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Whether because of the color of the ocean, the color of a clear sky, or the sad realization that summer is (or nearly is) over for half of the world...



Also a quick note/aside: quite a number of banners lately have been submitted with barely any editing involved when it comes to added backgrounds. Examples include among other things: making no attempt to feather and fade a background, cutting the background 1 pixel from the edge, not resizing the background and/or subject(s) to better fit the the banner, or not using the included background in some interesting way.

While none of this would disqualify an entry given the current rules, it could have the potential to negatively affect that entry's chances when come times to voting. I just wanted to remind everyone of this to hopefully give some banners better odds as there have been several banners with good subjects (subjectively) that were probably overlooked due to a lack of editing (observationally).




Please reference the April 2025's Banner Contest for information on the new Banner Template.

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Welcome to the 224th Monthly E-Hentai Banner Contest!
A test of creativity open to any registered user that wishes to participate.

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Banners will be voted and ranked by our gallery and forum janitors staff, and results will be posted in the banner contest thread generally within the first few days of the month.

Those banners meeting a minimum point threshold will be featured on the News Page of the E-Hentai Galleries. In addition, each banner contestant that wins will be awarded Hath based on their placement:

1st through 3rd place: 500 Hath
4th place and lower: 300 Hath

Rules:

1. Use the banner template found here: [Link]
   • This banner template is in PSD format with the banner title isolated from the background with both typed text and rasterized flavors provided.
   • In the work paths of the file, horizontal limit recommendations have been included as a guide to where the banner title would be best located. The spacing suggested works best with even numbers of characters; split between each side, or three characters; two on one side and one on the other.
   • In addition to the PSD file, PNG copies of the banner with the banner title justified left, right, and center are also provided for those who lack the means to edit PSD files.
2. Submitted banners must be submitted as a PNG image file, preferably as a forum attachment.
   • Banners may not be animated, even in PNG format.
3. Each person may only submit one banner.
   • In the event of multiple submissions the first banner that appears in the thread will be used.
   • If you need to modify your banner entry post initial submission, please edit your posts so that your updated banner is either your first or only entry in the contest thread.
4. There must be at least one female character present in the banner.
   • Male characters are not permitted.
5. Absolutely no nudity is allowed.
   • Partially exposed lolicon characters that, by way of convenient censoring or cropping, are rendered not nude will be grounds for disqualification as well.
6. *NOTHING* (characters, shadows, backgrounds, accessories, banner title, et al) shall touch or be cropped against the left or right edges of the banner.
   • Both the main title and sub title must line up with each other horizontally.
   • The banner title should not be heavily edited or obscured beyond clear and obvious recognition.
   • The banner title may be moved horizontally as long as it satisfies the rest of rule 6, but please consider balance and viewability.
   • The banner title may not be moved vertically.
7. Less of a rule and more of a suggestion: Characters should either be from the same series, be in the same or similar art style, or connected by some kind theme (i.e. catgirls, Christmas, bunnies, mod suggested, Airddragon, etc)
   • The banner contest poster may suggest themes in the thread topic description or at the beginning of the contest, but by no means are you required to follow that suggestion.
   • Use of characters from IPs owned by aggressively protective companies (such as Blizzard or miHoYo [Genshin Impact] as an example) however is prohibited. (Ask if you are unsure)
8. Though admirable, please do not include artist credit or signatures within the banner or banner art.
9. You must understand that I love you all. Except Spectre. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif)

Please be mindful of some basic considerations regarding your chosen artwork, in particular to visual clarity. If you are unsure whether any part of your banner may be at odds with the rules, feel free ask in the banner contest thread, or alternatively look at past entries in this subforum to see what other users have submitted.



If you wish to preview a banner as it would look on the website but do not want to manually modify url paths in the browser console you can try a script provided by hzqr:
[gist.github.com] https://gist.github.com/anonymous/009b0c272...5061ae4b8a635bd

This script allows you to double click the banner already in place on the News Page, and either preview in place your banner saved on your computer or load another image from a URL.

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Banner entries are due by: August 25th (ish).

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Good luck, and have fun! The E-Hentai staff always look forward to seeing what new banners are cooked up each month.

If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to ask here in the contest thread itself, or PM me directly.

GoGoGo!

There's a Hatsune Miku banner last month, there's a Hatsune Miku banner this month, and possibly another Hatsune Miku banner in the next few months.

miku miku skibidi dop dop dop yes yes

Challenge accepted.

(IMG:[i.mji.rip] https://i.mji.rip/2025/08/05/43461f5be503aaf059e9860f33e61dcf.png)

This post has been edited by accver: Aug 5 2025, 16:44

(IMG:[i.mji.rip] https://i.mji.rip/2025/08/06/5b425b1c732cf0f22bbe249e5dde364a.png)

This post has been edited by Tumbres: Aug 6 2025, 14:56

Also a quick note/aside: quite a number of banners lately have been submitted with barely any editing involved when it comes to added backgrounds. Examples include among other things: making no attempt to feather and fade a background, cutting the background 1 pixel from the edge, not resizing the background and/or subject(s) to better fit the the banner, or not using the included background in some interesting way.

(^bossy old ghost)

The banners have been looking awesome lately. I don't know why the new crop of banneristas aren't doing stuff to the backgrounds, maybe they don't know how or don't want to bother, but personally I can't even work with that new template.

(^bossy old ghost)

The banners have been looking awesome lately. I don't know why the new crop of banneristas aren't doing stuff to the backgrounds, maybe they don't know how or don't want to bother, but personally I can't even work with that new template.

What difficulties are you having with the new template? I included rasterized font layers (like the previous version had) in case anyone couldn't (or wouldn't) use the included fonts.