Newbie Help with Undoing Gradients

[ohiojosh78]

Hi, my wife and I have started a small pressure washing business and had a logo designed for it. I am happy with the logo design itself but when we had them put on t-shirts, it didn't look good because of the gradient coloring. I have tried to fix the issue myself but I am not familiar with photo editing software and when searching for a fix, I have not been able to find any instructions that I could follow for my particular situation.

I have attached the oridinal psd file. I anyone could help me out or instruct me as to how to turn the gradient green and blue shapes back to solid colors I would be grateful.

Thank you!


https://ibb.co/ZhDwdBK image link

*Tried to attach the original PNG but it isn't taking...

[Ofnuts]

PSD or PNG? Also, the file you link to is a JPG. This is important because if you have PNG with transparent layers it will make things easy and if you have a multi-layer PSD it can be even easier.

The limit on uploads is 500KB for image types but up to 2MB for XCF files, so if you can load the image in Gimp, and save it as a compressed XCF it can possibly fit.

[ohiojosh78]

Here it is but it's low rez now

[PixLab]

(07-22-2022, 12:05 AM)ohiojosh78 Wrote: Here it is but it's low rez now

Without all the layers in it that's not very useful...
Anyway, I took your image from https://ibb.co/ZhDwdBK which is a jpg (not so good)
And this is what I did (the end result is not looking good because of pixelisation already on the jpg you've provided)

➤ Sampled the color of the green writing on the foreground active color icon
   

➤ Remove the white by going to Colors ➤ Color to Alpha select white (play with sliders if necessary)
➤ Then I took the Free Select Tool in mode Add (see screenshot)
   

➤ Then I selected the green gradient in the logo (once you close the loop hit enter to continue to select the next part ('Add' mode)
   

➤ Once all selected I did a Ctrl+C ➤ Ctrl+V (copy ➤ Paste), a Floating Selection appears in the layer stack/dialog ➤ then go to Layer ➤ To New Layer (Shift+Ctrl+N)
➤ Now you have a new layer, on that new layer I did fill with the color I sampled in the beginning (before to fill you need to lock alpha channel (see screenshot)
   

Result the full xcf

  Logo Final.xcf.7z (Size: 890.19 KB / Downloads: 127)

[rich2005]

The .xcf you posted (low res ? print size 1.4" x 1" @ 300 ppi) is 32 bit floating precision, so first thing is change back to 8 bit using Image -> Mode -> Precision

Then you can select and fill, as PixLab indicated (or whichever way you favour)

However, my guess is at some stage it was a vector or at least had vector shapes. Not impossible to re-create, a little tedious, helps if you know the font but with a bit of tracing, attached as a scaleable vector graphic (svg) Why this format ? Open in Gimp at any size / resolution and maintain quality for sending off to a printer. 

If you include the paths during import,  then easy to change colours to whatever you require. example: https://i.imgur.com/KYTHmTd.mp4

Edit: I did find a match for the font: https://www.wfonts.com/font/nova-mono

Still a SVG with the text as a path. An improvement on the traced version.