OK, so let's jump straight in together and planning out emblem or our stamp logo, whichever you'd
like to call it, let's open up a brand new canvas together so that we can get started.
So I'm coming over, create new and I think I'm going to make this quite square.
So I feel like this 10 by 10 template could work.
Otherwise you could come over here, press inches and maybe we could do an eight inch by eight inch
template and keeping 100 pixels a centimeter is fine by me.
And we can go ahead and press create.
So here we are with our blank canvas now, because this is going to be a stamp and it's going to be
a circle shape.
I definitely want to make sure that everything is centered at any time that we're adding things to this
circle.
We want to make sure that it's all lined up really easily.
And the best way to do that is by adding rulers.
So if you cannot see this bar along the top and the side here with the ruler marks on it, you can press
command are to bring that up by getting the rules that way.
And then all you have to do is just hover over it, press down or click down and you'll see a ruler
comes down and it will snap itself to the center of our canvas and you can release it leaves that bright
green line there.
And then I'm going to bring one from the other side as well.
And having that cross in the center so that it gives us the exact center of our canvas.
See how that snaps that to the middle.
And that should give us our exact center of the canvas.
So now when we're working with the circles, we have our text layers going on a little bit later.
We always know that everything's going to be lined up using these guides.
So.
So that's done.
That first step there.
I'm going to work with a white background.
So I'm fine that that is white, even though when we're exporting, I'm going to leave it blank.
But I like to work on a white background so that I can see everything clearly and I know exactly what
I'm looking at.
So I'm going to bring in a circle straightaway, so come over here to this square, the shape icon,
and if you click and hold down on that, we will go to the Ellipse tool, which is going to give us
our circle shape.
I'm going to pick a color from this spot right here.
But you could also do that from the top if you wanted to bring up our color picker tool here.
And we're going to make ours quite a pale pink color.
This can all be changed a little bit down the line.
So if you pick something and you're not super thrilled with it, don't stress because we can come back
at any time and make these changes.
I like that color there, I think that's lovely.
Now, I could go ahead and just try and draw this at any any random angle here and try and get that
exactly scented and then try and move it around.
But that's going to take a lot of hassle.
So what I'm actually going to do is start at the very center here, right on across, and I'm going
to click and drag that into this bottom quadrant here.
I'm going to hold shift so that it stays a perfect circle.
And while I'm holding shift, I'm also going to hit the option and the option key is going to snap it
right into the center here.
See how that happened there.
If I let go of option, it's going to jump back down to that bottom quadrant.
So holding option and holding shift at the same time to get our perfect score, I'm going to make this
approximately that size and then I'm going to release and you can see that that is perfectly centered.
So there's a cool tip for you as well.
Now, I like that pink color when I was picking it earlier, but I think it's a little hard for what
we're working on so we can come up here and choose a new field color using this pick a tool on the side
here.
So I'd like something a little bit paler.
The other way to change the color is by double clicking here on that part of the layer, and it's going
to bring you up into your color picking palette.
So I've just changed my mind about the color scheme I want to be working on here, and this will happen
to you as well.
I could go back and re film this for you, but I think I'd rather show you in real time my life changes.
So I'm going to unlock this background layer here and I'm going to add a color overlay to this layer
to change the color of this layer.
And it's going to be this pale pink that I was trying to find for my circle.
So that's going to be my background color.
I can name this layer of background just so I don't get confused later.
And now in my lips tool, I'm going to make that quite a light version of what we were just looking
at together.
I like that.
Like that.
So we can see two very distinct colors here.
Background with that like pink color and an even lighter, brighter circle right in the middle.
So that is us setting up our template to jump straight in, join me in the next lesson and we can add
our second layers and start adding some detail.