Discover the process of creating a custom vectored logo, including changing the style, colors, and exporting the design. This article provides a step-by-step guide on how to modify logos, change canvas size, and export the finished product as a PNG file.
Key Insights
- The logo modification process starts by changing the canvas size to 2,000 by 2,000 pixels, this can be done by navigating to Image, Canvas Size, and then altering the pixels.
- Color changes are made by highlighting the desired area, navigating to Properties, clicking Fill, and then selecting the Color Picker to input the client's preferred color code.
- The final step in the process is exporting the finished logo. This is done by navigating to File, Export, and Export As, selecting PNG as the format, ensuring the width and height are 2,000, scaling it at 100%, and exporting the file for client use.
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In this video, we'll be making modifications to our vectored logo. Oftentimes, when I receive requests for logos to be revised and vectorized, they also include opportunities to change the style or colors of the logos, and then export them as a PNG.
Therefore, let's go over some modifications that we can make to this logo, as well as go through the export process for this logo. The first thing we'll want to do is change our canvas size to 2,000 × 2,000 pixels. To do this, we can go to Image > Canvas Size, and we'll modify inches and instead select pixels.
Here, we can change our width to 2,000 and height as well to 2,000, using Tab to move down to height. We'll then click OK, and as we can see, our canvas is much larger. If we zoom out using CTRL– on the keyboard, we can then select the black shape and the orange circle. In this case, we'll use CTRL+T to transform both with both selected.
We can then simply drag and hold Shift on our keyboard to constrain the image to its proportions. Next, we can use this line to center our image and bring it from the border on the left side to the border on the right, holding Shift until we see the purple line on the right side. Our image is now centered and aligned from one edge to the other.
We can hit ENTER to keep these transformations. Let's zoom in to our bottom-left corner, and we'll notice that this black line doesn't quite meet the edge of the circle. We can make this change by selecting our black shape using the Direct Selection Tool.
We'll then choose this point and hit ENTER. Let's zoom back out, and here we have our logo right in the middle of the canvas. Hit CTRL+S to save, and now let's make the changes to our colors.
First, we'll change the orange circle. With the orange circle highlighted, we'll go to our Properties, click Fill, and then go to our Color Picker. Here, we can type in the client's preferred color, which is FECC33.
Type in FECC33 and click OK. Next, we're going to modify this black shape on top by first selecting the black shape. For this black shape, we're going to make it white with a black stroke. Therefore, we'll fill it, and select white.
Next, let's add a stroke to our shape. We'll click Stroke, and then select black. If we hit ENTER, and ENTER again, we'll see that currently we don't have much of a stroke on our shape. Therefore, let's increase the width of the stroke.
We can toggle our slider and drag it up until we begin to see a stroke that's appropriate. You can choose whatever stroke width you prefer. For mine, I'm going to choose 10 pixels and hit ENTER.
Here, we have a well-defined stroke around our shape, and we've fulfilled our client's needs. Next, let's export. We'll start by going to File > Export > Export As.
Here, we'll see our dialog box for exporting. Because our client wants a PNG, we can select PNG for our format. In addition, they'll want transparency so that they can overlay this logo on top of other marketing materials as needed.
We'll make sure that the width and height are 2,000 because our canvas is 2,000 × 2,000. Set the scale to 100%, and we won't need any metadata or specific color space other than sRGB. We'll click Export All, name it HighResolutionLogo-WhiteYellow*, and click Save.
If we now go into our File Explorer, we'll see that we have a HighResolutionLogo*, and if we open the file, we'll see that we have our PNG file ready for export. In the next video, we'll be working to create our own logo. See you there!