Logo for my website

[hittingMLB]

Hello!
Me and a couple of friends, are starting a website ( the first of a few, or at least, we hope so) and we need a logo.
The site is hittingMLB.com , and the logo is intended to go on the top right frame. We are thinking on a small image to replace that green thing on the top left as well, but that would be to much work i think.
The colours on the site are not going to change, dark with some strange green. The site is about an american sport, baseball, and will deal with news and reports from the games, and a private service later on.
one logo that we really loved, is on this one. The second on the top right. The font is great, and the mirror effect gives it a really nice touch. Or something different, directly related with the Sport in question, like a baseball bat hitting a ball with the letters MLB on it, and "hitting" just static on the side.
The logo is going to be used just on the web, so a low resolution will be just fine.
We don't have any preference on colours, as long as it blend well with the rest of the website.

Thank you for any kind of help that you guys can give.

[ishkey]

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Thanks

[genuinegraphics.co.uk]

Hey mate

Looking at your request I didn't really think I could do it but I gave it a shot anyway keeping in mind your description...

Not quite sure if it's what you wanted also not sure about the baseball bat lol I couldn't get the effect but here it is anyway

Let me know what you think



Thanks

[genuinegraphics.co.uk]

had another go at the bat...

[ishkey]

how about something that blends in with the template?

[genuinegraphics.co.uk]

So that's the colours..I couldn't see the template because of some problem on my side but great design though

[hittingMLB]

Thank you very much for your time and fast reply s guys.

genuinegraphics.co.uk, the image looks cool, but it would hardly fit on the colours scheme of the template. It's kinda what we are looking for, but not quite yet. Maybe with the bat on the other side, and with a more realistic ball

ishkey, your idea is something a bit different of what we had in mind, but it looks really good and made us change or mind a bit from the initial idea. Maybe without the circle, i don't really think it fits there, and with some fancy font on the "MLB", and i think it would look great!

Thank you again guys

[blnorman]

Here's a suggestion picture babe Ruth getting ready to hit his most amazing home run... What about the close up image of a wooden bat getting reeady to smack the threads off a ball. A image so crisp you can see the grains in the wooden bat that has been used a zillion times and the image of the leather starting to peel off the ball close to the worn red stiching on with the faded words hitting on the bat and bold letters MLB on the baseball.... Just a suggestion.

[hittingMLB]

That sounds amazing!

[ishkey]

sounds good blnorman and to get you started here are two links to super software you can use both are open source and free plus you can use them in your photo biz.
Inkscape
An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development.

GIMP
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.

GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.

Can't wait to see the Graphic.