1 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:11,120 OK, so we made this movie together, it looks really powerful and really cool, but what if you want 2 00:00:11,120 --> 00:00:17,150 to use more than one letter in your logo and still have it seem like it's an icon and that it represents 3 00:00:17,150 --> 00:00:18,840 your brand minimally? 4 00:00:19,370 --> 00:00:20,520 Well, let's make that together. 5 00:00:20,540 --> 00:00:21,470 First things first. 6 00:00:21,470 --> 00:00:26,900 Let's go ahead and pop these away in a folder or keep them all as is common groups them together. 7 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:32,240 Let's just give us a name in case we come back to this folder a little bit later, can switch that off 8 00:00:32,450 --> 00:00:33,890 and put my background back on. 9 00:00:34,250 --> 00:00:37,150 And I'd also like to make this no longer a square. 10 00:00:37,160 --> 00:00:39,110 I'd like to make it a longer image. 11 00:00:39,470 --> 00:00:40,610 So remember how to do that. 12 00:00:40,610 --> 00:00:46,770 We got to image canvases and we can make our width slightly bigger than our height. 13 00:00:46,790 --> 00:00:49,920 So let's do let's do 10 by seven. 14 00:00:50,060 --> 00:00:52,250 We can see that change in real time. 15 00:00:53,540 --> 00:00:54,050 All right. 16 00:00:54,060 --> 00:00:58,580 So this one is going to be super straightforward, very fast, but super effective. 17 00:00:58,850 --> 00:01:02,090 Let's come across to our text tool and first things first. 18 00:01:02,090 --> 00:01:08,420 Let's just press anything down on our canvas and type in the letters of our brand. 19 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:15,230 Now, this brand that, again, I am making up, but it could be something that you have is M and maybe 20 00:01:15,230 --> 00:01:20,270 there are two names here that have this brand together and we have M and E. 21 00:01:20,390 --> 00:01:25,820 The reason I've selected these two letters is because both the M and A really have straight edges here 22 00:01:25,820 --> 00:01:30,770 and I think that can work to our advantage if we're clever enough with the spacing between these letters, 23 00:01:31,700 --> 00:01:34,660 the first thing I'm going to do is actually take out our ampersand. 24 00:01:34,670 --> 00:01:36,680 I like it a lot and I'm going to bring it back. 25 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:38,540 But to start, let's get rid of it. 26 00:01:38,570 --> 00:01:41,950 I'm going to hit Command X to cut that right now. 27 00:01:41,970 --> 00:01:48,050 Just says me, which is E, let's make a giant Camonte. 28 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:55,440 He gets to the big take up most of this canvas here, the bigger it is now, the less it's going to 29 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:57,380 get pixels when we go ahead and lock it up. 30 00:01:59,140 --> 00:02:03,940 You might also be wondering why I always choose to make things up that is not on this canvas, but on 31 00:02:03,940 --> 00:02:06,940 something that's real life, on something that's a business card like this. 32 00:02:07,330 --> 00:02:12,880 And it's a it's a great question, but for me, it takes me off of off of Photoshop and gets me out 33 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:17,770 of my technical head and lets me see what something's going to look like in real life. 34 00:02:17,770 --> 00:02:23,590 It gives me a real opportunity to say, oh, if I had this on a business card or a tote bag or a coffee 35 00:02:23,590 --> 00:02:25,870 mug or something, does that look good? 36 00:02:25,870 --> 00:02:27,940 And is that something I'm going to want to keep around? 37 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:33,010 And it just gives you that opportunity to see something that's not just a bunch of letters on a Photoshop 38 00:02:33,010 --> 00:02:33,520 canvas. 39 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:34,870 So that's why I always do that. 40 00:02:35,380 --> 00:02:35,710 All right. 41 00:02:35,710 --> 00:02:36,850 This is nice unscented. 42 00:02:37,330 --> 00:02:40,720 I'm going to get rid of all of this space between these letters here. 43 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:42,460 And there are two ways we could do that. 44 00:02:42,460 --> 00:02:46,480 We could see what it looks like if we come up here and reduce the size between our letters. 45 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:47,350 Let's start with that. 46 00:02:47,380 --> 00:02:53,410 Let's have it go very small, Dirigo, because that that's an icon right there. 47 00:02:53,410 --> 00:02:54,710 You could use that if you wanted. 48 00:02:54,820 --> 00:03:00,070 It does look like a brand name is me rather than an end e I'm going to see what it looks like if I try 49 00:03:00,070 --> 00:03:02,350 to put the ampersand on top of this. 50 00:03:02,860 --> 00:03:09,790 I'm going to press command and the to paste that item and then I'm actually going to make that the opposite 51 00:03:09,790 --> 00:03:10,390 color to this. 52 00:03:10,390 --> 00:03:14,800 What I'm going to make it the sorry, I'm going to make it the opposite color to the black, so I'm 53 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:15,580 going to make it white. 54 00:03:15,580 --> 00:03:18,770 Let's go up to the color and make that white. 55 00:03:19,620 --> 00:03:23,110 If you've done what I've just done and made it the same color as the background and you don't know where 56 00:03:23,110 --> 00:03:27,550 to click to try and move it, if you hold the command key, it's going to give you some borders around 57 00:03:27,550 --> 00:03:33,130 the outside so that you can press and hold command while you move it and it will show up for you. 58 00:03:33,310 --> 00:03:34,340 So that's a nice tip there. 59 00:03:35,190 --> 00:03:40,170 So this is really cute with it being quite small in my mind, I'd envisage this quite large and we can 60 00:03:40,170 --> 00:03:41,310 certainly do that in a moment. 61 00:03:41,580 --> 00:03:46,470 But this is a really cute way of making this Emond E, but still looks like an icon, this ampersand, 62 00:03:46,470 --> 00:03:51,300 because it's the same color as our background actually looks like it's missing from the canvas completely. 63 00:03:51,300 --> 00:03:52,590 And that's a really cool effect. 64 00:03:52,890 --> 00:03:58,770 But I'm going to stick to my original plan, which is making this quite big and pressing come on t to 65 00:03:58,770 --> 00:04:04,340 transform that shape and dragging it until it is the same size as our letters. 66 00:04:04,350 --> 00:04:06,000 So there's the top reaching their. 67 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:12,130 Let's have the bottom range always there and then line this up. 68 00:04:14,810 --> 00:04:16,010 Almost there at the top. 69 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:25,160 And OK, now the problem with doing it like this is that while I like the size of it, you really can't 70 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:29,450 read that this is the letter A, and I do feel like our letters need to be further apart. 71 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:36,890 So I'm going to go back into the mail and come on up and increase the size between those letters until 72 00:04:36,890 --> 00:04:40,640 I feel like I can read that, which is probably around there. 73 00:04:41,380 --> 00:04:43,910 I move this across into the middle a little bit more. 74 00:04:45,290 --> 00:04:51,830 I can still see I can still see that this is an M and this is an E, but I'm going to fill in the space 75 00:04:51,830 --> 00:04:55,010 behind because I'd like to be able to see the full EMPSON. 76 00:04:55,030 --> 00:05:01,670 So come on over to the layer and let's just throw a big square behind this line that up with the top 77 00:05:01,670 --> 00:05:04,760 of those letters and release at the bottom of those letters. 78 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:12,290 And instantly we have filled that space between the M and the E, and I actually think we could go even 79 00:05:12,290 --> 00:05:13,080 further apart. 80 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:15,100 So this is the kind of thing you need to do. 81 00:05:15,110 --> 00:05:20,990 You just go to trial and error, keep pushing things around until it looks right to you because something 82 00:05:20,990 --> 00:05:26,540 will jump out and you'll be you'll be shocked at how easy it is to find stuff if you're willing to press 83 00:05:26,540 --> 00:05:32,300 around a little bit and explore, OK, I think that's superstrong and exactly what I had in my mind. 84 00:05:32,660 --> 00:05:35,320 So I'm going to highlight all of those layers together. 85 00:05:35,330 --> 00:05:40,070 So holding the shift key to get all of them and making sure they're nice and centered. 86 00:05:41,970 --> 00:05:48,810 So I was about to go and make this up over here on our business card layout, if we get rid of the background 87 00:05:48,810 --> 00:05:52,950 that ampersand is no longer invisible, it's going to be still in white ink. 88 00:05:53,070 --> 00:05:56,120 And why that's totally fine for a white business card. 89 00:05:56,430 --> 00:06:02,460 I do think it would be worth our while making this completely transparent rather than having it be in 90 00:06:02,460 --> 00:06:06,160 white ink in case we want to use it on pink background or something like that. 91 00:06:06,180 --> 00:06:09,360 I'd love the color to be able to come through that canvas. 92 00:06:09,370 --> 00:06:11,960 So let's have a little look and see how we can do that together. 93 00:06:12,510 --> 00:06:19,980 The quickest way I think that we can do this is by making this ampersand mask invisible on our letters 94 00:06:19,980 --> 00:06:21,510 and our square layer. 95 00:06:21,990 --> 00:06:23,610 So here's how we are going to do that. 96 00:06:23,610 --> 00:06:24,300 Follow along. 97 00:06:24,300 --> 00:06:30,360 If you can hit shift and highlight the rectangle and the Malea, we're going to make a copy of those. 98 00:06:31,280 --> 00:06:35,810 Any time are you going to make some changes and you might make those permanent, always make a copy 99 00:06:35,810 --> 00:06:38,310 so that it's really easy to revert back if you hate it. 100 00:06:38,330 --> 00:06:42,530 I'm going to right click on these layers and press merge layers. 101 00:06:43,370 --> 00:06:46,430 Now we have both of those layers in the one together. 102 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:51,740 So if I switch off my rectangle and my Melior, you can see that the end, the end, that rectangle 103 00:06:51,740 --> 00:06:55,130 we drew to bind those two letters are all on the one layer. 104 00:06:55,170 --> 00:06:56,240 And let's give that a name. 105 00:06:59,060 --> 00:07:05,510 Now, the next thing I'm going to do is use this shape here as the shape of the mask, I'm going to 106 00:07:05,510 --> 00:07:06,760 hide from this layer. 107 00:07:06,770 --> 00:07:09,260 So it's all going to be just on one layer at the end of this. 108 00:07:09,620 --> 00:07:11,930 Let's make a copy of our end layer. 109 00:07:12,260 --> 00:07:12,800 Here we go. 110 00:07:14,100 --> 00:07:18,720 And switch off that and I'm going to restauranteurs this layer so that we can start today. 111 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:22,010 I'm going to press rhapsodized type gray. 112 00:07:22,260 --> 00:07:26,250 So let me just go over what we have in case here a little bit lost, because I'm sort of doing this 113 00:07:26,250 --> 00:07:29,060 as I go and I want to make sure that you're still with me. 114 00:07:29,670 --> 00:07:33,170 We have our text layer ampersand on the last panel here. 115 00:07:33,210 --> 00:07:33,800 Switch off. 116 00:07:33,810 --> 00:07:34,860 We don't need that anymore. 117 00:07:34,860 --> 00:07:38,000 If we want to make a change to, I will come in here and use that layer. 118 00:07:38,820 --> 00:07:43,230 Then we have a copy of our ampersand that's been restaurateur's so that I can highlight it in a minute. 119 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:51,210 We have this layer here, ME2, which is our text, and E plus our rectangle or pasteurize and merge 120 00:07:51,210 --> 00:07:57,720 together in one layer in the only two layers we can see right now, our text and our ampersand both 121 00:07:57,720 --> 00:07:58,980 being able to be edited. 122 00:07:58,980 --> 00:08:01,080 They have been resta right now. 123 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:06,570 What I'm going to do is highlight my shape of the ampersand here just by clicking on it with the magic 124 00:08:06,570 --> 00:08:06,870 wand. 125 00:08:06,870 --> 00:08:10,310 To the reason I can do that here is because we Rasta right that layer. 126 00:08:10,350 --> 00:08:12,600 If this was a text layer, you cannot highlight it like that. 127 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:15,000 So if that if you're having issues that might be what's going on. 128 00:08:15,810 --> 00:08:21,210 Now that I have this shape selected, I'm actually going to switch that layer off completely and you'll 129 00:08:21,210 --> 00:08:23,430 see the outline of it right here. 130 00:08:24,030 --> 00:08:32,760 I'm going to go onto my in e to layer and make a mask and we have everything that's missing that wasn't 131 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:33,120 part of it. 132 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:41,070 So all we need to do is invert our mask, go to properties and hit invert and we have a mask over our 133 00:08:41,070 --> 00:08:41,730 ampersand. 134 00:08:41,730 --> 00:08:47,970 So we have the M rectangle E and then the mask is here in the shape of our ampersand. 135 00:08:47,970 --> 00:08:52,140 So we just have one layer here that's going to be really easy to for us to export. 136 00:08:52,140 --> 00:08:54,240 We're going to go file Sarbaz. 137 00:08:55,770 --> 00:08:58,050 I'm going to go in a. 138 00:08:59,250 --> 00:08:59,970 Logo. 139 00:09:02,680 --> 00:09:06,470 Save it as a PNG so that the background stays transparent and press. 140 00:09:06,490 --> 00:09:15,280 OK, come on over into our business card and drag in our PNG that we just made together and make it 141 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:16,300 a little bit smaller. 142 00:09:17,860 --> 00:09:19,240 Make it the right angle. 143 00:09:22,970 --> 00:09:30,080 And it in the center there and there we have our logo that we just made together with our Manelli, 144 00:09:30,290 --> 00:09:32,840 using the distant transparency. 145 00:09:37,820 --> 00:09:43,400 Now, you see, if I add a color overlay to our card, the ampersand is invisible, it doesn't it doesn't 146 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:46,520 just stay in white ink so we can make this whatever color we want. 147 00:09:46,820 --> 00:09:50,350 Maybe we get our business cards printed in our culture or color. 148 00:09:50,690 --> 00:09:53,060 Maybe they're bright orange, maybe they are pink. 149 00:09:53,540 --> 00:09:57,370 It stays with that color here in the middle peeking through our ampersand. 150 00:09:58,070 --> 00:09:58,670 So there we go. 151 00:09:58,670 --> 00:10:02,570 There is a monogram logo using a couple of letters and a shape.