So here is where we left off in the last lesson, we've set up our canvas here for our new emblem or
our stamp logo, and I'm just going to keep going on this because I'd like to build out some more defined
lines around the outside of this, ready for our text and our flourishes, and then we'll be all finished.
So the next thing I'm going to do is rename this ellipse to my background, Elipse.
So come on over to your Elipse tool and go ahead and choose that and at the top, make sure that your
full color is white.
That's the next one I'm going to use here so you can select that and you can see that the film has been
changed right there to white color.
So I'm going to do exactly as I did before and draw my ellipse down in this fourth quadrant with the
shift key being held to make it a perfect circle.
So here's my circle.
It's not perfect yet because I'm not pressing anything.
I'm going to hold shift so that it stays perfect and then I'm going to hold option so that it snaps
to the center.
And we don't have to worry any more about trying to line these circles up.
Exactly, because they are already in line.
So I'm going to go to approximately this distance away and release.
And now I'd like to add a border to this shape because I'd like a line to go all the way around this
middle part here.
So go to the move, too, just so we don't mess anything up.
And with this, the layer selected, come on up here to the properties of this circle.
And we're going to press this button here, which is our outline.
I would like our outline here to be the same color as our background so I can either choose one of these
from memory, if I remember which one was our background layer, or if you're like me and you want to
take the quick way out, press this color, pick a tool and just use the eyedropper to find that for
you.
Now it's come on at three pixels, which is very skinny.
I don't know if you can even see that at the moment.
So all you have to do is make this bigger.
You can press the up arrows and have that increase, increase, increase.
And when you find a number you're happy with, just press that return key and you'll see that outline
in the middle here starting to get bigger and darker.
I think we could still go even larger than that.
So let's go around thirty five pixels and press return and I think that looks really good.
The next thing I'm going to do is copy this ellipse right here, but have a smaller circle on the inside
so we can do that two ways.
We can just copy this ellipse to like that.
Go ahead and drag it onto our copy too.
Or we could draw it from scratch like we did the first place.
But I already have the copy here now.
So that's what I'm going to do.
I'm going to press command T to transform the shape and without holding shift this time, I'm going
to make it slightly smaller and have that snap in the middle there, nice and centered.
Like make that a little bigger.
Remember, at any time this is completely changeable.
So wherever it lands will be a great place to start from.
So I'm happy with that right there.
Press the move to to lock it into place and I'd like to change how this outline looks.
I don't like the solid one for the middle.
Maybe you do for your logo and that's totally fine.
But if you come up to our properties panel up the top here where we chose our outline earlier, this
drop down menu here lets you choose what kind of outline you would like.
Maybe you're after some dots here.
Maybe you are after some straight lines like this.
And this is what I'm personally looking for, but I don't want it as big as the outline earlier.
So I'm going to make it just a bit smaller on the pixels, maybe twenty five and you can see that get
locked into shape there.
And I'm really happy with that.
I like how that looks a lot.
Now I'm just going to do a little bit of color tweaking here until I find the color scheme that really
works for me.
So I'm going to speed this up for you.
But all I'm doing is going into these shapes and making sure they're all the right color that I'm looking
for.
OK, so you can see that I was tweaking that quite a bit, and that's the best part about making a stamp
icon like this, is that all of this is customizable as we go.
I'm sort of playing it by just by sight here.
If I like the look of something, I keep it there.
I see what it looks like if I'm changing the outline size or the width or how close together these circles
are and just fiddling around with these colors until it's just right for me.
So completely play with this take take your time and make sure that it's right for you.
And now that we've set these circles up completely, join me in the next lesson and we'll start adding
some text to this.