Okay, so I wanted to mess around with the Maryland Terrapins logo. I’m a big fan, and I thought it would be cool to have a version I could maybe use for, I don’t know, a custom phone wallpaper or something. So, I started digging.
First, I googled “Maryland Terrapins logo” to get some good reference images. I wanted a few different angles and styles, just to be sure I had options. I saved a bunch of them to a folder on my desktop—easy peasy.
Next, I needed to decide what I was gonna do with it. I’m no graphic designer, but I’ve dabbled in image editing before. I figured I’d try to clean up one of the logos, maybe remove the background, or even try to simplify it into a more minimalist style. I have this old copy of an image editor, so I fired that up.
- Opened the image editor.
- Imported one of the Terrapins logos I saved.
I started by trying to remove the background. This was… tedious. The edges of the logo are pretty detailed, with all the little spikes and curves. It took a while, and honestly, my hand started to cramp up from using the mouse so much. The selection tools were okay, but not perfect, so there was a lot of manual cleanup involved.
I got it mostly done, but it wasn’t as clean as I wanted. I decided to try a different approach. I found a simpler, blockier version of the logo online. This one was much easier to work with. I used the “magic wand” tool to select the different colored areas, and that worked pretty well.
I messed around with the colors a bit, just to see what I could do. Made a version with a black background and a bright red Terrapin, and then another one with a white background and a slightly darker red. I also tried to smooth out some of the jagged edges, but I’m not sure I made much of a difference there.
Final Result:
In the end, I had a couple of decent-looking logos. They’re not perfect, but they’re definitely good enough for a phone background. It was a fun little project, and I learned a bit more about image editing along the way. Maybe next time, I’ll try to create something from scratch. But for now, Go Terps!