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Here is a proposed logo I designed for a new record shop that is opening up next week. Any constructive critisism? I haven't shown it to the customer yet, but I am pretty sure they will like it. I am going to be doing some small window graphics for them, as well as two sets of full color business cards and some decals. For the full color business cards I am going to do a realistic chrome effect on the word 'polished' in photoshop, as well as jazz up the rest of it and add in a really cool background. I will post it when that design is done. And I may have a couple of digital prints made of it for use on the window, though I do like the way it looks in the design below, with the faux shinyness (i dont think that is proper english...)
------------------ Tyler Malinky
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whoo Ty! Very retro, I love it! I deninitly wanna see the photoshop version. One thing is I would work on the record itself it needs to be more in the background than the rest, maybe its the yellow I don't know, just my opinion.
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Well, here is the business card design I worked up for them, which I think looks much better than the vinyl-ready logo I did in corel. I think I am definately going to have these printed for their window graphics. Here it is, I just noticed that I forgot to put some little light highlights on the word polished, so I still have to add those in.
Oh yeah, forgot to mention that I learned how to do the chrome effect on the word Polished by the article in the newest SignCraft by Chuck Davis ------------------ Tyler Malinky
A Step Above Signs Cleveland, Ohio 440.479.8129 440.842.1894 fax
For future reference, Photoshop includes a gradient that mimmicks the chrome look.
I like to start with the photoshop gradient and tweak the colors a bit to make it a little more realistic, then instead of doing an even fade, I do two of them on seperate layers. This way I can use one to represent the foreground and horizon, which I usually add mountain ridges to, then use the bottom layer for the sky colors.
Put that under a text mask (take out the background to make it transparent) and merge the layers. Toss in a Photoshop lens flare filter or two or three or ten and a Bevel/Emboss layer option and you have yourself some nice looking chrome. You might need to do some final tweaking to get it just right but the effects only take seconds to create.
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This was done by using a text/layer mask, using photoshop's stock chrome gradient under the mask, then applying the mask to the layer to "Flatten" it so I can do a bevel/emboss.
Then the whole image is flattened and I used photoshop's lens flare filters to add the highlights although you could do it by hand too.
It took longer to start photoshop up than it did to create this sample.
------------------ Mike Pipes Digital Illusion Custom Graphics Lake Havasu City, AZ http://www.stickerpimp.com
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hey Tyler, pretty groovy. my only suggestion is to decrease the number of "reflections" in the record (the blue arcs). you've got four in each section, and i think you could do it with three and not lose the effect you want. less is more. and less is easier to reproduce in many sizes...
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