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Welcome To Mystic Road Graphics!
Topic Started: Sep 15 2007, 02:58 PM (369 Views)
daqu
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Just as HarryPotterFanFiction.com started out as its own little humble site and grew to one of the top fanfiction communities on the net, so did its graphics site, The Dark Arts. When HPFF created their sister site, Fiction Central, it soon became apparent that Fiction Central was ready to break away from The Dark Arts, and that it was big enough to require its own graphics site. Hence, the birth of Mystic Road Graphics. Although, let me make this perfectly plainly clear to all of you. Mystic Road Graphics is not officially affiliated with FanFictionWorld. If the site becomes immensely popular and they decide they want us, great. But until then, it's just here for your convenience.

So, before you get started with requesting, filling requests, and putting together galleries, let me just go over some basic rules:

Rule #1—This is not TDA. Especially while this site is still getting on its feet, I'm going to both want and need a lot of feedback from you guys, but there are some things that are different here than on TDA, and I did that on purpose. If you like their system better, go there.

Okay, so now that that ugly little secret is out of the way, let me explain some things to you.

Galleries:
The gallery system is like Exhibit A of how this site is different from TDA. Once you post your gallery, that's it. You can fill requests, post Up For Grabs graphics, dance the funky chicken, whatever. Please feel free to call your gallery anything you like, and also you may set it up any way you like and can have any number and variety of graphics. Even if you only have one avatar, that is still considered a gallery. So just go to the Gallery forums and click "New Topic."

Requests:
Requests here are pretty simple. I'll go more in-depth about this in Requesting Rules, but there are a few guidelines. First of all, anybody can make or fill requests, but because we have the issue of master graphics artists having just as much request-filling power as those using MS Paint, there are a few more gray areas. Basically, just use your common sense. Request fillers, if you are using MS Paint (and please don't think I have anything against the program. I used it for years and loved it.) then don't offer to fill a request that requires complex animation. Requesters, if you want a certain person/people to fill your request, say so. If you don't like the way a person made your graphic, politely thank them and rerequest.

Up For Grabs:
There are a few quick things I want to say about Up For Grabs graphics. First of all, please separate all of your banners, forum graphics, chapter images, etc. unless they match. For instance, if you have a cool banner up for grabs and have a matching avatar/signature, then you can put them together in the Mix & Match section. Also, there are certain things that by default you have to ask for permission for and things that you don't, but keep in mind that if the artist wants you to ask for permission to use each individual avatar, that is his/her prerogative and it is common courtesy to respect that.

I think that's about it. Have fun, make pictures, and if you accidentally left your common sense in your other laptop, then wait until you can get it back before logging in. Thanks!
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Ishtar
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Hey daqu - awesome site! I can't wait until it fills up a bit more. Great idea, I think I'll be using this a lot. :D
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Same here, I'm always looking for graphics to go with my stories.
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He he yeah, this is really cool! I'm glad there's a new graphics site :lol:

I have a couple questions...

1) can we edit our gallery whenever we feel like it?
2) do you have to register to request? (just wondering...)

So yeah :P

Anyways, this is really cool so far!
"We are determind to bear our humiliation without a murmur--our day will surely come."-Written in Donald Hill's coded diary he maintained in a Japanese POW camp//published by Andro Linklater in his book "The Code of Love"
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daqu
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Okay, fanof24, first of all, yes you can edit your gallery whenever you like. Please let me know if there's ever any problems with that. You should always be able to edit all of your posts for as long as you like. Also, yes, you do have to register to request. Let me know if you have any more questions :) I'm glad you guys like this site so much. I can't wait until it picks up a little!

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Konane
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Hi! Konane here too! :D This site is AWESOME!
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Such a great site!
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