Filed under Photoshop Tutorials - Head Nerd @ February 19th, 2006
Creating a Logo With a Cool Globe FX |
| Start by opening a new file. Using rectangular shape tool create a square shape. |
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| Duplicate the layer and press Ctrl+T to transform. Move rectangle some pixels to the right and then press ENTER. Now press Ctrl+J to duplicate the layer and then press Ctrl+Shift+T to transform again with previous settings. |
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| Select all the square layers and press Ctrl+E to merge the layers. |
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| Duplicate the merged layers as we did in previous steps. |
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| Merge the square layers again by pressing Ctrl+E. |
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| Press Ctrl+T to transform the squares and scale it down. |
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| Select both the layers. |
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| From the top bar of the photoshop select align vertical & horizontal centers. |
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| Select squares layer. From filter menu select distort>>spherize. |
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| Apply settings as shown. |
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| Press Ctrl+F two times to apply the filter again with previous settings. |
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| Press Ctrl+T to transform and scale it down. |
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| Double click the layer to open layer style window and enable drop shadow and bevel&emboss. Apply settings as shown. |
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| Duplicate the layer and move it down. |
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| Press Ctrl+Shift+U to desaturate the layer. |
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| Press Ctrl+T to transform. Press Ctrl key & move the bottom right transform node to the right corner. |
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| From layer pallete enable layer mask( third icon from the bottom of the layer pallete ) |
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| Apply a linear gradient into layer mask. |
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| Duplicate the layer to make the effect stronger. |
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| Using line shape tool create a line. |
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| Type your text with a nice font & color. |
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