Nice work Jason. Now let's see your Magneto version!

I thought software on this pin was Lonnie Ropp?

I like them Jason! Thanks for sharing.

Why the hell does Rouge have a bouffant? Is that official artwork? If so, whoever drew that should be shot. Actually, if it's NOT official artwork whoever drew that should be shot as well.

Yellow text on black background = EPIC WIN.

Imma need one with Gambit and Colossus.

That's what I understand as well... Lonnie for wizard mode(s) and overall direction, and two guys for the main game, Cheng being only one of them?

These look awesome, but are there high res versions that will look good printed? These are only 120dpi.

Nice work Jackal,

With the magneto instruction card what would blue look like to match her skin. Also maybe bump the quality to 300 dpi and they will be awesome.

Nice job.Here's hoping(swig of beer) the game lives up to your awesome custom cards!!!Scott

I'd say there are no such things as correct images -- these characters have been interpreted by hundreds of artists over decades and everybody has their preferences. If you want to get a feel for what would be considered the "comics" versions, you could try searching for some of the heavy hitter artists for X-Men: Jim Lee, Marc Silvestri, Alan Davis, Art Adams, and John Cassaday are just a few. You're doing a great job, though, and I wouldn't sweat it.

These are fantastic. Maybe you could send them to pinball rebel.com for hosting without compression. Great work!

What's a "pop bumber?"

What about a mystique but with yellow font like the other ones? Yellow seems more readable

It won't look any better if you just resize it to 300 dpi as is. But it will look a lot better if you have bigger source content and redo the text all at 300 dpi from the start. You have to print it to see the difference. It may look ok on the screen but it needs the higher resolution to print well. It's a shame because your graphics are beautiful but it's just too low res to be a viable print

So do we print these ourselves on just a regular laser printer? What sort of paper do we use? Sorry, total noob on this issue. Thanks in advance.

They look great, Jackal. I'm just one of those crazies that prefers the stock cards on all games. I do like how PAPA's game have the stock instruction cards and a custom PAPA card where the pricing card would normally go. I was thinking of having one designed for me and putting that in place of the pricing cards on my pins. I did some custom TSPP cards years ago and uploaded them to pinball rebel. If Ken is still taking submissions, I'd recommend uploading there for full quality.

TigerLaw,
I usually just print them on laser printer and then have them laminated at my local office supply store. The lamination makes them more durable and the colors really pop with the higher gloss.

Scott

You can print them off onto photo paper. Just cut the white borders off, and they look awesome.

Thumbs up on the Magneto rules card with blue text.

You can get some cheap semi glossy brochure paper and print them on your laser. You won't need to laminate after. You can print on photo paper on your inkjet if that's what you have.

Great work! I'll be printing some up for sure.

Props for the good work jason and thanks for pulling in my girl Mystique

Wooot wooot

I second the recommendation to send these over to pinballrebel.com where they can be hosted at a larger file size.

Great job on the cards. My only suggestions would be for better images for the Rogue and Storm instruction cards. They look......ok, but not nearly as nice as all the other images on your other cards.

Great work though. I'm looking forward to seeing which are my favorites when the game arrives.

Sweet thanks looks awesome, Great work.

Can you possibly make the right card "designer info" have a lot of the characters mixed in, since we wont see them in the LE. Thanks it would be cool

nice thanks!!

The image in the picture gets compressed but the actual jpg that is downloaded using the download link maintains resolution. The other guy has 300 dpi cards in the other xmen thread. His text prints out 100 times clearer than yours. Developed photos are considered 400dpi. 300 dpi is very good quality. 120 dpi is not. I can't make you do anything you don't want to do. Unfortunately your cards are awesome but unusable at 120 dpi

No, once the images are saved at 120 DPI there's no going back. The high resolution data is simply lost and the only way to get it back is to start from 300 DPI and never save it lower. Bummer. These were beautiful.

As for 300 DPI, I am referring to say this thread: http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/x-men-mods
Look for swink's card. If you drag the image out of the browser, it is 690x376 pixels large. But if you click on the jpg and download the image, it is 1600x873 pixels large. This is what I meant by the site keeping the initial resolution on the uploads. Yours are 660x360 pixels large. That means that on the width of the image, there are only 660 dots to make up that image.

Let me also say that my comment that these are "unusable" is a bit harsh. They actually still look pretty good. But it's a shame because they could look professional quality amazing.

You know what, it was cool of you to at least try. Thank you I like your work. im going to print your latest rouge one, that's a collectors item. Even having all the female mutants looking sexy together.

On further inspection, your text is actually clearer than Swink's at 300 DPI. His font looks upscaled. Where are you guys getting this text anyway? You are typing it in or you scanned it?

Now we're talking! The text is crystal clear in that one and it prints way better. The Image of the girl was obviously upscaled, but that's ok. You probably had to work with whatever source image you had.

This is way better! Thank you

This depends on how you increase or decrease the DPI. If you type in the text, flatten the image and save as a JPG then resize it, the text will be scaled and not increase in quality. However, if you type in the text using the text tool and leave it in its own layer, Photoshop may be intelligent enough to leave resize it into the image without scaling it.

Anyways, the quality of whatever you did shows. The changed image is massively improved. Thank you. One note, the image was 400 dpi but 4 inches wide. I resized it to 5.5 inches wide without resampling the image which reduced it to 290.9 DPI. Still plenty DPI and looks great.

Thanks a lot for Rogue version 2. Much better and so far the front runner on my Wolvie LE instruction card. All of the Mystique cards would be great choices, but I think she would be better displayed on a Magneto LE.

Again...great job.

I have to say I still don't understand the printing of these to get the right size. The last one you posted "test400.jpg" is WWaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy too small when I print it out. 4" x 2 1/8"

The others you have posted print about the right size. 5 1/2" x 3"

So what's the deal with printing out these cards? Did you miscalculate something on the 400test or am I missing something?

As I said, you will have to resize the image to 5.5 inches wide.

Not to be a total begger (and everyone has their favorite characters so this could get out of hand for you), but any chance of a Gambit being done for wolverine? And perhaps a Nightcrawler? Would be awesome!

Are you saying that last card posted "400test" may have been sized down (by pinside) when it was posted on the site? If that is the case it's unstandable....but I have noticed custom cards on websites that specialize in custom card and they are still usually the wrong size.

Being sized too small is almost understandable if the site where they are posted has size limitations, but I have seem some cards that print out too big. Wouldn't it just be easier to have them sized correctly when posting them (if possable)?

Or have a universal pixed x pixel size standard for each cards depending on how many dpi they are? I'm probably being a bit critical because MS paint does not have a resize option and my picture viewing program only allows resizing by pixle and not by print size. Download and print jusy seem like it should and would be so much easier.