Stamp Your Brand
Over the weekend I was trying to come up with some logos, you know, just for fun. If your anything like me, and you probably are if your reading blogs about Photoshop, you work all day in Photoshop then head home and continue the madness...
Here is a fun little project to get your week started. Logos come in all shapes and sizes and are a must for corporate branding, promotional materials, or any premedia service. I love the look of grungy, noisy, faded graphics. So making a stamp out of all the grunge brushes that I have made or accumulated over time seemed only natural.
The How To's and What For's
I'm not going to go into detail on how to load brushes, you can see how to make a brush in my earlier blog about brushes, or you can just Google grunge brushes and get your own.
Pick a font and type your word, I used Tahoma Bold. Next you are gonna want to rasterize your text. I then added a layer mask to apply my grunge brush to take away some ink, like a nice used stamp...
Texture is nice...
I added a new layer on top of my text layer, added a nice grungy frame to give some texture to the stamp.
Handmade is beautiful.
Merge your layers and rotate slightly to give it a lovely human touch.
I then added a crumpled piece of paper to the mix, because in real life, a stamp would be on paper.. right?
Pick your Color!
Pick your ink color and stamp stamp stamp.. If you are going to be using your logo a lot, and why wouldn't you, create a brush out of it (again... see my blog on making brushes) and it will be good to go when ever you need to stamp your logo.
Over the weekend I was trying to come up with some logos, you know, just for fun. If your anything like me, and you probably are if your reading blogs about Photoshop, you work all day in Photoshop then head home and continue the madness...
Here is a fun little project to get your week started. Logos come in all shapes and sizes and are a must for corporate branding, promotional materials, or any premedia service. I love the look of grungy, noisy, faded graphics. So making a stamp out of all the grunge brushes that I have made or accumulated over time seemed only natural.
The How To's and What For's
I'm not going to go into detail on how to load brushes, you can see how to make a brush in my earlier blog about brushes, or you can just Google grunge brushes and get your own.
Pick a font and type your word, I used Tahoma Bold. Next you are gonna want to rasterize your text. I then added a layer mask to apply my grunge brush to take away some ink, like a nice used stamp...
Texture is nice...
I added a new layer on top of my text layer, added a nice grungy frame to give some texture to the stamp.
Handmade is beautiful.
Merge your layers and rotate slightly to give it a lovely human touch.
I then added a crumpled piece of paper to the mix, because in real life, a stamp would be on paper.. right?
Pick your Color!
Pick your ink color and stamp stamp stamp.. If you are going to be using your logo a lot, and why wouldn't you, create a brush out of it (again... see my blog on making brushes) and it will be good to go when ever you need to stamp your logo.
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