All right, welcome back to our lucky last text logo idea that we're going to come up with together.
And the first things first is I'd like to hide the last one we've just done.
We have this green space here with some color and we also have our original green space for our capital
letters and our different sized fonts here.
So I'm switching both of those off.
I'm going to keep my background on because I love working on a clean background.
But for this last one, I really want to play around with the idea of color and using text to show different
colors.
And I'll show you what I mean as we go along together.
But I actually would like to be working with a bigger canvas than this.
We could go file new and add a new canvas if we wanted.
But I'd like to throw in an extra tip here to show you how to change the size of your canvas once you've
already opened a project.
So we're going to come up here to our image.
And if you come down to canvases, it'll bring up this menu here, bring that across.
And here we go.
We have our eight by four.
It's close enough here.
And all we have to do is just add a different number here.
So at the moment, it's eight by four.
I'm going to see what it might look like if we do eight by five and see if that is enough.
Yes or OK.
And you'll see that we have expanded our canvas slightly.
I think that's good enough for now.
I'm going to stretch this background layer by hitting Command T, just making sure our white covers
the edges doesn't have to be too neat because we'll switch this off before we export any layer.
All right.
So we can zoom in.
That's just an easy tip for you there.
If you found that you've opened a project and it's not the right size.
So I'm going to leave these both turned off because I'd like to work with a new imaginary company that
we're going to call Shine.
So let's grab our text here.
We ought to open up a color that is not that is not white.
Let's put it on black and let's type out shine this h.
I am.
Now, remember, that fund is everything, and I already think that looks really cool, but I'd like
to show you a tip today that is going to involve this text actually missing from our image.
The first thing I'm going to do is change our background color.
So let's put an overlay here, so if I double click on the space next to that layer, I can bring up
this lifestyle menu and if I hit color overlay, come in here and choose a color that I like.
Now I'm going to choose quite a pale.
A pale yellow, I think, maybe something something like that.
OK, now we're working with a bright color, and you can see already, just by adding a background to
this, we can now associate the font and the color to this brand.
I think it looks really cool, but this is not where I'm stopping today.
I'm going to make this font the exact same color as my background and have it cut out of a circle.
Now, it sounds like a lot of steps, but let me show you, come over here to your shape and grab the
Ellipse tool, and I'm going to hold shift while I drag and bring down a circle shift holds it in the
same place so that it's all relative to each other.
If you weren't holding shift, you might end up with an oval or something like that.
Second, you start holding shift, you get a perfect circle.
So I'm going to hit undo on that one.
And let's work with this circle.
We've just put in double click over here to bring up the color menu and let's make it the same color
as our background and then add maybe one or two shades darker.
I'm going to go there very hard to tell the difference between these two shapes, but that's sort of
what I'm going for.
I'm going to bring my Elipse layer down underneath the shine so that shine sits on top of that.
And I'm going to make my shine layer by hitting Clemente, I'm going to make that take up the whole
width of this circle, can I have it so that the E and the S.
Touch the edges of this circle just like that.
It's helpful because they're quite round letters as well, and they almost fit pretty perfectly with
the sides of this of the circle, so that's really cool.
OK, now my text color, I'm going to make the same color as my background, hiding that completely
from this circle that we have now.
This is so simple.
This is such a simple thing that we've just done.
But we have created a really awesome color palette and the text logo from nothing.
Basically, we did that in just a couple of minutes together.
Let's play around with what it looks like to change this font.
Let's take it back to our trusty railway font, which gives us a lot to play around with.
I'm going to make it a really black font, black meaning quite bold.
And I'm going to change the size between my letters here, bringing those closer.
And I'm not super happy with the size of that.
So let's make it a little bit smaller.
Actually, I just changed my mind.
Let's make it a little bigger, let's push it to the edge here.
I really like that.
I think that looks really strong.
If you're not happy with the colors of these, you can always tweak them.
If we want to make this more of a yellowy yellow rather than a pastel bring that maybe maybe up to their.
I think that's very bold.
I like that.
Let's make our text font match it.
So come up here, change the color of your text.
Just use the eyedropper tool as the background.
And now our circle looks pretty, pretty brown and gray.
So let's make it just slightly, slightly darker or lighter, if you want.
And the the text that we are using.
Quite like what it looks like when it's a little bit lighter.
Let's stick with the original plan and have it just slightly darker.
Let me go and tweak this until you're happy with the size.
I need a little more of that.
Yes, there we go.
All right, so let's say this is a picture here, we're going to go file say this, let's call it the
Shine logo so we can find that on our desktop in just a little bit.
We don't have to worry about saving.
This is a PG because our background is not transparent.
So it doesn't matter if it's a JPEG or a PG.
I am just going to keep it as a PG, though, for now.
Hit, save and OK.
And let's come over into our mockup where we have our last green space logo there.
Let's turn that off.
So we have this blank thing here and let's find our Shine logo somewhere.
Wherever you've saved that.
I've just brought mine across here and I'm going to let that fall into the middle here.
Let's line that up with our business card here.
I'd like to show you an easy way to have this snap to the border of our business card.
So switch it off for now.
We can come back to it in a moment and we are going to draw a box.
A rectangle here around the size of our business card does not have to be exact, but something a little
bit close going to reduce the opacity so that I can see through it so that I can tell when it is lined
up.
I'm using my kit move and I'm using my arrow tools just to nudge that so that it's on top of the business
card.
Looks like it could be just a little bit longer going to hit shift while I transform that so that it
snaps to that size.
Then we go, all right.
And this is going to be what we use as a clipping mask.
Why switch this Shine logo back on here?
And I right.
Click on the Shine logo layer and click create clipping mask.
It's going to only show up where the layer below it is.
And we know that we just made that rectangle.
Let's make it a little bit brighter.
We know that we made that the same time.
It sizes our business card.
So shiny logo on create clipping mask and it's going to snap exactly to the layer below it, which we
need to bring up our opacity so that that shine is written right there.
This is a live layer.
We can move this around.
You'll see some of the black will show up if it's not quite lined up, but it's not showing up over
here anymore because our rectangle doesn't go that far.
So it's a really cool way of adding something to a page.
If we want to come back and we have a big picture and we want to put it here instead of instead of this
one or we have to do is swap out the clipping mask.
So there's a really great tip for you there.
So let's zoom out and let's have a little look at what our Shine business card looks like.
I think this looks so strong.
I think this is a really awesome way of showing a logo.
Is having that text be removed from an item just like we did here in this circle.
So there is our third text logo together using color, using shape, using different fonts.
And we have created some really cool, strong ideas of logos here.
So show me what you've made below.
I've attached these mock up files in the projects files folder for you.
So all you have to do is just simply create yourself a clipping mask, throw it in, let me see what
you've made and I can't wait to hear how you went.