[Guide] Creating Accurate Logos

[PJTierney]

Some questions that came up previously:

@PJTierney

@Barrybarfly

Question for you sir…Can this be done on any old PC, like say an old laptop thats trying to die? Or does it need to be powerful enough to run games? Because I’ll give you 3 guesses which one I (might) have access to…

The short answer is that it can be done on any device whose Xbox app allows you to stream your console gameplay without any stuttering.

For reference my home Desktop is an Acer I bought off the shelf of an Argos in 2010; hasn’t been upgraded, hasn’t died on me yet, and it does the job just fine.

I’ll never be able to play a decent game on this (it struggles to run Photoshop when I work on big files) but I have an Xbox for that anyway

@Makk_Loud

This is great, PJ! It took a little while to get everything set up (I’ve never streamed to my PC/laptop before). But once I did, I was able to knock out a logo in about 30 minutes. Just need to clean it up a little bit back on the console and it’ll be good to go

That’s the best way to go about it. Normally my logos are fine but having a bigger screen to touch them up on can help sometimes.

@PJTierney

@DRUNKinMUNKY

Do you know if this is possible with a mac computer?

The tricky and important part is how to stream footage from your Xbox to your computer with minimal input lag in between. Windows 10 has native support for this via the Xbox app but I don’t know what options there are for Mac.

@PJTierney

@gresnik

Tried the ForzaColour webpage to try to get more accurate colours on this BMW “MPower” logo that I’m re-creating.

Loaded up the image in both Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer and can’t get the eyedropper to function.

The image is loading correctly, just can’t pick the colours on the image. The default in the box on the bottom of the screen is black… clicking anywhere on the image or rest of the screen does nothing to change that. Any suggestions?

How big is the image you’re uploading? If the vertical dimension is too high the eyedropper won’t align properly, preventing you from selecting accurate colours.