Hello,

I have recently been trying to make myself a simple logo with just basic shapes and colours, i have seen a very nice example of a logo and i was wondering how is this done in photoshop? how are those kind of round kind of arcs are done? and how is that kind of shining effect achieved?

I have attached the example logo here.

If someone can be kind and nice enough to make a quic tutorial on photoshop it will be amazing.

Thanks.

Hi To make this you need to know how to work with basic shapes, and you need to know your way around layer styles:

 

To recreate the shining, you need:

1. Create a circle in photoshop

2. Make sure fill is set to 100%

3. Double click on the circle layer to open layer styles window

4. Select Gradient overlay

5. From the Gradient style dropdown below select Angle

6. Add more Colour stops to your gradient, as shown below. Here is a link to different golden shades http://0to255.com/c59412

 

 

 

Then you will have something similar to this:

 

 

To create the arcs, you need to :

1.Make a circle

2. Make a smaller circle

3. Combine the two shapes by selecting both layers, right-click and select combine shapes.

4. You need to subtract the front shape (the smaller circle) from the top menu (just next to width and height).

5. Create a few rectangles and subtract them from the shape.

 

Play with the shapes until you achieve what you need.

 

 

 

Another way is to use the Pen tool to create the arcs.

After you have your desired shapes, repeat the gradient using different colours, grays and black. Play with the gradients until you achieve the shining effect.

 

Hope this helps

Edited March 10, 201313 yr by teodora

Thanks so much, i have actually managed to do it now, thanks!!!!

Great, glad you did it