Black Orb Icon Set

N_J · Jun 17, 2012

AceInfinity said:
N_J said:

Hi Jaidyn, how does this look? I am my own worst critic so your opinion would mean alot.

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It's a bit too far left and a bit too high. The ring can come down one pixel and to the right one pixel approximately, and the 'S' is a bit off center in relation to the ring, as well as the overall circle. It's alright, but the edges seem a bit pixelated as well.

Hi AceInfinity, which edges seem pixelated to you? I use a small laptop screen so it's hard to tell.

@Jaidyn, I notice in the reflection what looks like maybe a neighborhood shot with some trees and buildings? How did you achieve that effect?
What program did you use to make the icons, what resolution in pixels and I assume you are using RGB color mode?

AceInfinity · Jun 17, 2012

Top bottom, and left and right of the circle on the most outer part, then when you look at the orbital oval around the S and the curves on the stroke around the S they also seem a bit pixelated.

Edit: My advice to you -- Don't use stroke (assuming you're using Photoshop), it's good in some cases, but almost in any case there's a way around it. I know when people first start out that just go crazy on the outer glow and stroke all the time because they haven't learned much of it's other features yet, and it's the coolest thing to them, but stroke does not create a perfect representation of the image it's outlining. The farther you draw out, the more pixels it has to interpret as to whether or not it counts as part of the stroke because the perimeter (number of pixels around the actual image increases). Don't use stroke...

@Jaidyn, I notice in the reflection what looks like maybe a neighborhood shot with some trees and buildings? How did you achieve that effect?
What program did you use to make the icons, what resolution in pixels and I assume you are using RGB color mode?

It's interpretation, I know you can get the same effect by placing an image behind the shine layers and changing it's layer mode to perhaps overlay and lowering the opacity, then doing some warp effects over it to get it to mold to the curvature of the inner orb itself.

JaidynM · Jun 18, 2012

N_J said:
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@Jaidyn, I notice in the reflection what looks like maybe a neighborhood shot with some trees and buildings? How did you achieve that effect?
What program did you use to make the icons, what resolution in pixels and I assume you are using RGB color mode?

First of all, I'm using Photoshop in RGB mode.

As for the orb, there is a tutorial that can be found here made by PooMan UK. As Ace said though, it's pretty much warping an image and putting a number of layers on top of it and then changing the mode to hard light or overlay.

jcgriff2 · Jun 18, 2012

N_J said:
Hi Jaidyn, how does this look? I am my own worst critic so your opinion would mean alot.

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I didn't see you there when I posted before, Ken.

That looks nice !

N_J · Jun 20, 2012

It helps to use the latest version of editing software....

Added bigger version with a few edits...

JaidynM · Jun 21, 2012

Looking better.

N_J · Jun 21, 2012

JaidynM said:
Looking better.

Thank you Jaidyn!

Britton30 · Jul 7, 2012

N_J said:
Hi Jaidyn, how does this look? I am my own worst critic so your opinion would mean alot.

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Hiya, also a bit of tranparency on the bottom of the shadow with a touch of gaussian blur will help. Looks good.

Corrine · Jul 7, 2012

Knowing nothing about graphics, I had to look up the definition of "gaussian blur".

JaidynM · Jul 7, 2012

Don't worry Corrine, I wouldn't expect many to know.

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