Candy Coated Photoshop Tutorial
By Jon Gos2008-02-25
Candy Coated Effect
In this tutorial I'll teach you how to make a web 2.0 logo so damn sugary sweet it'll give your website a cavity. Then I'll give you the PSD, the font, and all the patterns used in the image so that you can play with it yourself. If you want to skip the tutorial altogether, you can download the PSD here.
The beauty of the correct way to design logos in Photoshop or Illustrator comes when we keep everything as editable text layers from start to finish. That way if we need to make changes or reuse the idea, we can just pop open a Photoshop file and quickly output a new version of an old idea. This will also make it easy for you to duplicate my steps.
1. Open up Photoshop and Create a new layer.
2. Use the Text Tool
to write something in black using the "Creampuff" font.
3. Choose "Color Overlay" from the Layer Style options.
4. Select a pinkish color. Because it makes most people think of candy or something edible(....like babies). For your reference, I'm using these settings..... Color Overlay >> #9e5859. Let's name this layer 'Base'.
5. Duplicate this current layer twice by dragging it to the layer button two times.
6. Name one of the duplicates 'Hard' and the other 'Sugar'. This is just for the sake of the tutorial, really you could name them whatever you want. Make sure you order the three layers so that 'Base' is underneath 'Hard' and 'Sugar' is topmost.
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