replacing logo

[putritan]

Thanks for give me information very use ful for me

[sketch2k278]

@FlyingTomahawk what I used was the word "Final" in the final fight logo, I used the font "Fighting Spirit turbo" for the word BURN (to mimic the word fight), the font "impact" for the A and the rest of the word in alpha I got from Street Fighter Alpha 3. I wanted to make the words more Capcom like and tried to mimic to the best of my abilities

[UDb23]

@sketch2k278 FInal result 66 kb.
Svg downloadable here (for 30 days).
Based on image you posted here. As previously suggested first step: separate areas with different colors in Photoshop elements. Also made background transparent.

Step 2: tracing in inkscape (color, 6 pass, UNcheck all lower windows options: smoothing , grouping and background remov.)
Step 3: ungroup result; Blue and Red elements cleanup (deleting unwanted spots around letters)
Step 4: apply Gradient fill to green and blue
Step 5: delete original image
Step 6: Group all, resize document to drawing, save svg (default options).

FInal SVG image look like this:

Of course image should/could now be edited further to get exact gradient (easy at this stage) as original and/or edit nodes to make it smoother if needed.

[FlyingTomahawk]

@UDb23

Bravo Maestro!
Job well done.

[sketch2k278]

@UDb23 THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!! Sorry for the all caps lol

[Roxsteady]

@sketch2k278 What size did you save in? I'm in the same process. Made an FBA for just classic games.

[sketch2k278]

@Roxsteady my image was 800x647 it probably explains why it turned out so small

[Rookervik]

Haha, it depends on how you save the SVG for what size it comes out. I've found SVGs actually save smaller if you shrink them in Inkscape or Illustrator. It makes no sense, all the vector information is the same, but the file size doesn't reflect that.

Be sure you don't have multiple layers saved into the SVG. I can't tell you how many times I made a logo for the Carbon theme and came out with a 100+kb file. Only to realize I still had an image on a layer I was using to create the Logo.

Also, SVG vs PNG on the carousel has no affect on how large the image will display. SVGs are only better to use when you intend for them to be zoomed in on. SVG takes a little longer for the system to load than a PNG, and seem to slide slower as well. But I suppose the world will really be thankful Carbon uses SVGs when we have 16k TVs and our Raspberry Pi 34's are emulating IBM Watson.

[SpacedInvader]

@herb_fargus Should I make a copy of the es_system.cfg to /home/pi/.emulationstation if it does not exist there?

[herb_fargus]

@SpacedInvader yes

[Stuart2773]

@sketch2k278 said in replacing logo:

well I was successful in changing the logo and did back the original but im guessing that it can't get any bigger than the way it's shown

can you share the background image? im interseted in making my own templates based off what you have.

many thanks

Stuart.

[FlyingTomahawk]

@Stuart2773

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/7032/futura-theme

[Stuart2773]

@FlyingTomahawk

i didnt realise it was a theme you had created,

thank you so much FlyingTomahawk .

[UDb23]

@Stuart2773 max size of the logos is determined by the theme. Only thing you can do is check if there's any 'border' (extra spscing) around the actual logo that you may have saved inside the logo itself.