[megasad]

I'm designing a new piece. This is what I have so far:



What I'd like to do now is add ripples beneath the white semi-circle. It is the sun, setting on a black sea, in a red sky.

I'd like these ripples to be lazy, far apart, smooth, .

I'd like to know how to get what is in my head on to the screen, using either Photoshop or Illustrator.

If anyone knows how, or knows of an online tutorial that deals with this, please tell me. I have Googled to no avail.

Thanks,
Simon

[desi]

well, you can do it in photoshop. you need to know what color you want the ripples to be in first, then color in parts of the black in that color however you like, not all the way, but enough to spread it out. then select the entire black area, make sure you're in RGB mode, and use the filter-distort-ocean ripple. I guess just play with it till your satisfied with the placement and pattern, though I'm not sure if this will satisfy your personal goal. this is quickest way I could think of doing it without you spending much time on it.

[desi]

I just wanted to clarify, when you select the entire black area before you use the filter, this includes the areas you colored in, not just the black. For the filter to work, it needs two colors or more. so if you wanted, you could color in the black area with more than one color.

[megasad]

Thanks for the advice. However, on my way through your instructions, I struck upon something that I liked better than my original idea, and so I stuck with it.

Here it is.

Extremely simple, I know, and not a bit of text on it. I like it right now and shall change it when I do no longer.

Thanks,
Simon

[andi*pandi]

welcome to every logo made in the early 80s.

[Avenir]

Just to check, but is the lower half supposed to link to your archives? You might want to make it noted somewhere that it is going to do that...

[megasad]

Originally posted by andi*pandi:
welcome to every logo made in the early 80s.

When it comes to design, I am extremely culturally ignorant. So, everything I do, I make up for the first time. Except for all those things that I saw when I was a child and can't rememeber remembering, but they're no doubt somewhere in there, allowing me to pilfer from the past with a trouble free conscience...

Um, yeah. As I said, I like it right now. That's all I aim for.

Originally posted by Avenir:
Just to check, but is the lower half supposed to link to your archives? You might want to make it noted somewhere that it is going to do that...

It is supposed to, yup, and I considered using text to tell people where to click for what, and then I decided I did not want to. Ripples are reflections, hence the past, and the sun itself is the cource of light, hence new. Bobdamn, I can be pretentious. More to the point, people find my site through search engines for the most part, and so go straight to what they want. The comic book library is it's own little thing, and people who link to it link straight to it, not megasad.com. People who I tell to go to my site can work it out for themselves.

I wanted something different from this and now I have it. Hoo-hah.