The Logo is Fixed!

[GAD]

Thanks to Qvart (Welcome back!) we've got the logo looking the way it's supposed to. I need to clean some stuff up and make a mobile version, but we're rockin'!

 

[walrus]

Very nice! It surprised me!

walrus

 

[Qvart]

Lookin good GAD!

 

[GGJaguar]

Let the rejoicing begin! Nice work guys!!

 

[jcwu]

HUZZAH!!

 

[DeArmond Hammer]

The layout is good, but the outline of the subhead is ragged, maybe from resizing or changing colors? Sorry for the negativity, the site is looking beautiful.

 

[sailingshoes72]

I like the new logo. It looks great. It was bugging me the way it was partially hidden behind the other tabs, but I didn't want to say anything because of all the hard work you have been putting in on the new format. Thanks! My OCD is now at a manageable level.

 

[Qvart]

The layout is good, but the outline of the subhead is ragged, maybe from resizing or changing colors? Sorry for the negativity, the site is looking beautiful.

If I had to guess, I'd say GAD filled the background of the image with a solid blue (instead of the original gradient) that matches the site's banner background blue. If it's not a high res image, a few extra pixels can get filled in causing that.

 

[DeArmond Hammer]

I remember from my days of webmastering, it's painful to change those text images because the pixels on the edges of the letters are usually a blend of the foreground and background colors. When you make any change in those colors, the outline pixels stand out. I think I usually remade the logo image when I had to change colors. The transparent background is meant to avoid the problem of matching the background, but it's tricky to make edge pixels partially transparent. I don't know the capabilities of current graphic editors with respect to using partial transparency in text outlines.

 

[GAD]

The logo will get a major update. It was made a long time ago when resolutions were much smaller than they are today.

 

[GAD]

The layout is good, but the outline of the subhead is ragged, maybe from resizing or changing colors? Sorry for the negativity, the site is looking beautiful.

No worries - Qvart is almost right. The logo now has a transparent background and the selection process did that. I'm remaking it from scratch so I'll have highres versions soon.

 

[Qvart]

No worries - Qvart is almost right. The logo now has a transparent background and the selection process did that. I'm remaking it from scratch so I'll have highres versions soon.

That was my next guess - background erase.

 

[jcwu]

I'm remaking it from scratch so I'll have highres versions soon.

If you're starting from scratch, including graphics, can you use a Madeira headstock?

 

[The Guilds of Grot]

If you're starting from scratch, including graphics, can you use a Madeira headstock?

That's going to require a word of explanation.

 

[GGJaguar]

That's going to require a word of explanation.

Indeed. The DeArmond headstock might feel left out.

 

[davismanLV]

WHOA!!! I just woke up at 2:05am and decided to read for a bit and WE HAVE AN ARTIST AWARD GUILD on the top of our page!!!
Maybe it has it's own thread, lemme look. Art deco knobs in gold and everything! Maybe Imperial tuners even. Wow, that's fancy!!

 

[GAD]

Couldn't sleep.

 

[davismanLV]

I like it!! Thanks for doing fun stuff in your sleepless state, G!!

 

[GGJaguar]

WHOA!!! I just woke up at 2:05am and decided to read for a bit and WE HAVE AN ARTIST AWARD GUILD on the top of our page!!!

That's a Patriarch series AA headstock. So retro, so fancy, so awesome!!!!

 

[DeArmond Hammer]

Looks great, @GAD!