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Many people asked me how to do this, heres your awnser, with only illustrator and photoshop you
can do almost anything. In this Tutorial you will start with the making of a logo shape, going to
rough 3D, and finishing it in Photoshop. This is so easy that even the starting beginner can do it.

Illustrator Lets Go
Create a new web document doesn't matter the resolution since we are working in Vectors here,
just remember to use RGB.

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Now with your document created lets go to the tool bar and pickup the Elipse tool or hit (L) on
your keyboard, remember to hold down shift while doing this circle so it stays perfect.

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Go to the top of your screen, take off the Fill color choose None, and put a stroke of 25pt.

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Now that we got our Circle done lets make a Fill instead of a stroke. Go to Object -> Expand, a
window will come up make sure you got Fill and Stroke ticked, click ok.

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See.. Now your shape as a fill and no stroke, that's the way to go.

Joining Up
Get the line segment tool, and make vertical line, set the background to none, put the stroke to
25pt as our circle, finally go to Object -> Expand.

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To make sure we got this perfectly aligned press command+Y or for windows user ctrl+y this
way we get to the Outline Mode and zooming as much as you want to make sure both objects
are aligned.

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After the Vertical alignment is good press again command+y or ctrl+y to get back to normal view.
Now get a ruler here. command+R or Ctrl+R and push one from the top so it aligns with the
top of the circle, after that simply push your rectangle until it hits this ruler. ok? Perfect!

The Evil Pathfinder

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The pathfinder is a must know tool in Illustrator, here we don't cut like photoshop, we extract
objects using objects. Ok lets move on, go to Window -> Pathfinder.

Now we will join this objects together, it's very simple, just select both objects and click "add
to shape area" in the Pathfinder window (see image).

But we aren't done. It looks like it did nothing, but in fact you just need to go to Object ->
Expand Appearance and voila your 2 objects are now just one.

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Cutting Objects
Make a simple square and rotate it like this. Hold down Shift for a perfect 90º rotation.

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Now put the shape like I did here, and with both objects selected hit the Vertical alignment
button on top (see image).

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Everything is aligned, lets select only the square now, click the right button of your mouse and
go to Arrange -> Send to Back.

Again bring up the pathfinder, and with the two objects selected hit "minus back" in the
pathfinder window.

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Our logo shape is finally done. Easy huh?

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The 3D part
After we got our shape done give it a light color so we can see the object in 3D perfectly.
Ok now go to Effect -> 3D -> Extrude Bevel, use the following settings, or what you like most.

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Click ok and now we got our 3D object, but to edit it we need to expand appearance, so Object ->
Expand Appearance.

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Giving it light
Create a new gradient, window -> gradient, you don't have to use my colors so just make sure
you got a light a medium and a dark version of your color. Make a Radial version and a Linear
one.

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With the Direction Selection Tool (A) select the inside of the object like we did, remember to
zoom so we get all shapes, if you have to go one by one.

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Now with the radial gradient we created selected simply drag from the bottom middle to the top,
try different times until you are happy with it.

Now the front of the shape, using the gradient tool again start from the middle and go out of the
object so that the light comes from the middle, remember use radial gradient here.

For the other parts just use the same but this time Linear Gradient, try to match mine, it's easy
simply select each shape with the directional selection tool, get your gradient and try it out.

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Photoshop
Place your Illustrator shape in a new Photoshop Document, give your new document a 800x600 I
think that will do, after you place it Rasterize the layer. Create a new layer and put it below
your logo layer, name this big shadow. Get the elipse selection tool and make a selection like I
did.

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Great now get the gradient tool (G) and make it black to transparent and click the radial option.

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Start from the middle and straight out until you get something like this.

Go to Filters -> Gaussian Blur -> and give it a nice blur in our case we did 6.0 but if you are
using a diferent size it may not suit you, just try different settings until you got it.

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Get the opacity down to 30%. Create another new layer and name it small circle do the same
thing as you did for the big circle, but put the opacity to 70% and dont forget the gaussian blur
4.8.

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Hold down ALT+SHIFT and drag your circle to the other part of the logo so it copies it. Perfect!

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Just one more little tweak, select the top of the logo (that little square) create a new layer and
name it shine, do a gradient of white to transparent with the linear option selected.

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Shiny Lines
Perfect, give it a opacity of 80%. For those little shiny lines, create one more layer, name it "little
lines" get the pen tool (P) and make a selection like I did.

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Now select your brush tool (b) and put the master diameter to 1 and hardness to 100%.

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Go back to the pen tool (p) and hit the right mouse button and click stroke path. Select Brush
and click OK.

Give the "little lines" layer a Overlay and put down the opacity to around 58%.

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We could play with this a little more, give it some texture or noise to make it feel more realistic,
but for this we think it works.

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Comments
1Ali Salem

June 20th, 2008 at 6:46 am

Man thanks a lot!

2Eli

June 20th, 2008 at 7:07 am

Beautiful outcome, and nice looking site you have here. The colors used in the logo really make it look
great.

3greven

June 20th, 2008 at 6:07 pm

Great tutorial. Simple and effective!

Bom post outra vez.

4ROBERT

June 21st, 2008 at 6:35 am

thanks

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5thazer

June 21st, 2008 at 4:16 pm

sweeeeet tut!! thanks!

6ice

June 22nd, 2008 at 9:11 am

woow ! nice

7Marc

June 23rd, 2008 at 11:55 pm

Hi, I did this tutorial, and well when it talks about hitting (A) to get the direct select tool and select the
small shapes, I am unable to do that, it just selects the shape over and over again. I am using Adobe
Illustrator CS3, I don’t know if you used a different version. Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

8Duarte Pires

June 24th, 2008 at 5:22 am

Hi there Marc, you have to expand the shape first, select the object and go to Object Expand
Appearance, after that you can select individual shapes.

9ZaFaR

June 26th, 2008 at 10:59 pm

congrats! keep up the good work!

10huszone

July 1st, 2008 at 8:14 am

mate great skills and talent. keep it up

11Daniel Skinner

July 1st, 2008 at 9:07 am

Is there anyway to achieve a similar effect but still keeping the entire logo as a vector?

Dan

12Duarte Pires

July 1st, 2008 at 11:38 am

Yes Daniel, in this tut I haven’t showed all the things to do in photoshop, I also burned the logo and
there are tons of thing you can do in photoshop that you can’t in illustrator, But I will do in the future a
how to do a 3d looking logo again, but this time illustrator only and no Typo, only shapes.

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13Daniel Skinner

July 1st, 2008 at 11:40 am

Duarte, Thanks - that’s a good way to get people to subscribe. I’ll wait for that tutorial to show up in
my RSS reader!

Thanks

Dan

14Duarte Pires

July 1st, 2008 at 11:43 am

Thank you for subscribing.

15Daniel Geraldi

July 1st, 2008 at 6:08 pm

Very cool!
Thanks!

16gen

July 2nd, 2008 at 8:12 am

wow! amazing tut. I remember seeing this logo on Faveup.com and I was blown away about how good
it was and was wondering how it was made.

17yuriy danilov

July 3rd, 2008 at 4:22 am

Nice!

18Ashraf

July 3rd, 2008 at 5:54 am

You don’t need Photoshop to do anything in this tutorial. All these steps can be done in Illustrator!
(CS2 and up)

19Jeff Justice

July 6th, 2008 at 8:23 pm

Hey! Great tutorial… Thanks.. But it could have been easier to do with the simplest 3D apps…

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