This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. I'm going to show you how to create a simple
custom, black and white monogram logo. Create a new document by pressing Ctrl +N
on Windows or Cmd + N on a Mac.
Make its width and height 1000 pixels each
and the resolution: 150 pixels per inch. Then click OK.
Fit the document on your canvas by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + 0.
Let's make guidelines that criss-cross over the exact center of the document.
First, go to View and make sure Rulers and Snap are checked. If they aren't just click on them.
Go to the top Ruler and drag down a guideline to the center. It'll snap in place
because we have Snap checked. If you don't see the guideline, press
Ctrl or Cmd +H. Go to the Ruler on the left and drag across another
guideline to the center.
Open your Horizontal Type Tool.
I'm using a font called "Unlearned BRK Normal". If you'd like to use it I
provided its link in my video's description or project files.
I'll make the size: 232 points.
Make the aliasing: Sharp,
Center alignment
and the color: black.
Click on your document and type out your initials. To center it on your document,
open your Move Tool
and press Ctrl or Cmd +A to select it all.
Click the Align Horizontal Centers icon
and the Align Vertical Centers icon.
Deselect it by pressing Ctrl or Cmd +D.
Open your Rectangular Marquee Tool
and go to the center of the guidelines.
Press and hold Alt or Option as you drag a rectangular selection approximately
this much outside your letters. Make sure the selection's distance is the same all
around the characters.
If you have letters that have indented areas like in this example, we want to indent
the selection, as well. To do this, press and hold Alt or Option as you drag
a selection over those indented areas keeping them the same distances from the
edges of those characters.
Make your background active and press Ctrl or Cmd +J
to cut the selection from the background and copy it to its own layer.
Click the eyeball icon next to the background to temporarily hide the layer.
We'll place our text and the and the white shade behind it into a folder.
To do this, Shift-click on the large "T" to make the text layer active, as well
and press Ctrl or Cmd +G.
Name the folder, "Text".
Next, we'll angle or skew our image by pressing Ctrl or Cmd +T
to open the Transform Tool.
At the top, in the vertical skew field, type in minus 17.
Then, press the Enter or Return.
Make your background visible again.
Create a new layer below the active layer by Ctrl-clicking or Cmd-clicking the New Layer icon.
Open your Custom Shape Tool
and choose, "Shape".
Make the "Fill": black
and we'll keep the Stroke empty.
Open your Shape thumbnails and click the gear icon.
Click, "Symbols"
When you see this message, click
OK to replace the current shapes with the new symbols shapes.
Click this icon, which is called, "Registration Target 2".
At the top, click the gear icon.
Tick "Defined Proportions" and check "From Center".
Go to the center of the guidelines and drag at the shape approximately this size. Then, release.
To hide the work path,
open the Paths panel. If you don't see it, go to Window and paths.
Then, click anywhere in the empty area.
Open back your Layers panel.
Open your Elliptical Marquee Tool
and go to the center.
Press and hold Alt or Option + Shift. Drag out a circular selection approximately this size.
Click the layer mask icon to make a layer mask of the selection next to the active layer.
As before, we'll make a new layer below the active layer
by Ctrl-clicking or Cmd-clicking or Cmd-clicking the new layer icon.
Ctrl-click or Cmd-click the layer mask to make a selection of its shape.
Go to "Select" and "Transform Selection".
Go to a corner, and when you see a diagonal, double-arrow,
press and hold Alt or Option + Shift as you drag in the Transform just a little approximately this much.
Then, press the Enter or Return.
Go to Edit and Stroke.
Make the Width: 20 pixels and the color is black.
Tick, "Center" for the location
and click OK.
Then, deselect it.
Create a new layer below the active layer
and open your Rectangular Marquee Tool.
Go to the center and press and hold hold Alt or Option + Shift
as you drag out a square selection approximately this size.
Go to Select and Transform Selection.
Go to a corner and when you see a curved, double-arrow,
press and hold Shift as you rotate the Transform until it snaps 45 degrees.
Then, press Enter or Return.
To finesse its size and shape,
go back to Select and Transform Selection.
Go to a corner again and when you see a diagonal, double-arrow, press and hold Alt
or Option +Shift as you drag it in or out . I'll drag it in a bit.
Go to the top, middle anchor point and again press and hold Alt or Option +Shift.
as you drag it in approximately this much. Then, press the Enter or Return
or click the check-mark at the top.
We'll fill the selection with black and since black is our foreground color
press Alt or Option + Delete.
Then, deselect it.
Click the New Layer icon to make a new layer.
Ctrl-click or Cmd-click the layer mask to make a selection of its shape.
Go to Select and Transform Selection.
Go to a corner, press Alt or Option + Shift and drag it out approximately this much.
Then, press Enter or Return or click the check-mark at the top.
We'll fill the selection with white and since white is our background color,
press Ctrl or Cmd + Delete.
Then, deselect it.
Scroll to the bottom of your Layers panel.
Make your background active
and click the New Layer icon to make a new layer above it.
Open your Polygon Tool.
At the top, type in 75 for the sides and click the gear icon.
Check, "Star" and indent the sides by 40%.
Go to the center and drag out the shape to the top point of your design.
Rotate it until the point of the starburst shape is aligned with the point of the black shape.
Then, release.
To hide the work path and guidelines press Ctrl or Cmd +H.
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. Thanks for watching!