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I'm doing a sign for a local bar. I've got two basic lay outs with the logo. I'd like to get some ideas on colors and if you think the basic lay out is going to work? I was thinking of adding some sort of slogan to both but I'm not sure what they use yet if they do. Thanks for your time in advance. [IMG][/IMG] [IMG][/IMG]
-------------------- AML Graphics Rogers City, MI. Posts: 99 | From: Rogers City, Michigan | Registered: Mar 2008
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Check out the Abobe Website and Kuler. If you are using Illustrator CS3, it can be accessed directly through the Adobe Windows. Kuler is a great source of Color schemes that you can actually download into Illustrator and use. You need to flash Current version of Flash installed.
-------------------- Bob Noyes Digital Graffiti 310 Main St NE Mapleton, MN 56065 Posts: 130 | From: Mapleton, MN | Registered: Nov 2007
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On the run at the moment, so just a brief note....... Your colors seem to be fighting one another, a bit muddy, not crisp/clean enough. The pigs head needs to be larger and in closer proximity to the hand. More later.... gotta split.
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-------------------- Pierre St.Marie Stmariegraphics Kalispell,Mt www.stmariegraphics.com ------------------ Plan on knowing everything before I die and time's running out! Posts: 4223 | From: Kalispell,Mt 59903 | Registered: Mar 2000
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Larry, I don't see color as the only problem. You have the ear and the mug coming out of the center, which is fine, but....... Optically you've trapped the mug between the outer ring and the back of the copy. This means that the mug is flat and without depth, or the copy is flexed forward at just the "pig" part. It doesn't work. You'd need to purposely, optically elevate the copy up from the surface of the ring to allow the pig and mug to have depth, probably with soft shadows. The head needs to increase in size relation to everything else. The copy in the circle needs to be expanded longer to eliminate some of the empty red area. It needs work, but definitely doable.
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[ May 08, 2008, 09:07 PM: Message edited by: Pierre St.Marie ]
-------------------- Pierre St.Marie Stmariegraphics Kalispell,Mt www.stmariegraphics.com ------------------ Plan on knowing everything before I die and time's running out! Posts: 4223 | From: Kalispell,Mt 59903 | Registered: Mar 2000
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Thanks for the replies everyone. It sure is nice to be able to get great input for a newbie. I see exactly what you all are saying and as soon as I look it makes perfect sense. I'm gonna tweak it some more and post again. Thanks again to everybody that responded. Oh, and by the way, does anybody know if they make anything like Kuler fo LXi8 or Flexi?
-------------------- AML Graphics Rogers City, MI. Posts: 99 | From: Rogers City, Michigan | Registered: Mar 2008
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If the pig is supposed to be blind, I would put some sunglasess on him. Kinda like what Stevie Wonder or Ray Charles would wear. And,, the blue banner is a little too big for the rest of the sign.
-------------------- Signs by Alicia Jennings (Mudflap Girl) Tacoma, WA Since 1987 Have Lipstick, will travel. Posts: 3820 | From: Tacoma, WA. U.S.A. | Registered: Dec 1999
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I just tweeked your image with a few of Pierre's ideas, hope it gives you a few ideas. I inset the center panel with a light sand blast and raised the pig and mug above the outer panel. I didn't see that you had added the town untill the last minute so it's a little rough.
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Wasn't it Zuckerman's Blind Pig?? Oh.............. wait. That was Wilbur. And he wasn't blind.
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-------------------- Pierre St.Marie Stmariegraphics Kalispell,Mt www.stmariegraphics.com ------------------ Plan on knowing everything before I die and time's running out! Posts: 4223 | From: Kalispell,Mt 59903 | Registered: Mar 2000
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I wanna see some Raybans on that Iggy Piggy.
-------------------- Signs by Alicia Jennings (Mudflap Girl) Tacoma, WA Since 1987 Have Lipstick, will travel. Posts: 3820 | From: Tacoma, WA. U.S.A. | Registered: Dec 1999
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Larry, Kuler saves the Swatch Files as ASE (Adobe Swatch Exchange) format which can be opened in other Adobe CS3 Programs directly into their swatch palettes. I take it from your question, you do not have Illustrator CS3.If you do, just open the swatch in Illustrator to get the formula.
I am not using either LXi8 or Flexi and do not know if you can import the ASE file into their swatch palettes, or of any similar programs that do.
-------------------- Bob Noyes Digital Graffiti 310 Main St NE Mapleton, MN 56065 Posts: 130 | From: Mapleton, MN | Registered: Nov 2007
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Hey, Thanks for all the replies you guys! You don't know what a big help that is to me. It's really refreshing to find a place where people are all willing to offer there expertise and constructive criticism. Like I said earlier, I have no one around here that I can learn from. But from all your input it definitely gives me some good ideas to check out. And Jed, I like the RayBans!
-------------------- AML Graphics Rogers City, MI. Posts: 99 | From: Rogers City, Michigan | Registered: Mar 2008
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