Effects?

Hello,

I have created a letterhead and a logo for a website by cutting out images from a high res. jpg file. I have two questions...

1. in the letterhead how cam I make it better eye appealing? also if you noticed it seems the world is tilted on the right... how can i fix that?

2. on the image logo, how can i make it better eye appealing...

click here to see the files.

PS. the original .jpg file is resized.

thanks

1) I don't see a world in the letterhead, so I don't really know what you mean. To change the shape of something, use the tools under edit>transform. To make it more eye appealing, choose more contrasting colours that would look good on a letter. For a complex design like the logo you've made, black and white might look good.

2) Clean and sharpen the image properly (play around with unsharp mask / levels a bit), and consider recolouring it to be more eye-catching. I'd also consider removing the dark background so the image stands out a little.

Just some suggestions - hope it helps.

Sorry about the "world" in the letterhead... I meant to say WORD... the word CARMELLOS is kinda tilted

Best suggestion:

Redo everything using vectors, either in Illustrator (preferred) or in Photoshop.

Anything less than that would brand your work as that of a rank amateur.

Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I will edit the images as you said and try to come up with something nice... i'll upload those images for u to see what i did!

BTW:

Utopian23, i'm not exactly sure of how to use vectors bc when i started cropping those two images out of the .jpg file i didn't make sure or more precise, i don't know how to go about making sure i'm using vectors in photoshop 7. Would you please explain to me what vectors are and how to use them?

thanks

yeah, go with utopian, almost all logos are done in vector format (illustrator, flash, etc.) for a reason. They are scalable without any degradation of quality

Hello again!... I'm afraid I don't have illustrator, but i do have flash and photoshop... can someone tell me how to go about making vector images... and in my case... how can i turn a cropped selection of a .jpg file into a vector?

thanks

if you make your selections with a lasso tool or some other kind of tool and then paste that selection in photoshop onto a new shape layer, then you can define it as a custom shape that can be used over and over again with the custom shape tool i do believe