Header logo thingy...

Dapandyman · December 16th, 2006, 07:32 AM

Yeah...... can you comment on this - i have no idea how good it is...
btw, it is 1024 width but i rescaled it to fit better in my post.

Thanks,
Dapandyman.

scoobywow · December 16th, 2006, 09:42 AM

It is a interesting design, generally the sunset is quite good but the water and reflection dont quite look right. The text would stand-out better in white I think.

Dapandyman · December 16th, 2006, 09:46 AM

right, ill change the text colour and repost the result, thanks

Dapandyman · December 16th, 2006, 10:00 AM

ugh i dont have the .xcf file on this computer i will have to wait a few hours to get it... sorry

SpartanSoft · December 16th, 2006, 10:48 AM

The Shadow may look more realistic if it was more diagonal from the main text..

Dapandyman · December 16th, 2006, 11:58 AM

yeah, diagonally away from the sun, right?

abrewitt · December 16th, 2006, 12:06 PM

The sunsets good but the reflection of the text should be a gradient, like on this logo: http://designbit.co.uk/wp-content/th...s/cubeleft.png

hope that helps.

Dapandyman · December 16th, 2006, 12:21 PM

it would look lots better that way i was lazy when making it... lol,
thanks

Dapandyman · December 16th, 2006, 12:22 PM

do you think the water should be a bit less orange?

Lchad · December 16th, 2006, 04:20 PM

Yes the water at sunset is more of a blue/black. That would be more realistic!

Ryan Fait · December 16th, 2006, 09:06 PM

No! Water is colorless, it reflects whatever is around it! Making it blue would make it look horribly fake.

Lchad · December 16th, 2006, 09:32 PM

Hmmmm... uploaded this beautiful photo to give Dapandyman inspiration!

snow · December 16th, 2006, 09:39 PM

Hmm, I don't like it sorry...

Could I see it in situe? At the moment I think it looks too... I'll explain when I see it in place!

JacobHaug · December 17th, 2006, 03:18 AM

hahaha...nice inspiration!!

Dapandyman · December 17th, 2006, 07:28 AM

its currently up on my testing area (www.freewebs.com/testingskills) if you wanna check it out.

snow · December 17th, 2006, 08:10 AM

Okay - the background looks lovely stretched accross the top, great contrast with the black.

I think the writing really lets it down - at the moment it's difficult to read as the contrast lets it down on the l.h.s. and the text looks slightly pixelated (avoid at all costs in your heading - even if it results in slightly longer extra loading times as a last resort).

But I think the problems lie deeper than that... there really is something missing - I'd do a few different designs and see what else you could come up with?

Antwan · December 17th, 2006, 09:24 AM

Use photoshop to 'Skew' the reflected text so that it looks as if it's flowing across the water and not just straight

Ryan Fait · December 17th, 2006, 11:16 AM

Yeah, it should definitely be refracted.

Dapandyman · December 17th, 2006, 03:19 PM

i still cant get that damn xcf!
i've done a few designs using vectors (on paper) which are based around this and im gonna computerise them soon
by the way, thanks for all the great advice you've all provided

Ryan Fait · December 18th, 2006, 08:09 AM