Geek, you forgot to mention this little one with the fluffy tail at the bottom of the picture. Probably feel bad all day now.
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you mean that aint the stripper?????????????Geek, you forgot to mention this little one with the fluffy tail at the bottom of the picture. Probably feel bad all day now.
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That's what the IT experts like to call a 'decoy button'.
It IS intuitive, though. (They like that word, too.)
heat wave?
? good facial expression, , , can’t make out what he said
going . . . going . . . gone . . . boy the water is warm compared to the air temp
have wanted to do this on New Year’s Day for the polar bear club, , , ,
, , , maybe next year
? good facial expression, , , can’t make out what he said
going . . . going . . . gone . . . boy the water is warm compared to the air temp
have wanted to do this on New Year’s Day for the polar bear club, , , ,
, , , maybe next year
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Looks good, nice and clean! If you add a deep red into it somewhere or change the font or logo color to a red, a little contrast may move it away from the "headstoney" genre!
Are you using media with the headstone shape? If not, you're going to have a lot of white on the bottle. I suggest matching the media to the label, and consider cost. The media I was using doubled in price since Oct 2020, so I switched media.
Also consider how the label will look on the bottle. The black label may look very dark on a green bottle full of red wine. It's worth printing a sample and then checking first:
I'm not steering you towards lighter colors -- just cautioning you to experiment first. IMO @Vic Frohmeyer's suggestion of color is a good one. Keep the "branding" the same, but vary the font and color of the wine type. Make a few samples to check the differences.
Important -- with that much black on the background, do not print on an inkjet. It will not come out good. Use a color laser, or have it printed at Staples, Kinko's, or a similar place.
when them tiny little peas shoot up through your brain, i promise you,,,,, you will know what is said, and aw hell no, NO SHORTS
I have done the polar bear plunge in Lake Michigan on Jan. 1 (a few years ago). I always get a laugh, because Jan 1 is one of the busiest days of the year on the beach in Milwaukee!
I have intended to return to do it again, but we are usually travelling on Jan 1, but maybe some year soon!
It's growing on me. I tweaked it a bit and it works with other background colours. I tried adding red. I like it, but it might work better as an accent to enhance thelabel.
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Highlighting the bear ties it together for me. removing capitals from the wine softens it further.
I think it has potential.
I came up with this.
I'm really not too savvy on the design side, so after I got to this point I made the wine label in Avery full print label format, assuming I would buy the printable labels. $20 for 40. It's free to design to print to their precut labels. I'm sharing the printable download.
I like how it plays with other colours and templates, so the design is growing on me.
This is a little more balanced. Simple.
A little progress from the original. Again, more balanced, but I agree, I will likely have to work to get a good print.
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I ended up putting the ABV and also the bottling month and year on mine, in small letters on the bottom.
I love the bearclaw! The colors definitely take away the headstone vibe. Good job!
I love the bearclaw! The colors definitely take away the headstone vibe. Good job!
ice is magical. . . and then gone
Paw update.
A couple weeks back I posted a paw print in the snow that was almost 5 inches.
Got a couple game cams. These two show up every night between midnight and 6AM, usually about 20 minutes after deer. Big. Shoulder height is approximately 30 in. Looks like one might have a collar. Wolf-dogs are popular around here and we also have some wolf sanctuaries. Whatever they are and wherever they came from they're nocturnal and look well fed.
This is the best pic out of dozens.
And I'm missing some outdoor cats.
A couple weeks back I posted a paw print in the snow that was almost 5 inches.
Got a couple game cams. These two show up every night between midnight and 6AM, usually about 20 minutes after deer. Big. Shoulder height is approximately 30 in. Looks like one might have a collar. Wolf-dogs are popular around here and we also have some wolf sanctuaries. Whatever they are and wherever they came from they're nocturnal and look well fed.
This is the best pic out of dozens.
And I'm missing some outdoor cats.
They look like pretty standard German Shepards to me. Maybe Shepard crosses. Someone needs to keep their pets controlled.
That was my first thought, too. Hard to tell for sure, though, with night vision pics.
Everyone near me either has an outdoor pen or takes dogs inside because of the coyote problem. They could be from further away.
They do resemble pics of wolf-dogs I've seen. I'm hoping for a better daylight pic.
Ooh, gotta check my skeeter pee. I know a "watched wine doesn't clear" but I can't help myself.
Boatboy24
No longer a newbie, but still clueless.
Looks like you're headed north, with Fire Island in the distance.
I really like this logo!
I suggest you do more with background color. At this time it probably doesn't matter, but when you have a dozen batches in the racks, quickly identifying wines becomes difficult if the labels all look too much alike. I have a page that displays the labels I have a record of:
https://wine.bkfazekas.com/bottle-label-progression/
Skip down to the 2012s and scan through to 2018. In hindsight, the labels have different text but all look alike. Finding things in the racks when you have a dozen batches and anywhere from a few bottles to a few cases of each wine, this can be difficult. I've switched to using a background image, which I fade out using Paint.NET, so each label has common features (winery name, my Grape Warrior logo + tag line OR my son's sword logo), bottling date, ABV), but everything else varies. It makes finding things easier. Plus I like designing labels.
I also have enough capsule colors for 7 or 8 batches, so in a year each batch gets a different color. I buy in lots of 500 so that it will be quite a while before I run out of a color in the middle of a batch.
Food for thought ....
