When designing logos, the best course of action is to keep things simple. The reason for this is obvious - business logos find their way onto absolutely everything, from t-shirts to coffee mugs, and only simple designs can be so endlessly flexible. Segmented rings are very popular in logo design because they are visually stunning and very distinctive.
Look at our sample image. Narcissus covers about 20% of overall area, inscriptions about 10% and approximately 70% of the picture are almost black. Why should we save all the image with equally high quality? Channel-based weighted optimization solves this problem.
This Photoshop 4 tutorial is quite a big one. We'll show you how to make one of those trendy menus that look like one image, but are in fact several images joined together, with each image changing as the mouse moves over them. Oh, words will never do - take a look at it in action!
