Adding Club logo to Golf ball

HI there

I extracted a golf ball from a photo, it doesn't look to great in terms of it's circularity (if such a word exists lol). It is a bit rough as a circle to be honest. I wondered what is the best way to approach this? Should I take longer in drawing around the object? It did take a while for this roughly circular version.

Also I was given golf club logos to add to the top of the golf ball. I tried with one but don't know how or why it worked. I was surprised. So I wondered whether anyone could explain? To start off, I had the gold ball and the logo on a white background. I added the logo on top of the ball and increased it's (the logo's) transparency, I then changed the transparency filter to "darken". And hey presto! the white background of the logo disappeared and gave me a brilliant result - well as far as I was concerned and my abilities are concerned more so. If I now remove the transparency then the white background for the logo is one, brilliant, just what I wanted. I wondered whether the filter, in essence, negated the presence of the white background by making the logo darker. It's just annoying when something works, but you can't put your finger on why.

Cheers
Andy

As for me, I'd prefer to draw the ball and vectorize the logo. Approach to cut and glue some photos is not good for the logos...

It doesn't take long to draw what you want from scratch.
One Circle and 2 much smaller ones with an appropriate fill placed outside the circumference of the large circle and given a blend and adjust number of steps.
Clone this blend and place under the original blend, and repeat cloning until large circle is covered.
You could move alternate blend lines to create a different effect. Select all the blends and group.
Select grouped blends and the large circle and apply a clip view. Clone the result and give it a mid grey fill.
Play with the circular transparency of the cloned grey circle to give the spherical illusion.
Place a suitable background behind it all and you are ready to draw your logo.
Saludos,
Bob.

I have actually done it, just wondered how the transparency thing worked as mentioned above.

Cheers
Andy

Hi Andy, I had a shuftie at your logo, it looks pretty convincing.
Attached is a mini tutorial on how to do the transparency thing.
Saludos,
Bob.

Thanks for the info.
I have been playing with trying to make reflections as seems the rage in everything you see advertised in glossy mags these days. However adding the reflection and giving it transparency retains the full size of the reflection thus adding ugly white space to the bottom of the images I make. Should the reflection be trimmed, and if so how please? Should the final jog be edited to final height?
I have added the file.

Cheers
Andy

Andy

xhris has done a good tutorial which is on his site, it may help to explain how the various transparency types work

HI Steve,
Many thanks. I'll have a look and a read....

Andy

I have just tried to do this transparency thing as |I described above but with a coloured golf logo, but the colour is lost when I used the "darken" filter. I did uses this on a coloured logo a week ago and it worked, but not now. Does anyone care to comment on what I may have done wrong?

Cheers
Andy

if you apply the darken filter to a colored image it will turn it 'greyscale'

you could try cloning the image and applying the darken filter to the top copy

Hi Andy,

When using colours you should apply the [stained glass] transparency rather than [darken].

As white does not have the quality of darkening (due to its extreme lightness) it will become invisible. Likewise black will become invisible if you try to [lighten] with it.

You may need to create a bitmap copy rather than adding more and more transparencies to a single bitmap.

Also you could employ some more transparencies to eliminate the grass (green) reflection.

Sorry for being dumb, but I can't help it :), how would I remove the grass reflection.... had hoped it wasn't too obvious but I guess a bat could see it too..

Cheers
Andy

if you ungroup the ball and logo and apply a lighten transparency to the ball that should remove the green in each case

Or you could add a grey shape to cover the green area and make the shape a [bleach] transparency. In this instance it will work the same as [lighten].

I've been trying out the filters and basically everything looks better, lol.

Thanks for the advice guys

Andy

I have tried to add a shadow to the bottom of the upright golf balls and this works OK. But if I try to add the shadow to the reflected image, then the original transparency seems to be lost. I have uploaded the file I am working on with different stages in the process for all to see a bit better than my explanation.

Andy

EDIT: Sorted it out by grouping ball, logo, and shadow at base of ball then inverting and using as reflected image then adding transparency.

If you were to place your balls (ahem) on a similar colour background to the cast on them, then it would not matter that the green cast was visible.
Saludos,
Bob.

That looks very good, Bob