Tutorial Details
- Program: Illustrator CS4
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Length: 15:39 min
Final Product What You'll Be Creating
Learn how to create a retro vector seal logo in Adobe Illustrator with Ryan Quintal. We’ll be using simple shapes, effects, transparency masks, and a free grunge texture pack from PSD TutsPlus to create the final effect.
Resources: Freebie Pack – 4 Free High Resolution Grunge Textures
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By Ryan Quintal
Edgy. Daring. Sometimes a little kooky. Graphic designers of all backgrounds turn to Ryan's QuintalDesigns.com for industry articles, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop Tutorials, and a host of other fun information. A blend of strong experience, innovative design, and geeky background. Ryan's current gig is as a Designer in Massachusetts, while at the same time, attending college, where he is honing his skills for his design career.
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Is a premium member video? I cant seem to get any of the videos to work
Great tutorial & nice usage of the colour guide. Never thought of using that.
The color guide is neat, Kuler from Adobe is awesome too… When it works.
Retro is back. I really like the colors in logo, secondly, thanks for resources.
video is unavailable
Sometimes there’s problems with the video and people on devices, you can watch it on iTunes too – here’s a link. http://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/vectortuts/id426566984
Hi!
Liked your tutorial, learned a few things! Thanks. Here’s my question; since you’ve put in an image (texture), how is this going to effect the logo when you make it really big? Let say you put it on a jumbo poster, is that going to distort the texture in the logo?
Thanks,
AlenkaDesign
Billboards are printed at 72 dpi (as far as I know). No matter the size, if you make the texture to the size of the output then there shouldn’t be a problem.
I second that motion.
Also, I second that EMOTION. LoungeKat, this one goes out to you: http://ryqu.in/maJqCD
Nice work Ryan. Thanks for taking the time to do this. I especially liked your using keyboard shortcuts – Somewhat rare as far as tuts go.
What font did he use for the “Est. 1932″? I can’t hear it clearly.
Its Bistro Script.
Here is the Link to that Font: http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/suitcase/bistro-script/regular/
I got through this tutorial fairly easily, but one question remained in my head. It looks like yours ended up brighter than mine at the end of the video, and I was wondering if you had done anything to achieve that effect because mine looks a little to faded.
Hard to say Dustin,
Sometimes that’s the color space used at the beginning, colors probably can’t translate exactly though the screen recording software, and after blipTV’s encoding, I’m not sure what may be the case.
Either way, once you’ve got the technique down, you can change the colors as you like.
I’m stuck and I don’t understand what i’m doing wrong. After you pasted a copy in front of the original, you expand the appearance and then use the divide tool. But when i use the divide tool i lose the original image. In other words, there are no two images on top of each other anymore but only one. What am I doing wrong ?
You may be selecting too many things before you hit the divide command.
You can always make another copy, by using cmd+C then cmd+F for insurance before you use the divide command.
Good tutorial! But I’m stuck on the same part of Pierre.
I think that you miss or did something different, because we can see that the recording was stopped and released again on 11:49. Doing the same thing on the video gave me a different result.
Anyway, thank you for sharing!
Thanks a lot for this great tutorial. Your explanations are clear, and the whole thing is created entertaining! I look forward for more to come :-)
Amazing tut, i have Cs3 not Cs5 but it was fun to watch and i got some great tricks, ideas and inspiration from this, great job Ryan!
Great tutorial, but it’d be nice to see one that wasn’t so Mac OS-centric. All of this Command C, Command F stuff made the tutorial a lot more complicated than necessary for us Windows users.
It’s a pretty good tutorial and a good design, but I just couldn’t for the life of me get some of it to work… Maybe you left out some key shortcuts your were using, I’m not really sure. Like Pierre and Franco, the part where you make the new layer, then copy the logo over itself and expand and divide and delete gets messed up. It never goes for me how it does for you. I eventually got through that part while selecting all at parts where you said to only select the front copy of the logo, but that messes up future parts. What I finally ended up with was the same logo, but without the rectangle behind the text getting cut out from the rest of the logo. So its a continuous circle. Maybe one day I will figure it out…
I think I eventually figured out that by ungrouping the newly divided layer it allows you to select and remove the white part
Thank you very much for this! Super helpful!!!!
Keep up the awesome work!
I can’t understand anything of that..I am using Windows and the shortcuts doesn’t seem to coincide with Mac
thanks for the awesome tutorial!
i am using windows also mac sometimes, keep up work.
Hi Ryan,
Thanks a lot for doing this – perfect for what I want to do. It’s well explained an presented. Very professional.
Thanks again,
Bob.
I’m also stuck at the divide part, it makes everything look all crazy and pixely when I do it. I’m having a hard time from deleting the blank rectangle that encases the type to the final product. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. I did figure out everything from converting mac commands to windows and I’ve done everything exact but it just doesn’t want to work from the divide point on :/