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stubby43
stubby43 aka Phil is a 25.42 year old boy, has been a member since December 22, 2006, has scored 3,809 submissions, giving an average score of 2.65, helping 191 designs get printed.
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Having trouble with photoshop
I've been a blogger for a long time but I've never had the confidence to submit things because of a lack of confidence in my artistic ability but over the past couple of months I've been drawing alot more but I'm no where near ready to submit.

But I started doing some logo work for a friends film company, nothing particlualry complex but I'm having trouble doing the line work for it (mainly because I have xtremely limited knowledge of how to use the program).

scan0004

I'm trying to turn this into something like this:

mackey fresh full logo

As you can see on the straight lines it looks fine, but anything at an angle or curved I dont know how to do it and I cheated on this because I did it in paint.

Eventually I want it too look like this (but this means doing the line work on the wings which will be tough).

logo test

Can anyone help? I'm a complete novice.

ObnoxiousMute
ObnoxiousMute on Feb 02 '08 at 5:40pm
if you dont own illustrator, and dont like to use stolen goods, then just download the trial. 100% better then photoshop for this kind of stuff.
d3d
   d3d on Feb 02 '08 at 5:41pm
i'd use Illustrator for that rather than photoshop. you could try using the pen tool in photoshop but it's not as flexible as real vector. plus real vector is scaleable.
d3d
   d3d on Feb 02 '08 at 5:42pm
also i'd curve the bottom of that S. it'd be more interesting than the flat bottom.
stubby43
stubby43 on Feb 02 '08 at 5:46pm
Thanks I'll try that, I was having problems with the pen tool because I cant get it to stop shading around the outside of the line.



I guess I'll just have to get a hold of illustrator.
d3d
   d3d on Feb 02 '08 at 5:50pm
what do you mean shading? do you mean filling within the space you've drawn? because you can just turn down the transparency to zero and later delete that shape once you're finished with the path.

i dunno if that makes any sense.
stubby43
stubby43 on Feb 02 '08 at 6:06pm
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I mean when it does that on the outside edges.



When you say path do you mean when I click on the magic wand tool and it creates an area I cant shade out of?
ndstillie
   ndstillie on Feb 02 '08 at 6:11pm
Blurring? Shouldn't be doing that if you are using the pen tool. Actually it could be doing that on the screen if you are viewing the image at say..66 percent, but it won't look like that when it is printed. Try viewing the image at either 50 or 100 percent and see if the lines look like you want them to.

oh and pen tool, not brush tool.
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