N N_J Emeritus, Contributor Joined Apr 14, 2012 Posts 207 Jun 17, 2012 #21 AceInfinity said: N_J said: Hi Jaidyn, how does this look? I am my own worst critic so your opinion would mean alot. View attachment 827 Click to expand... 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. Click to expand... 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 said: N_J said: Hi Jaidyn, how does this look? I am my own worst critic so your opinion would mean alot. View attachment 827 Click to expand... 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. Click to expand... 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 Emeritus, Contributor Joined Feb 21, 2012 Posts 1,728 Location Canada Jun 17, 2012 #22 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? Click to expand... 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. Attachments orb.zip 51.4 KB · Views: 3 Last edited: 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? Click to expand... 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 BSOD Kernel Dump Senior Analyst Joined May 1, 2012 Posts 1,011 Location Somewhere Over The Rainbow Jun 18, 2012 #23 N_J said: OTE] @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? Click to expand... 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.
N_J said: OTE] @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? Click to expand... 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 Co-Founder / AdminBSOD Instructor/ExpertMicrosoft MVP (Ret.) Staff member Joined Feb 19, 2012 Posts 21,541 Location New Jersey Shore Jun 18, 2012 #24 N_J said: Hi Jaidyn, how does this look? I am my own worst critic so your opinion would mean alot. View attachment 827 Click to expand... I didn't see you there when I posted before, Ken. That looks nice !
N_J said: Hi Jaidyn, how does this look? I am my own worst critic so your opinion would mean alot. View attachment 827 Click to expand... I didn't see you there when I posted before, Ken. That looks nice !
N N_J Emeritus, Contributor Joined Apr 14, 2012 Posts 207 Jun 20, 2012 #25 It helps to use the latest version of editing software.... Added bigger version with a few edits...
JaidynM BSOD Kernel Dump Senior Analyst Joined May 1, 2012 Posts 1,011 Location Somewhere Over The Rainbow Jun 21, 2012 #26 Looking better.
N N_J Emeritus, Contributor Joined Apr 14, 2012 Posts 207 Jun 21, 2012 #27 JaidynM said: Looking better. Click to expand... Thank you Jaidyn!
Britton30 R.I.P July 9, 2014 Joined Apr 24, 2012 Posts 200 Jul 7, 2012 #28 N_J said: Hi Jaidyn, how does this look? I am my own worst critic so your opinion would mean alot. View attachment 827 Click to expand... Hiya, also a bit of tranparency on the bottom of the shadow with a touch of gaussian blur will help. Looks good.
N_J said: Hi Jaidyn, how does this look? I am my own worst critic so your opinion would mean alot. View attachment 827 Click to expand... Hiya, also a bit of tranparency on the bottom of the shadow with a touch of gaussian blur will help. Looks good.
Corrine Administrator, Microsoft MVP, Security Analyst Staff member Joined Feb 22, 2012 Posts 12,056 Location Upstate, NY Jul 7, 2012 #29 Knowing nothing about graphics, I had to look up the definition of "gaussian blur".
JaidynM BSOD Kernel Dump Senior Analyst Joined May 1, 2012 Posts 1,011 Location Somewhere Over The Rainbow Jul 7, 2012 #30 Don't worry Corrine, I wouldn't expect many to know.