Youtube Artwork - Thoughts?

RoadSprock

RoadSprock

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Been playing around in Photoshop, what's your thoughts on this?


Channel artwork.


Before:

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After:

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YouTube icon.


Before:
(See above.)

After:

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I'm a bit worried about the contrast between your logo and the background. Mainly because of the "chain" being a dark gold color.
I'd darken the area around the logo and make the chain white to match the rest.
 
F4celess said:
I'm a bit worried about the contrast between your logo and the background. Mainly because of the "chain" being a dark gold color.
I'd darken the area around the logo and make the chain white to match the rest.
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I'll give it ago now :) had to play with the background alot by bluring and other effects so it didn't look so vivid and block out the text/logo to much. But see what you're saying about the "chain" colouring.
 
A good deal better. Not digging the noise, could be less prominent or at least monochromatic.

Use Levels (Image>Adjustment) to boost the darks of the image. Enhancing the logo.
Levels are also usefull when editing footage. Worth learning about.

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Did a quick pass to show the effect. Left is original.

On further consideration. I'm not sure if having a stylized font on the chain is a good move. It makes the design messier with small unreadable text.
Remember, in Photoshop you can create a path, and then apply text that follows the path. Play around with that and see if the chain can follow the shapes more.
 
F4celess said:
A good deal better. Not digging the noise, could be less prominent or at least monochromatic.

Use Levels (Image>Adjustment) to boost the darks of the image. Enhancing the logo.
Levels are also usefull when editing footage. Worth learning about.

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Did a quick pass to show the effect. Left is original.

On further consideration. I'm not sure if having a stylized font on the chain is a good move. It makes the design messier with small unreadable text.
Remember, in Photoshop you can create a path, and then apply text that follows the path. Play around with that and see if the chain can follow the shapes more.
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Really appreciate the advice and help, so first of all thank you! I'll tweek this in the morning as much prefer your level adjustment version. I'll give the path a shot, I remember doing this years ago but couldn't figure out how/what it was called to find out... so my moving around and free transforming was the given option! Thank you again @F4celess really do appreciate it!
 
RoadSprock said:
Really appreciate the advice and help, so first of all thank you! I'll tweek this in the morning as much prefer your level adjustment version. I'll give the path a shot, I remember doing this years ago but couldn't figure out how/what it was called to find out... so my moving around and free transforming was the given option! Thank you again @F4celess really do appreciate it!
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you should put a dark drop shadow behind all the stuff in white. It will make it stand out against the busy background a lot more.
 
There is a shadow. It's just not offset and centered.

I like the new look. But the text as the chain is lost easily. Have you considered an R and S in the sprockets and a traditional chain?

Really clean top image too. Good perspective and I like the reminder to sub. Nice work.
 
MattW said:
There is a shadow. It's just not offset and centered.

I like the new look. But the text as the chain is lost easily. Have you considered an R and S in the sprockets and a traditional chain?

Really clean top image too. Good perspective and I like the reminder to sub. Nice work.
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I'll give the R & S ago and see how it turns out, yeah the text for the chain does get lost unfortunately. I'll play with it and see what happens, probably try a different text for it first like @F4celess said. If not a traditional chain might have to be put in the works!

Thanks for the kind words @MattW!
 
Yeah, the font could help ... maybe you can find a font that feels like chain links ... bold but rounded? That could feel like a cool easter egg upon close inspection.
 
@F4celess

After tweeking the level adjustment on the YT banners, I think the more 'noised' verison is better as the logo stands out more, rather than is hidden in a busy setting.


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@MattW

Yeah, I'm browsing at the moment to try and find something :)
 
MattW said:
There is a shadow. It's just not offset and centered.

I like the new look. But the text as the chain is lost easily. Have you considered an R and S in the sprockets and a traditional chain?

Really clean top image too. Good perspective and I like the reminder to sub. Nice work.
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The R&S doesn't quite look right to me, the only way I could make the 's' any bigger was to make the logo bigger. But it would cause more problems in the long run trying to conform to YouTube sizing/ avatars etc which will make it lost. What do you reckon?
 
RoadSprock said:
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The R&S doesn't quite look right to me, the only way I could make the 's' any bigger was to make the logo bigger. But it would cause more problems in the long run trying to conform to YouTube sizing/ avatars etc which will make it lost. What do you reckon?
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I was thinking more like the sprocket was solid with a larger R and S in it. Just keep the teeth on the outside and maybe a block font like Impact reversed/knocked out to take up most of the space in the sprocket area.
 
MattW said:
I was thinking more like the sprocket was solid with a larger R and S in it. Just keep the teeth on the outside and maybe a block font like Impact reversed/knocked out to take up most of the space in the sprocket area.
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I'm confused on what you mean bud :confused:


What do you think of this for the new chain font?

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Oh, I like that a lot better! Consider looking into type on a path though. You can draw a smooth path around the sprockets and type on it, avoiding those hard bends.

When I have some time I'll 'Shop what I'm talking about. I mean fill in all the negative space in each sprocket so it's solid white, then put a big letter inside to replace the current knocked out shapes in the sprocket.
 
MattW said:
Oh, I like that a lot better! Consider looking into type on a path though. You can draw a smooth path around the sprockets and type on it, avoiding those hard bends.

When I have some time I'll 'Shop what I'm talking about. I mean fill in all the negative space in each sprocket so it's solid white, then put a big letter inside to replace the current knocked out shapes in the sprocket.
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That was with using it! ;) Just terrible on the drawing lol.. & Ahh, i think I understand you now
 
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