2007
Beautify your name/logo with landscape background
I came across the ‘artwork’ of Nip/Tuck season 4. I don’t watch the show at all but the design I saw on a commercial caught my eye. You can also do this in Photoshop, but here’s how to glamorize your name or logo with a cool scenic background with Fireworks.
1. First find the a good landscape photo, preferably with the horizon across the middle. I found this in some free stock photography website.
2. Draw a rectangle with vertical linear gradient and set the colors #000099 on top and #ff9900 on the bottom.
Set that to overlay.
3. Next, draw two ellipses the approximate width of the image itself and a third of its height. Make the top one yellow and the bottom white. Set both to overlay.
This will generate somewhat of a sunrise effect.
4. Type your name! I use Free Sans, radial fill (white center grey edge), drop shadow (0 distance, 3 softness 98% opacity).
Voila! You have pretty artwork with your name on it. You don’t have to follow these exact specifications but you get the point. Optionally, you can put a dark rectangle gradient to make the top part of the sky darker. To see it, download the master file.
(This one is huge! 1.3MB)
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October 26th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
with those advance imaging editor, you can design a lot of nice background. thanks for the tips.
March 24th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
I like this concept, but I am really new at this, could you do a step by step - hand holding if you will on how to accomplish this task?
Thanks =o)
June 24th, 2008 at 6:06 am
How do you put the overlay on, I have Fireworks MX?
July 14th, 2008 at 6:42 am
hey people!
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Hi,
You guys have good concept but not finishing well:
1) which version of FW are your tutorials based?
2) You dont just say put overlay- where do one go to do that?
I have followed some of your tuts in all i got stuck halfway….
am using fw mx