LONGECITY

Hello fellow artists. Just wanted to get your opinion on this graphic for a potential front page article about the community supplement design project. Is it ok? Looks stupid? Needs some work? Feel free to take the concept and run with it. I encourage any art team members to create a better graphic, or alter this one in some way. I do have some different capsule pictures, if the current highlighted capsule needs replacing.

Hello fellow artists. Just wanted to get your opinion on this graphic for a potential front page article about the community supplement design project. Is it ok? Looks stupid? Needs some work? Feel free to take the concept and run with it. I encourage any art team members to create a better graphic, or alter this one in some way. I do have some different capsule pictures, if the current highlighted capsule needs replacing.

The only thing I really like about the changes I made is applying the black to transparent fill over the background. I'd like to make it an image of a pill coming together from multiple parts - like a diagram of fusion taking place. Ideally I would use some kind of particle effects to make it look like something from a movie. If you want to send me just the background image I'm happy to apply the gradient effect to it if you want to go for something more complicated.

It's funny too, I didn't intend to put a white border around the text, it just happened with the method I used to select it out I suppose.

I was hoping to put a colored transparent fill over the background, but I couldn't figure out how with my ancient graphics program. Anyway, I like the effect of it. I will send you the background image. The white around the text looks a little pixelated, could be changed or improved. Thanks for helping out.

looks good... i would change a few things though, more towards the color gradation scheme lunarsolarpower presented. the glow around the letters should be a little sharper as well.

if you email me the base images, i can play with them in photoshop if youde like... ajnast4r@gmail.com

too artsy fartsy? are you trying to keep with a specific color scheme?

Not too artsy, however, I am partial to the capsule theme from the 1st two examples. I like the text form and color on your example. Also, the image needs to be 519 X 202 pixels in order to fit on the front page.

heres some for now... ill do more tomorrow

@ Mind: could you send me the original pics you used? Then I can try it too. :-)

@ Mind: could you send me the original pics you used? Then I can try it too. :-)

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I was hoping to put a colored transparent fill over the background, but I couldn't figure out how with my ancient graphics program.

Mind and others, I highly recommend downloading and learning to use The GIMP. I'm pretty sure you also have to install this thing called GTK+ with it but it is amazingly powerful. It's really the only modern raster graphics program I've used and I was helping a guy use Photoshop a couple days ago and it seemed like GIMP had everything he was using.

The best part about learning a totally free program like this is if you ever go somewhere they don't have it you can simply download it and get to work. Additionally we could swap raw .xcf files before outputting jpg, gif or png final files.

@ Mind: could you send me the original pics you used? Then I can try it too. :-)

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thanks

I faded the background of this picture so you can see the metallic pill better.
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and one with a other font:

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I like the bottom one of JediMasterLucia's best The capsule design is very slick and futurist looking, the colors in line with our colors. The word choice is excellent.

Yes, GIMP is the open source "photoshop". I have used it a bit in the past but have not yet become very proficient.

Thanks for the efforts everyone. Hard to choose, but might go with JML's. Maybe we can rotate them as well.

Now that the community supp is getting closer to its commercial phase, we can no longer use the old slick/futuristic pill image - that one was only free to use for non-commercial purposes. For the label that goes on the bottle, we could use some theme ideas. This will eventually have to be coordinated with Anthony at Revg. Just fishing for some potential themes or images, something that is created in house so that there are no copyright restrictions.

Last call for any ideas on the community supplement label. If no one has anything prepared, then Revgenetics will take care of it.