trying to make a letter out of shapes

kevinritt

I am trying make a larger logo from a jpg file. The problem is that the first letter is made from what looks like to me a couple of shapes. Can anyone suggest how I achieve the look of the letter 'B' in the attached image? I tried drawing a darker oval over a lighter one but the edges of the top one are not crisp and I want to add some shadow.Any ideas?? I am a beginner at PS. Thanks

renata · Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 10:34 pm Post subject:

Lots of different ways... for most ways you will need to be familiar with layers. This is so that you can have different sections on top of each other.

One suggestion:
Create the white section in two layers, a top and a bottom.
Create the blue section on its own layer (or even two).
You would then order them bottom white, blue, top white.

Now, to create each layer. Many ways... if you want to make it resizeable, you could build it from the "custom shapes". For the white curves, the pen tool would make it easy (needs a little practice to start with).

Damn this, you've got me curious, I want to have a go myself! I'll post again soon.

renata · Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 12:16 am Post subject:

Here's a start, that was addictive, but gotta go (I hear a hedge saying "Trim me, trim me!")...

1) Used Pen tool to create a white crescent shape. Move it around if necessary. Make it the top layer.

2) Shape tool to create vertical lines (you can fiddle and create bent lines too by combining, or create a path with pen tool and use "stroke").

3) Duplicate white crescent to put as bottom layer. reduce transparency. Rotate, edit>transform. Move it around.

I found the pen tool difficult myself (some people are whizzes), but that's what was addictive. It's not a great attempt.

Anyway, that's just one way. This way creates your shapes as vectors, meaning they can be resized without getting fuzzy. There will be lots of other ways (just watch, somebody will show a much simpler way as soon as I've posted!).

kevinritt · Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 8:28 am Post subject:

Thanks Renata. I'll give this a try and let you know how it goes

kevinritt · Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 10:53 pm Post subject:

renata · Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 6:34 am Post subject:

If you're using the pen tool it just takes practice (I'm trying to get the hang of it myself). Fewer segments seem to work better, but it's not always possible, depending on the curve.

You're welcome to my feeble attempt as a PSD if you want to fiddle with it. I think you'd have to PM me an email address?

Or another way might be to use a vector shape and warp or distort it till you get it how you want? I think there's a moon shape under custom shapes.

Patrick · Administrator

Hey renata,

If you send a PM to kevinritt, he'll be able to reply to it with an e-mail address. Members with under 25 posts can't initial a new private message conversation with someone, only reply.

Thanks,

Patrick

kevinritt · Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 6:45 pm Post subject:

Thanks, I'll try the vector shape. I'm under the gun to get this logo done. I'll spend more time with the pen toll at another time. (I'm a developer not a designer) Thanks for the help and suggestions.

renata · Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 9:03 pm Post subject:

I've sent a pm, if you reply with an email address. I'll send you what I've got.

kevinritt · Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 9:15 pm Post subject:

I'm able to do this using the elliptical tool and the elliptical marquee tool. However, is there a way to have the area within the marquee become transparent when deleted rather than white?

The background that the logo is going on is transparent so the white doesn't work.

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