Guest Photoshop Tutorial : Make a simple logo

Feb 12, 2008 by     9 Comments    Posted under: Photoshop Tutorials

Once again I’m delighted to post a Photoshop tutorial from Sherif Salah. Sherif is starting work on his own blog where he will be providing Photoshop tips and tutorials. In this tutorial Sherif explains how to create a simple logo using selections and layer blending styles.


1. Start out with a new document.


2.Create a new layer.


3. Using your new layer, Go to the toolbox, choose Eliptical Marquee Tool .


4- Make a circle selection as shown , or you can make whatever shape you feel comfortable to.


5- Select a nice foreground color that will be used to fill our circular selection, you can use #F29653 which is the foreground color used in this example.


6- Go to Pain Bucket Tool , select it and fill the selection.


7- Now, we will just add a simple blending option to make our shape looks thicker, so we will just double-click our layer or simply go to Layer > Layer Style > Blending Options , this will show up Layer Style & Blending Options window, we will select Bevel & Emboss , and set it as shown below, actually, you may not need to edit anything.


8- Use the Eliptical Marquee Tool again to create a small circle selection on our big circle.


9- Hit your Delete key to delete the small circle selection, see below.


10- Use your imagination to create more selections using the Marquee Tool and delete them, so that you can reach an attractive shape like the one below, we just made 2 rectangular cuts using Rectangular Marquee Tool , this will bring you to a simple attractive shape like this which can be used as an element in your logo design.


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  • Jacob February 13, 2008 at 1:32 am

    I believe making a logo in Photoshop is not best practice, you should be making it in Illustrator as it is Vector.

  • Tony February 13, 2008 at 5:30 am

    These tuitions are great for complete novices like me. I have now added a revised version of this to my (online tuition designed) business logo. Thanks very much.

  • David Airey February 13, 2008 at 5:44 pm

    I agree with Jacob. Certainly best-practice to use Illustrator.

    Hope you’re keeping well, Jennifer.

  • Sherif February 13, 2008 at 6:27 pm

    Jacob and david, I totally agree that illustrator is the best solution for making such things like logos, this was just to show how to use some of the photoshop tools togather with your imagination to get some fast and cool results.

    Tony, glad this was of some help to you, if you would like to receive this tutorial as a document to use it later at your own pace, then let me know.

  • Jennifer February 13, 2008 at 9:03 pm

    Hi everyone. I turn my back on the blog for a minute and a party starts up in the comments section!

    Yes, Illustrator is indeed the industry standard for logo design. However, Photoshop does include vector tools which can be used for creating the nice clean lines we love.

    In this tutorial, Sherif shows us how to create a rasterised logo that is perfectly suitable for use on a website which I think a lot of people will find helpful.

  • Simple Web Design February 15, 2008 at 6:30 pm

    Excellent post.. I will continue to watch your blog as I enjoy reading things like this. What a perfect title too Photoshop Tutorial : Make a simple logo : Laughing Lion Design : Web, Graphic Design & Illustration Ireland you couldn’t have said it better.

  • name September 1, 2008 at 4:30 am

    Hello!,

  • cycler April 25, 2010 at 10:19 am

    Images are gone?

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