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wkdsoul
ducc
As general advice - if you are going to make a large pack with thousands of logos, its important to try to make the work flow as effortless and organized as possible. If you are working with Photoshop, you should create an action to automatically add your special effect to the logos, and perhaps another action to automatically save the logos in the logopack image sizes into the folders you want them to go to.
wkdsoul
Yeah, i have the action all sorted and the styles fed into it etc. Its an easy plug and play over an existing normal image.
the drop shadow spread i think needs pulling in abit to make sure its always inside the 180x180 at the min as well. Cheers for taking the time
wkdsoul
kremmen
wkdsoul
toss up between these two at the min...
wkdsoul
now to work...
ducc
It seems that there is still some cutting happening with the shadows on the edges of the images though. If you want to avoid it, here is what you could do:
wkdsoul
I presume by cutting you mean the drop shadow looking like it runs past the 180x180 canvas size?
I was using a standard 180x180 logo,
expanding the canvas to 200x200, adding the drop shadow/effects/work etc,
merging down any layers to 1,
then reducing the whole image back to 180x180.
I think i can either reduce the spread of the drop shadows, or expand the initial canvas size up to 205x205 so its fits, as long as it not too small on the resize to 180x180 before saving.
i ll give the above a go, In game you can't tell luckily with my skin but for those who use a "light" version you might. so if i ever wanna upload...
Cheers for the look/time/advice dude
ducc
Generally its best to work in large sizes and later make the logos smaller. That way any imperfections in the logos - or in the quality of the work that has been done - can often be reduced to something that isn't visible in the end product.
If its possible to have all the logos in the same size and resolution before you add your effect, it should be fairly straight forward to quickly make logos that have consistent looking style with similar shadow widths etc. It sounds like you may be using a "standard" style logopack as a source for the logo images, so it should at least solve the problem of the image size, though not necessarily the one concerning resolution. I guess it just has to be tested how big of a difference the possible variance in resolution between the images actually makes...
If you are using a standard pack as a source and you have an action that does all the magic you want done on the logos, you can use Photoshop batch automation to automatically go through the whole pack. Click file -> automate -> batch.
wkdsoul
The full action i'm having issues getting the merge down part work but the restyle is something i do when bored or watching series anyway so the manual way isnt really an issue, im no pressed for time or anything.
Much appreciated.
ducc
Merging down might be failing because a layer that cannot be merged down has been selected before the action is being played. If you just want to merge all layers press ctrl + alt + a to select all layers and then press ctrl + e to merge them.
kremmen
ducc
I guess its as simple as cutting the logos, saving them into a folder with IDs as names and then running them through batch automation coupled with an action that adds the effect and saves the logos in the three sizes you have in your pack?
kremmen
wkdsoul
ducc
Excellent.
I have my own logo project, but perhaps not as much time for drink or other good hobbies because the effect I chose requires some adjustments on every logo.
Someone is selling a pack? Where ? I'd like to see if its any good...
The the surface of the logos looks somewhat matte, so sharp edged reflection may not look "correct" on them. I don't know if soft edged reflection would be any better though...
wkdsoul
ebay as per usual. HDLOGOs i think its under, unless its been reported and taken down as the do (its licensed images after all, regardless of the photoshop done).
Yeah its not a good mix but at least i know its easy to replicate his :lol might just give the filter away.
wkdsoul
wkdsoul
thats the style i went with, cheers for your help guys.