or how do you think I should do it?