Logo help... please

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I am putting together a logo for hubby who is trying to put together a new start up business (non photography related). I thought how simple can this be... how wrong was I! :thinking:

I have the design I want that I put together in a free trial program but can't replicate the shapes I want. The logo is on the surface quite plain but its made up of 6 rectangles where the short ends are angled on a slant. My problem is there doesn't seem to be a chamfered tool in Illustrator, in PS5 its a similar problem and GIMP 2 is just a puzzle. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can tackle this? :help:
 
anyone, it won't be hard to have more knowledge than me on this subject!
 
Here it is Jez, looks so simple but its proving to be a pain....

 
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I'm not a graphic designer but I think you should be able to do that with in PS5 with a combination of the shape tool and transform function, using guides to make sure it all lines up. Looks like there are only four basic shapes, so once you've created them you're laughing.
 
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That's the problem, I can create the rectangles no problem and change the angle but I can't angle off the ends, when I use the transform tool it keeps the ends square.
 
Edit-->Transform-->Skew, then grab a corner of the rectangle and drag and that should give you angled ends
 
Select a rectangle assuming its on its own layer, then add an effect, double click the layer, in the effect tabs there are bevel,and emboss, see if that does the jobby
 
Hi

Just a quick rough job

Open you image, zoom out a bit,use the path panel select the separate paths with the pen tool (which will be aut so no need to select it from the tool panel), then right click the path and make a selection, to copy it, make a new image say 500 x 500 paste it then on the layer panel duplicate the layer then fill the selection with appropriate colours job done

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well I mean you just click in turn the 4 corners of each if you watch the path panel you will see it building up theres only one main path layer, so say you want a larger just zoom out more on the original as that will determine the size of the selection if that make sense
 
Let me know if you cant understand it and I'll do you a tut with screenshots but if you try it youll see whats happening
 
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Thanks for the suggestions, I have just followed your tutorial Dave. My problem now is the logo isn't as sharpe in definition as I'd like. The path selection copied over shape and fill. I think the fizziness around the edges must be down to the original low res image?
 
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Thanks for the suggestions, I have just followed your tutorial Dave. My problem now is the logo isn't as sharpe in definition as I'd like. The path selection copied over shape and fill. I think the fizziness around the edges must be down to the original low res image?
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once youve zoomed drag guides out, to aid exact selections, do you have PS illustrator?
 
Yes, I have downloaded the 30 day trial but CS5 looks easy in comparison!
 
Ok, I made each rectangle into a selection using the pen tool that c & p onto new image. If I then import into illustrator what should I be doing with it to clean it up?
 
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Ok, I made each rectangle into a selection using the pen tool that c & p onto new image. If I then import into illustrator what should I be doing with it to clean it up?
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you dont import it, you export the path to illustrator and it will be clean, if you make it into an image then it will degrade, so once youve made the path, export it by file/export/ to illustrator
 
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You should give Serif DrawPlus a try, really easy to use and does the job.

I have used illustrator in the past and its way more complicated than it needs to be and I can get the same results in Drawplus for a fraction of the price. Plus they have starter editions for FREE and the latest version is only £80 HERE. No I don't work for them but if I find something good I like to share and they are a UK company (based in Nottingham) so good to support them

Link HERE for free full software

Here is a quick go (about 5min in total) using Drawplus

Another decent programme is Xara

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