Photoshopping

[Tilda]

Howdy all,

Its my dads birthday soon, and I've been trying to clear up a photo I have of the family crest so I can get it printed onto some mugs. However I'm slightly unsure as to how to get it done. Can anybody whos good with photoshop give me some tips / help?

 

[Tom]

Will this be a full colour transfer, or just 1/2/3 colours?

And WHAT THE FUCK is Throddy doing on your family crest?

 

[Tilda]

I dont know Tom, I was thinking I'd just upload it to cafepress and then order them from there?
Well, my sirname is derived from Brock which is derived from Badger and so the Badger is our on the crest. Don't ask me, I didnt make it!

 

[Tom]

Well you really have 3 options IMO.

1: Have a nice colourful stylised crest. No gradients, just flat colours

2: Have a full colour crest, but IMO will look tacky

3: Mono crest. One solid colour with white.

 

[Tilda]

I'd go for option 1. By that I assume you mean that the murky red, would become a single red colour, and the blue under the writing etc would become a uniform blue.

 

[Tom]

Yes, solid red, solid blue, yellow instead of gold etc.

BTW I'm happy to help you out, but a higher res image would be spiffy

 

[Tilda]

Check pm's sent you the best I have.

 

[Furr]

Btw..

The "crest" part is actually just the badger, the whole thing is called a coat of arms.

Our family crest is a Lion holding and Axe which as parrt of the whole kit is on top a red white shield with stars and two deer. Each man in the family gets a ring made with the crest engraved in stone which they wear on their little finger on the left hand.

We also have 16th century silver goblets, victorian silver wear, playing cards etc all that have had the family crest either engraved or printed by the various generations.

A good jeweller in that specialises in such things may be able to this for you. Won't be cheap mind.

 

[DaGaffer]

Our family crest is a Lion holding and Axe

Lions don't have thumbs.

 

[Clown]

I did what I could.

 

[DaGaffer]

What? Flipped it backwards? ph34r ur l33t photoshop skillz

 

[Louster]

Hay is this the sort of thing you want as I think I did a pretty good job.

(Obviously credit goes to clown for using his improved version.)

 

[Rubber Bullets]

Hi Tilda,

I'm not sure exactly what you're after but I've had a go at this.

What do you think?

I did forget to flip it though

RB

 

[Damini]

Limited edition special FH version - cockbadger crest

Sorry, can't be actually helpful because if it can't be done in paint, I can't do it

 

[Tilda]

I love what you've done with it RB, thank you! Is there any way to get the writing clearer? Or is that too tricky?

 

[Rubber Bullets]

I love what you've done with it RB, thank you! Is there any way to get the writing clearer? Or is that too tricky?

No it's not too tricky. If you like what I've done so far then I'll clean up the writing too.

I'll give it a go tonight.

RB

 

[Tom]

What you could do with is a better quality picture, and somebody who can work with vectors - that would give you something like this:

http://www.family-crests.com/coat-o...ts/downloads/images/clan-download-215x215.gif

 

[Tilda]

Well, my grandfather is still trying to email me a high rez picture of the coat of arms!
This afternoon I decided to take a different approach and came up with this (attached).
What do people think? Personally I think its abit too clean and modern to go on a mug, I think a tidied up version of the one off the plate will look cool, but we'll see.

 

[Clown]

A photoshop thread is nothing without lens flare.

 

[Rubber Bullets]

Hi Tilda,

Sorry it's taken a while, and I'm not sure that you're even going this way at the moment but here's an update.

RB

 

[Rubber Bullets]

Hmm didn't like that one, can't now edit.

Here's a new one.

RB

 

[Clown]