Creating a society/order?

[Sir Edward]

BTW, the Dering Roll of Arms is the oldest known roll of arms to exist from England. It was made famous by being altered later, by Dering, to forge a knightly lineage for himself.

But it's serving as a sort of model for what I want to do with the membership page on the website. A nice big roll of arms. The ORder of Selohaar does this too:  http://selohaar.org/rollofarms.htm

[Sir Edward]

BTW, if you guys have higher-resolution versions of your heraldry, I can use that to make prettier images for our Roll of Arms. Otherwise, I can try to redraw and reshape what you have already, but it probably won't look as good.

[Sir Patrick]

I really like the look of that Selohaar roll of arms page!  Something like that would be great for the Order's site.  Are you wanting the shields shaped like Selohaar's, or some other shape?  We should try to be uniform on that.  Also, how high a resolution do you need?  One last thing, on the Ordre's page, I noticed several of our arm still have the white backgrounds along the bottom.  Is there anything we need to do about that when we submit the high res versions, or will just cut that out when you paste them into the page?

[Sir Wolf]

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~grahamrussell/russell/russellcofabig.jpg i couldn't get the blazon or the other one to work right. here is mine sorta. my scallops are dark grey as is the background metal where it shows white. the lion is all red. as seen:


without flash


with flash

[Sir Edward]

I really like the look of that Selohaar roll of arms page!  Something like that would be great for the Order's site.  Are you wanting the shields shaped like Selohaar's, or some other shape?  We should try to be uniform on that.  Also, how high a resolution do you need?  One last thing, on the Ordre's page, I noticed several of our arm still have the white backgrounds along the bottom.  Is there anything we need to do about that when we submit the high res versions, or will just cut that out when you paste them into the page?

Yep, I went back and removed the white border (added transparency in a PNG) on them after my last post. Right now I've just been trying to make them more or less the same size (fit within a 200x200 box). Anything bigger helps, ideally at least twice that size. Eventually I'd like to make them all uniform in shape too, but that does mean more complex re-drawing.

Wolf, I'll see if I can hack together one for yours.

[Sir Edward]

Wolf, I'll see if I can hack together one for yours.

Done.

[Sir Wolf]

hey thanks ! i couldn't get the colors to change on the scallops

[Sir William]

NICE...and point taken about differentiation from my own if I want to register it w/SCA.

[Sir Edward]

I'm going ahead and buying the pro version of that java based COA editor. I think that's the better one to standardize on (over Blazon95, though the latter can teach you a lot about enforcing the rules of tincture, etc). I'm using it to do the basic design and then doing touch-ups after the fact, like adding Sir Wolf's scallops.

Even the free version generates the images at a good size for web use though.

[Sir Edward]

I put up Sir Brian's as well:

[Sir Edward]

I also redrew these. Let me know what you guys think:

     

[Sir James A]

Looks great. I'll see what I can do this week about getting a functional roster app set up. Standardizing the arms by using the same app to draw them all is a perfect idea.

[Sir Edward]

I'm running into limitations in it, such as not being able to define a "section" for ordinaries and the like. So for Sir Brian's I had to hack in the wavy edge manually. But using one program as the basis and then editing from there in a graphics editor seems to be the way to go.

[Sir William]

Hey man, that's looking good!  I'm still working on mine...couldn't get Blazon to load for some reason...

[Sir Edward]

OK, I blazoned the existing ones on the roll of arms, and put blanks in for everyone elses shields.

BTW, also found a good primer on heraldry, and it gets into some of the more complex terminology too:  http://www.americanheraldry.org/pages/index.php?n=Primer.Page1