{"id":69,"date":"2007-02-02T19:35:45","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T17:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/2007\/02\/02\/yahoo-messenger-logo-reloaded-the-answer\/"},"modified":"2007-02-16T19:04:47","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T17:04:47","slug":"yahoo-messenger-logo-reloaded-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/2007\/02\/02\/yahoo-messenger-logo-reloaded-the-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo! Messenger Logo Reloaded &#8211; the answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"This is the Yahoo! Messenger logo I have imitated using Fireworks\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/optimiced.com\/wp-uploads\/2007\/01\/yahoo-messenger-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"This is the Yahoo! Messenger logo I have imitated using Fireworks\" src=\"http:\/\/optimiced.com\/wp-uploads\/2007\/01\/yahoo-messenger-1.jpg\" \/><\/a>A while ago I <a title=\"The original post comparing the two Yahoo! logos\" href=\"\/en\/2007\/01\/15\/yahoo-messenger-logo-reloaded\/\">posted two Yahoo! logos<\/a> on my website, asking the audience to tell, which one is the original Yahoo! logo made by Yahoo! and which I have re-created using Macromedia Fireworks.<\/p>\n<p>Now comes the long-awaited answer:<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo! logo<strong> #1 is the one I made<\/strong>, and Yahoo! logo #2 is the <em>original Yahoo! logo<\/em> from the Yahoo! Messenger starting screen, captured as screenshot while the Yahoo! Messenger was loading.<\/p>\n<p>I thank everyone for their participation, <a href=\"\/en\/2007\/01\/15\/yahoo-messenger-logo-reloaded\/#comments\">votes and comments<\/a>:-)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to thank you here especially <a title=\"The blog of Alan at Macromedia's website\" href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.macromedia.com\/amusselman\/\">Alan Musselman from Adobe<\/a> (formerly Macromedia), whose <a href=\"\/en\/2007\/01\/15\/yahoo-messenger-logo-reloaded\/#comment-19\">answer and comment<\/a> was one of the most thougthtful and thouroughful ones:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Definitely the one on the left (#1). The only way I noticed is the <em>Y<\/em> is not proper like the Yahoo! branding. :) Good job though\u2026 I will also say the shadow on the teeth is a little stronger on #1 as well. If it wasn&#8217;t for these two things I wouldn&#8217;t have been able to tell the difference. :)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Both remarks are correct &#8211; the &#8220;Y&#8221; wasn&#8217;t perfectly made, and the shadow on the teeth is a bit different. Also, a lot of people reported that <a href=\"http:\/\/optimiced.com\/wp-uploads\/2007\/01\/yahoo-messenger-2.jpg\">Y! logo #2<\/a> is somewhat saved with a bit worse compression than <a href=\"http:\/\/optimiced.com\/wp-uploads\/2007\/01\/yahoo-messenger-1.jpg\">Y! logo #1<\/a>  and because of that they presume #2 is the original logo, because probably it&#8217;s a screenshot and thus, was saved with worse compression and some artifacts, while #1 was exported from a high-quality vector-based file.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>You were correct!:-)<\/p>\n<p>(Note to myself: <em>Always<\/em> save screenshots with highest possible quality from now on, if a similar riddle will be published again by me, and the secret must not be revealed so easily;-)<\/p>\n<p>Now, on to the raw numbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>7 votes go for the option that the first Y! logo is the original one, and the 2nd is my work (the fake one)<\/li>\n<li>9 votes go for the option that the second Y! logo is the original one and the 1st is my work (the fake one)<\/li>\n<li>Finally, 4 people voted that they either: can&#8217;t tell the diference between them, that both logos are fake or that they  should not tell which is which;-)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My goal in this experiment was not to make a perfect imitation of the Yahoo! logo from the Messenger screen, but rather to try to quickly make a copy, which would be at least partially hard to be distinguished from the original, and see, how much time this would require in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/products\/fireworks\/\">Macromedia Fireworks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d say, the results are pretty satisfying. A number of people were fooled by my imitation, and as to the time needed, I think the copy was done in less than 10 or 15 minutes. I may try to repeat this experiement one of these days, with more zeal from my part, and more attention to the detail:)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll publish here the original PNG file from Fireworks 8, in case someone&#8217;s interested to see how the vector copy was made.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks again to everyone for the comments, votes and suggestions!<\/p>\n<p>Now off to Microsoft website, to download a fresh copy of Windows Vista logo for a new series of Fireworks fun;-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago I posted two Yahoo! logos on my website, asking the audience to tell, which one is the original Yahoo! logo made by Yahoo! and which I have re-created using Macromedia Fireworks. Now comes the long-awaited answer: Yahoo! logo #1 is the one I made, and Yahoo! logo #2 is the original Yahoo!&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18,12,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experiments","category-fireworks","category-fun","category-graphic-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}