Hey guys, Ryan here at Signature Edits and today I'm going to teach you how to
create a photography logo inside of Photoshop. It's quick it's easy and it's
totally free! Let's do it. Alright, so I've got Photoshop in front of me but we are
going to hop over to Google first and get some fonts. We're going to head to
dafont.com - that's a great spot you can get free fonts - and we are going to
search for a script font. So I'm going to select script here, and then I'm going to
go to more options and just make sure that I am checking 100% free as well as
donationware is alright - and I'm going to uncheck "free for personal use" -
The reason is we want to use this for a business for our photography studio, so I
need to make sure that I have permission to do so. So we're going to do that then
hit submit fill update and here we have all the fonts that we can choose from
for free now I've got a head here and already selected one that I like the
looks of just let me find it okay scrolling scrolling and let's go with
this one Mada see we're going to go to download' that's downloaded we just
click it there and open it up to install the font all I have to do is just double
click this text file and hit install and that's on a Mac on a PC it's very
similar you just double click and it should load right up and now that that's
done we're going to open up Photoshop and create a new project we're gonna
make it 1920 by 1080 and set the resolution to 300 pixels per inch in
case we ever want to print it 1920 by 1080 is a random number you don't have
to go with it you can make it whatever you want and let's say that our name is
cat Lawrence cat Lawrence if you're out there this is not on purpose but I hope
you like your logo so we're going to make a big text file there and we're
going to pull up the font that we just downloaded what was the name of that
font modesty the best font ever okay great
got that we're going to duplicate this text file by right-clicking hitting
duplicate and just typing photography all caps
drag that down beneath we're going to make it let's go with Montserrat and
that's kind of a standby font you can use and I've just set the spacing to 200
on the sky and you know what I'm actually liking
I feel like lower case would be better on this so we're gonna go with lower
case photography space it out maybe 350 400 great and cat Lawrence we're going
to take that back something like this so you just play around get your logo the
way that you like it typically having the photography with a nice big spacing
and a sans-serif font so montserrat you can also what else can you use aw
conqueror has a cool one gilfs ons is a great font y'all stick with kill saans
and we're gonna even make it more spaced let's go crazy with the spacing and you
can put that aligning these two right here or if your name works better this
way you could try it that way it just comes down to how it fits with your
unique name so we've got something that I'm pretty happy with now I'm going to
resize it just to fill up this space
like so and once I'm done there I can crop it by hitting C or using my crop
tool which is right there the reason I'm doing this is because I don't need any
extra space this is just for when I'm using the logo I only need it to be the
size of the logo so we're going to go like that crop it in now once that is
done I can press Enter perfect looks pretty good and I can go
command s to save ctrl us on a PC or just file save and we're going to create
a new folder Ryan's logo cat Lawrence you want to be
able to edit it in the future so make sure you do that
fantastic and now we're going to save it as a PNG go file save as and then to PNG
and PNG is basically just a transparent background image if you want to use this
as an overlay in your photos you need a PNG first though I need to make sure
that my background is no longer visible and now you can see that it's just a
transparent background so we're going to save go PNG again here great and those
file size you don't really need to worry about that I just go with smallest and
now if you want to put that on top of one of your photos all you have to do
we're going to save that let's open this guy up hide our text here let's say we
got our photo here and we want to put a watermark on top all I have to do is
find my cat's cat Lawrence logo grab it like this pull it in and if it needs to
be white I can invert by pressing command I or by double clicking here and
going color overlay and then I can set the color to whatever I want it to be
and you can resize by hitting command T or ctrl T or transform and we're just
going to hold shift and resize to the size that we want it perfect you know
I've got a watermark you can do the same thing in Lightroom all you have to do is
open up Lightroom and we go up to Lightroom and at watermarks we're going
to go here where it says image options choose our image press Enter
and there we have our logo right here we can resize it move it around depending
how we want to set it up no obviously this is black we need to have a white
version to make sure that it shows up so I'm going to hop back over to photoshop
really quickly and we are just going to reopen our project here
don't save that cat Lawrence and just turn this text white by double clicking
color overlay white BAM double click color overlay and set it to white great
and what we can also do is add a shadow to it so that
will show up so I've put these layers in a group by selecting both of them
hitting that folder then I'm hitting drop shadow and I don't need it to be
super super pronounced just enough that if it's on a bright image it will still
show up so I'm gonna go probably around there maybe a little bit less in size
and more subtle there we go something like that so I'm going to hit save it
now and then save a new version of this and we're going to call it logo white
great now head back to Lightroom we can choose our image again choose this white
one and you can see how much better that's showing up already now you can
just make it as large or small as you want just the inset and you're good to
go and we can save that as our new cat Lawrence what that is exactly how you
create a free photography logo inside of Photoshop takes less than five minutes
super easy guys and if you want to download this logo for free I've made
that template available you can check the link in the pinned comment on the
very top of this video hey if this video was helpful please hit that like button
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next time
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