Create an Illustrative Logo From a Photograph – Tuts+ Premium Tutorial
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Create an Illustrative Logo From a Photograph – Tuts+ Premium Tutorial

on Jul 19th 2012 with 5 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Program: Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Estimated Completion Time: 3 hours
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating

In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, we’ll start with a photographic reference, then through some manipulation in Photoshop and careful tracing by hand, pare it down to its essential elements. The result is a stylized mark that is representative, yet bold and graphic. Let’s get started!

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Cheryl Graham trained as a traditional artist in drawing and painting. These days she spends more time in front of the computer than the easel. She's been using Adobe Illustrator for over 15 years. Her Illustrator work has been featured in the "The Adobe Illustrator WOW! Book" and "Real World Illustrator."  

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  • Rolando

    Premium Tutorial??

    • thousand

      Same reaction here o_O

  • Rogelio Alejandro

    I just saw the full tutorial and while it does provide an useful and interesting workflow, I fail to find the depth and quality factor that makes it a Premium. Although I accept that I don’t quite grasp the guidelines that make a tutorial either “regular” or “premium”. And this isn’t the first tutorial that appears to be “oversold”, and certainly not the worst, since there are genuinely poor tutorials that make it to premium. I’ll try to find them and comment in them. In the end it does what it says it does, but what it says it does doesn’t quite seem premium degree.

  • http://tinyurl.com/3elsgqj Kate McInnes

    Hi everyone, thanks for the feedback…

    This is a premium tutorial as there’s way more technical advice and guidance in it than you would find in a regular tutorial. While the outcome may not have the same look as some of the other premiums, it’s the workflow and advice that’s the shining star of the content.

    Premium aims for a mix of professional advice and advanced level rendering tutorials so you can sharpen your skills and your knowledge at the same time.

  • http://www.margaretnicholdesign.com margaretnicholdesign

    I think it’s just the font used that’s dragging it down. If you’re going to put together a nice illustrative image, I think it’d be nice to see the type part of the logo have a similar amount of thought put into it.
    Definitely useful for the illustrative part though.