How to use Photoshop to create a web logo
Ever wonder how these guys draw their Web 2.0 logos?
How did these people design the Web logo?
Sometimes its nice to learn from others,
Sometimes it is a pleasure to learn from others,
Build up the basic skills and start your own creativity from there.
It not only improves basic skills, but also inspires your own ideas.
In this Photoshop tutorial,
In this Photoshop study,
I'm going to reveal you some of the Nice Web 2.0 logos,
I will reveal some beautiful Web logos to you,
How you can draw their logo exactly the same (well, not really 100% though) with Photoshop.
How can you use Photoshop to make exactly the same images as them (haha, though not 100% ).
1.
Download and install Style File
Download and install this style File
First of all, you will need to download a style I 've created and load it into Photoshop.
First, you need to download the style file that I have created and can load Photoshop.
(1). Download Photoshop style here. (right-click-> Save)
Download the Photoshop Style File here (right-click and choose Save)
(2). For Photoshop CS2 users, put this style file
"C:/program files/Adobe Photoshop CS2/presets/styles"
For Photoshop CS2 users, place the style in the "C:/program files/Adobe Photoshop CS2/presets/styles" directory.
Photoshop of other versions, put the file inside presets/styles
For other versions of Photoshop users, place them in the "presets/styles" directory.
2. Load Style
Load Style
Call up your Style dialog box in Photoshop
In Photoshop, the style competitor box is displayed.
(1). Windows-> styles
Window> Style
(2). Notice a small arrow button on the top right corner. Click on it and select load styles from the drop down
Notice a small arrow button in the upper right corner. Click it and select the loading style from the drop-down list.
(3) Find web20 from the list and click load. If you don't find web20, try to close Photoshop, re-open it repeat Step 1.
Find "web20" from the drop-down list and click load. If you do not find "web20", restart Photoshop and repeat Step 1.
(4). Click on the arrow button again and select large list from drop down
Click the arrow again and select a large from the drop-down list @@@
Your result shocould look something similar to the image on the right.
The result of your operation is almost the same as that of the image on the right.
3. The six Web 2.0 Logos
6 Web 2.0 Logos
Here's six Web 2.0 logo; mybloglog, imified, mixd, Skype, linked in and go2web20.
These are 6 Web 2.0 logos; "mybloglog", "imified", "mixd", "skype", "linked in", and "go2web20 ".
The style you 've just installed is going to reveal how to draw them
The style you just installed helps you make these Logos
I'll go through "mixd" and "go2web20" Logos
I will demonstrate the two logos "mixd" and "go2web20 ".
The rest is just reusing the same technique.
The rest is the same repetition technique.
4. How to draw
How to create
The
Reason I use style here is because once they are saved in to A. ASL
File (the file you downloaded) They are convenient to apply.
The reason why I use styles here is that once they are stored as a file suffixed with ASL (the file you downloaded), styles can be conveniently called.
Let's go about drawing some of these logos.
Let's start to make some of the logos.
Drawing mixd logo
Create the "mixd" logo
Initial observation, mixd logo consist:
Initially, the "mixd" logo consists of the following parts:
(1). "mixd" Text
"Mixd" Text
(2). rounded rectangular
Rectangle with rounded corners
(3). Small dot
Little tease
(4). Smaller dot
Smaller points
We will roughly draw them out in Photoshop
We will roughly draw the above part in Photoshop.
Each elements in a different layer as specified strated in the image below.
In the same way, each element has a layer.
Now here's the trick. Look for "mixd-label" in the Style dialog
Start now. In the Style dialog box, find the label "mixd-label ".
Drag them directly to background layer, small dot layer and smaller dot layer respectively
Drag the image directly in the background layer, small dot layer, and smaller dot layer.
If you drag them correctly you Will noticed that the layer will now inherits the colors
And blending of the style.
If you drag it correctly, you will notice that the layer now has a style color and an inverted circle @@
Find "mixd-font" In Style dialog, drag it to the text layer and your mixd logo is complete, 90% like the original I'll say.
In the Style dialog box, find the "mixd-font" font and drag it in the text layer. Your mixd logo is already 90% the same as I previously mentioned.