Hey, don’t expect super professional-type logos from me as I just started learning Photoshop. But I hope that these logos would at least look presentable enough for me to showcase them on this blog. I applied what I had learned from tutorials I found on the Internet and surprisingly, you will learn a lot from these sites. You don’t really need to sign up for a course nowadays. All you need is the Photoshop software, some patience and a lot of hardwork. But the bad thing about searching for information on the Internet, it is kind like a piece-meal thing. You have to search for various sources for get a more complete picture. I also discovered that if you use online sources, you will miss out a lot on the basics because a lot of the tutorials found on the Internet assumes a lot of things and thus the readers lost out on some (even important) information.
And you really need some great ideas and colour matching which you can source for in those colour “wheels” or colour scheme generators. Great ideas plus Great colours = Great Looking Logos!
Okay, I think I need to improve on the colours used. Perhaps I should add gradients or something on the logos or the text. Anyway, it is just a simple try to brush up on my Photoshop skills. If you have any comments on these logos, I would like to hear from you. Or if you would like to give me some tips on creating beautiful and elegant logos (preferably simple but stylish ones), I am all ears. And I think the best way to learn is to look at other logos out there, you can get some great inspiration from them.
Indeed. Recently I felt that my desktop PC is getting very sluggish and it takes rather long to respond when I attempt to open up files. And it takes twice as long when I am opening up photoshop files (.psd). Everytime it comes out of screen saver mode (no, it’s just some lines running around, not those graphic intensive screen savers), it becomes like a slow-motion robot. Everything goes in bullet time, yes, that is what you see in the Matrix movies. I think it could be because I have a lot of graphic editing and manipulation software installed like Photoshop, GIMP, Inkscape and so on. But the thing is that I am not using these software when the slow down occurs. I mean, sure, it may affect the PC somewhat, but I believe that it shouldn’t affect the PC till this extend. And when I check the processes in the Windows Task Manager, nothing is hogging my PC’s resources at all. I tried scanning for viruses (Antivir) and spyware (Spybot Search & Destroy) on my PC, got no threats either. I have several programs in my startup menu and all of them are software which are legitimate.
Well, it could be my PC is getting old. It’s a 4-year old Pentium IV 2.4Ghz processor with 1 GB of RAM. Is that considered old? Do I need the latest PC to run all my software? Or it could be my Windows Operating System starting to give problems. In the past, I will format and install Windows every 6 months, but now, with my huge workload, I couldn’t be bothered. And worse, all my settings, passwords and configurations I will need to redo once again. I have tons of passwords for the FTP access to my websites which is a bother to remember or even to take down. You know what would be great? Something that allows me to transfer all my settings to another PC without affecting the configuration of that PC. That would probably be worth a lot of money since it is such a time-saver for nearly everyone using the PC.
But anyway, I think it is inevitable that I will have to reinstall my trusty Windows XP system. So wish me luck on this bloody huge task. Hey, this baby lasted me over 2 years. I am quite impressed actually. Well, I really need to find a time to do this format. What a hassle.
