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Do Some Digital Magic With Your Labels
Let us do some digital magic with your color labels. There are a lot of simple enhancements that you can do with your business labels to make them more impressive and visible. Let me give you some of the most common that you can try out with your labels using some basic desktop design software. So just follow the items below and see if you can apply them to your designs.
1. Increase the vibrancy of colors through color adjustments – Colors can be enhanced in your labels to increase its “quality look”. Faded colors are often associated with cheap labels, so it is important for you to use labels with colors that are as vibrant as possible.
Most design applications should let you easily do this. The latest versions should let you actually increase the vibrancy, or you can also adjust the brightness, contrast and saturation for the best effect. It is simple but it will make your labels better.
2. Add more dynamic colors with gradients – Plain colors are now boring. For the best results you should use more dynamic color using color gradients. Color gradients let you transition different colors to each other for a more fluid and sleek effect.
So for example, your background can move from pure blue to a blue green or even a pure green color, with transition shades in between. These kinds of dynamic colors are heavily in use now in prints and online designs that is why it is good to apply this modern effect on your color labels as well.
3. Add texture elements through filters/layers – Textures are also a good feature to add into your label designs. Textures can make your label look like it was made from wood, steel, brick, stone, glass etc. This helps you add a whole new dimension to your full color labels, especially if you are trying to get a distinct effect or label gimmick going on. Try to experiment a bit with these textures to see if you can apply them to your own label designs.
4. Add lighting effects – Most design applications today let you manipulate lighting effects. In fact, you can put in spotlight effects, flood light effects and such. Applying these to the images and objects in your custom labels allows you to add more emphasis to certain elements. If you have a word or logo that need to be more visible than others, then this is the effect that you should definitely try out.
5. Add flares, sparkles, glows – Beyond general lighting effects, you should also try flares, sparkles and glows. These add light detail into your labels, adding some magic in a sense to your label designs. Flares can easily be put for that bright blinding effect. Sparkles can be applied to certain text and logo that need that “pizzazz” while glows can also add that subtle emphasis and specialness of an object. All in all, you can communicate more about the design element when you use these kinds of details.
6. Add shadows – Now, if you want a more three dimensional and lifted effect in your labels, you can also try out adding shadows. Some design applications should let you easily render shadows for your text and other kinds of graphics. Some title effects for labels will appear better and more visible with shadows. That is why this is a great design effect that you should definitely try out.
7. Add dimensions – Along with shadows, you might also want to add some extra dimensions to your label design elements. Text for example can be tweaked so that they look a bit tilted, giving a more isometric view to its look.
These of course lets your two dimensional labels go beyond to the third dimension, adding that illusion of extra solidity to your text and graphics. So if possible with your label titles and graphics, try to extend there design style to add that third dimension. Sometimes this will work wonders.
So what are you waiting for? Add that digital magic now to your full color labels. Good Luck!
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