Competition Gaelic-Australian Rules National Trophy ENTRIES DUE DECEMBER 1st

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Get your kits in guys, this one is due FRIDAY 1st December

Just a reminder because there has been some confusion, the brief for this competition calls for a short sleeved guernsey front and back, socks, and footy shorts. Not soccer shorts, not shorts that go half way down the thigh. Footy shorts.

If your shorts are too long, shorten them prior to entry. The warp transform tool in photoshop will do the job, alternatively just select the legs of your shorts and shorten them.
 
Just for the record, these yellow images template shorts will be accepted this time around because too many people use them, but these aren't footy shorts, they have something like a 4 inch inseam, which is twice as long as what could reasonably be called footy shorts.

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If you are using a Yellow Images Template, the Men's Fitness Shorts mockup is a much better solution for footy shorts because the proportions are correct.

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I'd strongly encourage everyone to think about their entry as a whole and not just as individual segments. The ratio of guernsey to shorts to socks matters greatly in the overall look of your entry and having shorts that look like training shorts throws off the balance of your entire kit, especially in an era where we're all using realistic templates that are expected to be in proportion and will look even more off when they aren't.
 
Just for the record, these yellow images template shorts will be accepted this time around because too many people use them, but these aren't footy shorts, they have something like a 4 inch inseam, which is twice as long as what could reasonably be called footy shorts.

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14645-preview-02-584a858b3139a.jpg


If you are using a Yellow Images Template, the Men's Fitness Shorts mockup is a much better solution for footy shorts because the proportions are correct.

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I'd strongly encourage everyone to think about their entry as a whole and not just as individual segments. The ratio of guernsey to shorts to socks matters greatly in the overall look of your entry and having shorts that look like training shorts throws off the balance of your entire kit, especially in an era where we're all using realistic templates that are expected to be in proportion and will look even more off when they aren't.
Might have to go and shorten the shorts on my template this weekend.
 
Might have to go and shorten the shorts on my template this weekend.

If you're using your footy template's shorts they're fine.

Shorts length is all about the inseam. You should be looking at a 1-2 inch seam on the inside leg for footy shorts to look like footy shorts.

In the scramble to keep up in the template arms race, people have turned to paid templates, but people appear to have acquired the Yellow Images rugby shorts instead of the more suitable Yellow Images men's fitness shorts. On an old-school paint template, longer shorts are less of an issue because people are just putting together an approximation of what a kit would look like. On a Yellow Images template, you've got some genuine realism which makes things that are out of proportion really stand out. Those rugby shorts from the front on view appear to have something like a 4-5 inch inseam.

Fortunately, even on those fancy templates it's quite a quick fix to shorten the length of the shorts. Select the legs and transform them shorter. It's not difficult at all, and it makes a huge difference to how an entry reads as a footy kit.
 
On an old-school paint template, longer shorts are less of an issue because people are just putting together an approximation of what a kit would look like. On a Yellow Images template, you've got some genuine realism which makes things that are out of proportion really stand out. Those rugby shorts from the front on view appear to have something like a 4-5 inch inseam.

Not to kick off an argument, but what is good for one must be good for all under what you are saying.

If one set of shorts is apparently too long then all shots no matter what look/format should all apply to those rules otherwise those on specific templates are being given an bias against the rest.

For fairness if you believe that one set of shorts are too long (even if being more realistic) then all shorts no matter what format/presentation should be altered to look similar in length if they are not deemed to be the right length for a real pair of footy shorts.
 
Not to kick off an argument, but what is good for one must be good for all under what you are saying.

If one set of shorts is apparently too long then all shots no matter what look/format should all apply to those rules otherwise those on specific templates are being given an bias against the rest.

For fairness if you believe that one set of shorts are too long (even if being more realistic) then all shorts no matter what format/presentation should be altered to look similar in length if they are not deemed to be the right length for a real pair of footy shorts.

I can't immediately think of a template for footy shorts i've seen where the shorts are longer than in the YI rugby shorts that has become fairly widely used.

I was just correctly pointing out that a more realistic template will make out of proportion shorts look more incorrect than they would on an old paint template.

People can do with that information what they wish, but you'll notice that the people regularly winning the big competitions on this board care about how their proportions look. It's important.
 
If you're using your footy template's shorts they're fine.

Shorts length is all about the inseam. You should be looking at a 1-2 inch seam on the inside leg for footy shorts to look like footy shorts.
I just went to look at my template after posted your original comment and felt as though they might have been a bit long in terms of how far they come down the leg, rather than inseam.
 

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