New Logo For My Company. What do you all think? Drag & Drop Trickery.

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It's especially strange how I made it because I had the two images that I wanted, but I didn't want to mess around in Photoshop to get the effect that I wanted.



How I did it:
  1. I Uploaded the 2 photos to my server, then opened both in separate tabs.
  2. I "grabbed" the eye image and dragged it to the prism tab. (when you drag an image in FF, it takes on a transparency effect".
  3. Positioned the eye over the prism, but did not "drop it", I hit "Ctrl + Print Screen"
  4. Pasted the screen in paint and had the effect that I wanted.


Now it looks like I crated this awesome logo in Photoshop, but I just kind of "jerry-rigged" the whole thing.
#company #drag #drop #logo #trickery
  • Profile picture of the author Margy0110
    It's actually quite nice! Do you have it already implemented on a site?
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  • Profile picture of the author sufian991
    it looks nice
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  • Profile picture of the author wncmarket
    If you would like I can fix the image for you, no charge, just an offer to help. Let me know if you are interested. Just shoot me an email at wncmarket @ gmail dot com
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  • Profile picture of the author 723Media
    Hey enlightenedone,

    Please take this as constructive. This as a logo is very complex. If you send this to a printer, the colors and transparencies would be very pricey. I don't know if that's a concern for you.

    A solid brand should be iconic and simple. Something that you could print in one color if need be. Something a little closer to your avatar.

    You can keep the concept though.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kysersoze
    I think it looks pretty good. I agree with other poster I would definitely remove the grey edge.
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  • Profile picture of the author TheCopyGirl
    I agree with 723Media, I think this is too many colors for a logo and breaks the simplicity guideline too. I am not sure if this would stand out nicely in small size (too much detailing on the eye inset). I'd also suggest checking how it looks as a watermark - I would suspect again that the eye would fade out too much. A logo may be required in many variants for different purposes, and you want to be sure it retains its original flavor on all of them.

    Also, a more fundamental 'issue' for me is that the concept of the logo doesn't come across immediately. What does it stand for? It's not a name, does it depict a name? What's the idea? I could just be dumb in missing a possibly immediate explanation, sorry if that's the case!

    Other than that, yes, I will admit that it looks pretty


    Good luck, and hope this helps!
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  • Profile picture of the author cartoonist
    Originally Posted by enlightenedone View Post

    It's especially strange how I made it because I had the two images that I wanted, but I didn't want to mess around in Photoshop to get the effect that I wanted.
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    It's not really going to downsize too well or translate well in black and white which as a logo it will need to in terms of resizing for business cards and printing out on faxes and photocopies etc.

    I have a couple of 'eye' related logo on my site, check them out for simple yet effective logo ideas.
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  • Profile picture of the author Marmbrust
    It's Amazing. I usually click away if I'm on a website -- but, I would definitely stick around and see what else you had to say with a graphic like this on there. I wonder how it would look on business cards though? It seems like it would take over the whole card.


    How I did it:
    1. I Uploaded the 2 photos to my server, then opened both in separate tabs.
    2. I "grabbed" the eye image and dragged it to the prism tab. (when you drag an image in FF, it takes on a transparency effect".
    3. Positioned the eye over the prism, but did not "drop it", I hit "Ctrl + Print Screen"
    4. Pasted the screen in paint and had the effect that I wanted.


    Now it looks like I crated this awesome logo in Photoshop, but I just kind of "jerry-rigged" the whole thing.[/quote]
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  • Profile picture of the author jsnfou
    I think it can work for a splash image, not necessarily a logo since the colours are very bland.
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  • Profile picture of the author anderson1234
    I think this logo is good but could require more hard work. But i would say that it is a good effort.

    There are some good posts you should read to make it more simpler and unique. For designing a professional logo, you just require a little more hard work.
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    • Profile picture of the author hereforaminute
      Just a tip if you or anyone else is going to attempt this trickery again. You don't need to upload the images to a server!. Simply open the image from the web browser, or even easier - "drag n drop" the image file onto the browser window.
      In my opinion, the logo in its current state looks dithered/fuzzy and reminds me of some 1980's/1990's 256 color graphic.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mjoseph83
    It is very good and pretty looking, the concept is good but I feel the color combination is some what dull.
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  • Profile picture of the author WillR
    I'm not a huge fan of this logo. It is too blurry, colorful, and doesn't stand for anything. You need a much stronger logo with a simple color scheme. This looks more like an image than a logo - and not even a great quality image at that.

    But, that's just my opinion...
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    • Profile picture of the author Revenant45
      Originally Posted by WillR View Post

      I'm not a huge fan of this logo. It is too blurry, colorful, and doesn't stand for anything. You need a much stronger logo with a simple color scheme. This looks more like an image than a logo - and not even a great quality image at that.

      But, that's just my opinion...

      ^^^ I agree with him. +1

      This image looks EXACTLY how you said it was done. "jerry-rigged".
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  • Profile picture of the author Lisa Jones
    I'm just curious - how did you get effects in Paint? I checked it from the top to the bottom & found nothing. Could you share your "technique"?
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