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		<title>Create a 3D Logo with Photoshop</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I will show you how to create a 3d logo using Photoshop, Photoshop does not have 3d rendering capabilities but with a little bit of work and simple steps we should be able to create a 3d logo. 1 &#8211; Fire up Photoshop and create a new image, let&#8217;s size the image to 300&#215;300. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today I will show you how to create a 3d logo using Photoshop, Photoshop does not have 3d rendering capabilities but with a little bit of work and simple steps we should be able to create a 3d logo.</p>
<p><strong>1</strong> &#8211; Fire up Photoshop and create a new image, let&#8217;s size the image to 300&#215;300.</p>
<p><strong>2</strong> &#8211; Create a new layer above the background layer, we will put our logo on this new layer.</p>
<p><strong>3</strong> &#8211; Go to your custom shape tool and draw any shape, this will be our logo that we&#8217;ll be working on.</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://jbwebdev.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/step-1.jpg" alt="step-1.jpg" /></p>
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<strong> 4</strong> &#8211; When your logo has been inserted, go to the Photoshop Main menu and select EDIT &#8211; TRANSFORM &#8211; SKEW. Drag out the bottom corners so your image looks like below.  Press enter when you&#8217;re done.</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://jbwebdev.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/step-2.jpg" alt="step-2.jpg" /></p>
<p><strong>5</strong> &#8211; Next click CTRL+T on your keyboard and we will scale down the logo. Squeeze it down just a bit to give it more perspective, make sure you don&#8217;t over do it.</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://jbwebdev.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/step-3.jpg" alt="step-3.jpg" /></p>
<p><strong>6</strong> &#8211; Now let&#8217;s add some emboss to give it more dimension and shape. Go to FILTER &#8211; STYLIZE &#8211; EMBOSS and set the properties to what you see below:</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://jbwebdev.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/step-4.jpg" alt="step-4.jpg" /></p>
<p><strong>7</strong> &#8211; Now for creating the 3d effect &#8211; CTRL+click the layer the logo is on, this will select the logo. Now hold CTRL+ALT and hit the arrow up key, hit it about 10 times or however many you want.  If you&#8217;re using an older version of Photshop, this step should&#8217;ve created multiple layers, in this case you will need to merge all those layers into 1. Click CTRL+E to get the logo into just one layer.</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://jbwebdev.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/step-5.jpg" alt="step-5.jpg" /></p>
<p><strong>8</strong> &#8211; Now our logo is looking a bit dull,  let&#8217;s add some colors to it. CTRL+click the logo layer to select it, you should see an outline around the logo.</p>
<p><strong>9</strong> &#8211; Create a new layer above the logo layer and select it, choose the bucket tool and select any color you wish and fill the empty layer you just created.</p>
<p><strong>10</strong> &#8211; Go to the layer panel and change the layer type from Normal to Color. And here&#8217;s what the final output should look like:</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://jbwebdev.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/step-6.jpg" alt="step-6.jpg" /></p>
<p><strong>11 </strong>- I suggest playing around with the drop shadows, glow effects, filters, etc to get your desired effect. Here&#8217;s what mine looks like after adding some effects to it.</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://jbwebdev.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/final.jpg" alt="final.jpg" /></p>
<p><strong>12</strong> &#8211; And here&#8217;s what our sample logo looks like:</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://jbwebdev.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/final-logo.jpg" alt="final-logo.jpg" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://jbwebdev.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/final.psd" title="final.psd">Download the PSD file</a></p>
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