OK, so we made this movie together, it looks really powerful and really cool, but what if you want
to use more than one letter in your logo and still have it seem like it's an icon and that it represents
your brand minimally?
Well, let's make that together.
First things first.
Let's go ahead and pop these away in a folder or keep them all as is common groups them together.
Let's just give us a name in case we come back to this folder a little bit later, can switch that off
and put my background back on.
And I'd also like to make this no longer a square.
I'd like to make it a longer image.
So remember how to do that.
We got to image canvases and we can make our width slightly bigger than our height.
So let's do let's do 10 by seven.
We can see that change in real time.
All right.
So this one is going to be super straightforward, very fast, but super effective.
Let's come across to our text tool and first things first.
Let's just press anything down on our canvas and type in the letters of our brand.
Now, this brand that, again, I am making up, but it could be something that you have is M and maybe
there are two names here that have this brand together and we have M and E.
The reason I've selected these two letters is because both the M and A really have straight edges here
and I think that can work to our advantage if we're clever enough with the spacing between these letters,
the first thing I'm going to do is actually take out our ampersand.
I like it a lot and I'm going to bring it back.
But to start, let's get rid of it.
I'm going to hit Command X to cut that right now.
Just says me, which is E, let's make a giant Camonte.
He gets to the big take up most of this canvas here, the bigger it is now, the less it's going to
get pixels when we go ahead and lock it up.
You might also be wondering why I always choose to make things up that is not on this canvas, but on
something that's real life, on something that's a business card like this.
And it's a it's a great question, but for me, it takes me off of off of Photoshop and gets me out
of my technical head and lets me see what something's going to look like in real life.
It gives me a real opportunity to say, oh, if I had this on a business card or a tote bag or a coffee
mug or something, does that look good?
And is that something I'm going to want to keep around?
And it just gives you that opportunity to see something that's not just a bunch of letters on a Photoshop
canvas.
So that's why I always do that.
All right.
This is nice unscented.
I'm going to get rid of all of this space between these letters here.
And there are two ways we could do that.
We could see what it looks like if we come up here and reduce the size between our letters.
Let's start with that.
Let's have it go very small, Dirigo, because that that's an icon right there.
You could use that if you wanted.
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
to put the ampersand on top of this.
I'm going to press command and the to paste that item and then I'm actually going to make that the opposite
color to this.
What I'm going to make it the sorry, I'm going to make it the opposite color to the black, so I'm
going to make it white.
Let's go up to the color and make that white.
If you've done what I've just done and made it the same color as the background and you don't know where
to click to try and move it, if you hold the command key, it's going to give you some borders around
the outside so that you can press and hold command while you move it and it will show up for you.
So that's a nice tip there.
So this is really cute with it being quite small in my mind, I'd envisage this quite large and we can
certainly do that in a moment.
But this is a really cute way of making this Emond E, but still looks like an icon, this ampersand,
because it's the same color as our background actually looks like it's missing from the canvas completely.
And that's a really cool effect.
But I'm going to stick to my original plan, which is making this quite big and pressing come on t to
transform that shape and dragging it until it is the same size as our letters.
So there's the top reaching their.
Let's have the bottom range always there and then line this up.
Almost there at the top.
And OK, now the problem with doing it like this is that while I like the size of it, you really can't
read that this is the letter A, and I do feel like our letters need to be further apart.
So I'm going to go back into the mail and come on up and increase the size between those letters until
I feel like I can read that, which is probably around there.
I move this across into the middle a little bit more.
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
behind because I'd like to be able to see the full EMPSON.
So come on over to the layer and let's just throw a big square behind this line that up with the top
of those letters and release at the bottom of those letters.
And instantly we have filled that space between the M and the E, and I actually think we could go even
further apart.
So this is the kind of thing you need to do.
You just go to trial and error, keep pushing things around until it looks right to you because something
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
around a little bit and explore, OK, I think that's superstrong and exactly what I had in my mind.
So I'm going to highlight all of those layers together.
So holding the shift key to get all of them and making sure they're nice and centered.
So I was about to go and make this up over here on our business card layout, if we get rid of the background
that ampersand is no longer invisible, it's going to be still in white ink.
And why that's totally fine for a white business card.
I do think it would be worth our while making this completely transparent rather than having it be in
white ink in case we want to use it on pink background or something like that.
I'd love the color to be able to come through that canvas.
So let's have a little look and see how we can do that together.
The quickest way I think that we can do this is by making this ampersand mask invisible on our letters
and our square layer.
So here's how we are going to do that.
Follow along.
If you can hit shift and highlight the rectangle and the Malea, we're going to make a copy of those.
Any time are you going to make some changes and you might make those permanent, always make a copy
so that it's really easy to revert back if you hate it.
I'm going to right click on these layers and press merge layers.
Now we have both of those layers in the one together.
So if I switch off my rectangle and my Melior, you can see that the end, the end, that rectangle
we drew to bind those two letters are all on the one layer.
And let's give that a name.
Now, the next thing I'm going to do is use this shape here as the shape of the mask, I'm going to
hide from this layer.
So it's all going to be just on one layer at the end of this.
Let's make a copy of our end layer.
Here we go.
And switch off that and I'm going to restauranteurs this layer so that we can start today.
I'm going to press rhapsodized type gray.
So let me just go over what we have in case here a little bit lost, because I'm sort of doing this
as I go and I want to make sure that you're still with me.
We have our text layer ampersand on the last panel here.
Switch off.
We don't need that anymore.
If we want to make a change to, I will come in here and use that layer.
Then we have a copy of our ampersand that's been restaurateur's so that I can highlight it in a minute.
We have this layer here, ME2, which is our text, and E plus our rectangle or pasteurize and merge
together in one layer in the only two layers we can see right now, our text and our ampersand both
being able to be edited.
They have been resta right now.
What I'm going to do is highlight my shape of the ampersand here just by clicking on it with the magic
wand.
To the reason I can do that here is because we Rasta right that layer.
If this was a text layer, you cannot highlight it like that.
So if that if you're having issues that might be what's going on.
Now that I have this shape selected, I'm actually going to switch that layer off completely and you'll
see the outline of it right here.
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
part of it.
So all we need to do is invert our mask, go to properties and hit invert and we have a mask over our
ampersand.
So we have the M rectangle E and then the mask is here in the shape of our ampersand.
So we just have one layer here that's going to be really easy to for us to export.
We're going to go file Sarbaz.
I'm going to go in a.
Logo.
Save it as a PNG so that the background stays transparent and press.
OK, come on over into our business card and drag in our PNG that we just made together and make it
a little bit smaller.
Make it the right angle.
And it in the center there and there we have our logo that we just made together with our Manelli,
using the distant transparency.
Now, you see, if I add a color overlay to our card, the ampersand is invisible, it doesn't it doesn't
just stay in white ink so we can make this whatever color we want.
Maybe we get our business cards printed in our culture or color.
Maybe they're bright orange, maybe they are pink.
It stays with that color here in the middle peeking through our ampersand.
So there we go.
There is a monogram logo using a couple of letters and a shape.