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28 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating a Logo Design 2017
Your brand logo is going to be one of the most important assets of your online presence. A logo is something that people remember you by, and if you manage to accumulate enough reputation, people will begin to use and promote your brand logo elsewhere, establishing even more credibility for you. That is why it can be so important to create the kind of a logo that you’re going to be proud of, a logo that will best resemble your business, and its ideas. Though of course, logo’s aren’t just for websites, but also for real life products, for special occasions, and other situations where a logo would be required. What it comes down to, is the process of manifesting a beautiful logo that would suit your needs, and that would best represent your ideas.
Tools like Adobe Photoshop have existed for many years already, and Photoshop has certainly become the household tool for doing graphic design for the web, as has Adobe Illustrator; a few of the tutorials we will mention are going to be using Adobe Illustrator as the base software. Creating a logo can take as much time as you want, it really does come down to the vision you are trying to achieve. Movies, comics, scenery, creative drive, all these small things have inspired for designers to explore new and unexplored areas of logo design, which is why you are going to see so much versatility in this post, an immense amount of creative expressions that come from some of the best designers in the world.
Photoshop tutorials for creating logo’s have been published on the web as far back as 2006, with the average popular post being published in 2008, but the Photoshop software itself has changed a lot since then. We did our best to include logo tutorials that have been published in the recent 2-3 years to ensure that all the tutorials are up to date, and use the latest Adobe software standards. Though, if any of the tutorials are a little bit older, we decided to include them for the inspiration that they may provide for your own logo projects.
Making of Metallic Transformers Logo
Transformers was truly one of the most successful action movies of the early 2000’s. An action packed film that managed to capture the hearts of both young film watchers, and grown ups too. Although the films have finished a long time ago, the legacy of Transformers continues to live on. Kids can frequently be seen using transformers stickers, and other transformers merchandise to showcase their approval of the film. And why not take this liking on to the web too. With a transformers logo! Surely someone who is still young and a huge fan of the series will enjoy to see a transformers logo on their website. 10Steps’s a professional graphic designer resource outlining how to achieve great design outcomes through easy to follow tutorials. The final result of this logo is a metallic transformers logo that’s going to compliment designs related to films, games, or simply creativity.
Creating a crazy cool logo
Abduzeedo is one of those design resources that have taken a long time to evolve and mature, and find its own voice. The people behind Abduzeedo are designers at heart, working in many different areas of graphic design, and frequently sharing their findings in the form of structural and insightful tutorials. Creating a crazy cool logo is a recap of a business proposal that Abduzeedo crew was presented with: to create a unique logo for the company Zagora. Although the logo process took much more time than displayed in the post, it does show the process of using a simple “circles” approach to create a unique logo experience. In just ten steps, a unique logo experience is created, and now you can recreate it too.
Real Apple Logo in Photoshop
Abduzeedo’s focus is individuality, creativity, and authentic thinking. They create designs that nobody else thinks of doing, at least until they present their ideas to the world. Creating a Real Apple logo was also just that, a unique idea. At the time of creating the tutorial, nobody had really thought of recreating the famous technology companies Apple logo in the form of a real apple. But Abduzeedo did, and their post was a huge success right from the start. With the help of the actual Apple Logo vector, they managed to transform a black on white Apple logo into a visually appealing real-life Apple that resembled the actual logo, and they even included the little leaf on top of the stem of the apple. Amazing thinking, great design!
How to Make Apple WWDC Logo in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference is amongst the most elite of events, where thousands of professional and experienced engineers gather together to see what Apple is going to release in the wild once again. As a technology company, Apple has managed to excel in many different areas, particularly mobile. Some designers enjoy the conference so much that they decided it would be a good idea to try and recreate the at the time, stunning Apple WWDC logo. Honestly, the final result of the logo is a beautiful Apple logo concept that would still find use in modern day to day publishing. This is also a good time to let you know that the Photoshop logo tutorials we’re going to count down, are going to include quite a few samples from recreating a logo of a popular technology company. It’s more than obvious that tech companies put some extra effort in designing their logos, especially when you understand that these logos are going to be seen by millions of users, many of which will interact with the logo on daily basis, and still do.
Google Chrome Logo Design
Google Chrome logo has evolved over the years, but even this old version of the logo is still a beautiful preview of how simple Photoshop actions can lead to a unique logo experience. Glossing, custom gradients and ellipses, a lot of work had gone into producing this logo, and now you can learn how to do it as well. Google stuck with their old-school logo for the search engine up until last year, and that old logo was there since the beginning of the company, but it says another thing also — Google loves to stick to something that they create once, and Chrome logo is one such example. Google’s passion is creating things once, perfecting them, and sticking to them. For a company such as Google, changing the appearance of a logo is going to be a big deal, because everyone will end up talking about it.
Casino Royale Logo
Casino websites have varieties of reputation on the web. Ever since web became popular, casino websites sprouted all over the place, and not all of them have got a good reputation. A casino website online is going to function the same way a casino website functions offline, usually the majority of profits is going to go back to the person who built the casino, but, enough of the casino hate! Maybe you’re a loyal casino person who wants to launch his own casino website/platform and you need some designer inspiration to go alongside your vision. Well, here’s a Photoshop tutorial on how to create your very own casino royale logo. The finished product is a beautiful casino logo that has the 777 attached to the design. The infamous 777 is regarded as the common jackpot number across many of the existing worlds casinos.
Skype Logo
Skype has more than 70M+ users, people spend on average 30 minutes within a Skype conversation, an increasing number of small business owners are switching to Skype for all things related to business calls and conferences, the famous Skype iOS application gets anywhere from 10M to 15M downloads each year, and hundreds of millions of users have heard of Skype altogether. It’s a very active company that has managed to surviving many bubbles, many difficulties and condemnations from the community, but Skype has in many ways remained all the same, especially when we look at the logo. It’s the same logo that the company was using 10 years ago. It’s a logo that has captured the hearts of hundreds of millions of Skype customers. Why wouldn’t we learn how to create a logo like this on our own, if only to understand the deeper concepts of how positioning works in a logo, and how big of an effect that is going to have on the way that the logo is perceived.
Photoshop: Clean Professional Logo
The tutorial you are about to explore has more than 1.5 million views on YouTube, and we would assume that the combined exposure for this tutorial has been more than 2 million. It’s a Photoshop tutorial created by Corey Harris, on how to create a clean and lean professional logo. Tens of thousands of websites are now fully functional with their custom logo thanks to this tutorial. Unless you’re looking to utilize everything that modern graphic designer has to offer, you can easily rely on a tutorial as seen here, to help yourself create a clean logo that’s going to be enough to make a statement about your dedicated to the business you’re running.
Create a Slick Business Logo
A business needs to ensure that the logo its using, is reflecting the true values of the business. A result that is easier to express than to achieve. This click business logo tutorial is going to help you with achieving a fairly slick result of a logo. Albeit, a very simple result. If a mascot isn’t your thing, and you like to stick to the basics — such as standard text logos, this is going to be your tutorial for sure.
Creating a Retro Logo
Aviva Directory has been promoting Photoshop tutorials for many years, in fact, it’s one of the oldest still running Photoshop resources on the web, and their tutorials continue to serve the Photoshop community every single day. Animations, basics, drawings, effects, special effects, text effects, web graphics and layouts, Aviva Directory excels in many Photoshop categories, including logos. This tutorial is for recreating a Retro Logo effect. Unlike the previous one, this one actually has some extra visual drawings added to it, creating a more personal logo experience for your website.
Web 2.0 Logo Reflection in Vector format with Illustrator
Logo reflections is a really cool Photoshop feature to learn, well.. any reflections actually, not just text. You might already know how to do this in Photoshop, the amount of tutorials related to this matter are countless, but what Jay Hilgert is giving back to us here, is a recreation of a Reflection Logo using Adobe Illustrator. It is very likely that those who use Photoshop are also going to have access to Illustrator, so we find that this particular tutorials has a good place in this Photoshop logo tutorials roundup.
How To Create a Retro Badge/Emblem Style Logo
Spoon Graphics is run by Chris Spooner, an experience graphics designers from the United Kingdom. The design work published by Chris has reached millions of people, and his tutorials carry a legacy alongside them. The first logo tutorial from Chris is going to be all in relation to Retro design. If you’re running a gym, and need a logo idea to use right away, perhaps this Retro Gym Logo is going to be a good fit. It’s a circled logo with several layers, in the middle of logo you have a weights icon added to it to really tie the concept together. The thing with Photoshop tutorials is that a lot of Photoshop starters want to share their concepts and ideas too, but they usually start to get tired in the middle of the tutorial, and begin to leave out important details, but when it comes to Spoon Graphics tutorials, they’re always thorough, from start to finish.
How To Create an Origami Style Logomark in Illustrator
Origami originates from Japan, a folded paper design pattern that once converted into digital format, can actually become a very authentic experience for the users exposed to it. In the tutorial you are going to be working with Adobe Illustrator. Chris takes the design idea to a new level by googling some photos of birds, typicall where origami get its folded inspiration from. Once you find a good bird design to mimic, you can begin to create an outline. Thouands of social shares later, this is one of the most frequently used Photoshop/Illustrator tutorials for how to recreate origami style logos.
How to Design a Logotype from Conception to Completion
This logotype tutorial goes way back to 2007. It was the first tutorial that Spoon Graphics published, already then Chris was portraying a deep understanding of logos, and he decided to share his own logo workflow that talks about going from a logo idea, to the full logo completion. His most important recommendations are about using vector software when building a logo,, such as Illustrator. He also recommends to create logos that you can reproduce in single colors. And since logos are often used in flyers and business cards too, you need to ensure that once the logo is scaled down, the lines remain intact. You will learn and grasp all these concepts in this single tutorial.
Logo Design Process and Walkthrough for BioThemes
BioThemes is a now defunct website, but once upon a time it needed the help of Spoon Graphics to have them design their stunning logo. A leaf covered, rich logo pattern that shows how personalized logos can be, and in the tutorial you will come to learn what it takes to create a logo that stands for a brand. It all starts with using a single tree leaf and then using that leaf to amplify the logo to make it seem more rich. A very intricate and detailed logo that should inspire in you to create some cool creations yourself.
Logo Design Project Step by Step Walkthrough
Logo designers who create logos for a living can earn a pretty penny, but the amount of work that goes into producing a professional logo is definitely to be justified to comprehend its complexity, and difficulty. Here’s a tutorial from Spoon Graphics that showcases the inception of a logo project, with a step-by-step guide on how to go from having no logo, to having a logo that’s brandable and possible to use in a design.
Step-by-Step Tutorial to Create a Business Logo with Photoshop
Udemy is world’s one of the most popular platforms for sharing, creating, and participating in online courses. Udemy gives back to the web community so much, and they extend that generosity on their blog as well, where they can be frequently seen publishing interesting articles and tutorials on how to achieve certain things, in this example — they have an author publishing a Photoshop tutorial on how to create a business logo for your business. It’s a modest business logo and you should be able to create logos of your own once you’re finished with the tutorial. Never hesitate to ask the author of the post questions or leave feedback.
CREATE 3D LOGO WITH POLYGONAL LASSO TOOL
The Polygon lasso tools lets you create some stunning 3D concepts, but what about creating a 3D logo using the same Polygon tool? You’re in luck, because that’s what Daily Inspiration from Netherlands is going to teach you. The end result is a futuristic logo that can be used in many different contexts, website logo, game logo, business logo. Whatever your purpose for a logo is, you can find use with this particular logo. The tutorial is split into 14 steps and each steps describes what you need to do.
Create a Classic Vector Crest Logo
Vector crest logos are the kind of logos that are usually built with a mascot in mind, or at least significant symbolism in mind. While many of our Photoshop logo tutorials focused around creating single images, or single text logos, this one from Tutsplus goes much more in detail about structuring a logo that incorporates the business name and also accompanied images to go with it. You will be using Pathfinder a lot in this Photoshop tutorial, so if you were planning to learn about Pathfinder anyway, this intermediate tutorial will be a great resource to begin with.
Create a Cool Music Logo on a Grunge Background
Music websites, music brands, and music businesses are also deep in the logo sphere. It’s wonderful to see how the logo scene has evolved and how different categories and types of websites use different logos to appeal to their visitors. Music related sites are often seen using blended and grunge optimized logo templates that indicate exotic creativity, as you will inevitably see in the demo here. The difficulty of completing this tutorial is intermediate, but that is going to be the price to pay to learn some invaluable Photoshop skills. Dating many years back, this is still a very famous tutorial for those who are hoping to recreate a music-oriented logo with an attached background.
How to Create a Chalk Logo Effect in Photoshop
What’s so cool about chalk logos? The best part about a chalk logo is that it looks surreally real. Just go outside for a walk and walk by a famous bar or a pub, you will quickly notice that these types of establishments love to put out their chalk boards with cute drawings on them, and now you can recreate that eye catching effect for your digital establishment as well. We were quite chuffed to learn that this is actually a Photoshop logo tutorial that’s aimed at complete beginners, even if the time of completion is a little above average. You will need to take note of the fact that the actual drawing in the logo was created by hand, meaning it was drawn on a piece of paper and then scanned onto the computer. Some say this is not a true Photoshop achievement, while some say that is is a wonderful way to bridge the pencil creativity onto a digital format. You are in charge of deciding which statements sounds more true to you.
How to Create the Batman Dark Knight Logo in Adobe Illustrator
The Batman series couldn’t be more popular than they are, both the series and feature films have gained a following of immense ratios, and graphic designers all over the world are trying to recreate the Batman logo using Photoshop. And now you can too, thanks to Andrei Marius from Tutsplus who was kind enough to create a tutorial on how to create the Batman logo, with nothing but a little bit of Photoshop and Illustrator. Very solid design by the time you’re done with it, and beginners can jump on creating this one too, lots of exciting Illustrator features to be learned and understood. Like so many graphic designers have already pointed out, Illustrator is where it’s at when it comes to digital logo design.
Design Your Own Floral Typography Logo in Photoshop
If batman or transformers wasn’t enough, and you’re more in the flowery scene, when here is a tutorial to help you create a logo that’s going to feature floray typography styles. The most amazing feature of Photoshop is that it allows you to use different textures, grunges, and brushes all within a same design, so all you really need is the actual logo text and a package of unique brushes to help stitch together a unique logo design, and through this tutorial, you will better understand how that process works so you can start using your own custom brushes.
How To Create An Epic Metallic Band Logo
Web and graphic designers aren’t just seen creating content on demand, designers love to put a little of their own touches to a design, such as in this case. A metallic logo design that will compliment music bands and music oriented projects. It’s not like those people who are in music bands don’t understand design, quite the opposite — they too wish to deliver to their fans an experience that’s going to resemble their music and the music values. And a logo such as this can be easily transformed for the use in many external outlets as well, not just for the use as a logo.
Fitness Logo Photoshop Tutorial
Fitness companies and brands are going to want to create logos that resemble something that has to do with fitness, for example — a stretching silluet of an athlete, or weights, or skipping rope. Each industry and category usually requires a personal touch to really tie together what the brand is about, and if you are part of a fitness startup or business, you will benefit greatly from the following tutorial.
Create The BMW Logo
BMW is a household name, a household name that has built some of the most wanted cars in the world. The BMW logo is worldwide known, but one has to wonder — what goes into the process of creating a logo that appeals to the whole wide world. There are so many situations where we have to ask this question to ourselves, because chances are — these logos could have looked totally different to what we know for them to look like these days. As complex as the initial impressions might be, this wiil be a quick, effective and painless tutorial to follow. It’s time you create your own BMW logo copy using your favorite graphic design tool Photoshop.
Dache: Logo Design Process
The logo design workflow or otherwise known as process is going to be very important to understand for those designers who work with logo designs more frequently, so basically freelancers and contract workesr. Here’s a guest post on Web Designer Wall from David Pache who talks about his own logo design process, and gives you some ideas that you can adapt on your own. Wonderful to have these super-experienced artists share their wisdom with everyone.
Learn how to create a Futuristic Logo in photoshop
Futuristic logos are all about metallic, glossy, and colorful patterns. You will learn why and how over the course of this tutorial that teaches Photoshop users how to create their own futuristic, future-like logos.
Best Photoshop Logo Tutorials
Coming across the best of the best isn’t always that easy. The web is a huge platform, it’s an infinite resource of content, including tutorials for software such as Photoshop. We know that quite a few of the tutorials in this particular collection are dating back a few years, but we did our absolute best to ensure that a lot of the tutorials are also up to date, and can actually be practiced in the newest versions of Photoshop today. We encourage our fellow community members who do graphic design work with Photoshop to also, share their own tutorials and guides so that everyone can learn at a more steady pace.
