Logo for Cherokee Home Inspections.

PNG format.

PNG overlays with shadows

Sometimes over doing shadowing can have adverse effects on the final look of your images. I like to keep this to a minimum in cases where vocal points shouldn't compete with messages from text but should have an eye catching effect nonetheless.
Adding alpha filtering and saving in PNG format makes this all possible.

Coloring for the gradient background under the text was done by grabbing color pixels from the images. This as well minimizes a visual distraction by blending in color and allowing the text to be read efficiently.

Overlaying the images with a slightly larger area than the text field below and bumping them over to expose the field below on the left ever so subtly adds to the desired effect.

Here are a few examples of medium sized affiliate banners with this design ideology.

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Pier-n-Surf Forum Logo

Using the image "alpha" filter this logo was created with simple overlays. The text is brought to the front of the created logo while the sea grass is left in the background. The sea grass was also created by scanning and importing a hand sketch in pencil.
Saving in .png format allows the background to show through areas of the image...

View how the logo appears on fishing forum >>> Pier-n-Surf.com

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Action Bevel- Use of layers of .png images and filters.

 
Delphi Glass- Goal was to create clean layout using stark sub-primary 
colors and shadow filters for the fonts for maximum visibility.


 
Glass Craftsman- Soft collage of color and shadow filter.


 
Kilnwizz- Use of a sharp blue font on black grabs your attention.


 
Remake of Mongo's banner using a bumped font, shadow elements and color enhancements.


 
Paned Expressions Studios- Image layers and font shadow filters with edging elements.



 
Down East Stained Glass- Book promotion uses layers, shadows and other transition filters.

 
SGV- Emphasis on creating a label effect using 3 dimensional shadowing.

 
Pandy Mill- Gradient created from pixel grabbing from stained glass.

 
Bottled Up Designs- Creative concept of unearthing glass hinted by using brown ragged edge background element.
Image layers and crisp font on white field.

 
Delphi Glass- It's all about color here and using alpha filters and shadows to gain a desired 3-D effect.

 
Dichroic Glass Man- Font is visible and meant to not distract from the multiple layers of glass panel images.

 
Hold My Book- Promotional banner uses some image shadowing and a decorative framing filter.

 
Kent Supplies- Basic shadow banner and color gradient.

 
Pattern Wizard- Use of alpha filter creates png elements for 3-D effects.

 
Dichroic Glass Man- Collage of images using alpha filter and shadowing.

 
Pisces Glass Works- Font shadowing filter used along with color editing from field to create a complimentary blue.

 
A Glass Menagerie- Image shadowing and color pixel grabbing from stained glass to create field.

 
Glasswork University- Heavy shadow elements and gradient created from colors of image.