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Zoe, hello once again and welcome in making a logo and a quick graphic design element tutorial. In this tutorial we'll practice how to make logos - combine them with colors and little details and of course to select proper font styles for all this madness.

Graphic design degree students should remember logos from class. In case you have forgotten, this handy tutorial will help you polish your skills!




So create a document - the size Is not so important- just try to select the proper combination between PC (hardware), the document dimensions and the speed while you working.

So with me speed and Core 2 Duo, 2 GB ram - I often choose something like this.



So the first step will be the creation of something like background - because white is too bright.



This is how I did it this time - very quickly! I've created a fast tone with big diameter brush.

Then I've applied texture filter along with motion blur filter:



The result I've got is this:



Then it is some text work:

So the first thing I always do is I choose some king of non Classic (web) font to apply some layer styles.

Here is my font line:



I will do 2 lines with different fonts.



See my layer styles on the first one:























Here is the overall effect



The food thing that you can do this - you can change the letters and the layer style will be there too: you can also copy the layer styles and even paint and design with it.

So back to business: change some characters. I just like to put a dot along with letter L:



Oh yes: you can also change the fonts and the style will be there too:



I think I just found the font I was searching for:



Now all the web 2.0 conception consists of glows, reflections, saturated highlights and shadows I think. So this is why we'll just select some areas and drop even more highlights: use white to transparency gradient.











I also changed the layout of what was dots some time ago ) .



As you can see I'm already setting up the style for second line:



Here is the font I'm using here:



Here are the other fonts I'm couple more fonts.







Some elements with the brushes maybe:











Zoom in zoom out: watch it carefully - the compositing moment of truth. Seams OK!



Some deco: very easy: just watch the pictures.



















And this is it.



Try to stay in web 2.0 style. I hope you were just exited reading it as I doing it. See you next with even more PS and other applications tutorials next time on eyesontutorials.com