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[501irishred]

My SMaSH

Nice! I think I can hear "Suicide is painless" playing in the background....

 

[reverendj1]

latest labels for a pumpkin ale and a smash

I like the look, but isn't the label or your logo on the smash sideways?

 

[tkline808]

I like the look, but isn't the label or your logo on the smash sideways?

Thanks but the way you see it is correct

 

[tkline808]

Borders rule! Well done.

Thanks!

 

[ShepFL]

Working to incorporate this into a label with QR code and link to SurveyMonkey poll to get customer feedback on the brews.

 

[StittsvilleJames]

Working to incorporate this into a label with QR code and link to SurveyMonkey poll to get customer feedback on the brews.

Are those painted on, or are they big stickers? They look awesome!

 

[ShepFL]

Big stickers. Wife and I own party store so I get to play with her printers, banner machines etc.

 

[jlb307]

just gotta find the time now, but i hope to have it ready by halloween at the LATEST

 

[jimpdx]

A few new labels for my 2013 brews.

 

[gwjames47]

This is my first effort at making a label, I used Inkscape, I have since made a few more, I am learning the program, hours at a time

 

[part16john]

A few more that my wife made. The 4 Eleven is a pic of my cascade hops that I grew. 4 eleven is just the address of my in laws where I grow the hops.

 

[501irishred]

She did an excellent job! I'm especially partial to the 411. That hop flower looks good enough to eat on its own!

 

[tennesseean_87]

Yeah, I think that's the way to go. I found a how-to on outlining text with the Paths tool, but the only hitch is that it will only outline it in black. Which works fine for this, since I think black outlining red would look better than vice-versa.

I use GIMP a lot. The easy way to do outlining for text is to use the select by color tool. It looks like a finger pointing at a blue, red and green strip. With your text layer selected, use the select by color tool, and select any of the text. Then, create a new layer (full size, transparent), position it underneath the text layer (using the layer dialog), then in the select menu, click grow. Grow it by however many pixels looks good (usually between 1 and 3), then use the paint bucket to fill it in. Make sure to select "Fill whole selection" for the bucket tool options. It may sound hard or like a lot of work, but it only takes a few seconds. Way easier than trying to mess with paths. Afterwards, you can merge the text layer down, and then autocrop layer (both in the layer menu at the top) to move it around if you want. I'm not sure how you got the glowy white stuff behind the font, but you can also use the same method to do that. All you have to do is grow it out more, then use the feather tool under the select menu. Play around with what you feel looks good.

This is probably old news for many, but if the text is its own layer, you can just right-click the layer and click 'Text to Selection' or something like that. Then it's easy to add outlines, inner lines, etc. by growing or shrinking selection.

GIMP is good, given a bit of time to get antiquated with it.
This was for my latest porter

I think you meant acquainted, but your label looks nice and antiquated! (pun intended?)

 

[atimmerman88]

Looking for some constructive criticism.

This is only the 2nd label I've ever made.

I like to make the 'Holiday Ale' fit the contour of Clark's hat, and I think the quote might be too busy

 

[jonmohno]

Looking for some constructive criticism.

This is only the 2nd label I've ever made.

I like to make the 'Holiday Ale' fit the contour of Clark's hat, and I think the quote might be too busy

I think the busy-ness of the quote is fitting. Pretty creative. I think though you could do something different with Holiday Ale. Not shure what though.Different color or/transparent or different lettering style to start maybe?I could be wrong about that though. I still like it as is though. Just had an idea, seeing Holiday ale lit up brite would be pretty cool. Like on the plug or something.

Just a thought...

 

[Warthaug]

Google images + 2 minutes of follow-up work:

Bryan

 

[atimmerman88]

I think the busy-ness of the quote is fitting. Pretty creative. I think though you could do something different with Holiday Ale. Not shure what though.Different color or/transparent or different lettering style to start maybe?I could be wrong about that though. I still like it as is though. Just had an idea, seeing Holiday ale lit up brite would be pretty cool. Like on the plug or something. Just a thought...

Feeble attempt

 

[reverendj1]

My newest:
Sonic the Pyment (Joe's Quick Grape Mead)

The Smoking Pumpkin (based on Yooper's Oatmeal Stout, Reno_eNVy's Punkin' Ale and my own tweaks)

Welcome to the Big House (based on Biermuncher's Cream of Three Crops)

Gordon Spacebuzz and His Root Beer Rocketship (Bauerbrewery1989's Grandpa Willies Hard Root Beer)

 

[jimpdx]

Nice job guys. I love the recent labels on this page. We are doing our last of 6 brews this weekend. Here are the labels for the other 3 this year.

 

[MikeCass]

My buddy just finished up the label for my pumpkin beer that will be ready to bottle on Sunday! I plan to print it on like a like brown type paper, same shade as cardboard. Anyone have any advice/info on printing or on where to find nice paper that would look good with this logo?

When we were kids we always considered ourselves "punks" haha and a popular saying is "up the punx" so I kind of combined them with pumpkins.

What do you guys think?

 

[nextgenxx]

My buddy just finished up the label for my pumpkin beer that will be ready to bottle on Sunday! I plan to print it on like a like brown type paper, same shade as cardboard. Anyone have any advice/info on printing or on where to find nice paper that would look good with this logo?

When we were kids we always considered ourselves "punks" haha and a popular saying is "up the punx" so I kind of combined them with pumpkins.

What do you guys think?

Looks good! How would it look with black in orange? No white.

 

[LoneTreeFarms]

some people have had good luck printing labels on paper grocery sacks. simply cut the sack down to 8-1/2x11 stick it in the printer and go

 

[unionrdr]

Here's a couple new labels for beers I'll start brewing up this Saturday;
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http://[URL=http://s563.photobucket.com/user/unionrdr/media/porter_zps07fa5a75.jpg.html] [/URL]
I also used the new color choice.

 

[schweitzer22]

Here are my newest. What do you think.

 

[MikeCass]

The latest labels. I'm super excited the way they are turning out!

 

[tennesseean_87]

Printing on brown paper makes B&W labels look to much better!

 

[daveooph131]

The latest labels. I'm super excited the way they are turning out!

The pumpkin label is awesome!

 

[Beersnob16]

These are the labels for my first 3 batches.

 

[jimpdx]

The latest labels. I'm super excited the way they are turning out!

Awesome!

 

[501irishred]

These are the labels for my first 3 batches.

Great labels for "last three" much less "first three"!!