In this tutorial, I am going to show you how you can create an awesome 3d logo for your company, personal use, or just for fun!
1. Create a new Document (300x300).
2. Select the ellipse tool:
3. While holding shift on your keyboard, drag a circle near the center of your document:
4. Select a light grey color for this shape by double clicking the color to the right of the ellipse shape in the layers panel:
5. Duplicate this layer (right click the layer and press Duplicate Layer). Now go to Edit > Transform > Scale:
6. Hold Ctrl+Shift+Alt, and while, drag in on one of the corners until you have a small rim around the inner circle:
7. Select a Blue Color for this inner Shape:
8. Rasterize both of the shape layers (Right Click Layer > Rasterize). Now Right click the grey circle layer and go to blending options.
9. Go to Gradient Overlay, and set it up like this:
10. And in the Bevel:
11. Click OK to apply these changes. Hold Ctrl and click the blur circle layer. Now while your grey circle layer is selected, press ctrl+x. Go back into the blending options and add a drop shadow with these settings:
12. Select the Elliptical Marquee Tool:
13. While Holding shift, make a selection like this in your image:
14. Select your gradient tool:
15. Choose the default gradient preset from the preset manager that goes from foreground color to transparency. Set your foreground color to white. Now fill in this selection in a new layer over all of your other layers. Be sure that when you are filling it, you are dragging a line while holding shift, and you are dragging from top of the selection to the bottom:
16. Now Select your dodge tool from your main toolbar:
17. Set up your brush like this:
Hardness is 0%
18. Brush in a circular motion on the blue circle layer so that you get a similar effect to this:
19. Now, make your brush size 200, and click 2-3 times at the top and bottom of the blue circle layer:
20. Now, just add some text, or a picture to your logo and your done!
Good Luck!
