Need help with new logo
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Kornowski
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So I designed a new logo based on my website URL that most people seemed to like (capturedbygeoff.com), any thoughts or suggestions on improving the logo?
Personally, I think there's too much going on. An logo should be something simple and instantly recognisable. It doesn't have to be your website, people will more than likely be viewing your photos on your site, so they don't need reminding what it is.
The camera looks like it could have been pulled off the net, or is it something you've drawn up yourself?
You've probably already seen it, but here's my logo -
When it's added to a photo as a watermark it isn't too intrusive and doesn't draw your attention away from the main focus, the photograph.
He pulled the camera off the web. It was low resolution though, so he turned it into a vector image to improve the quality.
I also think it's too complicated. Need something simpler. Maybe just eliminate the camera and the dot com and leave "Captured by Geoff" or do a copyright "G. Johnson" or "G. Johnson Photo"
I also think it's too complicated. Need something simpler. Maybe just eliminate the camera and the dot com and leave "Captured by Geoff" or do a copyright "G. Johnson" or "G. Johnson Photo"
Kornowski
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Ah. Plagiarism? haha. It's a little predictable, too. People know you do photography because they're looking at your photographs, so I don't think it needs to be in your logo, too. Not sure on the font either, a little too comic sans perhaps.
Geoff
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Thanks for the suggestions, this is why I'm leaning towards having separate watermarks for my sports and traditional photography. The reason the watermark is so large is because photos get posted on facebook, e-mailed around, etc. I want the viewer to be able to clearly see who's photo this was, as well as allowing them to find out where it's from if they want to purchase it or see the rest of my photos.
Having a simply logo such as DP (which looks great BTW) wouldn't help someone who has no idea who I am, and by seeing just "CBG" on the side would have no idea how to find me or my photos. I added the ".com" so someone could easily locate where the pictures originally came from.
I was 50/50 on the camera icon, I'll mock up a version without it to see how it looks.
Having a simply logo such as DP (which looks great BTW) wouldn't help someone who has no idea who I am, and by seeing just "CBG" on the side would have no idea how to find me or my photos. I added the ".com" so someone could easily locate where the pictures originally came from.
I was 50/50 on the camera icon, I'll mock up a version without it to see how it looks.
Very nice :good:
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PCunicorn
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":good:"
Geoff
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I'm trying to figure out how to add that to make it look good, I could maybe put it vertically after the Y in photography..
It also allows me to use the same watermark on non-sports photos, as I think it looks pretty good:
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Kornowski
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Yeah, that'd look really good.
G80FTW
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I love it man. Simple really is better. My logo still needs some work, as I think its still a bit much but I havent had alot of time to sit down and really put work into it. Its just a logo to me, the picture is more important