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Need help with a logo


Chris Paul

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Hello guys.
New to this forum.
So I need to create a logo, and made this.

inHK.jpg

I need to put it on my website. I wanna make it more like a oval with transparent edges.. like its fading out.
Something like these.

2.png
3.jpg

So I wanna make the background transparent but remain some red edge..
Please tell me how to do it.


Sorry for my bad english :)
 

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Hi and welcome.

No doubt others will be along soon who do this sort of thing professionally, but for now heres my 1p worth.

I like the logo you designed but I didn't know what it was until I hovered over the link so see its inHK - to that end I'd say try to get a little more of the lettering back.

Anyway onto a little advice - the first logo looks like text tool (with styles applied, mostly stroke), some pen tool and perspective applied.

The second (with would work well with your logo) appears to me to be a layer mask roughly drawn then a brush used on the mark to cut away the edges.
 
Heres a 10 min job - just made a layer mask as I mention really roughly using a normal hard edged brush, then using a rough looking brush (chalk in my case) with shape dynamics angle jitter set to 100% I drew round the edge again.

inHK.jpg
 
I'm still thinking the text is a bit hard to identify. I like what Lump did because he created some bit more contrast, which I think is a problem with your image to begin with. It looks a bit flat but lots better when cropped down with the rough edges now. I think I would put in some darker burgundy or maybe introduce some black.
 
OK, so I don't just say and tell you do this, I'll show what I did with a bit of play. I have made a slight change to Lumpsack's work (sry dude, lol) and added black. On a new layer, I painted in with black 100% using a bristle brush around the edges and spotting with the same brush here and there. I set the layer to blend mode to overlay, reduced opacity to 50%. Then I continued to touch up with the same brush. Then erasing areas that were too dense. Finally I selected a 100% soft round brush and painted in areas at differing opacities. Since the blend mode is overlay, you can paint freely over white and very light without altering the white at all.

I don't have much other advice, except make sure colors are complimentary to the color scheme you are using for your website. This would work beautifully in greyscale.

You might want to play around with layer effects, but this kind of design doesn't lend itself really well to very many. Maybe inner shadow on the text, one of the glows on the BG, if you go black and whit, you could see what threshold does, or try glowing edges and see if you like the color. Filters might include, but always require experimentation: glass or ocean, distort wave, ripple, or wind, other drawing/sketch, etc. Really, there are just so many. First, I suggest you open filter gallery and cycle through these, adjusting settings as see if you like any. If you apply one, make sure you've made a dup of that layer first. Next you can go to the filter dropdown list, check out distort>riple and wave or whatever catches your attention. The go to stylize>extrude, find edges, wind.

I know that is pretty vague advice, but it's a matter of taste. My strongest caveat here is keep it simple. Overused filter effects can just end up looking cheesy and very amateur/newbie. This could be a sophisticated, simple logo if you tread softly. Go ahead and post your favorite experimental results and get some critiques and most likely some likes. So, here's my experiment just with a brush. If I play around with color or filter effects later, I'll post a couple examples:

inHK.jpg

I think I would suggest a little more burgundy on the link between the i and the n too blur the connection; it looks like and h as it is.
 
lol, go for it - I just did a 10 min job and am very much still playing so always happy to see improvements :)
 
I hope I'm not wasting your time; just some examples for your current logo. Play around with radically different logo designs while you're at it. If you haven't already, that is.

inhk_extrude.jpgstylize>extrude

inhk_rip_wind.jpgdistort>ripple/stylize>wind

inhk_rip_unsh.jpgdistort>ripple/hsharpen>unsharp mask

inhk_edges.jpgdistort>ripple/stylize>find edges
 
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