Well, this is it. I will not have any guidelines to follow, BUT I do have ideas.
Do you know what DDR is? Well there's something called Stepmania which is DDR for the pc.
I'm a big fan and I'm coming out with a song pack. The thing is, I'm no pro graphic designer.
So, I have a list of songs I need graphics for.
Each one needs to look completely different and have the title in them and need to be about this big:
http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/6347/30159471.png
Only the size of the box though...

(Songs that are done will be crossed off as so.)

Songs:

A
Amen Iraq
Be Lovin
Blood Is Pumpin
Ah Shwe Bah
Chik Habit

RUBRIC:
To help make the banner, I'll explain a bit about each song to get a better idea on the pic. A is a orchestra-like techno song. Amen Iraq is a latino techno song. It has alot of base and fast unorganized drum and bass. Be Lovin is a happy song that almost seems to make you think of lollipops and teddy bears every time you hear it. Blood Is Pumpin is a hardcore rave techno song. Its something you'd find at some stripper club in California. Oh, and none of these songs have LYRICS!!! Thank God. Ah Shew Bah is a techno song filled with sweet drum and bass and beat rolls. And last, Chik Habit is a techno song based off of some other song we've all heard of in which I can't think of the name right now yet turned into a total kickass drum and bass speedcore. If that didn't help, feel free to do your best!

(Here's an example (in which I didn't make) for a song called Dignity. It's not the best, and I'm sure you guys will do better, but check it out anyways: http://www.stepmania.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12132 (Please ignore the box next to the Dignity image. It says "12" and stuff, but thats irrelivant to this.)

And last, to be CLEAR. I DO NOT want any REAL pictures or clipart in the banners. Everything must be graphix. Mhm.

Thanks so much! I may add a few more songs to the list later so stay tuned. I will give 100 Fuji Bucks (even though it may not seem much to you...) to whoever makes graphics I enjoy. It's all I can give, but I'm thankful to have people like you. Anyways, ta-ta.

The example that ou give is 264 x 134. Can I do 250 x 125?

chainy will do this

No problem Shush, and ty Chain

Wait, wait. I got a bit confused while reading your post.

DDR = East Germany, what is happening?

DDR = Dance Dance Revolution

Oh.

well, alright.

Yeah, look it up
Sorry you got a bit confuzzled.
Check Stepmania as well if you'd like.
Thats what I'm making these for. It's basically a game where arrows come up your screen and you have to press them to the beat of music according to the song, speed, and mods right when they reach the top line of arrows. You'll probably get it after reading this. Mods are things that make the arrows do things to confuse or mess up the player. Anyways, thanks for both signing up or participating. I can't wait to see your work. I'd much rather know which songs your willing to make graphics for unless your doing them all?

Well, Gimp sorta went crazy for me. I lost all of my brushes, gradients, and patterns. Damn. Im not gonna be able to do this right now.

Awww, I'm so sorry
How did this happen Shush?

I dont know! Im trying to fix it though...

Good on ya if you can

Ok, I re-installed Gimp, but I lost my brushes, gradients, patterns, and scripts.

Awww, poor Shush :'( Do as best as you can. And if not, don't
I know your a good artist/gfx-er whether or not Gimp brushes are availble. Reinstall a few...?

It wont let me re-install the brushes!

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Well, we can at least try?

I want to try this but I am so confussed on what it is. Can you like post an example or something?

Stepmania is a video game. A really fun video game; almost like guitar hero. It has the same premice/idea. In Stepmania you play songs and have steps to the song in which you must press using a giant arcade metal mat or your keyboard at home. For each song there is a graphic picture just for fun and different difficulties not to mention. For each song name up there ^ I need a banner that says the title with a cool design behind it expressing the mood of the title.

For instance, I'll just make a rubric on the first post. Check back...

Okay but what do you want on them? Like obv. the names, but do you want like pictures or anything?

Graphix, COOL pictures. No real life pics, just graphix. Etc. I gave an example above, not a good one, but an example. Here's another example. I much better one:
http://www.stepmania.com/download.php?file=Songs_StepMix5_Seamine_VirtualEmotion.smzip

That picture has the artist, but I don't want the artist. The name is Virtual Emotion. Good song actually