Recently I taught my readers How To Make a Glossy Web 2.0 Logo which was kind of appreciated a lot by everyone. I myself liked the idea of sharing my photoshop designing skills with everyone for the first time ever. I am not very good at making and writing design tutorials but whenever I come up with something creative I like sharing it with everyone and here is another piece of my creativity.

Make a Catchy Web 2.0 Feed Logo

This little tutorial is in a way related to the web 2.0 logo tutorial but has a different and more cooler output. Feed logos are very important for your blog as they prove to be instrumental in catching the eye of more readers and therefore it is a good chance that a catchy web 2.0 Feed logo will help you increase feed subscribers count on your blog.

Here we start with our tutorial:

1. Open a blank document in Adobe Photoshop with a pixel dimension of 400 x 200 with the default settings and make sure you set the foreground color to #FC6F02
2. Now pick the ‘Rectangle Tool’ and make a rectangle of suitable width and height that stretches horizontally. Right click on this layer and name it ‘Subscribe’ by clicking on the ‘Layer Properties’. Then right click again on this layer again and click ‘Rasterize Layer’.
3. Open the ‘Blending Options’ for this layer and check the box near ‘Outer Glow’ thus giving it the following set of properties


Your logo should look something like this by now


4. Select the ‘Text Tool’ and write the text ‘Subscribe Now!’. Make sure the font-style is ‘Trebuchet MS’, the font-weight is ‘Regular’, the font-color is #FFFFFF the anti-aliasing is ‘Smooth’ and the font-size is comparable or around 30pt.
5. Select the ‘Subscribe’ layer and using the ‘Free Transform’ tool adjust the rectangle such that it covers the text background completely. You get this output:



6. Repeat the steps 2-5 to make a rectangle comparatively smaller in size to the one we made above and this time use the text ’syndicate’ and position in such a way that it looks something like this:



7. Use the ‘Free Transform Tool’ to expand the ‘Subscribe’ and ‘Syndicate’ layers horizontally on the left side. Then select the ‘Elliptical Marquee Tool’ and stretch across the upper half curvature of the ‘Subscribe Now’ layer.



8. Make a new layer above your other layers and name it ‘gloss’. Fill this layer with ‘White’ color using the ‘Paint Bucket Tool’ within the portion which we just selected using the Elliptical Marquee Tool. Set the opacity of this layer to 30%



9. Take a good looking open source feed logo with a transparent background and position it as shown to make your final logo. I used this one


Here is your final logo

I hope the tutorial was fun for most of you Please share your views