trevor2
(DinkLock)
1
I use inkscape for everything, and I absolutely love it. I have some good resources too, if anyone is interested. In the meantime check my concept for our company logo, which is currently a work in progress in Inkscape. (Feedback Welcome)
7 Spice ups
We don’t have much call for vector graphics but when we do it is Inkscape that we use.
Hello,
Wow–very nice! I really really like the gel effect and shading on the letters! I’m an old CorelDraw hacker (since v2) but would love to see your resources on InkScape.
Overall the balance seems to be leaning too hard to the left, primarily due to (I think) the center, tallest peak. My idea is, since the text starts low on the left and overtakes center stage as it moves right, perhaps the mountain peaks, if rearranged, could add some balance from the right. It would still be asymmetrical (refreshing) and it would balance out better.
Very nice work!
Eric
trevor2
(DinkLock)
4
Ooh, good suggestion, I’ll give it a shot. Thanks for the feedback!
trevor2
(DinkLock)
5
This place is an awesome place for video tutorials, I subscrive via rss, and play along w/ the demo video if I like it.
http://screencasters.heathenx.org/
Also, bittbox gives out lots of good freebies and is kind enough to hand out .svg files which work great in Inkscape.
Sweet! Thanks, I’ll check them out this weekend.
Eric
im thinking about thinking about starting this again, like digital art/editing 
no thats not a typo im thinking about thinking about it.
Simple
Inkscape is awesome. Definitely check it out.
i will have to sometime, i normaly use the latest PS and Jasc PSP.
but im one for trying new things
Glen, those are completely different tools. Those are raster tools. Their open source competition comes from The GIMP. InkScape is a competitor with Adobe Illustrator. It’s vector graphics.
I’m not a graphics pro by any means, but recently needed to reconstruct a high quality image of a school logo (original files lost in the ether!). The best version they had was stitched (computer-aided embroidary!) onto a school sweatshirt. Scanned in the sweatshirt, and used Paint.Net to drop the background and solidify the colouring / lose the stitch texture. Got a reasonable jpeg out of it, and was then told it needed to be scaled to several feet across!
This forum + Inkscape to the rescue! - converted the image to SVG (which also helped to clean up a lot of the rough edges), and the school now has a ‘shiny’ new high-res logo!
magan
(Magan (Spiceworks))
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I’ve never heard of InkScape; does that make me a bad digital artist? :X
My criticisms of your logo design:
It’s too cluttered, and because the letters that overlay the background are similar in color, it doesn’t stand out prominently enough when just glancing at it. I suggest separating the letters and the image. I also agree with Eric Bryant’s feedback regarding the text leaning left. Another thing is that the design of PMC juxtaposes the sun and mountains in that the letters have a metallic quality whereas the drawing is more innocent with a hand-drawn quality. I don’t know if this is what you were aiming for or not but just thought I’d point it out just in case.
Ah, nevermind. This was posted almost a year ago. Ugh, I hate getting tricked like this. Haha, I should learn to read the topic dates before I reply. 
I knew it was odd that I didn’t see this topic in my What’s New in My Groups.
Anyway, I hope by now, you’ve got a good logo. You should update us with what you’ve got. 
