- In this movie, we're going to introduce
a photographic element into our logo.
Specifically, this galaxy cluster right here.
And this is an authentic image,
captured with the Hubble telescope,
and it's also public domain.
Now the first thing I'm going to do
is move this image over into my composition.
And you can do that,
assuming that the Rectangular Marquis tool
is selected, near the top of the Tool Box,
by right-clicking inside the image window,
and choosing "Duplicate Layer."
Then, I'll change my Document
to the Document in Progress,
which is called "With white background,"
and I'll go ahead and name the layer "galaxy," let's say,
and I'll click "OK."
And now, I'll switch back to that image
in order to see that galaxy located on a new layer.
Now I want to change the Blend mode,
up here at the top of the Layers panel,
from "Normal" to "Screen,"
which will drop out all of the blacks
and leave us with just the stars,
as we're seeing here.
Now you need to adjust the position of this layer,
and so I'll get my Move tool on the fly
by pressing and holding the Control key,
that's the Command key on the Mac,
and I'll go ahead and drag this guy up
so that I see these two bright stars,
along the top left edge of the rocket.
Now I happen to know exactly where I want them positioned,
and so what I'm going to do is go up to the Edit menu,
and choose the Free Transform command.
And that will show me coordinate positions for this layer
over here on the left side of the Options bar.
If you're working along with me,
you need to make sure the center point is selected,
in this little reference point matrix.
And then, you want to change the x-value to 1990 pixels,
a y-value of 721, which is what I have,
will work just fine.
And then I'll press the Enter key,
or the Return key on the Mac,
a couple of times to accept that change.
Alright, now I want to mask the galaxy
into just the top portion of the logo.
And I'm going to do so using a vector mask,
that I'm going to lift from Illustrator.
So, I'll go ahead and switch back to Illustrator here,
and I'll turn off my "gradients" layer for a moment,
and turn on the "rotated" layer down here.
And, by the way, I'm working inside that version
of the file before I scaled it.
And now, I'll go ahead and click
on this circle here to select it,
and I also want to select this outer ring.
It's part of a Compound Path,
so I'm going to press the A key
to switch to the White Arrow tool,
and then I'll Shift-Alt-Click on it,
that would be a Shift-Option-Click on the Mac,
in order to select the entire thing,
without the inner ring.
Then, press Control-C,
or Command-C on the Mac, to copy it,
and now you can turn that layer back off
and then turn the "gradients" layer on.
Click on the "gradients" layer to make it active,
and press Control-F, or Command-F on the Mac,
in order to paste those paths into place.
Now I'm going to change the Fill,
up here on the Control Panel, from black to none, like so.
And I'm going to go ahead and click off
the path outline for a moment.
I need to find that anchor point at the top of the ring,
so I'll go ahead and click on one of the segments there,
and that will show me where the anchor point is.
And now I'll click on it, in order to make it active.
Now we need to move the anchor point,
to a position above the planet.
It will become evident why we're doing this
in just a moment.
But, in the meantime, just press the Enter key,
or the Return key on the Mac,
to bring up the Move Dialog box.
We want to move this point at a 60-degree angle,
and that's because the planet's at a negative 30 angle,
and we want to add 90 to it.
And then we want the distance to be 200 pt.
We're not concerned with the horizontal or vertical values.
So just go ahead and click OK.
Alright, now press the V key
to switch back to the Black Arrow tool.
Click on that path to select it,
and shift-click on the circle to select it as well.
And the reason we have the circle,
is it's going to help us position this other shape.
And now, you can copy them,
by pressing Control-C, or Command-C on the Mac.
Alright, now switch back to Photoshop,
and let's switch over to the Paths panel as well,
which by default is located
a couple of tabs over from the Layers panel.
Then, go ahead and Alt-click,
on the Mac, you would Option-click,
on the little Page icon at the bottom of the Panel,
and let's go ahead and call this new path "from AI,"
and I'll click OK.
And now, press Control-V,
or Command-V on a Mac, in order to paste those paths.
Now, you'll get this Dialog box,
asking you how you want to paste them,
you do want path outlines, so select "Path,"
and then click OK.
And notice that it comes in really tiny.
And that's because we currently have
the resolution of this image set to 72ppi.
So, to fix that, I'll just go ahead
and press Control-Z, or Command-Z on the Mac,
to undo the paste, and then,
I'll go up to the Image menu,
and choose the "Image Size" command.
Then, inside the Image Size dialog box,
you want to go ahead and turn the "Resample" check box off,
and then, dial in a resolution value
of 300 pixels per inch like so, and click OK.
And now, if you press Control-V,
or Command-V on the Mac, and select "Path," and click OK,
you'll end up with these much larger path outlines like so.
Alright, now, they won't come in in the right place,
so what you're going to have to do
is zoom in to get a better look.
And then, go ahead and select your Black Arrow tool,
which you can get by pressing the A key,
here inside Photoshop,
and drag this guy upward like so,
until it appears to be in the proper position.
So what want you want to do,
is just make sure that that circle
exactly surrounds the logo.
In my case it doesn't, it's a little too high,
so I'm pressing the Down Arrow key a few times
in order to nudge that down.
It's also too far to the right,
so now it's probably too low.
I'll go ahead and nudge this guy up.
So it's going to require a little attention on your part,
in order to get this guy exactly aligned.
But, believe me, in the long run it is worth it.
Alright, I'm just going to trace around the logo here,
in order to make sure that
I've got it in the right position.
Go ahead and nudge that guy up perhaps,
maybe a little bit over,
not always sure exactly where to put this guy.
Alright I'll go ahead and scroll upward,
it looks like it's a little too high
and, hopefully, that is the last modification
I need to make.
It looks like the circle is properly tracing the planet.
So now I'll go ahead and press Control-0,
or Command-0 on the Mac, to zoom out.
And I'll click off the path outlines
to de-select both of them,
and I'll now click on just this path outline here.
This is really the only one we need.
And then, I'll switch back to the Layers panel,
and with that "galaxy" layer active,
I'm going to drop down to the Add Layer Mask icon,
and as opposed to clicking on it,
which would create a pixel-based mask,
I'm going to press the Control key,
or the Command key on the Mac,
and click on it, in order to create a vector mask.
Now, unfortunately, I went ahead
and brought the circle over as well,
that's not what I wanted.
So, I'll go ahead and click on that circle,
this time, inside of the vector mask,
and then I'll press the Backspace key,
or the Delete key on the Mac, to get rid of it.
And now, you can press the M key
to switch back to the Rectangular Marquis tool,
and that will go ahead and hide the path outline from view.