Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

Learning the basics on logo’s and banners, you will often find that when you or adding text to your logo or banner the composition needs adjusting, you should keep all the elements on a different layer it’s much easier to move things around. Also when your doing logo’s and banner it’s always a very good idea to save a version that includes all the layers you have done.

In the banner design there is a standard grab-bag of techniques and imagery that are used. Understanding the principles is a must this will help create your own design with a little experimentation. The must common image used for this cityscapes. Start off by burning around the edges this creates an inverse halo.

You can also use some camera lighting effect you could use a camera spin. A camera spin would be much too whacky to use alone. Mixing the two together would be a perfect match. Now you must add another layer of movement and detail to the original image. Some of the colours are might be distracting, so you can desaturate the layer.

Next you will need to add an extreme radial blur, this can be done by using a wide amount and the best quality setting to create an exploding light effect. Sometimes you’ll find this very hard to balance so you can add some structure, this is done by duplicating the layer and flipping it horizontally to create a mirror image. You should also use the overlay blending mode to deepen the light and the colours in the skyscraper layer.

The best thing to now would be experimenting with the position of the mirror layer. Sometimes you’ll find that one side has an hard edge, this is very easy to remove by the aid of the lasso tool and selecting around the edge, feathering by 240 pixels and deleting. You can also try adding more movement by duplicating the bottom layer and applying the wave filter. You need to experiment with this to become an expert.