Tutorial Spotlight: Complex Cluster Logo
Learn how to create a great looking complex cluster, or plastic flower icon/logo for your next web project!
Awesome Effect
This is part 3 in a 5 part tutorial to easily create a render layout out of a simple render in about 20 minutes. This is by far the fastest way to develop a layout for a website and equally as easy to accomplish.
In this installment we will be creating the Logo for our layout and design. To see how the final product, go here: Final product | Another variation.
Step 10.)
with the selection still active go to select->modify->contract with a setting of 8. Then press DELETE on your keyboard and press CNTRL + D to deselect.
Step 11.)
next while holding CNTRL click on the logo layer above the circle to make a selection of it. Then go to "select->modify->expand" and set it to 2 pixels. Press delete on your keyboard.
Step 12.)
next on a new layer, create a few extra small circles and fill them with the same color.
Step 13.)
position them like so:
Step 14.)
Just like before hold down CNTRL and click on the base circle layer to select it, go to select-modify-expand and expand it by 2 pixels, and press "delete" to get this effect.
Step 15.)
l then trimmed off the excess near the bottom and merged this layer with the top-most logo layer.
Step 16.)
next add the following layer styles to the top-most logo layer:
