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How to make my logo looks less jadded?

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Hi experts,

 

I am tyring my best to create a logo for my website, which looks really plain and ugly.

 

But, I do not have photoshop etc so I use Microsfot publisher to come out witht the fonts and words.

 

Thereafter, I used Paint which is free to cut out the desired size. But, it turned out the logo is quite jagged.

 

Could some one advise me how to make it not jagged. Many thanks.

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Unfortunately no free scripts do this.

 

TO get a professional look you need software like photoshop.

 

You can download a CS5 version for 30 days free of charge!!

I agree, red and green etc.

 

Get Photoshop CS5 free trial and you'll easily make something much better.

 

Ste

or Paintshoppro from Corel will have a free trial.

 

In fact you could probably find an online one that would do a better job that Paint :)

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+1 Photoshop trial version or you could try 'the Gimp'.

 

Red and green should never be seen.

 

 

 

What Red and green ? I don't understand. I don't see any Red and Green in my logo ? Please englighten me. Tks.

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Unfortunately no free scripts do this.

 

TO get a professional look you need software like photoshop.

 

You can download a CS5 version for 30 days free of charge!!

 

But, is it difficult to do it in photoshop?...I've never learn it...to be frank I get so tired learning so many things...from programming to now graphic and worse to deal with the database staff which is still hanging there and preventing me from uploading my website ..sigh...

 

Can I just click click click and the jagged edges will disappear ?

What Red and green ? I don't understand. I don't see any Red and Green in my logo ? Please englighten me. Tks.

 

Your confusing, what do you mean you don't see any red and green in your logo. All there is, is red and green. Those are the only colors.

 

Those colors together are very harsh on the eyes and do not mix very well. Try using some better color combinations. Go to kuler.adobe.com/ to get some good colors.

 

As far as the actual logo itself, you will need a program dedicated to the task. Gimp is free but far too complicated to create something as simple as this. For you I suggest you use a free online tool called Phoenix (http://aviary.com). You can still create your logo for free, and not have to install any complicated software.

 

 

Can I just click click click and the jagged edges will disappear ?

 

Not unless you have a magic wand.

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Your confusing, what do you mean you don't see any red and green in your logo. All there is, is red and green. Those are the only colors.

 

Those colors together are very harsh on the eyes and do not mix very well. Try using some better color combinations. Go to kuler.adobe.com/ to get some good colors.

 

As far as the actual logo itself, you will need a task dedicated to the task. Gimp is free but far too complicated to create something as simple as this. For you I suggest you use a free online tool called Phoenix (http://aviary.com). You can still create your logo for free, and not have to install any complicated software.

 

 

Thanks Cibgraphic...I can see that you are indeed an Expert !

 

FYI, my logo is in orange on pale green back ground. Did you all see red color ?

 

I went to kuler.adobe.com - please advise I just follow the colour combination is it ?

 

As for aviary.com, I think I'll need alot of time to learn it.....but thanks again. Really appreciate it.

 

FYI, my logo is in orange on pale green back ground. Did you all see red color ?

 

 

Was it supposed to look something like below?

 

 

hi5.jpg

Thanks Cibgraphic...I can see that you are indeed an Expert !

 

FYI, my logo is in orange on pale green back ground. Did you all see red color ?

 

I went to kuler.adobe.com - please advise I just follow the colour combination is it ?

 

As for aviary.com, I think I'll need alot of time to learn it.....but thanks again. Really appreciate it.

 

 

Yes, red is what was showing. The color (in RGB values) was Red: 255, Green: 29, Blue: 0. (see attached). As you can see, this is very red.

 

I guess to use Adobe Kuler, you would need to learn a little about Color Theory (I know, more learning, but its part of the game), but once you do, it will help you choose color combinations that are pleasing to the eye. A good resource is http://www.worqx.com/color/index.htm

 

Aviary software does take a little learning (as does anything), but the learning curve is much lower than say Photoshop or Gimp.

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Was it supposed to look something like below?

 

 

hi5.jpg

 

It certainly looks better than mine...cos the jagged edges just kill the professional image.

 

I tried to copy your image and change the image background to #790301 which is the type of light green that I want, but without avail.

 

Could you kindly do me a favour by changing the background color to that green please?

 

Also, is it better to have or without outline of the words ?

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#790301 is maroon ;)

 

 

 

could use a hand too

hifive.gif

 

Sorry, my mistake, the background colour should be #00ff00.

 

Thanks for the new logo but I prefer the 1st logo, as it doesn't blend with my plain website.

Sorry, my mistake, the background colour should be #00ff00.

 

Thanks for the new logo but I prefer the 1st logo, as it doesn't blend with my plain website.

 

That is a horrible green if that is also the background colour

 

hi52.jpg

 

Because you want to use the orange on that green if you take of the border I personally don’t think it looks right

 

hi53.jpg

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That is a horrible green if that is also the background colour

 

hi52.jpg

 

Because you want to use the orange on that green if you take of the border I personally don’t think it looks right

 

hi53.jpg

 

 

Thank you so much. Here's my website. Please advise any color I should change....It's so plain and it looks even more terrible when it is opened in Fire Fox! Not sure how.

Hi experts,

 

I am tyring my best to create a logo for my website, which looks really plain and ugly.

 

But, I do not have photoshop etc so I use Microsfot publisher to come out witht the fonts and words.

 

Thereafter, I used Paint which is free to cut out the desired size. But, it turned out the logo is quite jagged.

 

Could some one advise me how to make it not jagged. Many thanks.

I use PS CS4, but before then i regularly used an online editor which is pretty impressive..

http://www.pixlr.com/

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That is a horrible green if that is also the background colour

 

hi52.jpg

 

Because you want to use the orange on that green if you take of the border I personally don’t think it looks right

 

hi53.jpg

 

 

Sorry Torrix. After merging in your 1st logo, it looks better. But, when I resize it to fit in to my website, there are alot of pixels around; dots - think it's called noise....around ...

 

Could you do me a favour - please help me to resize it to 276px(width) by 70px(height) please? Thank you very much.

Sorry Torrix. After merging in your 1st logo, it looks better. But, when I resize it to fit in to my website, there are alot of pixels around; dots - think it's called noise....around ...

 

Could you do me a favour - please help me to resize it to 276px(width) by 70px(height) please? Thank you very much.

 

The first one as in? Do you mean the one with the border round the text?

 

Also I don’t get how its producing noise as the image is bigger already so would only tighten up if reduced?

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The first one as in? Do you mean the one with the border round the text?

 

Also I don’t get how its producing noise as the image is bigger already so would only tighten up if reduced?

 

Yap. The one with the border. Thanks. I got noise is I think because I tried to reduce to the proper size that can fit into my header, with the non-professional software.

 

Please help me generate can? And any comments on my web page layout etc? It looks real horrible if open in firefox!

Yap. The one with the border. Thanks. I got noise is I think because I tried to reduce to the proper size that can fit into my header, with the non-professional software.

 

Please help me generate can? And any comments on my web page layout etc? It looks real horrible if open in firefox!

 

whats the URL? the one on the pic you put up doesnt work

 

hi5-1.jpg

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Thank you Torix for helping me out like that.

 

I havn't put up my website yet as I'm wretling with alot of problem. I spent 3 weeks talking to web hosting companies to find out majority use MYSQL and I only learnt Ms access. So, till now then I found a web hosting company.

 

And I'm not sure if the support staff will help me look into the Java servlet connectivity part because I'm not familiar with MYSQL and can't do a test on my end.

 

So, that's basically the story.

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whats the URL? the one on the pic you put up doesnt work

 

hi5-1.jpg

 

 

Sorry Torrix, hope is my last request, is it possible to make the 5 tilt upward instead of downward PLEASE?

Sorry Torrix, hope is my last request, is it possible to make the 5 tilt upward instead of downward PLEASE?

 

hi5-3.jpg

Use illustrator, and do some vectoring :) that will get you the best results. But you should put the text settings to sharp, and use a font like arial. And instead of a green bg, why not have it transparent?

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Use illustrator, and do some vectoring :) that will get you the best results. But you should put the text settings to sharp, and use a font like arial. And instead of a green bg, why not have it transparent?

 

 

Sorry but I don't have any graphic tools except free ones. I like green alot buy yeah I agreed if it is made into something like a transparent green for the background, it will look nicer. Do you mind help me to transform my logo ?

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GIMP is free, and i think its enought for what you need.

but if you want, you can PS trial.

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GIMP is free, and i think its enought for what you need.

but if you want, you can PS trial.

 

 

But, I find GIMP not so easy to use and not sure how to improve the logo further. I want to make it more lively. Initially wanted to have a hi-five hand sign behind the 5 but need alot of time to make it work....can you help?

 

Now, my logo at my website it's still jagged because when I enlarge it and tried to fill up the green inside the empty spaces, it erases some of the green area so now it's jagged again...

It’s jagged simply because the picture is too small. Really you just need to remake it at the desired size. Anything else really wouldn’t be worth the effort.

 

I wouldn’t download Photoshop as that’s really photo and graphic editing software, with this you could increase the size then apply an effect or blur the pixels but it wouldn’t look much cop and as i have said it would be much easier to remake it.

 

If you want to make your logo better start from scratch with a program like Illustrator or Coral Draw. With these you can create your logo using vectors and save it to whatever size you want.

Also green and red used together is bad for colour blind people.

Had a look at the site, hi5tutors.com, and it seems like the colours you've chosen aren't perhaps the best in terms of contract.

 

Here's a very quick example of something using contrasting colours.

 

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Had a look at the site, hi5tutors.com, and it seems like the colours you've chosen aren't perhaps the best in terms of contract.

 

Here's a very quick example of something using contrasting colours.

 

post-21041-069824300 1279798062_thumb.jpg

 

post-21041-020979400 1279798067_thumb.jpg

 

Yes. Grey and Green looks really very pleasing to the eyes. But, I have this pet peeve of not liking Grey in my logo. Can you suggest another way of doing it without making it grey? Or changing the background to some other kind of green? I'm not very sure or something transparent with a tint of green....i wish there's an easy software out that can allow me to play with all these kind of things....

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I've never learn it...to be frank I get so tired learning so many things...from programming to now graphic and worse to deal with the database staff which is still hanging there and preventing me from uploading my website I'll do you a professional logo for £20 seeing as you're trying hard which I admire.

Hi experts,

 

I am tyring my best to create a logo for my website, which looks really plain and ugly.

 

But, I do not have photoshop etc so I use Microsfot publisher to come out witht the fonts and words.

 

Thereafter, I used Paint which is free to cut out the desired size. But, it turned out the logo is quite jagged.

 

Could some one advise me how to make it not jagged. Many thanks.

 

Don't use paint. Get GIMP. its a free alternative to photoshop...not as good, but will do a lot of the basic things.

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