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let me know how I can make it smoother. the bull is a little fuzzy. I am pretty sure that is because of resizing it.

I think I'm getting the hang of it

redo of the first one

I really like the look of these. As far as a few pointers go, don't ever scale the image larger than what you have. You only want to shrink it down so start with something larger than you need. I don't know what tool you used to do the wood pattern with the logo, if you use the color wand make sure that anti-aliasing is on. You could also use a mask for this type of effect by having a darker wood layer and then the bull on another layer. Apply that layer as a mask and it will only show the wood layer through the bull image.

ProvoAggie wrote:I really like the look of these. As far as a few pointers go, don't ever scale the image larger than what you have. You only want to shrink it down so start with something larger than you need. I don't know what tool you used to do the wood pattern with the logo, if you use the color wand make sure that anti-aliasing is on. You could also use a mask for this type of effect by having a darker wood layer and then the bull on another layer. Apply that layer as a mask and it will only show the wood layer through the bull image.

the first one, I was using the magic wand and cutting everything out, then merging with the wood layer below it. the last one, i did a mask (i think? it ended up being like a stencil?) with color select and did it large, then shrunk it down. when i shrunk it first, it was making really jagged slants on the diagonal lines. so i think thats why the last one looked best.


I was going for an inlaid wood type thing. it still looks a little too much like its sitting on top of the wood, and not part of it, but this is literally the 2nd time I have ever used photoshop (well, gimp) with the first being for the dock icons i posted in the football forum.

i really want one to look like this with the U state logo, but I can't find the background or figure out how to get the two tone shine to the metal

QuackAttackAggie wrote:i really want one to look like this with the U state logo, but I can't find the background or figure out how to get the two tone shine to the metal

I decided to give it a shot. I just used the image that you gave me and covered the Oregon logo. I've also attached the Photoshop file so you can see how it was done.

that looks so great

I like this one a lot

last one

QuackAttackAggie wrote:last one

Holy 1985, Batman!

Here is one for chuckie

I've got to start learning how to use Gimp. Good work here, guys.

Mine are all gimp


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Cool! Do you have the gimp files for the Chuckie one? I'd love to see how it was done. I'm very much a learn by taking things apart kind of guy.

BigBlueDart wrote:Cool! Do you have the gimp files for the Chuckie one? I'd love to see how it was done. I'm very much a learn by taking things apart kind of guy.

I meant to save it, but didn't. The flares behind him are brushes i downloaded. Just a stamp. The 16 is the official usu athletic font. I cut out Chuckie and put him as the tol layer. All the colors are the official usu colors. It was simple. Took me a tenth as long as the rest
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here is another chuckie one. nothing against kennedy or anybody else, but there are just more high quality photos of chuckie to work with.

ProvoAggie wrote:

QuackAttackAggie wrote:i really want one to look like this with the U state logo, but I can't find the background or figure out how to get the two tone shine to the metal

I decided to give it a shot. I just used the image that you gave me and covered the Oregon logo. I've also attached the Photoshop file so you can see how it was done.

any chance you could do this with the bull?