Back in October I mentioned that the Scout Association was setting up a Brand Centre for all the things we would need to be able to promote ourselves in a unified and professional way. Well it was launched a few weeks ago and as well as being able to download logos and letter templates, if you are a Leader, then you can log in and create flyers, posters banners etc. If you create, for example, a flyer, you can download it as a PDF to print off yourself or you can get them professionally printed – of course there is a cost involved!
One of the things I liked was the fact that you can generate your own logo! However, it doesn’t work very well! For example –
Now the lettering on the 1st Porthill bit, is all distorted and if you have the purple version-
The colours of the logo and the writing is different! However there is a work around!
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That’s better! One of the options is to preview the logo as a PDF before you create it. If you save the PDF and have access to Photoshop, which luckily I do through work, then it can be opened and converted to a JPG file or whatever your image file of choice is.
If you don’t have access to Photoshop, I don’t know how to convert the PDF to an image file, so if anyone knows of ways to do this, please let me know!
Nick
The easiest thing to do is to Copy the Image and paste it into Paint then crop to shape and save as a JPG or PNG
YIS
C
Oh yeah, trust me to go for the more complicated route! That way you can use a free image editor like Paint.net and be able to adjust the image to better suit your needs.