Creative Logos – Photoshop Inspired Tutorial

Logos are signs of company, organization or particular individual that convey the tagline of the same and along with bear a beautiful first impression on the viewer’s mind. It’s often the scenario when we know any company by its logo, like the Ford or the Apple and sometimes the opposite. A beautiful logo carries the face of the company, and if made properly, adds extra face value to it.

Logos can be used in a wide variety of places, like business letter, sales letter, website, visiting card, and emails practically in any place where the company name is involved. So using a good logo is not only better for the viewing perspective but also indirectly beneficiary to the company.

Finished Logo

The logo design tutorial described here is a simple yet method of creative logos and mastering the art will only lead to better perfected designs. To start with, create a new file in Photoshop with 600 x 600 pixels dimension, RGB color, 8 bit depth and 300 pixels / inch settings which will emerge as a rectangular white space. Next is to draw circles into it. Select the Eclipse tool by using U or Shift + U on the keyboard. While drawing the circle hold Shift to make sure the shape is circular, not elliptical.

Next step is to color the circle, select the Paint Bucket Tool from the left drawing panel or from keyboard shortcut G, the click the foreground color and make it #ed145b for the first circle and fill the circle with selected color by using the paint bucket tool. Copy the layer by using Ctrl + J from keyboard or selecting duplicate layer from right clicking on it. Then position it on the right below of the first circle and this time fills it with color #ec008c. Set the entire layer’s transparency to 70% to get the proper effect. The previous 2 layers and the next 6 layer’s transparency should be set to the same.

Step 1

Create the third circle just right of the first two by copying any of the layers and setting the color code to #f5989d for it. The circle should be positioned in a way so that 25% of the overlap on each other to create a blossom effect. The fourth circle should be done just opposite to the third circle, left side of the first two circles. The fourth circle should have #4b0049 color code and 70% transparency for the layer as well.

The next is to add the fifth circle to the basic flower shape and enhance the view. The color code for the fifth layer should be set to #ed1c24 and the circle should be added on the right bottom, between the second and fourth circle keeping 25% overlapped on the previous ones. The sixth circle should be positioned directly opposite to the fifth circle with color code of #ed145b and 70% layer transparency. Two more circles should be added to complete the circular flower effect of this logo design. The seventh circle may be created with #9e0039 color code and the eighth circle with #f26d7d both of them positioned on the right sides of the first two circles with 70% transparency effect.

Step 2

After creating the flower effect by these eight circles, it’s time to make the texts to bear company name and their abbreviations on the circle layers. Hold all the layers that contain the circle, tight click on it and select merge layer to simplify the design. The select the Horizontal Type Tool by pressing T on the keyboard or from the left drawing panel. Use any relevant font or color, here is used Bauhaus 93 with 18 Pixel size to write the main two letters above the circle layer that bears the text ‘SV’ and in another layer, write the full name or tagline or URL of the Company or Organizations. The styles used here are Century Gothic font type with 8 pixels dimension.

The last work is to make the beautiful reddish bloom background that can be added by editing the Blending Property of the background layer. Double click on the background layer on the bottom and use any custom name to make it edible and unlocked. Right click on the layer, select Blending Property from the drop down menu and add a gradient overlay with #8f013d as the primary color and black as second color, use reverse effect to make it look like the picture.

The main ingredient of designing Creative Logos in Photoshop is skill and imagination power, that’s what counts all the time so adding personal flavor will beautify it.