Paint Shop Pro ( first go round )

[Maegwin]

I dl'd a trial version of Pain Shop Pro, cause I wanted to see what kind of image creation software was out there. I wanted to make a little Hoss logo and this was my first stab...whaddya think?

[Maegwin]

I want to figure out how to make this image support transparent backgrounds...anyone know how to do that?

When I'm editing it in Paint Shop Pro it has two layers...one with the text and effects in it, and the other that just has a 0% opacity...I was hoping that would do it but it hasn't seemed to work.

[Andaas]

For a transparent background, you'll need to save the file out in either GIF or PNG format (GIF only supports up to 256 colors, so use PNG if your image really needs more).

There is a way to make the background color transparent (should be under a "transparency" menu item somewhere).

[Lola]

Go go Gadget Lens Flare!

[Maegwin]

Ok yeah, I was playing around with it and realized that GIF supported transparent background...I posted a pic of it but I don't think shadows look good on a transparent background...looks kinda weird.

So, if you plan to use shadows then you should pick a background color to go with your text so the shadows look good.

Maybe just borders are better than shadows.

[nwinn]

ooh, I have adobe's photoshop, it's so fun to play with! :D

[Maegwin]

We should have a logo contest....one submission per person, all submissions are voted on by the entire guild, winner gets used for magelo backgrounds, item submissions screen shots, and put on the front page! :p

Oh, maybe they could get like...a fast horse or a pat on the back or something too :p

[Angelie]

Nwinn's a gangsta tagger =D

[nwinn]

sometimes do to transparency you set the bkgrnd, or whicher, to the brightest pink... 256, 0, 256... I think :| not sure how you'd do it w/ posting, will mess w/ it :D

[nwinn]

Originally posted by Angelie
Nwinn's a gangsta tagger =D

lol

yo yo, i got mad dps! (maeg too!)

[nwinn]

how about this?

damn, the transparency didn't work.
found out you can only do transparency in gifs and pngs :(

[Zappo]

quick give me a link so i can download some thing better than MS paint for pics:\

[Vikkie]

I was bored...

Bleh the border got messed up, have to fix that >_<

[Slippy]

Quick one for ya

[nwinn]

try fosi.da.ru zappo, sometimes they have photoshop :|


("beware" the dirty pics... I told sazar that and he said, woo hoo!)

[Myztlee]

www.jasc.com for Paint Shop Pro. I've been using this since version 3, when it was barely more than a gif editor. No layers, nothing. It evolved more and more, and is pretty close to Photoshop now in features. I'm just so used to it, I can't use anything else. I don't have time right now, but I'll whip up some fun logos for you all.

[Kattoo Tacit]

I got Adobe Photoshop and ImageReady a couple weeks ago and been having a ball with it. Working with images and doing html, perl, java, and VB beats working off number crunch pitas with C,pascal,Delphi.

[Liyon]

Here is something i just made, Might dink around with it later, wasn't much just a few filters and a little blending change.

I'll get around to installing Font folio when i have time, its great for fonts but man its pretty expensive.. (good thing i used to work for adobe /grin).

[Rika]

=((



http://home.hot.rr.com/frostheart/stuff/Image4.jpg


What do I win?

[Maegwin]

Hehehe, the brick wall texture and spray paint tool, hands down Rika win! :p :D

[Lonskils]

ding ding ding we have a winner, Rika Wins!~

[Maegwin]

Here's another one:

[nwinn]

Me thinks Maegwin likes lens flares! :D

[Gemmi]

These are good! Maegwin, yours captures the essence of Hoss, simple, understated, classic, yet hints that the name Hoss is way up there "toward the light" so to speak! So I don't know what your royalty charge per day is... but this is what I came up with (for Gem) and I want to keep it! (limited abilities and all).

[Tilea]

Our logo should just be an Andaas corpse.

[Maegwin]

I charge nothing, I'm not a graphic designer by trade. Anyone who wants to use something that I create for Hoss is more than welcome to use it in their Magelo or for the website or anything else related to Hoss.

I have a passing interest in this, and I just happen to be pretty good at fooling around/learning new software programs ( comes from being a programmer myself ). I did take a computer graphics class in high school that was all adobe photoshop and another CG class at my first Junior College...both were pretty fun, the one at college also taught dreamweaver and a couple other things.

If you want to see the one I'm using for my magelo just click the link in my sig.

[Gemmi]

test

[Lexoon]

make more logos you goons i want to see =|

[Maegwin]

Banner:

[Andaas]

That looks nice Maegwin, could you generate one on a dark blue background for me. The white blinds me. :(

[Maegwin]

I can, it'll take me a bit. I'm at work right now and a bit busy and because of the way I did the other one I have to re-do a bit of stuff for the background to look right if it has a non-white color...and for the shadow to look right on top of it.

I'll get it done tonight tho. I'll either use the white one for my magelo or the blue one I'm doing for you.

[Liyon]

Here is a redone version of maeg's image... Cropped it and made the background dark blue.

My only beef with it is that it looks like the compression the first time around really skewed the H and O, if you do re-do it maeg don't compress too much or use an alpha layer to prevent it from compressing the text.

But it looks good =0


edit: Added to =/

[Maegwin]

Did you re-touch the edges of the shadow on the blue background by hand?

I tried that and it just didn't look right so I was gonna re-do it and start with a blue background before I add the shadow.

AND the reason that it isn't cropped is because if you use it as your magelo background, Magelo center's the image...which puts it behind all the magelo info. Soooo, making it 800 x 600 will make the banner be exactly what it is... a banner across the top.

Will re-do it later.

[Zappo]

this is going out to all the people who love *.BMP's and MSPaint!

[nwinn]

pretty zappo!

[Liyon]

Na i didn't do anything fancy with it actually just opened it in photoshop 7 and filled it then cropped it. understand why its not cropped though wasn't sure of its use. Im sorta bored atm so i'll install Fonfollio and whip something up .. now to find the archive cd.

[Maelikki]

some psp artwork roses ;)


http://hinidae.free.fr/wubbwose.jpg

[Zeldapika]

Oooo pretty!! How do u guys do all that neat stuff =/

[nwinn]

rainbows ZP, lot's of rainbows!!! :D

[Liyon]

Ok here is a test image, I think i added a little too much noise to fennin though. SOOOO many fonts to choose from, about 3000 fonts active right now =/ But these 2 fonts look ok.

[nwinn]

Gemmi gave me this idea. :D

Have seen people do it before but realized that it really isn't that hard to cut your char out using magnetic lasso. :D

I should take a better SS, this one was too dark and you can tell that I had to lighten it up... plus, I have my epic and it's cool particle effect now, lol!

[Daeryn]

That looks nice

[vegu]

Zappo wins!

Im still trying to figure out what that turquoise thing in his picture is tho :|

[nwinn]

Originally posted by Vegar
Zappo wins!

Im still trying to figure out what that turquoise thing in his picture is tho :|

I demand a recount!

[Ransac]

is teh r0x0rz!

[Dharrk]

Originally posted by Vegar
Zappo wins!

Im still trying to figure out what that turquoise thing in his picture is tho :|

lens flare

[Maegwin]

Here Andaas, let me know if you want the "Hoss" text move to the left side.
(edit) better version.

[Tarissa]

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[nwinn]

It has to be an original work, tari!

[Ktul]

This was easy my favorite pic!

[Maegwin]

Here's what it looks like as your magelo background:

[Gemmi]

ROFL - Nwinn!!! Magnetic Lasso? what's that? OMG Gem was on a brown background, I had to magnify it, and pixel by pixel I took out the char and bit by bit added the O around it, filled in colors..... told you I had 0 skills at this! I need to learn the program it would be great fun. At least I have patience!

[nwinn]

ohhh gemmi! The magnetic lasso is so nice. :D You drag it around what you want to cut out and it 'sticks' to the borders between colors, usually has to be semi-drastic difference for it to work really well. But, cutting brown away from blue would work really well, I think, that's what background derasi was on too, he he. You spent ALOT of time cutting gemmi out, I bet! ><

[Zeldapika]

Its fun to watch Lhite pick away at those pixels to try and get it like that lol

[nwinn]

lol, lhite and gemmi need photoshop or maybe the one that maeg is using has it too :|

[Maegwin]

Yes the Lasso or "Magic Wand" as it's called in Paint Shop Pro is nice...it's also nice that you can add or delete selections to whatever may already be currently selected with that tool.

[Lexoon]

very nice maeg, I like :D

zappo wins though =x

[nwinn]

well, I made a couple more, they're basically the same as the other one but, new pic. :)

[nwinn]

I think I like the one above better, though.

[Myztlee]

Magnetic Lasso? Where's that?

[nwinn]

in photoshop, 6 & 7 for sure, if you look on the toolbar that is usually on the left side... has the paint bucket, eraser, etc. there should be a lasso and if you click and hold down that button for just a little bit you'll get a menu with a couple more lasso options. :D

[Aradil]

First try ever at PSP.

http://webpages.charter.net/sdd110/hoss2.JPG

[deezy]

<- playing around

[Geranon Morrowind]

hey Deezy, what font are you using in that one? I WANT IT, I've been looking for a font like that for some webdesign I've been working on. Just couldnt find a font that fits. Any chance you could email it to Darknight@mcweb.net ??

[Zeldapika]

'.'

[vegu]

That sun owns :D

[Daeryn]

That sun is quite possibly the happiest mofo ever drawn. Even just by looking at him I wanna go hug a bunny rabbit

[Hoezan]

:\

[Kattoo Tacit]

I was inspired to give it a run.... just a shame I have to post after that spammed mess.

http://www.cwebcomm.com/kattoo/image/hossmagelo2.gif

[nwinn]

ok, someone remove the ogry please :|

[Renbeny]

Attaching this because I can't seem to access my webspace this morning to upload. Just bored, fooling around.