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Need help replicating lost work

Hey!
A while back I made a logo for my site [located at http://www.xzibit.se]. Later my computer with all source was stolen and I hadn't made a backup. Now I am asking the community for help replicating the effect used for the logo since I don't seem to get it right. Maybe some of the gurus will recognize it and be able to help out.

The effect can be seen at the url above or in the attached image. I am referring to the blueish xzibit part. It is all done with standard layer blending modes on the original text which is a rasterized vector. There are probably layers of this rasterized layer with some additional blending modes. It is not über complicated so please give it a try if you have some time on your hands. I will give the successor a reasonable reward.

Thank you people for your time!

//Felix

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Last edited by LiX, February 27th, 2006 09:56 PM (Edited 1 times)

dude, do it yourself.
New canvas fill with black.
On a new layer:
Use the pen tool to create the curves (use white).
blur the curves with a 1 or 2 pixel guassian blur
press ctrl + U and click on colour. Change the slider to blue.

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*sigh*

But look carefully. It's a little more than that.

LiX a few things I see:
- A fill gradient. If you look toward the tops and bottoms of those letters, they look less white and more of a light lavendar. Start there, in Layer Styles.
- Down towards the top and the bottom you can also see a noticable Inner Glow, white, a few pixels thick and not terribly opaque.
- There may be a subtle 1px Stroke? It looks a little green, I can't quite tell.
- Then the thick blue outline, which would probably be best made into it's own layer. Also notice how this blue gets lighter when coming to points; try using the Dodge tool.
- Outside of that, a gentle blue Outer Glow.

Interesting little piece, there's a few places where some of those look a little more human (that is, not just a Glow applied in Layer Styles, but free-handed with a brush). I'm sure I could gaze at this longer and come up with more stuff, but try some of those for now and see what you come up with.

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Jon Culver Chia Pets

Thank you for taking your time out to have a look at this sparky. I haven't had time to work on this but I will and probably post some more stuff here.

Cheers

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LiX, you need to get your sig under control. That way too big, read the guidelines. Thanks.

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