Saturday, November 24, 2012

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.

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