Extremely important..Photoshop experts requested

[WildCatzPhreak]

I'm sure most of you have heard about Kelsey Smith.  She's an 18 year old girl who was headed to K-state to go prevet and play in the marching band who was kidnapped and murdered on Saturday.

I'm the one that's been running the websites findkelsey.com and kelseysarmy.com, the first to find kelsey and the second to remember her and raise money to pay for her final expenses.  Both have gotten a lot of national attention, the first supposedly being the third most 'googled' website in the nation two days ago, and being on numerous local and national networks.

Now to cut to the point: I need both a logo and a banner for this new website.  Quite simply, I don't know anything about photoshop and since this is honoring a very important young girls life I want it to look as good as it possibly can, so I'm asking for your help.

I'd like the 'logo' to be a perfect square, decent size - we can always shrink if need be.  It should contain a picture of Kelsey and the words "Scrubbed in Sunshine."

I'd like the banner to include the words "Kelsey's Army" again with the same picture of Kelsey

Here is the picture her mother requested we use:

[pufizzle]

If I had any photoshop skills at all I would do everything I could, unfortunately I suck at it.  Props to you phreak for doin all of this.  Hopefully someone will get it done soon. 

[ECN]

i'd be honored to do this-if you'd let me.

timeline?

[WildCatzPhreak]

i'd be honored to do this-if you'd let me.

timeline?

the sooner the better, but i'm practically living at the smiths house right now so I can wait as long as need be.

but - i'd rather wait longer for a really awesome product than rush for a mediocre one.

gracias

[ECN]

i'd be honored to do this-if you'd let me.

timeline?

the sooner the better, but i'm practically living at the smiths house right now so I can wait as long as need be.

but - i'd rather wait longer for a really awesome product than rush for a mediocre one.

gracias

let's shoot for tomorrow nightish.

do you have pixel dimensions on the banner? or will you just shrink that too?

[WildCatzPhreak]

i'd be honored to do this-if you'd let me.

timeline?

the sooner the better, but i'm practically living at the smiths house right now so I can wait as long as need be.

but - i'd rather wait longer for a really awesome product than rush for a mediocre one.

gracias

let's shoot for tomorrow nightish.

do you have pixel dimensions on the banner? or will you just shrink that too?

works for me.

as far as the banner goes, i actually really like the size the ksufans banner above is.  but like is said, if need be we can always resize.

[prome05]

Do you have a higher resolution or better quality photo? I can help do some post-processing to it and repost to be used.

[WildCatzPhreak]

Do you have a higher resolution or better quality photo? I can help do some post-processing to it and repost to be used.

Yeah, it's on one of the other computers though.  I'll get it later tonight.

[ECN]

i got some banner concepts..wanna see them?

[ECN]

give me a direction you want.

[WildCatzPhreak]

awesome.

the mom really likes the top one, not so much a fan of the wings though.  maybe just give her a little glow?

also, an FYI in however you want to incorporate it - her favorite color was blue and a lot of things we're doing are based off that color.

[ECN]

[ECN]

awesome.

the mom really likes the top one, not so much a fan of the wings though.  maybe just give her a little glow?

also, an FYI in however you want to incorporate it - her favorite color was blue and a lot of things we're doing are based off that color.

ok..wings...off....

[WildCatzPhreak]

LOVE the font.  and the glow around her.

i like the idea of a bright background, but i don't know about that background.

sorry for being so picky, but with it being so important i want to get it right.

[ECN]

be as picky as you want. i will make it to whatever you please.

[ECN]

ill still tinker around with other concepts, of course.

[prome05]

no high res yet? 

[ECN]

[WildCatzPhreak]

really like the last two.  i'll run it by the mom when she's available.

[WildCatzPhreak]

[ECN]

...and that would be highres.

thx.

[WildCatzPhreak]

If you actually view it from where I linked it it's a LOT bigger.

[ECN]

the detail on that is amazing.

i tweaked it, just for fun.

[ECN]

heres this one again..better res.



oops. its this one.

[prome05]

[prome05]

i couldn't really get the creative juices flowing tonight, but i might try again tomorrow...

[ChiefCatchacold]

I'm a fan of the simple/clean style, i.e:



Just an idea so far, I won't be around til this afternoon to try incorporating the picture & text.  I'm more of a technical guy, I do perl & html/javascript for a living if you need a hand with that end.

[ChiefCatchacold]

More the direction I was going:



Could maybe use a better image of the sky behind the text.


edit: and a logo size.  Not sure if this is what you had in mind, might not resize very well.

[WildCatzPhreak]

I like everything I'm seeing.  Tonight I'm going to go over everything available with her mother and we'll decide what to use then.  Gracias.

[ew2x4]

I know it's probably getting late, but tonight I'd like to try my hand at it, if nothing else, provide some ideas for those who are futher along.