Embedded Files
Pro Tips:
Pro Tips:
Use Layer Styles to create depth in your logo
Bevel and Emboss
Drop Shadow
Gradient overlay
Add light
Add special effects: See Susan's Special Effects Brush set
Brushes
Brushes
Append Tools in Photoshop
Brushes by Kyle Webster
Making your own Custom Brushes
Soft and Hard Brushes
What are Brush Presets?
Importing Jason's Nice Tools
Bonner's Brushes
Painting with Jason's Nice Brush
Grut Brushes and Preset Panel Plugin
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
General Process:
General Process:
Start with sketching - then make your work digital. For this project it can be vector or bitmap.
After you Sketch, then design painting edges of your logo and adding special effects will be an important part of finishing your story.
Quick Demo using Layer Styles to create Bevel and Emboss and a stroke. Remember to duplicate layers before you rasterize. Then I go into altering the edges by erasing the rasterized image which preserves the effects.
In Class Demos and student processes
In Class Demos and student processes
Moving forward with some new methods after the sketches have been refined.
Font Manipulation with Kelsey Phothisan
Font Manipulation with Kelsey Phothisan
Thanks to Kelsea for sharing her Inner Demons Sketch, we made a video of selecting font and then stretching the shapes of the letters to match the sketch.
Candy Effect: Ava Tolonen
Candy Effect: Ava Tolonen
The KN-95 mask is a little hard to hear even with my editing
Outer Glow Time Stretch Look - Logan Holewa
Outer Glow Time Stretch Look - Logan Holewa
The KN-95 mask is a little hard to hear even with my editing
Spooky Kid Drawing Logo Effect: Scratch on inked crayon: Maia Harris
Spooky Kid Drawing Logo Effect: Scratch on inked crayon: Maia Harris
The KN-95 mask is a little hard to hear even with my editing
Logo Hierarchy Deciding what to make bigger: Kenny
Logo Hierarchy Deciding what to make bigger: Kenny
The KN-95 mask is a little hard to hear even with my editing
Giving glow with layer styles.
Giving glow with layer styles.
Adam - Shadows Over Night:
Giving glow with layer styles.
Using colored background to work in context.
Jake Posh
Michaela Barton
Eden Peña
Layer styles Outer Glow
Layer styles Outer Glow
Hannah Miedema - Rails of Timore
How to make a logo look like it is a part of an explosion.
How to make a logo look like it is a part of an explosion.
Annah Jarrett- Murphys Law Logo Paint on 3D and Layer Styles
Magical Logo
Magical Logo
Chyna Bacon - Logo Magic!
Magic Arc Brush
Painting in selections
- Logo Paint Metal Paste Into
Jalen Tate: Ultimate Animal Logo Paint Metal Paste Into
Doing a Metal look on a logo
Motion Blur technique for a fast and furious look or street fighter feeling logo.
Using Drop shadow in hard mode to get a logo to stand out on any background.
Jalen Tate
Wenjin Deng
Almost Every Game Logo uses these methods:
Almost Every Game Logo uses these methods:
Adding stroke is used in almost every game logo
Adding Stroke and curving text in PSD
Requested Technique Demos:
Requested Technique Demos:
Q: How do I make make broken glass connect with my GUI?
Q: How do I make make broken glass connect with my GUI?
A: Get a photo, run cut out filter, adjust color.
Q: How do I make my logo look like worn stone?
Q: How do I make my logo look like worn stone?
A: First I would recommend that you use a texture paste into then paint over it.
Pick a font that already has some rough edges, or you can start with really any font.
Go to Textures.com and then find a stone texture
Copy the image
Go to Layer> Rasterize Layer
Select your logo shape
Edit > Paste Special > Paste into (This will paste your texture into your shape, then you can click on the texture and move it around until you like it's location.)
Then you can cut into the shape of the letters to allow the 3d aspect of the layer style still be affected. Use an eraser set to pressure sensitivity and erase crack like shapes and edgy shapes.
If this is not enough for the 3d look you may want, Go to Layer > Layer Styles > choose gradient overlay > create a lighting effect by clicking on the light direction and choose from the top left or right or whatever location you need to make the metal have a lighting feel that is not so straight.
Then you may need another layer for painting lighting on the top of all of that.
Adding a texture to your logo reduces how much you would need to paint the edges - you could take something like this and turn it 3d by using layer styles next.
Q: How do I make a metal effect on words? (+ shiny and dirty metal techniques.)
Q: How do I make a metal effect on words? (+ shiny and dirty metal techniques.)
A: First I would recommend that you use a texture paste into then paint over it. Then gradient overlays for main shine, then add bling!
Go to Textures.com and then find a metal texture
Copy the image
Go to Layer> Rasterize Layer
Select your logo shape
Edit > Paste Special > Paste into (This will paste your texture into your shape, then you can click on the texture and move it around until you like it's location.)
Then you can cut into the shape of the letters to allow the 3d aspect of the layer style still be affected. Use an eraser set to pressure sensitivity and erase edges that feel like warn cuts in the metal.
More layer styles are needed: Go back to the Layers > click Effects > this opens up more layer style s options > choose gradient overlay > create a lighting effect by clicking on the light direction and choose from the top left or right or whatever location you need to make the metal have a lighting feel that is not so straight.
Then make a new paint layer and add some bling - a few glowy paint strokes to make the shine.
A dirty metal feel will come from the photo you paste into
A clean and shiny metal feel will come from a cleaner photo with more shine, consider your gradient overlay using the method of reflection of brown to white to blue to be reflecting the world, ground to light to sky.
Specularity will be used in objects that are metal, stone, leather or anything with shine. Slide Show by Mike Williams
Metallic feel with lighting using layer styles.
Layer styles with bevel and emboss and textures
You can change gold to silver by making it grey with blue and orange in the gradient.
Q: How do I make cuts or cracks in letters, in a way that would make it look more realistic and not flat?
Q: How do I make cuts or cracks in letters, in a way that would make it look more realistic and not flat?
A: First I would recommend that you use a texture paste into then paint over it.
Go to Textures.com and then find a crack texture
Copy the image
Go to Layer> Rasterize Layer
Select your logo shape
Edit > Paste Special > Paste into (This will paste your texture into your shape, then you can click on the texture and move it around until you like it's location.)
Then you can cut into the shape of the letters to allow the 3d aspect of the layer style still be affected. Use an eraser set to pressure sensitivity and erase crack like shapes.
Q: How do I make a gem?
Q: How do I make a gem?
Here is a very painterly method for painting a gem. Note the extra effects at the end.
Q: How do I make things glow in a painterly style?
Q: How do I make things glow in a painterly style?
A: Layer styles is a good start, then making a new layer paint to make it glow, there are a lot of good brushes to make this happen in the effects set in the Adobe Brushes
Start by using Layer Styles
Go to Layer > Layer Styles
Choose Glow > Outer Glow > Choose your color like a cyan blue > allow it to be low opacity or on multiply or on screen in the options
4. That will be your start, then add a new layer > name the layer > Paint Glow > Use a blurry Brush at about 30% opacity that is not thick to thin in its brush width or pressure sensitivity.
Neon Light Methods
More Specific Look Tutorials:
More Specific Look Tutorials:
Adding Woodgrain
Using 3d in Photoshop goes a step farther than the layer styles and may not be necessary for all logos
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