Logo Tutorial Page 2

Add a new raster layer. Go to your color palette and choose a pretty foreground color and a background color. Choose colors that look nice together because we are going to use them as a gradient for our sphere. I chose #06A9B5 and #1A05B5 for my gradient colors. Once you have your colors look at the on foreground color properties box and then click on the little box just below it on the left. Choose gradient. Now click on the foreground color box. A Materials menu will pop up. Click on the gradient tab. Under 'style' click on the third box from the left. Horizontal and Vertical settings are both set at 50. The Link center and Focal points box is checked. Click on OK.

Activate the selection tool and choose elipse, feather 1 and antialias checked. Make a sphere on the new layer near the upper right hand side of your image. Flood fill the sphere. With the sphere image still selected go to Selections/Invert and then to effects/3d effects/drop shadow and use these settings;
vertical/horizontal 1, opacity 100, blur 37.67, color black and click on OK. Your image should look like this;

Duplcate the sphere layer and pull it down and to the lower left so that it is overlapping the original sphere as shown;

Continue duplicating and repeat as above until you have 5 spheres in all. You image will look like this when you have all 5 spheres;

Turn off the bottom two layers which are the background layer and the layer just above that with the square images. Activate the top layer by clicking on it and then go to Layers, merge/merge visible. Turn on the bottom layers and activate the top merged layer.

Time to add another effect. Go to Effects/Distortion effects/Twirl and push the slider to the right to 720 Degrees and click OK. Choose hard light as the layer blend mode. Turn off the bottom layer. Now go to Layers,merge/merge visible. Your image should look like this;

Turn on the bottom layer again. Activate your selection tool. Choose Rectangle, antialias unchecked, feather at 0. We are going to bevel a few portions of the tan background. Make a seletion over one of the brick areas and then use Effects/3d effects/inner bevel with the following settings; bevel #2, width 6, color #B99375, smoothness 13, depth 10, ambience 11, shininess 0, angle 316,intensity 51, elevation 27 and apply to the areas you selected. Depending on what you choose to select your image should look something like this.

Now go to Layers/merge/merge all flatten. You can add the word enter to your logo image by using the text tool and your favorite font. To add the text click on the text tool and use the following settings; create as vector, font used was High Tower Font, size 14, stroke 1.0, antialias checked, align center, default line style, join: default or join, autokern checked, kerning and leaning at 0. I used the same gradient as was used on the sphere. Apply and move the text where you want it. Merge all layers/flatten and that's it! You are ready to add the image to your entry page. Use black as your background color.

To make your logo more personal and different add a few tubes or photos. A couple of ideas are shown below. A new layer was added to each image and then Jasc tubes were applied to the layer. Then the layer blend hard light was applied to both images before the layers were merged.

Try taking the tutorial again using a different background color, shapes and textures for a variety of logos. To see the finished logos on a black background click here. Thank you for participating in this tutorial.

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