Welcome to this brand new project.
We're going to be creating this badge style logo.
These are super popular a few years ago and they're still pretty cool I think and definitely have a
place in graphic design and branding.
And so I have our art boards set up all of this is actually created right within photoshop so you don't
need any assets for this which is pretty cool.
And I want to show you a technique that might help you if you are trying to sort of not copy paste replicate
a style or a different graphic.
So if I am using art boards I can actually go ahead and let's convert our board one to a smart object.
So I want to actually make everything in our power to one one layer.
So I'm going to select all the layers in our board one right click holding the option key down choose
merge layers.
And that's going to create a new merged layer.
And this is just our logo and now I'm going to put it over an art board to then I'm just going to drop
the opacity something like 25 and lock it in place.
I am going to add a black background to this and put it underneath our shape layer.
But now we have this logo that we can kind of add stuff create our own logo on top of it's actually
dropped the opacity to 10.
So it's you can barely see it and lock it
so the next thing I'm going to really do with this is just add my own text.
Now I'm going to recreate this.
This is a fake bakery that someday I'm going to start I'm super into baking and getting really really
into it now.
And so I'm going to just recreate my own logo.
But you can.
I want you to create a logo or a badge for something you're passionate about.
It could be a business of yours and a business idea or just something completely fun your family name
or something like that.
I'll do it with a different font so that you can follow along.
If you don't have the font that I used in this project I'm just going to use open songs and let's just
get going.
First thing first I'm going to just lay out all my text.
So I'm just going to type everything.
Everything is going to be all caps.
So let's just set our
character settings to ALL CAPS please.
All caps.
There we go.
Communion I thought was a great name for a bakery.
I love this idea of breaking bread together.
It does come from my roots as being Catholic and growing up Catholic and sharing bread breaking bread
having communion every week.
So anyways let's just continue with our text.
You can add whatever you want fresh bread made sour dough bread for the first time recently.
I usually make like just like a sort of a typical Dutch oven bread.
It's a very easy recipe for anyone who wants to get into baking fresh bread and it tastes so good so
much better than what you would get from the grocery store.
But I've moved up in the world of baking and and doing Sardo bread now.
So I want to make sure these are aligned.
They are in all this text is the same size except for our communion logo.
Right.
So I think that's important.
Now this established twenty twenty five.
This was literally just me putting spaces between each line.
Now you'll notice though I what I was doing is typing press return s return t return d.
The reason is because the line spacing is so low so let's increase this.
Something like that
and this is left a line up.
So that looks good.
Me a little bit more space your prior like Phil i.e. teaching us this stuff we know how to do this.
It's true you know how to do so much but we've got to get this text on here and then we'll do the fun
stuff 2025.
I think that's a pretty good goal.
Who knows me this class will still be up in 2025 and people will be learning Photoshop and they'll look
at my Web site and say Oh Phil doesn't teach online anymore he just bakes bread and how awesome so analogies
start creating these lines.
Now there's different ways to do these shapes.
We've seen a couple of different options in the past we have our pen tool curvature pen tool.
You don't want to use the line tool.
And the reason is because you don't have all the options for curving and things like that with the line
tool.
So I am going to use our pen tool for some our straight lines like these ones I'm just going to click
and then click.
Now a fun sort of thing to note and let's turn off our Phil our stroke.
We're gonna turn on.
Well we might change the colors but a fun thing to know about the pencil is if you hold the shift button
down when you're clicking it helps to keep it perfectly level.
So now I'm done with this shape so I'm going to just command click off of this layer.
So that's another fun trick is if you click and then again hold shift so that it's perfectly level because
if you're not holding shift down and you're trying to get it level you can see that it's not perfect
but when you're done you just command click and click off of that shape.
So instead of recreating this shape I'm just going to copy this one.
So holding the option key dragging it down and then now I'm going to select both of these layers those
two and then click and drag with the option key and we're going to drag over here
so that's pretty good.
Now it might be a good idea to center this text to these lines and you can see when I drag this over
to the right that line vertical line pops up and that's how you know that it's going to be vertical
or centered to these lines right here whereas that line
that one is to something.
There we go.
There's centered.
So you see all these lines pop popping up because it's trying to center to other things too like maybe
the edge of this text layer and things like that.
So you might need to turn off some of these other layers if you're using that method of trying to get
rid of trying to center layers to each other.
All right.
So let's go.
Easiest hardest.
So we're gonna just create these these round edges.
I thought this kind of looked like loaves of bread a loaf of bread even though we have a mini loaf in
the middle.
So this is just gonna be two points like so and then with my let's turn our Phil off and our stroke
on we're keeping the stroke on the same width and color as the other shapes because we want the stroke
to match and then just taking our handles I'm holding the command button down.
We just kind of bend that to look good that looks pretty good.
Then we're going to create a new one.
Down below loops option command click to create a new layer and click and drag and then click and drag.
And now holding the command key again we can adjust our handles
that's looking pretty good.
Now we can move these around until May we want them down a little bit more for this one rotate.
Now what I want to do is copy these to the other side.
Pretty easy right.
All right so let's just select these two option click loops.
Make sure your option clicking the line holding the shift button down.
I'm holding the shift button while I'm option clicking whoops and I did select both these layers.
So let's go ahead and it's like both these layers which ones are they.
Again it would be best to stay organized like both of these options looking to copy and also shift holding
the shift button to lock it to that that horizontal or vertical line and then clicking the edge rotating
with the shift button.
Now that's not going to be a perfect.
That's not gonna be a perfect flip right.
Because it's actually sort of Amir from the bottom I rotate it so a better way of doing this would be
to flip it.
So if we like both of these go to edit transform flip vertical and then we rotate.
Now that's a perfect match symmetrical match to these lines over on the right hand side.
That makes sense.
All right.
OK.
Next question we tackle next what should we tackle next.
All right let's do this.
Let's do this loaf of bread.
That seems pretty easy actually.
All right.
So let's zoom in a little bit.
K now we're gonna use the curvature tool with this one so we're going to click here.
Click here click here click here click here and then close it off.
And these two we're gonna double click the bottom two lines because we want it to be a sharp edge.
And let's go back to our stroke
all right.
So that's looking pretty good.
OK.
So now we have our loaf.
Let's create a couple more lines.
So really with any of these tools we'll just take the pen tool draw this line down the middle and then
it probably makes sense to add these to the same layer.
So I'm creating these on all new layers but it might be better just to set the setting to combine on
a layer.
So combined shapes.
So now we can just command click to create a new shape command shift
and these are all going to be added to this the same layer instead of having a ton of different layers
for the loaf of bread.
And then your loaf of bread just ends up being one layer.
So going a little bit creative compared to what I did before and notice I'm not just copying and pasting
these lines which you could do but I like it being a little bit more organic.
All right.
We're working towards that we're working towards it.
All right.
Let's take our curvature tool which is what we're going to use for all of these other shapes.
So let's go bottom to top.
If we get the top one is hard.
So let's actually zoom in here just a little bit.
So with our curvature tool let's get this just at the top.
We're going to set our fill To color and the start to the color.
All right.
So these are gonna be sharp edges so double click double click double click.
Go back over here.
Double click double click double click and then double double click there.
Now notice the edges of our shape are now sharp.
So to adjust that we go into r stroke settings go to corners and round them out.
Okay.
So that's just in your stroke setting.
Now this little shape right here this is just a triangle.
We can do that custom or we can go to our polygon tool three sides and just rotate it and hold the shift
button down to lock it so it's perpendicular up and down.
Please that one side and again we're going to change our corners to round we're just gonna copy that
shape and move it over here and rotate it holding the shift button down so it locks it to there.
So let's see that looks pretty good.
Ah right move it in just a little squish.
All right.
Next we have this rolling pan right here.
So again with our curvature tool up here just start at the top we're going to start at this corner double
click.
We're going to go all the way over here.
Double click down just a little bit click once at the end double click down here double click double
click double click click once for a curve up there double click in there and then finish with the double
click.
Now we need to go into these points on the end so we're going to bring out
these handles.
So
maybe the handles on the inside as well
Cape that's looking pretty good.
Now we want this to go behind our bakery text.
So we're going to put this a little bit down and then let's just put it in our layer panel behind our
bakery text which is and again you want to be renaming all of this stuff.
OK.
So that you are organized but I don't want to waste my time or your time doing that.
All right.
So now I want to actually just add a quick black shape a black rectangle behind the bakery text.
I don't want that to be selected though let's undo click off of that text click our shape tool turn
off our stroke add a black fill and then we're just going to create this black rectangle and put this
behind the bakery between the rolling pin layer and the bakery.
Text
so now that's just a quick way to create that sort of spacing around the around the text like that.
All right.
Last thing we got this cool chef hat.
All right.
So let's go at the top.
We're going to take our curvature tool again.
This is gonna be a fun one.
All right.
So let's just create this whirly gig at the top.
So we're just going to click click click whoops.
We got the pen tool.
We want automatic curves so click.
Again it's kind of just at the apex.
So the circle has basically for a pixels.
And we're gonna change our Phil to black or to nothing.
And our struck to yellow so we can see what we're doing.
Yeah.
So I'm just going to click here.
Click here.
We'll fix this in a second.
Click here outside.
And then they're all right.
Now let's go to our pen tool let's play with the apex.
I'm going to actually twist this around like so that what we want.
No that's not what we want.
We want to twist these bottom ones.
So with the pen tool select that one option or control click it control click it to get the handles.
And we're just going to rotate and spread it out.
Now I go to this next one control click it rotate and bring it out its top one we might want to bring
out just a little bit
that looks pretty good.
You could play around with it perfected if you want.
We're gonna take our curvature tool.
Actually let's just use our pen tool click here click here with a little bit of a curve click here with
a little bit of a curve and click up change or fill in stroke now we can go in to our settings like
that with command key we're just going to create a new shape right here click and drag click and drag
with control.
But in just adjust those handles.
Control click to create a new shape click click.
Control click click click control click click click.
So what you would want to do is go through select all the layers for this chef hat either group them
merge them create them put them all in one shape so you can easily move that around of course rename
everything.
I think I change some of the colors over here so let's actually change the color.
Let's go.
It'll be easier for now if we just select our shapes here in our outer a little bread loaf parentheses
whatever you want to call it.
Now let's change the color to something else.
I think that's pretty cool.
Me a little bit brighter but I think you get the point.
I hope you've had fun following this project.
I know these projects are a little bit longer but I think at least when I was learning Photoshop I love
just following along with other people and kind of seeing their process.
So I really hope that following my process has helped you.
I would love to see your badges.
This is a product I would really really really love if you shared.
It's a great visual project to share on social media as well.
So post it to social Instagram Facebook.
Tag me in there at Phil Ebinger and at video school online.
Thanks so much.
And we'll see you in the next lesson.