Help with 3d text

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Mark_Cawte
Mar 3, 2004
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Hi

I am an average user of Photoshop 7, I am trying to create a text logo for my company. I am starting with a transparent background at 600dpi, I am entering three words of text then rasterising the layer then using a three colour gradiant fill top to bottom, I use the pillow seection from the bevel/emboss menu, make a few adjustments so it looks like 3D text then print it which looks quite good. I then need to convert the same image to jpeg so that I can use it in Word for stationary it is not so good.
The biggest problem is for my web page header, I reduce the dpi to 96 then save to web, when I insert the image onto a web page I get a white outline and it looks crap.

Can anyone make any suggestions or tell me where I am going wrong.

Thanks for any help!!
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LenHewitt
Mar 3, 2004
Mark,

A few points.

Logo’s really should be created as Vectors and not raster images. Logo’s are used in vast array of different circumstances at a huge variety of sizes, from tiny repro on, say, a business card, to packaging to possibly a large poster, or used for vehicle livery. They should also be capable of been repro’d both in full colour and in monochrome, and possible also in 2 or 3 spot colours, whilst retaining immediate recognition.

Only vector artwork is flexible enough to cope with all these possible uses, and the design should also be created with all these things in mind.

Now to your stated problems:

TIFF would be a better format to use for Word. JPG compression inevitably compromises quality.

Web Use: If you are creating a logo and wish to have a transparent b/g, you will be saving as .gif and need to set the Matte colour in Save for Web GIF options box to something approaching the colour of your web page b/ground.

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