Comments on: Simple Vector Logo Design

By: Logo Design Monster

Logo Design Monster — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:59:46 +0000

The final logo looks really good. I think it was creative thinking to join the letters in this way. Thanks very much for sharing the logo tutorial.

By: henry

henry — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:59:52 +0000

Excellent tutorial – easy to learn!

By: Binti

Binti — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 10:33:31 +0000

Lauren:

I had the same problem. It turns out I had to disable the faux bold before I could get it to work.

Highlight your text layer and open Character and Paragraph panel. In there, there will be a series of ?¢‚Ç¨?ìT?¢‚Ç¨¬ù letters at the very bottom. The first box, with a ?¢‚Ç¨?ìT?¢‚Ç¨¬ù appearing in bold, is the box that you will want to click to toggle the Faux Bold setting. That’s how I got it to work. Hope this helps.

By: HERO

HERO — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:55:44 +0000

LAUREN, Its likely not the faux bold that’s causing the problem. The only time I’ve ever seen this happen myself was when I was using a font that was not a True Type font.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:03:43 +0000

I am not able to convert the text to a shape as stated in step 2. My CS3 says it can’t because the type layer uses a faux bold. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

By: Hristina

Hristina — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:59:37 +0000

Thank you for the answer. That explains a lot of problems I had. :)

By: HERO

HERO — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:38:09 +0000

HRISTINA,The problem you’re seeing when you zoom isn’t an issue with the vector, what you’re seeing is the pixels of the document you have open in Photoshop. In other words, if you’ve got a 500×600 document at 72ppi (or even 300ppi), it is still technically made of pixels because it’s a Photoshop document. If you were to drag your vector into a window in Illustrator, you would indeed see that it is indeed vector, and you’d be able to zoom in as close as you want without getting pixelization at the edges, because Illustrator is a vector program and documents in Illustrator aren’t based on pixels like Photoshop is, therefore even though the object is actually a vector by nature, the way it is rendered between the programs is different.

When a vector object is placed into Photoshop and sized, it takes on the pixel ratio of the document, so if you zoom in on it, it will look like everything else. But you can resize the object over and over and you will always get an edge as crisp as the original (which is the advantage of using vectors in PS).

By: Hristina

Hristina — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:20:52 +0000

I’m just a beginner in vector design and I was able to follow your steps. Thank you for this tutorial. I have a question, I hope not very silly. Why when I zoom the logo it’s not so smooth? Isn’t it have to stay the same. It is a benefit of vector stuff, isn’t it?

By: Jesse Vlasveld

Jesse Vlasveld — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:28:37 +0000

This is really an awesome and simple way of manipulating paths, with a great result. Thanks alot :)

By: siri

siri — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:58:52 +0000

thanks so much for this tutorial. it answered all my questions as they came up!!! a simple and powerful tut. thanks again!