Comments on: Yahoo! Messenger Logo Reloaded

By: Nikolay - shotlandetsa

Nikolay - shotlandetsa — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:26:15 +0000

Hmm, I think both logos are by Yahooooooo! :)))

Now seriously: as much as I look at both graphics, I can’t find any difference, because there’s almost no difference at all… (OK, maybe in this case I should mention that I visited Yahoo! last time about a year ago;-)

Go ahead and maybe you’ll catch up with me one day ;-) ;D

By: Toni

Toni — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:30:11 +0000

Number 2 is the original one.

By: Michel

Michel — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:45:47 +0000

@Enrico: Thx:) Greetings to you, too:) @Miki: Both logos fake? Ha! :-D Wait a bit... :) @Nessa: Hmmm... And thx, it's not yet the place we'd like it to become, but going in the right direction, I hope:) @batpep: OK, writing down... "No.1... is... the... real... one." :) @Ani: I guess so;-) @Adrian: Thx, thx :-) No.1 - real one. Noted! :) @Vladi: Thank you for the good words on my Fireworks abilities, dear Sir:) One day (I promised myself) I'll learn a bit of Illustrator, too... but for now FW suits me more than well, especially in my Web projects... and when I want to make some fun;-) @Natalia: Thx, thx, thx:) Writing down: #1 - my work... @Julia: Writing down: #2 - fake one (my work), #1 - real one. @Nisi: Writing down, and thx:) @Polina: Writing down, thank you:) @everyone: Thanks for all the feedback! Thank you all for the appraisals to my modest graphic skills. No, I am not so good, I think I just hold the right tool - Macromedia Fireworks - and it does the biggest part of the task:) Maybe it's time to reveal the truth in a second post, dedicated to the Yahoo! logo forgery ;-) (I might even write a short tutorial on how I did it, if there's some interest:-)

By: polina

polina — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:30:52 +0000

well, i guesss that the second is the fake one, but it’s really difficult to tell, as they’re quite similar…. good work!!!

By: nisi

nisi — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:34:34 +0000

i am not familiar with Fireworks or anything of the sort, but i would say that #2 is the original one. The smiley in # 2 is looking slightly to the side, while smiley #1 looks directly at you (i guess you would have to work more than 10-15 min on #2 :). Anyway, great job!!!

By: Julia

Julia — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:19:38 +0000

I think No 2 is fake.

By: natalia

natalia — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:09:23 +0000

I completely agree with vladi , you can’t create such blurred image as #2 in Fireworks (this time wrote it right :P), #2 is screenshot, #1 is your work, great job!

By: [vladi]

[vladi] — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:59:05 +0000

Nice to see your perfection in Fireworks again! IMHO the #1 is the one you created in Fireworks, and the #2 is the original Y! logo. The ONLY thing I can base my presumption on is the lower quality of #2 (and only after knowing one of them is not original and looking hard) which can be expected from a screenshot, compared to rasterized vector output. As I have said previously, apart from our conversation on which vector app is better, the only thing that matters is what you can do with it, and to what extent it suits your needs. I would NEVER make you work in Adobe Illustrator ;-) You don’t need anything else than what you already have :o)

By: Adrian

Adrian — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:56:07 +0000

As to me, number one seems to be the original one. Just a feeling maybe, but number two looks like a screenshot a little bit more than the other one. Greetings, Michel, you seem to have mastered this art - it’s really hard to distinguish them from each other; personally I do not use the Yahoo Messenger, but frankly, I wouldn’t make the difference between these two images, if one of them appears at my logon screen at Yahoo. As conclusive words, great job!
P.S.:Number two looks somehow darker than number one.

By: Ani

Ani — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 18:59:29 +0000

I guess I have no right to tell which one is yours and which is the real one, since i was behind your shoulder during the whole process of making of…;-)