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[Kaze]

Thanks K'aeloree. I have a new sig which ain't quite done yet and it's a little blurry until it's sorted out. Here it is

[Jarno Mikkola]

I am shooting good things cause I can't do even a bad one. But with that in mind.

'Tribal Design', Ah you might consider remaking the color scale in the ball not from up to down, but from left to right or vice versa. As then color scaling wouldn't be because of light but for the effect, or you could then chance the dirrection of the white light(and the shadow) to some other angle. And the @ with reversed Đ insignia doen't look like it's attached to the round surface of the ball. It will/can be hard without the right tools to make(I assume), but it shall be rewarding thing to do, and just as a trigery, you might turn the ball to one of it's sides a little so the insignia would be cut and transluminated from the other side.

I don't understand how the "Parental Advisory" sign fits.

*grunts* Ah, it's a 'clear' copy from Limp Bitkit album covers:

[SConrad]

Hmmmmm thanks for all that it shall come in handy in future works

I wouldn't have had any idea you were a teacher

You're welcome. I'm more than happy to give my take on something. I hope I didn't discourage you too much - it wasn't meant that way.

I have experience as a teacher in web design, multimedia and graphic communication, yes.

[minotaur_in_maze]

Would these sigs translate well to business cards if printed up?

Or, standard forum threads - in relation to size I mean?

Minotaur I(mpressed!)

[SConrad]

Would these sigs translate well to business cards if printed up?

Probably not, the dpi is too low, and they're currently in RGB while prints generally should be in CMYK.

[Kaze]

Learn How To Make A Cool Shiny Logo.

Here you will learn to create a stylish orb.

Lets Get Busy

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First of all open up a document of any size of your choice with a transparent background, like so



Then get your eliptical marquee tool and while holding down shift to get a equally proportioned circle of your choice. Now fill this circle with black or any colour of your choice.

Now add these layer styles to your circle:





Now with that done you should have something like this:



Now to add in the light spots. Make a new layer and get your elliptical marquee tool again and hold down shift to get a perfect circle and fill with the white to transparent gradient and place at the top of your orb. Make yet another layer and again make another perfect yet smaller circle and fill again with the white to transpaerent gradient and place at the bottom of your orb.

Now you should have something similar to this:



To get the bottom Gradient cut like I did I just got the elliptical marquee tool and made a selection like in the example and erased that part of the gradient.

Example:


Now make a new layer on top of the rest. Get your elliptical marquee tool yet again but do not hold down shift. When you have that done get your black to transparent gradient and set to radial. Now draw from the center out past the edge of the marquee. Blur it a bit by using the blur tool. Now place this layer beneath your orb but leave some of it showing beneath your orb like so:



Make a new layer ontop of all the others and get out your type tool set on any font you would like and make a @ symbol. Increase the size of this to suit the size of your orb. With any luck it should be like this:



Now give it a white background and add in some text and there you have it a sleek professional looking logo orb.

.: Finished Product :.

You could could go off on a bit of a flair and turn it into something like this:

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