Text Design 3 - Glossy Molded Plastic

1. Create a new document with 1920 * 1080 as pixel dimensions with 150 resolution.
2. Change the background to black.
3. Select horizontal type text tool and click on the character text box (font -cooper std black , size -163.01 ,
    color -white).
4. Type the text and use move tool to reposition it.
5. Create a new layer . Hold down ctrl key and click on T of text layer to select the text.
6. Trash the original text layer.
7. Select the gradient tool and select a colored spectrum from the presets. Drag the gradient on the canvas
    while holding down shift key.
8. Deselect the selection .
9. Open the layer style to change the blending options :
   a. Bevel and Emboss ( depth-52 , size-29 , softer-1, angle-130 , altitude-60, Click on gloss contours and
      again click on the dropdown and select large list and contours and click append and then select ring
      triple. Make highlight opacity -100 and shadow mode opacity -0 )
   a1. Contour ( Select shallow slope valley and range - 75)
   b. Inner Glow ( Blend mode-multiply ,opacity -50, size -24)
   c. Drop shadow (Blend mode-multiply, opacity-50, distancr -10, size -5)
10.Hold down cltrl key and click on the text layer to make the selection. Click on select tab -> modify ->
     expand. Expand it by 16 px. Create a new layer and select the gradient tool and drag it across the text
     and delete the selection by ctrl and D.
11.Drag it below the original layer and open its layer style :
   a. Bevel and Emboss (depth-20, size-17, soften-1 , gloss contour-ring triple, highlight opacity-100  
        , shadow opacity-0).
      a1.Contour(contour - rolling slope descending , range-75)
   b. Inner glow(blend mode-linear light , opacity-20, size -18)
   c. Satin (blend mode-linear light, opacity-30, angle-90, distance-4, size-10 , contour -rolling slope
       descending)

Text Design 2 - Platinum Design

1. Create a new document with 1280 *720 as pixel dimensions.
2. Change the background color to black.
3. Type the text and use move tool to reposition it in the center.
4. Open blending options for the text layer :
   a. Stroke ( Gradient - reflected , Gradient color - gray for the end stop)
   b. Bevel and Emboss ( Technique - Chisel hard , depth - 113 , size- 10 , Gloss Contour - Ring double ,
      click on anti-aliased checkbox)
5. Hold ctrl and click on t of the text layer to select it.
6. Create a new layer and fill it with white by clicking on the text . Deselect the layer.
7. Click on filter -> blur -> gaussian blur to create a glow effect.
8. Change the radius to create an appropriate glow around the text.
9. Select the background layer and select gray and black color from the color pallette for foreground and  
    background color resp.
10.Select the gradient tool and drag it on the canvas.
11.Open the blending options for the text layer :
   c. Drop Shadow (Distance - 13 , size -16)
12.Create a new layer and double click on the background layer to unlock it.
13. Select the new layer and select the brush tool and select no. 70 brush.
14. Change the foreground color to white and click the brush on edges of the text.

Text Design 1 - Glossy Text

1. Create a new background with 500 * 200 as pixel dimensions .
2. Double click the layer to unlock it and change the background color to black .
3. Select the text tool and type a text on the canvas. Use move tool to reposition it on the center.
4. Select the blending options -
   a. Gradient Overlay ( Click on the gradient to open the gradient editor and click on the slider to create 2  
       more color stops on the slider . click on the 1st stop and select a light gray color . Click on the second
       stop and select light cyan color. Click on the third stop and choose a little dark cyan . Click on the 4th
       stop and select a light gray color).
   b. Stroke ( Change the color to light gray , size -2).
   c. Inner Shadow ( Opacity - 40 , distance - 2 , size - 3)
   d. Inner Glow ( Opacity - 51 , color - white , size - 7)
5. Create a new layer and select elliptical marquee too and drag it on half of the text . Select paint bucket
    and click on inside the ellipse and deselect the selection.
6. Hold down ctrl key and click on T on the text layer . Click on layer tab -> layermask -> reveal selection
7. Lower the opacity to 42% . Use the move tool to move the text to create a shadow like effect .

Logo Design 4 - Facebook Logo

1. Create a new background with 500*500 as pixel dimension and change the background color to white.
2. Create a new layer and select rounded rectangle tool and change radius to 60 px , hold down shift draw it on the canvas. Use move tool to reposition it on the center .
3. Change foreground color to black and rasterize to layer .
4. Select magic wand tool and click on the canvas to select the rounded rectangle shape drawn on canvas.
5. Select the gradient tool and select radio gradient and select a blue color (facebook blue color) from gradient presets and drag the gradient on the canvas .
6. Select elliptical marquee tool and hold down alt key and drag the square walls inward to reduce the size and deselect the magic wand tool.
7. Draw an ellipse over the canvas covering half of the canvas .
8. Create a new layer change the color to white and hold alt and backspace key , reduce the opacity to 15% to change the blue color to a lighter shade as compared to the rest of the logo.
9. Deselect the ellipse from the canvas.
10.Create a new layer and select rounded rectangle tool and change the radius to 15px. Draw the shape at the bottom of the canvas and use move tool to reposition it. Lower the opacity to 25% .
11.Create  a new layer and select horizontal type text . Drag the text tool over the canvas and change the size , font and type accordingly.
12.Type the text and use move tool to reposition it on the layer. Hold ctrl and t to resize the selected layer and click on the checkmark on the top.

Logo Design 3 - Glossy Logo 2

1. Create a new document with 400*400 as pixel dimensions.
2. Select paint bucket tool from the tool menu and select black color as the foreground color . Click on the background so that the color of the background changes to black.
3. Now select gray color as the new foreground color and click on the gradient tool. Select radio gradient and then drag the gradient from the center of the canvas to outside the edges to configure the gradient.
4.Select ellipse tool from the tool menu and select red color from the color palette and draw a circle on the canvas . Use the move tool to re-position it in the center. Rasterize it selecting the rasterize option
5. Right click on the ellipse layer to select blending modes:-
   a. Stroke( size -8 , position - inside , fill type - gradient , fill color - bright red , click reverse check box    
       next to the gradient , Style - reflected , angle -90 , scale - 150% ).
   b. Gradient overlay( Blend mode - soft light , click on reverse check box , style - reflected , scale - 150).
   c. Bevel and Emboss( style - pillow emboss, technical - smooth, depth -1000% ,direction - up, size -5 ,
      soften -1 , Gloss contour - ring , highlight mode - screen ,opacity - 50 , shadow mode opacity - 100)
      c1. Contour - elements (contour - Gaussian ) .
   d. Inner Shadow ( distance - 0 , choke - 20 , size - 30 , contour - half round).
   e. Drop Shadow ( distance- 0 , spread - 35 , size - 35 ) .
6. Select the text tool with foreground color black and type the text and position it in center of the logo.
7. Copy the layer styles of the ellipse layer to the text layer and make few changes like changing Stroke          
    ( size -4 ) and remove gradient overlay.
8. Create a mask to text layer by holding down alt and clicking in between the text and ellipse layer. It will
     result in making the text layer lighter.
9. Create a new layer and create a mask by holding alt and click between the two layers.
10. Select elliptical marquee tool and drag a circle to half of the logo starting from bottom left and select
     inverse option from the Select tab on the top.
11. Change the gradient to linear and foreground color to white.
12. Drag the gradient on the logo while holding down shift key.
13. Change blend mode of the layer to overlay .
14. You can also change hue of the logo by selecting hue and saturation layer from the adjustments.

Logo Design 2 - Glossy Logo

Logo Design 1 - Basic Logo

This is a basic logo designed by me on 11/19/2012.

Overview of steps performed to create this logo -

1. Create a new document with a large background and then select background gradients by selecting the gradient tool. Then select color stops for the start and end  of the gradient (dark gray and light gray resp.).

2. Drag the gradient by holding down shift key and drag the mouse from bottom to top.
3. Now select an ellipse tool.
4. Hold Ctrl-r to select ruler . Now click on the ruler and drag it in center of the canvas to set the guides.
5. Start ellipse from center of canvas and hold down shift and alt key and drag ellipse till the edges and release the click.
6. Select fill box to change the color to dark gray.
7. Duplicate the above created layer and select subtract front shape from first drop down icon on the top.
8. Make another ellipse (a little smaller then the previous) and select fill box option and choose another light gray color.
9. Repeat the above step to create another ellipse within the above created ellipses.
10. Double click layer to open layer styles and select inner shadow (Blend- normal , Opacity- 100% , Distance- 5 , Size- 5) , gradient overlay(change gray gradient by selecting gray and light gray from first and second stop) , drop shadow( change size to 20).
11. Copy and paste layer style to original layer by right clicking and selecting copy paste option.
12. Select shape layer and change color by selecting any color (blue).
13. Enter the text by selecting horizontal type mask tool . You can change the size by clicking on T of text tool on top and dragging the mouse .
14. Hold Ctrl key to move the  text in the circle to re-position and re-size it.
15. Click on top shape layer to hide the selection . Hold down alt key and click on add layer mask button at bottom to hide the text. Click on the chain lock created  to unlock the layer and select layer mask and move tool to re-position the text by clicking and dragging it.
16. Hold alt  and Ctrl on colored shape background to make selection for adding highlights.
17. Create a new layer and move it above the colored shape layer .
18. Select the brush tool and hold alt and right click to make a circle half the size of the ellipse shape and select white as foreground color . Duplicate the overlay to make it more visible or reduce the opacity to make it less visible.
19. Create a new layer at top of the list .
20. Select the blue shape color layer by holding Ctrl key . Choose marquee tool and hold alt key to get rid of half of the selection made in step 17 .
21. Drag the mouse from bottom of the background layer to half of the circle and select white as foreground color.
22. Hold alt and backspace keys to configure the selection to the layer. Change layer mode to screen and change the opacity to 100% .