Custom Made Sig and Avatar [7]

[Britton30]

After your break, it will all seem simple.

 

[Athene]

After your break, it will all seem simple.

Lol, I hope so, too I'll be going for a spin on one of the fun fair rides (a fast rattling thing with rotating cars) tomorrow to air out my head

 

[Britton30]

After your break, it will all seem simple.

Lol, I hope so, too I'll be going for a spin on one of the fun fair rides (a fast rattling thing with rotating cars) tomorrow to air out my head

Ohhh, don't get sick from all the Mässmogge.

 

[The Howling Wolves]

Hi Gary, thanks Happy Halloween, by the way, and nice sig :-D
speedgamer01: Lol...No, that's not really what I'm looking for...
No, the issue with the pen sig is the following: the angle of the pen's drop shadow is not correct; with the post-it and paper-clip, the shadow is kind of underneath and in front of them, because the light source is behind them; so the drop shadow of the pen has to follow the same angle, but because the pen is standing, I don't know what exactly the shadow should look like and how long it should be. About the font of my username: the font is standing; but it has to be flat, like it has been written on paper; the perspective has to be changed, but I'm not sure how.
This does not apply to the Seven Forums logo, it can remain the way it currently is

Athene,
Looking at your pen...the light on the pen is just off center so I took your shadow and moved it to other side of pen.

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[Athene]

After your break, it will all seem simple.

Lol, I hope so, too I'll be going for a spin on one of the fun fair rides (a fast rattling thing with rotating cars) tomorrow to air out my head

Ohhh, don't get sick from all the Mässmogge.

Lol, I think the most that will happen is that I'll be a bit disoriented for a few minutes after getting down from the fun ride I can then refresh myself with some Mässmögge :-D

 

[Athene]

Hi Gary, thanks Happy Halloween, by the way, and nice sig :-D
speedgamer01: Lol...No, that's not really what I'm looking for...
No, the issue with the pen sig is the following: the angle of the pen's drop shadow is not correct; with the post-it and paper-clip, the shadow is kind of underneath and in front of them, because the light source is behind them; so the drop shadow of the pen has to follow the same angle, but because the pen is standing, I don't know what exactly the shadow should look like and how long it should be. About the font of my username: the font is standing; but it has to be flat, like it has been written on paper; the perspective has to be changed, but I'm not sure how.
This does not apply to the Seven Forums logo, it can remain the way it currently is

Athene,
Looking at your pen...the light on the pen is just off center so I took your shadow and moved it to other side of pen.

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Ah, I knew something was wrong with that darned shadow...! :-D Do you think the font should be flattened out, too, to make it look more realistic, or left the way it is?

 

[Hopalong X]

I can then refresh myself with some Mässmögge :-D

You can refresh me with some Mässmögge. Sounds like a great B'day present.

I know you will put it in an email.


Mike

 

[Athene]

Hi Birthday Mike :-D Hope you're having a great day (plus Halloween)!
Well, we tried sending autumn fair candy to my brother and his wife when they were in New York...US Customs sent it right back to Switzerland. The candy had become hard as stone in the meantime, so we had to throw all of it out....Lol! So all I can do is give you all a big bag of virtual cyber-candy )

 

[The Howling Wolves]

Either leave it alone or I moved it and did an overlay with it in another location.
Just to see what it looks like...
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Now it is up to you and what you are looking for.
I have old eyes and so that's my story and I am sticking to it. hehehe

 

[Athene]

Hmmm I prefer the previous version, there's more of a connection between the pen and the written text ) But can you please send me the modified layers (as a zipped psd file if possible) that way I can finish it? The drop shadow of the pen was the real nuisance, and now you've fixed it for me :-D Thanks again, Dennis

 

[The Howling Wolves]

Hmmm I prefer the previous version, there's more of a connection between the pen and the written text ) But can you please send me the modified layers (as a zipped psd file if possible) that way I can finish it? The drop shadow of the pen was the real nuisance, and now you've fixed for me :-D Thanks again, Dennis

I opened your zip in imported to Corel Draw.
In CD I can't save in PSD and zip it to you.
Just grab you pen shadow, rotate it, make it a little taller, then move to right of pen.
Your Athene is fine might want to add a shadow to right side of it to keep
everything in uniform.

 

[Athene]

Okay )

 

[Britton30]

Dennis see if you can Export the file as a PSD, I have that option in CDR.

 

[Athene]

Please don't take the trouble, guys, since the modification is so quick and straightforward after Dennis's explanation, I've already done it myself now Thanks again, and regards from the extraterrestrial mushrooms...I visit them every year during the fair ;-D

 

[Britton30]

ET mushrooms hey. Does Brink know them or is he a relative?

 

[Athene]

Good question, Gary I dare not ask Brink if he wears a mushroom cap

 

[The Howling Wolves]

I think I did this right...
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First time for everything...

 

[Athene]

Thanks Dennis :-D There's only one layer - I think they all got merged into one layer when they were converted to a psd file, but it doesn't matter ) I printed out your corrected version and copied the modification as closely as I could, and it was quite quick since there was just a bit of rotation involved

 

[Britton30]

there is this.

 

[PooMan UK]

Okipoki I see where part of the problem is. Your correct Athene it's all to do with perspective and angles.

You will see from the example I've drawn that you have on the left (green arrow) an angle that doesn't correspond to the right hand side (orange arrow) Now you have the angle of the purple background diagonal lines fading into a different angle of the keyboard keys.
So this also means that the light source coming in from different angles will cast shadows in different directions and at different angles.
Now the name Athene is showing straight up but the pen wouldn't wright the name in this way it would show like in the middle picture but the problem is this isn't the correct perspective to the background so it looks a bit out.
It's really hard to explain this in words, but depth of field is quite hard to get correct. If you have ever used a 3D program like 3D Max or something like this, then lighting, angles & perspective is all done for you by the program.

The best way to see how light reacts to objects is by turning off the lights and setting up a desk lamp or two and angling the light in different ways to see how shadows are cast. Use a piece of white cardboard as a background and move it up/down left/right & backwards/forwards to get a better idea.