Filed under Photoshop Tutorials - Head Nerd @ March 2nd, 2006
Enlightened Gate Effect Logo |
| Start by creating a thin rectangular strip using rectangle tool. |
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| Duplicate the strip and place below the first strip with a gap of few pixels. |
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| Similarly create several duplicates and place according to the image below. |
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| Select all layers, link together and merge. |
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| Using elliptical marquee too drag a circular selection over this merged layer. Press Shift+Ctrl+I to inverse the selection and press delete. |
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| Enable lock transparent pixels from layer palette. |
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| Drag a radial gradient in this layer using gradient tool. |
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| Now we’ll create a gate in this shape. Drag a rectangular selection over lower half of this image using rectangular marquee tool. Press Shift+Ctrl+J to take out image area from this selection in a new layer. |
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| Hide this new layer. We’ll refer this layer as gate layer. |
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| Create a circular selection using elliptical marquee tool. |
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| Press Ctrl+Alt+D to feather the selection. Use settings shown. |
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| Fill the feathered selection with white color. |
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| Drag a rectangular selection over left half of this image using rectangular marquee tool |
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| Press delete to delete the white halo in this area. |
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| Unhide the gate layer. |
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| Fill it with a darker shade of blue. |
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| Press Ctrl+T, right click and select distort. |
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| Adjust the nodes to give this shape an open gate effect. |
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| Type the company name at the bottom. |
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| Apply stroke using following settings. |
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| Take a duplicate of text layer. Rasterize it. Ctrl+Click to get selection. |
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| Contract the selection by 1 pixel. |
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| Fill it with white color. |
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| Move it 1 pixel left. |
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| Drag an elliptical selection over this. |
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| Press Shift+Ctrl+I to invert the selection. |
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| Press delete to remove white text in this selection. |
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| Add a nice punchline below the company name. |
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