Need For Speed »
By MaxW on Jan 22, 2005 in Photoshop |
Howdy Photoshoppers - Today I’m going to hopefully teach you how to make a very stylish looking Need for Speed logo. For those who don’t know what need for speed is, it’s a game, a racing game with lot’s of cool cars. It’s well worth a look at actually!
Ok, before we start If you want the best possible looks (in my
opinion) you should download the font below and use it throughout the
tutorial.
Now we have our font we can get the ball rolling. First create your
document, I’m using the usual 720×540 which gives me a load of room to
work with. Create some text, for this example I’m going to use Sconner
as my text. Set your background color to #2B2B2B and any foreground
color you want, I’m using white as mine.
Before we actually make the text, we should make the outline of the
text, which will be the metallic effect. For those who have read my Brushed Metal tutorial then you will know how to do this, but I will still explain anyway.
Make a new layer above your background layer and name is Metal with this layer fill it with white. Once you’ve filled it, click on Layer Styles and set a Gradient Overlay with the following settings:
Also you will need the gradient as it’s a custom gradient. If you don’t
know how to make gradients then now is about the time to be reading my Gradients Tutorial
Anyway, here’s the colors so make the gradient:
Now we have this done, your document should be looking something like this:
Looks a bit wacky at the minute right?
Now we need to add some Noise to our layer, so go ahead and click Filter>Noise>Add Noise and set the following settings:
Now add some motion blur so go to Filter>Blur>Motion Blur and add the following settings:
Bingo, we now have some cool brushed metal, although it’s very faint, it can be changed by changing the Gradient Overlay opacity to something lower if you like.
Now we move on, and we make some text, so using the font I’ve provided make your text, I’m going to use Sconner for my example. Make your font size about 72px so we have it nice and big.
Ok, now we need to set the layer styles so set the following:
Now for this pattern, you will notice it’s not a normal pattern, you’ll
see it’s a custom one. I’ve kindly provided you with the .PAT file
which is the pattern so you don’t even have to make the pattern
yourself.
Download the pattern, unzip it using Winzip or any other zip de compiler. Once you have the .PAT file you do the following:
Ok once you’ve done this you should be able to see the pattern in
your patterns list. If you can be sure to select it and you’ll have
some jazzy looking text like this:
Now we get into the nitty gritty of the tutorial with the “Hard Parts”
CTRL+CLICK your text later, so it’s got the pretty dashes going round and round and go to Select>Modify>Expand and set the expand value to 6px.
Your text should now be looking something like this:
Looking like that? Brilliant!
Now click on your Brushed Metal layer and press CTRL+SHIFT+I - this should invert the layer and it’ll look something like this:
Now all we simply do is press the Delete key and it should delete everything around the text. Press CTRL+D to deselect the layer. It’s starting to look good now huh? Here’s how mine looks!
woot, now we only need to add some finishing touches so fire ahead and add the following properties to your Brushed Metal Layer
Looks awesome right? you can keep editing your logo until you are happy with what you have, here is how mine ended up!
