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Amiba82 wrote
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Blimey. You'd need to brave to take a step like that.
I find that these things almost design themselves. You start writing as many individual words and short phrases that represent what that do? What are their values? What do they make? Who do they make it for? What makes it the best? If that doesn't throw up an idea or two, start hitting the words with a thesaurus to get more words. How is the logo going to be used? Does it need to be multi purpose (screen, side of a vehicle, business card, letter head etc.) Does it need to make sens at a very small size (so not too complex).
I've told this story here before, but a very long time ago (40-50 years) I won a competition to come up with a tag line for a racing oil company, and even back then — long before Photoshop, but I was working part time doing paste up — I used the same process, and came up with:
'Ease your way to the front'
I got a gallon of said racing oil grudgingly handed to me with much fanfare at that year's Motorcycle Show at Earls Court (I think), and my picture was in Motorcycle News. But they were miserable buggers, and I can remember the man saying 'Make sure you tell all your friends' with the intonation that I was soooo lucky. I did use the oil, but went back to Mobile 1 after that.
Anyway, you asked about plugins, which is a wee bit odd because plugins don't design. They just add effects to your designs. They a also bound to become cliched because thousands of other people will have the same plugins. I do like Alien Skin's Eye Candy 7 though, and I wish we could up to date versions of the Kai Power Tools. Someone put up a 'will Adobe please reinstate Pixel Bender thread a couple of days ago, and that would also be very nice.
Some of the vast number of effects that Eye Candy 7 can do. There are no layer styles or additional Photoshop tweaks. Just Eye Candy. The bottom one does use two effects, but they are both Eye Candy.
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