Footfive Designs

Create this sleek and stylish web 2.0 logo in Photoshop! It’s simple!

I’m going to walk you guys through the steps of a logo I designed for a client a while ago. It’s a very simple and sleek logo, designed for the 2.0 web.

1) First create your new blank canvas in Photoshop. I like to have my canvas large when I make logos, so I can expirement with size and have lots of space. You can always cut it down to size later.  Using the font “Ronda Light” I typed out my company logo name “Zippy” with a light green color.

2) When I said this is simple, I mean it. Were going to style our text in the blending options section of our text layer. Right click the text layer, and select “blending options”. Apply all 3 of the following blending options, as shown:

This is what you should end up with:

3) Now lets add the little reflection on the text. Create a new layer above everything else. Now select the gradient tool and use the settings shown below. Using the Rectangular Marquee tool make a box around the top part of the text as shown below. Drag and pull it down, like shown below.

4) Now ctrl+click on the text layer to select it. Now go to Select>Inverse and click once on the gradient layer, click delete.

And BAM! Your done:

Dont forgot you can always use different colors and make different schemed logos. Enjoy!