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Control Panel Overlays - your feedback needed
« on: June 07, 2004, 06:08:43 pm »
Hi there,

I am trying to design a control panel overlay for my cocktail cabinet (see my WWW link over to the left for my webpage  :D). Below I will post some of the designs. Please let me know which you like and don't like and what I can do to improve them. All have been designed in CorelDraw/ Photoshop from scratch.

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Re:Control Panel Overlays - your feedback needed
« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2004, 06:10:55 pm »
whoops, sorry the firsy pic was so big!!! Heres a smaller version
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Re:Control Panel Overlays - your feedback needed
« Reply #2 on: June 07, 2004, 06:11:27 pm »
2nd design
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Re:Control Panel Overlays - your feedback needed
« Reply #3 on: June 07, 2004, 06:12:03 pm »
3rd design
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Re:Control Panel Overlays - your feedback needed
« Reply #4 on: June 07, 2004, 06:21:41 pm »
I like the 1st and 2nd one.

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Re:Control Panel Overlays - your feedback needed
« Reply #5 on: June 07, 2004, 06:25:25 pm »
Hi Witchboard,

thanks for the feedback, any areas to improve it? ie logo placement, colour scheme etc?

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Re:Control Panel Overlays - your feedback needed
« Reply #6 on: June 07, 2004, 06:34:21 pm »
You may want to make your lines more in contrast with the background than blending it in.  What color joy, buttons and trackball are you going to have?

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Re:Control Panel Overlays - your feedback needed
« Reply #7 on: June 07, 2004, 06:45:16 pm »
Thanks for the feedback. At the mo buttons and joysticks are black (because thats what I ordered before designing the CPO) and the trackball is white (I ordered from Ultimarc, white and red was the only option  :() I am really bad at colours so any feedback is appreciated, is blue too dark to go with these? By the way, the cab is black all over at the mo. It may, at some point, get some side art, but not in the near future  ;)

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Re:Control Panel Overlays - your feedback needed
« Reply #8 on: July 14, 2004, 05:02:11 pm »
well I finally finished the overlays and the cab, hope you like the final design

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Re:Control Panel Overlays - your feedback needed
« Reply #9 on: July 14, 2004, 11:26:50 pm »
well I finally finished the overlays and the cab, hope you like the final design

Chunkywizard

Good job.  I like your color scheme.