Playing With Parchment

[HellHound]

I'm always looking for tricks and tools for making cool 'paper' for d20 products when working on layout and design...

The first three are parchments based on the same exterior design (not one of my best, but better than most of my work), with different 'enhancements' and stuff added in.

Comments are encouraged... I'll be posting more of my designs soon.

 

[HellHound]

The third one, above, is by far my fave so far. I had fun doing the magic lines on the lower part of the parchment.

 

[HellHound]

Here's one of my older ones - not all that good looking either, kind of embarrassing all things considered...

 

[HellHound]

*just* finished this one.

Just needed the motivation of this thread I guess, to make a cool one.

VERY proud of how this turned out.

 

[HellHound]

This is just the one above, but with a more ornate edging.

 

[HellHound]

Final one in this set, same as above, but with text and...

(drumroll)

A cool wax seal that I just learned how to make in photoshop!

 

[HellHound]

New design... I'm not happy with this one... the texture is a little too coarse in the full size version (which you can't see here), and the edges are too dark, making it feel 'fuzzy' instead of crisp like the last one.

 

[XCorvis]

Wow, these are nice. Thanks!

I don't suppose you'd be interested in providing versions that don't have a copyright message across the middle?

 

[HellHound]

Wow, these are nice. Thanks!

I don't suppose you'd be interested in providing versions that don't have a copyright message across the middle?

At this point, not really. I'm almost certainly going to be using some of these in my own products over the next while. The trick, of course, for personal use is to take the image, and just copy the area of the paper *just* above the copyright text and paste it over the copyright block.

However, if someone *were* to do such a thing, they would have the common sense not to post these modifications on the web anywhere, just printing them out as needed for their own personal use.

 

[HellHound]

As a footnote to that, however, I am willign to put something on the parchment if you need it for a game or prop or something. Just attach the image or text you want put on the parchment, and I'll do it like I did with one of Phineous Crow's maps in his latest thread.