80s style wrestling marquee....SIDE ART!

[reptileink]

What else would you suggest? A full circle would look pretty silly running behind the text. This will be a die-cut image, not having a white background. Only thing I can see this morning is that the "circle" text needs to be a bit lower.

[Malenko]

shrink the circle and move it down, have the wrestlers head pop out a bit, like I did in the martijn style art


Just makes them pop more.

[reptileink]

I'll try that when I get home tonight. Otherwise, I think I have a good tie-in.

Does Stpcore do what I am calling "Die-cut" IE: The image has a transparent background (not the white you see), or does it need to have some kind of white border around it?

[Titchgamer]

shrink the circle and move it down, have the wrestlers head pop out a bit, like I did in the martijn style art


Just makes them pop more.

Yeah that will work better I think.

[harveybirdman]

POST IT AT THE FORUM!

I CAN'T SEE IT ON MY PHONE OR ON HERE AT WORK!

[reptileink]

You know what's weird is, I hosted it on imgur because Photobucket is blocked at work, and while I can go to the Imgur website and see it, I can't see it in the forum either. To add to that, I CAN see the marquee which is also hosted at Imgur. Wonder if it's due to the size? It worked fine at home last night. Sorry, I should know better as half the project threads I look at have no images due to work block. So dumb.

EDIT: Alright, was able to get it saved and uploaded.

[harveybirdman]

It's good, matches the theme you're going for, I agree with Malenko about the circle.

[pbj]

sli.mg is the new hotness.  Quit using imgur.

[reptileink]

sli.mg is the new hotness.  Quit using imgur.

Also blocked....lol

[reptileink]

[PL1]

Looking better.   

Here are a few more things you may want to consider.

* The blue oval isn't visible through the gap between "SQ" -- not sure if it should be or not because of the curve.   

* Legs  cut off/not visible through gaps in the letters "UAR".

* The dot over the "i" is messed up.


Scott

[Le Chuck]

If you're using a current version of photoshop to do the art you can render the text as a shape and do your strokes in the shape tool menu, that will give you sharp rather than rounded corners and help crisp up the red.  Looks a little soft as is.

[reptileink]

Looking better.   

Here are a few more things you may want to consider.

* The blue oval isn't visible through the gap between "SQ" -- not sure if it should be or not because of the curve.   

* Legs  cut off/not visible through gaps in the letters "UAR".

* The dot over the "i" is messed up.


Scott

Good call. I knew I had some things to fix. How's this?


Le Chuck, I have Photoshop Elements 7. Not sure what you mean about strokes (sorry, not the most learned PS guy). I like it, but I agree, the red could be a tad sharper

[PL1]

I knew I had some things to fix. How's this?

The dot on the "i" looks great.

The legs look much better, but now there's a flat-top red-triangle copy/paste artifact at the bottom of the trunks.

I'm still not sure about the amount of blue visible through the "Q".   

Maybe it's just the vertical placement, but it seems like you should be able to see a bit of the gray center and the black oval-border.

How would it look if you bring the bottom of the oval down just a little so you can see the black border and gray background through the "Q"?


Scott

[Titchgamer]

I think you want to make the guy a little bigger so his head sticks out a little more.

That will basically loose the oval and eliminate the abrupt stop thing I mentioned earlier as it will break it up.

You could also blur the parts where the blue meets the wrestler etc.

Or you could try a bevel/emboss on the wrestler/text that might make it pop a bit.

As a crazy idea you could also adjust his face paint to look like warrior lol

[Le Chuck]

Stroke is the outline of text.  Looks as tho you have a red inner stroke and a black outer stroke - but it could be two layered outer strokes.  At any rate, as Photoshop is primarily a raster tool is uses a few different functions to calculate radius for strokes.  It doesn't handle sharp corners well as it is move pixels around. More recent versions of the program allow one to convert the text to a vector object and using the vector values give nice sharp corners to the stroke.

AFAIK, elements 7 doesn't have that capability.  At any rate, it is a nit-picky thing.  Overall your art looks great so if it's beyond your software's capability I wouldn't even worry about it. 

[reptileink]

Work officially  "banned" me from coming here at work in the form of a warning 

Anyway, here is the final

[Le Chuck]

Looks as tho there is some ghosting around your wrestler.  Might want to color match his black outline and hit him with a center aligned stroke of the same color a few pixels in either direction to clean up that edge a bit.  Should cover up that fuzzy whiteness.  (layers panel, edit, stroke)

[PL1]

Anyway, here is the final

Looks good.   


Scott

[reptileink]

Looks as tho there is some ghosting around your wrestler.  Might want to color match his black outline and hit him with a center aligned stroke of the same color a few pixels in either direction to clean up that edge a bit.  Should cover up that fuzzy whiteness.  (layers panel, edit, stroke)

Got it

[mike boss]

As a wrestling fan I really like this.
I has a nostalgic feel to me.
Good work.