- In this chapter we're going to create
the graphic portion of the logo
inside Adobe Illustrator, which features
the silhouette of a spaceship cut
out of the planet Saturn.
We're going to start things off
by creating the spaceship itself,
which comprises five path outlines.
We have this modified ellipse up here at the top,
then we have these two rectangles,
as well as these hand drawn paths
that I created using the Pen tool.
So it's not all that hard,
but I want you to be able to follow along
with me exactly so that you get
the very same results I'm getting,
which is why over here in Photoshop
I've created these design instructions.
I recommend you do this kind of thing as well.
Any time you create a logo,
you want to know exactly what went into it.
Now whether you decide to turn this
over to your client or not
is totally up to you.
You could do that if you like
so that in the future if they ever need
to either create another version of the logo
for some other purpose, or they need
to revamp the logo, they can,
or you can go ahead and keep the instructions
for yourself so you can do that work,
or pass it along to some employee
that you might have in the future.
Now this is a lot of information.
You can see that it's very detailed
and it's probably too much to take in at once,
which is why I've created an interactive
version of these instructions
using layer comps.
You can get to those comps by going
up to the Window menu and choosing
the Layer Comps command.
You can see that I've saved an awful lot of them.
In the case of this image,
all they do is turn on and off layers.
So all you have to do when you're creating
your own interactive instructions
is turn on and off the layers that want to use.
There's all kinds of layers inside of these groups,
some of which are turned on,
and at least one of which in this group
is turned off right now.
Then once you've done that,
then you just drop down to this little page icon
at the bottom of the Layer Comps panel
and click on it, and then you'll be asked
to name the comp and so forth.
Anyway, I'm going to cancel out here.
Now notice that if I bring up the fly out menu,
that I've assigned keyboard shortcuts
to Next Layer Comp and Previous Layer Comp
so that I can play them for you
as a slide show from the keyboard.
I did that, by the way, because those
are not default shortcuts.
I created those shortcuts by going
up to the Edit menu and choosing
the Keyboard Shortcuts command
just in case you want to be able
to do the same thing for yourself.
All right, I'm going to go ahead
and escape out of here.
I'm going to switch to the full screen mode
by pressing the F key a couple of times,
which will allow me to zoom in to 50%
on this very small screen.
Now I'll advance to this first layer comp here,
and notice that it says it all happens in Illustrator,
inside an artboard that measures 964 points wide
by 672 points tall with a single
vertical center guide.
Of course, I'll show you how that works
starting in the next movie,
but this is very important that you work in points
even if you're not comfortable with points.
For this exercise you want to work in points
because I'm giving you
specific numerical instructions.
So if you're not comfortable with points,
you can always switch back to a different unit later.
All right, now the next layer comp
shows us that the first thing we want to do
is create an ellipse at this location right there.
So it's centered at 482 by 140 points.
So every point on the artboard
inside Illustrator actually comes
with coordinate positioning values.
All right, then we're going to go ahead
and lift the top of that ellipse.
Next we'll draw a rectangle.
Then after that, we're going to be drawing
a series of custom guides starting
with this one right there,
which you can see is centered
on the bottom of the ellipse,
then we've got another one over here
at this location.
So I'm highlighting each one of these guides
as we're creating them in orange
even though they'll eventually be cyan,
at least by default.
Notice that I'm showing the reference point
as well so that we can confirm
that everything's in the right location
in the Transform panel.
I'll show you what that looks like in a future movie,
but for now I'll just keep moving through this.
This is the final guide right there.
Then what you need to do is take all
those rectangles on this guide's layer
that we'll be creating and convert them
to actual snapping guides.
All right, next we're going to draw
the jet of flame coming out of the ship.
It looks like this, it's just a rectangle.
Then we're going to use the Pen tool
to draw this custom path outline.
Notice that it involves just three smooth points,
so very simple.
But in all cases, the control handles
are snapping to very specific locations,
as you can see highlighted in yellow.
Then finally we'll go ahead and flip
that path to create the right wing,
and then we'll be done,
and your rocket, if you follow the instructions,
will look exactly like mine.
So that's how you create and employ
a detailed set of interactive instructions
for the creation and duplication
of your logo here inside Photoshop.
In the next movie we'll get things started
inside Illustrator.