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» Home Central Baptist Church, Okinawa, Japan: Spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ in Okinawa at the picture of the Church. It's a pretty large building built about 30 years ago when the Church was more centrally located. We actually house a Japanese Church and the Okinawa Baptist Convention. I wanted to show you how I made this logo.
First I took about 7 pics and stitched them together using a program called Panorama Factory. This gives you a feel for how Okinawa looks around where we live (very industrial):
If you want to see a larger version:
http://www.smugmug.com/photos/286084912_cKZ9h-X3.jpg
My White Toyota Mark II is in in the parking lot to the left of the white sign.
I used Adobe Photoshop to remove some power lines and also some distracting industrial elements but I wanted to make sure there was enough of Okinawa to still be there. I also didn't like the color of the skyline so I found a nice photo of an Okinawan sunset and put that in the background.
I put the sunset in a layer behind the stitched picture and then I used an artistic filter called Paint Daub to give it the really nice effect you see here:
I then resized it and put it on the website.