Resizing A Clan Emblem.

[Aieter]

So after about a month after creating my clan, I and my clanmates figured that it's time to make an emblem.

After about an hour, this is what I came up with: 

But after I downsampled it, it just created a giant mess. 

What I'm worried about is that the text on the emblem is completely unreadable and messy.

So I wanted to ask if there are any tips that I can apply to my emblem to make it look more smoothly

Since even tho, I was following @holyicon 's guide I still cannot make my image to look better.

Thanks in advice.

Edited November 24, 2018 by AlexIlyasov

[AvPCelticPredator]

Broken image links pal.

[Aieter]

Oops, Sorry! I'll try to fix it real quick!

[Aieter]

5 minutes ago, AvPCelticPredator said:

Broken image links pal.

Alright, I hope it works now.

If not - https://imgur.com/gallery/EXPQa97

[AvPCelticPredator]

Upload images on this site and paste links

https://imgbb.com/

[-AxHx-Vile]

I don't think you're going to be able to make this text readable and display properly...unless maybe you re-do the design and make the text quite a bit bigger.

Edited November 24, 2018 by -AxHx-Vile

[Aieter]

1 minute ago, AvPCelticPredator said:

Upload images on this site and paste links

https://imgbb.com/

Alrighty

https://ibb.co/gesvFV
https://ibb.co/ifwpaV
https://ibb.co/c1GNvV

[AvPCelticPredator]

https://ibb.co/hmqRNA

1 minute ago, AlexIlyasov said:

Alrighty

https://ibb.co/gesvFV
https://ibb.co/ifwpaV
https://ibb.co/c1GNvV

 

God man, copy that links and paste in your Browser then use RMB on that image and go "View Image" from next window (Copy and Paste image in thread!.

[Sean]

Due to the image's exceptionally low resolution (really DE... 128x128 in 2018 is absurd), there is very little you can do to make that text legible.

 

If you want to do a better preview and not use DE's sorry excuse for one, then I suggest trying to find someone who has PhotoShop and have them run through the following:
 

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- Open the final 128x128 .png within PhotoShop
- Give it a black background
- Save as a Dxt3 .DDS
- Open .DDS in Photoshop
- duplicate layer
- Set layer blending to Screen
- Give "Gaussian Blur" of 0.3px

 

From what I've seen, this gives the best approximation.

[AvPCelticPredator]

[AvPCelticPredator]

Here is 1 mistake:
Dont use Shadow effect on text.

Dont use filled background where text will be added.

Make template in resolution  1920 x 1080 after u finalize u need to save that image in PNG then run again and rescale to get smoothly effect.

 

[holyicon]

@AlexIlyasov,

Indeed, the downsampling has a crippling effect on your emblem.
It's a shame too, because it's a good emblem, with what looks like a lot of thought and care put into.

What I would suggest (and this is from a design point of view) is dropping the out ring of Corpus script and re-aligning the Lotus and Clan Name at 0-degrees.
This would allow for more detail to be preserved.
Example:






Then, for any case where you can use a full resolution version, such as a clan website or signature, the full version can be use.