For starters, my home page is set to random, so everyday I get to see another part of the internet. Usually, it's a silly wikipedia entry, but sometimes it's a gem, like this logo
http://www.papasbarn.com/duryea/logodur.gifWhich is exactly what it looks like, bad clip art rammed together. So, what I first did, was try to replicate it in a modern fashion in Photoshop.
Still ugly, but it includes all the components important to the original design. From there, I decided to go the wooden license plate route, with screws for holders and an embossed look for all the characters.
The problem here, though, is the hideous outer border that Photoshop calls a Stroke Effect. I hope CS4 has more options. Because having to go back in and draw it properly, like so…
is a lot of work.
