Hello, I entered a competition for a logo design MyCity, and I decided to make a tut how to make a great looking simple logo.

Finished Result will look like this:

Let's start...
1. First you need to create a new Transparent 500x500 layer (File/New).

note: It would be easier if you turn on rulers (View/Rulers).

2. Create elypse with elypse tool. Start making elypse from 2x2 (with Shift button), and finish about 16. As on picture.



3. Make again elypse but you need to select Subtract from shape area . Start making from aprox. 3.4.



4. Then in layers tab, on "Shape 1" right click and Rasterize Layer.



5. With Brush Tool , paint some lines as edges of buildings...



6. Fill up empty space with Paint Bucket Tool, and again repair empty space with Brush Tool. You would have something like this.



7. But edges are not precious and nice. We need to select Rectangular Marquee Tool , and slowly selecting areas about buildings. If you want to select all in just one step, you need to press Shift button while selecting. After you select, press del button on your keyboard.



8. This part is over. When you all finish with painting and deleteing, you can rename layer to eg. "Town Form", and you need to enable some effects (right click on layer, and select Blending Options).







9. With Rectangle Tool make a windows. I choose to create 29 windows. And later you can group them in to smart object. Also you can create new grup and rename it to e.g Windows, as I was.




10. Now select Magic Wand Tool, and check all three option boxes (Anti-Alias, Contiguous and Sample All Layers). Hide all windows what you painted, and select Town Form layer, and click on this object.



11. Now it's time to select color of your logo, or with Gradient Tool make a fade effect. After that deselect and unhide windows.



12. Create text with Horizontal Type Tool and type a company name. I used MinionPro fonts/BoldCn.

13. Add some effect (right click on layers).









14. Your logo is finished!



PSD File is available :: Here ::

BrackoNe, long time no see.

Very nice result in this, thankyou

I was in some problem, now everything is ok...

I'll try to make better and better tuts...

It's a great result! I was gonna say usually logo's would be vector as you want to resize them but I think that this could be easily vectored......

Anyway, this is just for example of simple logo

nice tutorial,

u can also add more effect if u do this

ctrl click the town form layer, then go to select -> modify -> contract

and then type about 4 - 6 pixels,

make a new layer (with still the selection) and then pain bucked it
any color,
then with blending options u can make a nice color ...

because u contracted it u get a stroke like thing,

but still its a great tutorial

btw, correct me if i am wrong

@ axpo

Hello, thanks for giveing me a good idea...
I'll do that and I'll update a curent logo.

Thx, again.

great post

nice tut

Nice tut.... many thanks for posting

Regards,
spd

Bracko nice tut, simple but nice ...
that is combination of best ...

pozzz

Great tutorial and also easy to understand... Two thumbs up for you !

Thanks and if I can help you anymore, feel free to ask me...

Great tutorial, thx for adding!

Very NIce! TUT!

simple, but looks professional. Gonna use it.

Nice tutorial, BrackoNe

Thank you all, nice that is that somebody like my tut...

how do i download the psd filenever mind i figured it out now

nice tutr...thnx