logo

My first logo.

That's Brilliant!

Looks great. Just make sure you don't make it three K's.

Can you see it?

All I can see if an advert from the website where I got the logo from. My logo has disappeared.

Not sure what happened there.

It appears to be a graphic from cooltext. com. Is that where you got it from? If so the reason your logo isn't showing is because it is still linked to the website. You need to download it to your computer and then upload to wherever you want to post it.

I'll have to check back to view it, I guess!!

Sue. I have downloaded it, but for some reason I can't copy and paste the logo, so I copied the image location.

Any ideas?

Hi Karina,

Click on the icon at the top right of the quick reply box to upload the logo.

Thanks Shelagh. I'll be keeping an eye on this to see if it disappeares. lol

Karina that looks really cool! Great job and hopefully it means we'll see it all over the place in tribute to your work getting plenty of exposure.

Yes, the logo is working now. Very slick. Just remember that if you use it on anything that does not have the same background it will not blend very well. That is why so many companies have a black and white line logo so that it blends to whatever the background is.

Good job, Karina!

Next, try linking it to your page.

I made this banner a few weeks ago:

Here is the banner my daughter made for my blog. Took her about 20 minutes using photoshop and two files I purchased through istock. I'd copy it in but she managed to safeguard it well and I cannot lift the header off the page...but it's at the top of my blog if you click the link in my signature. I am getting her to work on a couple of other projects for me now too.

I deleted what I wrote cause I goofed. *sigh*

Here are some boot images Sue:

http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&rls=SNYG%2CSNYG%3A2004-47%2CSNYG%3Aen&q=boot


and some more in gif format:

http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&rls=SNYG%2CSNYG%3A2004-47%2CSNYG%3Aen&q=boot+gif

and boot cartoons:

http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&rls=SNYG%2CSNYG%3A2004-47%2CSNYG%3Aen&q=boot+cartoon&btnG=Search+Images

I loved this one:

My only advice Sue is to be careful to purchase use of the pics that you use, even if you are playing with the in something like Photoshop.
That one my daughter did for my blog cost me about $30 plus her 20 minutes. Well worth it so no one is denyed their art royalties and you do not encounter any copyright issues.
If you know what you want, you could locate a student pretty easily who can help you out...mine included.
Happy designing!

Thank you for your help, Shelagh and Pam! My hubby is going to make the logo type thingy. So if I scan it in and use Photoshop, I can make a banner? What size does he have to make it to scan it so that it is easy to reduce? I know that enlarging takes away from the pic so want to make it large enough to work with.

Thank you for all the help you two give us all!

Sue it's best if he actually creates a digital picture rather than scanning one in. As soon as you start scanning and manipulating, things can get really pixelated (i.e. they show up as a lot of dots or have really jagged outlines).
When your husband starts playing with it in photoshop, it will allow him to select any size that you want. I would suggest something that is no larger than 8 x 3 inches so that he has sufficient space to work and play in. Once it is perfect, then you only need to shrink it down to about a 3 inch by 1 1/2 inch banner. Keep copies of both sizes and you can use it on everything from you letterhead to business cards.
Is your husband pretty computer savvy? He'll need to keep the file sizes quite small (certainly under 1 MG), and the smaller they are the easier they load on different pages on the net. If he can reduce the file size to keep it around 250 k, then when you post it on forums like this one, or on your blog and all over, it's a little file with big impact. Large files take a long time to load on a page and when people are kept waiting to see your pic, they tend to simply click to a different page altogether.
Hope that's helpful.

Limiting the size is good advice, Pam. I know that when I go to a page that is too graphics intense, I usually just close the window or go somewhere else, due to the time it takes for the page to load.

Because I am on dial-up if something doesn't load quickly I, too, move on as you do, Zada.

Thanks, Pam for the info. I printed it out and hubby read it. He is NOT computer savvy. In fact he hates them. LOL However, if he has to learn Photoshop to do this for me he will because he doesn't want to spend the money for someone else to do it. *grin* That is how I talk him into things. I tell him if he doesn't do it, I will have to pay someone else who can. Since he has had 3 years of Art School at the American Academy of Art in Chicago and hasn't used it as I would like him to, I am getting him to do my art stuff. LOL His work is great if I can just get him to do it.

Again, Thank you for all the help!