Creating a good logo is more creative work, not just manipulating graphic effects. It should start with a clear understanding of what sensations a person should feel when looking at your creation. Then the lines and shapes that are suitable for the embodiment of the image are selected. After that, text or an abbreviation is embedded in the picture to enhance the overall effect. All this can be done on paper or on a computer, whichever is more convenient for you. And only then comes the time for a purely technological operation - creating a logo file in a graphic editor.
Necessary
Graphic editor Adobe Photoshop
Instructions
Step 1
Launch Photoshop and create a new document. Press the key combination Ctrl + N to open the corresponding dialog. In the "Name" field, type the name of the file that the program should use to save your work in PSD format. In the "Width" and "Height" fields, specify the dimensions of the created image - enter numbers with a margin, the exact values will be determined automatically in one of the following steps. Select Transparent from the Background Content drop-down list, and then click OK.
Step 2
Download or draw a prepared logo. If you have already created an image with a pencil, the picture can be scanned - for this, the "WIA Support" item from the "Import" subsection in the "File" section of the menu is intended. If the picture was created in the graphics editor itself, then switch to the desired window, select the entire image (Ctrl + A) and press the key combination Ctrl + Shift + C. In this way, you will copy not one layer, but the image created by all layers. Then switch to the logo window and press Ctrl + V to paste everything you copied.
Step 3
Refine the picture. If this is a scanned image, then draw a copy of it using Photoshop on a new layer - it is created with the Shift + Ctrl + N keyboard shortcut. Add visual effects to the logo. Some of them - shadow, glow, overlaying gradients and patterns, strokes, embossing - are enabled and configured using a dialog box, which is invoked by double-clicking on a line in the layers panel. Links to other visual effects are placed in the "Filter" section of the graphical editor menu.
Step 4
Clip off the extra margins around the logo. To do this, open the "Image" section in the menu and click the "Trimming" item. A separate window will appear in which you need to put a checkmark in front of the inscription "transparent pixels" and click the OK button. Photoshop itself will determine how much and from which edge to cut and resize the "canvas".
Step 5
Save your work first in PSD format and then in one of the standard graphic formats. The first option will come in handy for further editing the logo, and the second can be used for its intended purpose - placed in text documents, printed, inserted into web pages, etc. Several different save dialogs are invoked from the "File" section of the graphical editor menu - there are placed the "Save", "Save As" and "Save for Web & Devices" commands.
Step 6
If you do not have the opportunity to create a logo in Photoshop yourself, find a ready-made PSD-template on the Internet. There, in large quantities, there are both paid and completely free options for separate logos or whole sets, including templates for business cards, envelopes, brochures, etc.
