Photoshop Zone

  Today we will be learning how to create a nice simple colorful logo with Adobe Illustrator. To complete our logo design we will be combine a few simple shapes. With some very simple linear gradients we will try to increase the depth and to create an eye catching design. Final Image As always, this is the final image that we’ll be creating:   Step 1 Let’s create a new document first. Make sure to set the dimensions to 500 x 500 pixels and the Color Mode to RGB. Step 2 We will start with the Polygon Tool. Select it in the Tools Panel and click on the Artboard. It will bring up the Polygon Option box. Set the Radius to 150 pixels and Sides to 5 and hit the OK button. Fill color is not important. Step 3 We need to modify our Polygon a little. Select the yellow shape and under Effect select Stylize > Round Corners. Step 4 Make sure to expand the shape. Select Object > Expand Appearance. It will turn the object into an editable shape...

Click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Gradient Overlay . Click in the color bar to open the Gradient Editor and set the color stops as shown. Click OK to close the Gradient Editor dialog box. We’ve got the next result: Using the same tool, try to make the rivet itself. Click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Inner Shadow . Add Bevel and Emboss : Apply Gradient Overlay : Click in the color bar to open the Gradient Editor and set the color stops as shown. Click OK to close the Gradient Editor dialog box. We’ve got the next result: Getting a better result is possible if combining together in a group both layers composing the rivet (hold Ctrl button to select the corresponding layers and hold on the left mouse’s button while dragging them on Create a new group icon from bottom part of the Layers panel ). Make a copy of the repre...