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Lisa in New Jersey

Lisa in New Jersey

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This has got to be the hardest thing to do!
What program do I need to start playing around with this?
I haven't done any graphic work in AGES, so I just drew it out for now, I still need a tag line of sorts... I"m looking for sleek and simple, NYC art gallery chic~ if all goes well, my shop will have faux hardwwod linoleum floors, white walls and black carpet walls, black and chrome furniture & fixtures
 

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Sorry, but I don't care for the blue lines.

Sooooo NY is still stuck on that Bauhaus Black and White thing, huh?
 
hehehe...maybe they are, I dunno,... I wish I had paper that didn't have the blue lines,(all I have is my notebook!) but try to visualize it with black type and white background--- OR a color type! Heck, I'm up for any idea!
 

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Something like this?

Century Gothic Bold on the font.


Good luck!

Jerry S.
 

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I’m guessing that Jerry was using either Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop to tweak your design.

Both programs are very high end (read expensive) professional applications and the learning curve is very steep for both of them.

For our logos, we used primarily Illustrator because (being a vector program) it is infinitely scalable without loss of detail. For some things Photoshop is king, but since it rasterizes the images, sometimes when you scale images, the fonts become either jagged or fuzzy.

If you don’t want to spring for the programs, once you get a rough idea of what you want, you may wish to take it to a graphics designer and have him/her work on it. It may save you money in the short run.
 
OK, I know my way around Photoshop a little, but I haven't touched Illustrator in a long time....I have both... PS7 and Illus10 MAC OSX versions I'll have to brush up on them -- thanks!
 
You could create Jerry's design -- or something similar -- in the standard Microsoft Word program, using 4 or 5 text boxes, standard fonts, any colors, and a digital photo of the frame corner. The design would take about 10 minutes after the photo is prepared (cropped and color-corrected), which I would do in PaintShop Pro, a program similar to PhotoShop for a fraction of the price.

Use a high-resolution photo of the frame corner, and when the design is finished, save it in several formats, such as .jpg, .tif, and .pdf.

Shameless Plug:
There will be a new class at WCAF this month, specifically about using Word for jobs like this, called "Drawings and Forms for Framers" (F164) on Tuesday, 3:30 to 5:30 pm.
 
Lisa,

If you already have Illustrator, there are a few built in frame patterns.

Make a rectangular path.

Pull down the “Window” menu, near the bottom choose “Brush Libraries”, then “Inner Pattern Frames”. Click on one you want to play with and the rectangle will fill with the pattern.

Once the “Inner Pattern Frames” appears in a palette, if you double click on the pattern, you can tweak the colors and shapes a bit.

That may give you a starting point.
 
Lisa,

I used Photoshop to put this together and I did a GIS for "frame corner" and took a generic photo that came up. Then I cropped it to get the angles on the ends.

I agree completely that Illustrator is the way to go for logos, but I haven't been able to learn it yet.

Glad to hear that you use a Mac - you know, a REAL computer!!:thumbsup:

Hope it helps you.

Jerry S.
 
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