Creating a Modern Trendy Technological Logo

In the technological field or on Web 2.0-styled websites shiny logos with depth are all the rage. In this tutorial I show you how to take a trendy font and customize it to achieve this modern techno look. I originally designed this logo with these effects in Adobe Illustrator so it was vector, but re-designed it in Photoshop as a featured tutorial in Photoshop Projects Magazine. This is the Photoshop version. Open a document in RGB color mode that is 9” X 4” and 300DPI. The first thing you’ll want is a trendy font. There’s is almost no trendier right now than Gil Sans MT so this is...

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Tiny Bubbles

Bubbles are one of the easiest things to create in Photoshop. Here’s a quick tutorial on one of the methods I use. Start with a blank page and fill it with light, baby blue color. Now make a new layer to make your bubbles on. Select the Circle Selection Tool with no feather and make a medium sized circle in the middle-upper left hand area of the page. Then, while holding down Shift, make another smaller circle to the right of it. You can make as many circles as you wish, but make sure you keep the Shift key held down. If you don’t like a circle you’ve made, hold down the...

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