First attempts for my roses site!

[ivan louette]

Hello!

I am very busy with my community rose garden (which is my work) at this moment. But on rainy days I am working to create a site on rose botany (for the amateur) and horticulture. This site doesn't work actually but its domain is allready reserved.
And yesterday I have tried to work on logos. Perhaps far from definitive but some techniques seems to work fine and I have allways so much pleasure with XaraX.
The background color is this one of my pages; I have tried two images for logo's background (one from an ancient illustrated book of XVIIIth century and another one from an herbarium slide).

-For the shinings I have used slightly nudged white (or almost white) copies of the text with a strong feathering.
-For adding texture I gave fractal clouds transparency to this shining.
-For adding color interferences to the shining I have superposed another copy with a fractal cloud alt rainbow filling and stained glass transparency.
-For semi-transparency I superposed a copy of text shadow, using the background image as filling (and modifying some settings).

All advices are welcome!

Kind regards,

ivan

[ivan louette]

Hello!

I am very busy with my community rose garden (which is my work) at this moment. But on rainy days I am working to create a site on rose botany (for the amateur) and horticulture. This site doesn't work actually but its domain is allready reserved.
And yesterday I have tried to work on logos. Perhaps far from definitive but some techniques seems to work fine and I have allways so much pleasure with XaraX.
The background color is this one of my pages; I have tried two images for logo's background (one from an ancient illustrated book of XVIIIth century and another one from an herbarium slide).

-For the shinings I have used slightly nudged white (or almost white) copies of the text with a strong feathering.
-For adding texture I gave fractal clouds transparency to this shining.
-For adding color interferences to the shining I have superposed another copy with a fractal cloud alt rainbow filling and stained glass transparency.
-For semi-transparency I superposed a copy of text shadow, using the background image as filling (and modifying some settings).

All advices are welcome!

Kind regards,

ivan

[jassony]

<BG> My husband doesn't have any hair to spare.

Your solution sounds nicer than the alternative I heard of, which is pellets made from human waste collected in a Chicago waste treatment plant. ICK!

Judi
Failure is not an option. It's bundled with your software

[RTK]

My 4-year old always goes through great pains chosing one candy from a jar full. She know that they are all good, but she has to settle on one.

Well, that is how I felt picking out a favorite, but I belive #5 appeals to me the most. It is very easy to read and the non textured text makes it stand out from beautiful background.

The little texture on #4 does add some character and would be my second choice. The last text is very beautiful but seems a little advanced and not as "down-to-earth" as #5 and #4.

Risto

[ivan louette]

Now I hesitate between numbers five and seven and possibilites of background switches or fading. And Big frank, I like also very much the idea of a rose scrambling on some letters and certainly will try this and probably post something!

Now I am going to bed after a hard day in my garden.

Kind regards,

ivan

[Bob C.]

Ahhh Yes what a forum and the thought of having ‘fat� hair again is intriguing! [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]

[jassony]

I like the background of #1 and think that the text of #4 might work well with it.

Judi
Who wishes she could have a rose garden without the deer thinking she planted them a gourmet meal!

[smorg]

Definitely number five; perhaps with the background color of number one?

[ivan louette]

Thanks!

Gary, I think perhaps you were interested by the "bump" technique (now I have some new ideas about how to do that).

And Judy, didn't you try to suspend little opened bags of human hairs (male, because of not too much cosmetics on them) around your garden. It seems this is one of the best tricks to avoid problems with deers! But be careful; the acidity of hair's fat "eats" some plastic bags!

Regards,

ivan

[juergen]

Ivan,

I like the 3rd from the bottom best. The text is good looking, easy to read and stands out from the lovely background.

1 has the rosa in it but the text does not shine out,
2 is nice but surpassed by 4 and 5.
3 doesnt fit at all as IMHO the background looks like a snake or gator skin.

I dont have any real opinion on the last ones. As soon as my eyes hit number 5 (3 from the bottom) I stay with that one [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

juergen