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TUTORIAL: create transparent band logo incl. drop shadow - in browser |
| Posted: 28 Jan 2023 11:20 | |||
Posts: 25 Joined: 2020-12-05 | @admin please create stickies with guides/tutorials to help newbies, i see a lot of crap posted again, no drop shadows, stretched images etc... in general poor quality --- TUTORIAL: create transparent band logo incl. drop shadow - in browser Example Band: Rocket From the Crypt Image source: "Scream, Dracula, Scream!" album cover Chose/search a sharp, high quality image (or scan it yourself at high DPI) Search engine setttings: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22Rocket+From+the+Crypt%22+scream+dracula&t=vivaldi&iar=images&iaf=size%3AWallpaper&iax=images&ia=images Go to https://www.photopea.com/ [esentially PhotoShop in browser, alot of the features/buttons are the same - not as good ofc] You can change the language with More ► Language Drag and drop in your image. Image ► Adjustments ► Levels Click "Sample from image", click black color, click into black font in image ... now the black is truly black Image ► Adjustments ► Invert ... now we have our white font with black background Click left on the Rectangle tool, drag a square around the font with enough space  Image ► Crop Click left on the Magic wand tool, click into the black in the image. You can add to the selection by holding Shift while clicking Edit ► Cut ...now we have our white font with transparent background Image ► Trim... ► Transparent [if there is still too much space around the font, remove excess pixels with Rectangle tool + Image ► Cut] We should now have something like this:  "Please only upload transparent PNG logos. The dimensions should be exactly 400x155 or 800x310 pixels Wide and High." ... we need to get our image to the correct dimensions. Image ► Image size Chose 20 pixels below the largest length, because we need a border. Here we aim for an image size of 800x310, so chose either 780 width or 290 height. But - never resize up! In this case, i'll chose 290 height. Click OK. Image ► Canvas size Enter 800 x 310 pixels.  Now to the drop shadow. Layer ► Layer style ► Drop shadow LAYER 1 Opacity: 75% Angle: 120° Distance: 5 Spread: 0 Size: 5 Noise: 0 OK  Click on Background on the right side, drag your layer down to the second symbol to the right (New Layer) Click on your new layer on the right side. Add the second drop shadow to this new layer: LAYER 2 Opacity: 75% Angle: 120° Distance: 0 Spread: 0 Size: 2 Noise: 0 OK Layer ► Merge down File ► Export as PNG Done. When you get routine doing this, you'll make these in a minute. 👍 laurent94jbl1 | ||
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