Quote from: funkycoin on January 02, 2014, 05:50:42 PM

Quote from: Metatron on January 02, 2014, 05:19:46 PM

Quote from: funkycoin on January 02, 2014, 04:47:36 PM

Best so far, great effort...... modern, clear and classic with well balanced typogography...

TIPS
my advice would be to do a graduated shiny gold at 45 degrees (not textured gold) across the gold part of the coin and change the depth of the bevels and embossing slightly to make it a bit more 3D. Will give it the wow they are looking for
Also move the LOT type vey slightly to the right by reducing the size... although the L and T are spaced the same distance form the edge you need a little more space to the right of the L to compensate for the space under the right of the Ts top bar... this is a classic 'kerning trick' that is used by professional typograhers to give the type balance... you have to cheat it a bit to get 'LOT' to look centered. If you want to keep the balls of the lot 'O' centred simply reduce the length of the L horizontal just fractionally and move it across towards the O... this will give you that nice space to on the left had side of the L to balance the large space under the T's crossbar.

Grin

rgds,
steve

Cheers Steve for the tips and glad you liked my work!
I played a lot with the letters but will try what you said to make it better Wink

I was going to try another version with the plain flashy gold as you described, but in my opinion I see that style a bit too cartoon-y/clipart-y (like many scam coins out there), so opted for a 'real used' look for the coin to make it stand out from the rest.
I'll try something without the texture on the gold or will reduce it to a minimum... I'll see what looks good Cheesy

Cheers.

Try this... do the gold version and then sample real texture 'scratches' from a white texture or existing metalic sheet... and add it as a channel layer (if you have photoshop) to give your generated gold a more real look... you can always take your final design from your 3D program in to photo shop and do some additional 'paint work' using layers and tansparent overlays.

A trick I use is to google search images of gold plates and photos of coins and sample and clone small sections to get that extra 'real' look and the right 'gold vignettes. You have to be clever and get the right section or it can look terrible.

also sheet aluminium textures are good and you can use photoshop overlay filters over th gold to just bring out the texture... lots of trial and error needed to get the most realistic effect.

Remember to search high quality images ONLY or your samples will be too pixelated

rgds steve

I only use Photoshop for this, don't have any 3D progs as my knowledge is in PS.
I've got loads of layers for this design - as you mentioned overlays and textures etc.
As I said, I'll try to incorporate your ideas as soon as I have some time.

And thanks for the constructive criticism.

Cheers