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Maegwin
03-11-2003, 11:02 AM
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
03-11-2003, 11:15 AM
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
03-11-2003, 11:50 AM
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
03-11-2003, 11:51 AM
Go go Gadget Lens Flare!

Maegwin
03-11-2003, 11:55 AM
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
03-11-2003, 11:59 AM
ooh, I have adobe's photoshop, it's so fun to play with! :D

Maegwin
03-11-2003, 12:02 PM
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
03-11-2003, 12:05 PM
Nwinn's a gangsta tagger =D

nwinn
03-11-2003, 12:05 PM
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
03-11-2003, 12:17 PM
Originally posted by Angelie
Nwinn's a gangsta tagger =D

lol

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

nwinn
03-11-2003, 12:41 PM
how about this?

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

Zappo
03-11-2003, 01:25 PM
quick give me a link so i can download some thing better than MS paint for pics:\

Vikkie
03-11-2003, 02:53 PM
I was bored...

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

Slippy
03-11-2003, 03:01 PM
Quick one for ya

nwinn
03-11-2003, 03:33 PM
try fosi.da.ru zappo, sometimes they have photoshop :|


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

Myztlee
03-11-2003, 07:39 PM
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
03-12-2003, 01:43 AM
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
03-12-2003, 02:44 AM
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
03-12-2003, 03:31 AM
=((



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


What do I win?

Maegwin
03-12-2003, 07:08 AM
Hehehe, the brick wall texture and spray paint tool, hands down Rika win! :p :D

Lonskils
03-12-2003, 11:26 AM
ding ding ding we have a winner, Rika Wins!~

Maegwin
03-12-2003, 12:17 PM
Here's another one:

nwinn
03-12-2003, 01:33 PM
Me thinks Maegwin likes lens flares! :D

Gemmi
03-16-2003, 10:02 AM
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
03-16-2003, 10:03 AM
Our logo should just be an Andaas corpse.

Maegwin
03-16-2003, 01:53 PM
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
03-16-2003, 02:28 PM
test

Lexoon
03-16-2003, 07:48 PM
make more logos you goons i want to see =|

Maegwin
03-17-2003, 10:10 AM
Banner:

Andaas
03-17-2003, 10:33 AM
That looks nice Maegwin, could you generate one on a dark blue background for me. The white blinds me. :(

Maegwin
03-17-2003, 11:24 AM
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
03-17-2003, 11:34 AM
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
03-17-2003, 12:01 PM
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
03-17-2003, 12:29 PM
this is going out to all the people who love *.BMP's and MSPaint!

nwinn
03-17-2003, 01:04 PM
pretty zappo!

Liyon
03-17-2003, 01:31 PM
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
03-17-2003, 02:16 PM
some psp artwork roses ;)


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

Zeldapika
03-17-2003, 02:41 PM
Oooo pretty!! How do u guys do all that neat stuff =/

nwinn
03-17-2003, 02:47 PM
rainbows ZP, lot's of rainbows!!! :D

Liyon
03-17-2003, 02:58 PM
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
03-17-2003, 03:47 PM
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
03-17-2003, 06:05 PM
That looks nice

vegu
03-17-2003, 09:03 PM
Zappo wins!

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

nwinn
03-18-2003, 12:01 AM
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
03-18-2003, 01:26 AM
is teh r0x0rz!

Dharrk
03-18-2003, 01:45 AM
Originally posted by Vegar
Zappo wins!

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

lens flare

Maegwin
03-18-2003, 06:39 AM
Here Andaas, let me know if you want the "Hoss" text move to the left side.
(edit) better version.

Tarissa
03-18-2003, 08:24 AM
.

nwinn
03-18-2003, 01:58 PM
It has to be an original work, tari!

Ktul
03-18-2003, 03:43 PM
This was easy my favorite pic!

Maegwin
03-18-2003, 04:52 PM
Here's what it looks like as your magelo background:

Gemmi
03-19-2003, 09:01 AM
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
03-19-2003, 09:44 AM
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
03-19-2003, 10:04 AM
Its fun to watch Lhite pick away at those pixels to try and get it like that lol

nwinn
03-19-2003, 10:15 AM
lol, lhite and gemmi need photoshop or maybe the one that maeg is using has it too :|

Maegwin
03-19-2003, 10:52 AM
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
03-22-2003, 08:37 PM
very nice maeg, I like :D

zappo wins though =x

nwinn
03-24-2003, 04:54 PM
well, I made a couple more, they're basically the same as the other one but, new pic. :)

nwinn
03-24-2003, 04:55 PM
I think I like the one above better, though.

Myztlee
03-25-2003, 09:23 PM
Magnetic Lasso? Where's that?

nwinn
03-28-2003, 12:32 PM
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
03-30-2003, 08:38 PM
First try ever at PSP.

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

deezy
06-02-2003, 02:04 AM
<- playing around

Geranon Morrowind
06-02-2003, 12:34 PM
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
06-02-2003, 12:43 PM
'.'

vegu
06-02-2003, 02:10 PM
That sun owns :D

Daeryn
06-02-2003, 03:36 PM
That sun is quite possibly the happiest mofo ever drawn. Even just by looking at him I wanna go hug a bunny rabbit

Hoezan
06-02-2003, 10:35 PM
:\

Kattoo Tacit
06-02-2003, 11:54 PM
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
06-03-2003, 01:27 AM
ok, someone remove the ogry please :|

Renbeny
06-03-2003, 03:41 AM
Attaching this because I can't seem to access my webspace this morning to upload. Just bored, fooling around.