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Design a ghosted logo: A picture always goes with itself

Design a ghosted logo: A picture always goes with itself

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Design a ghosted logo: A picture always goes with itself

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- Hi everybody. John McWade. Senior author here at Lynda.com. This week, we're still talking about ghosts. A ghost is a full strength image that's been faded back, usually by changing its opacity. You might think of a ghost as seeing through fog or a very thin sheet of paper, like tracing paper. The effect is to soften things by washing out the colors and the contrasts and the detail. Because you can't see a washed out version as clearly, you need a reason to do it, where the fog enhances the mood or the atmosphere or has some practical application. What you don't want is to ghost a picture just to throw it in the background with words on top because you don't have room for all of it. First example is a follow-up from last week, where we have a full strength foreground image that we then duplicate and send to the back, enlarge really big, and ghost, typically about 15%. The best images for ghosts are almost always simple ones like this pear. Just a little bit of detail, and a simply…

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