Hi Carol,
We won't be having any print material and if we do, I can play with the gradient feature in Photoshop. I am actually very InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop savvy, but I don't have the creativity to put a logo together from scratch! This logo we want for the band is only for web and social marketing, so the gradients will be fine there. I always ask designers to send a one color version with no elements and I also ask them to provide just about every file type they can, so we have options. Or, I can do the file conversions myself.
The new ideas you gave us with the outline aren't exactly what we had in mind. We just wanted to have some polish to the LED's (almost to give them a sense of depth (3D a bit) and a sense of lighting up with some glow, gradient, drop shadow, bevel & emboss elements that are used in our 1st and 2nd ranking choices right now.
Instead of adding an outline, could you just add some polish elements to the LED's and the text only without adding anything else to the design? That would be awesome to see.
Thanks so much,
Caroline