- In this movie, I'm gonna copy
the graphic portion of the logo,
and then paste it into the horizontal layout,
which probably sounds extremely easy.
However, it's a little bit tricky
where this composition is concerned.
Now the thing is we want to preserve
the transparency associated with this object here.
So that, in other words, we're still cutting the rocket
out of the inside and we have the holes inside of the rings.
Which means that we want to get rid of
that opaque white background.
But notice if I turn the background off,
we end up with a real mess.
And that's because of the blend modes.
Notice that the color mode that's assigned
to the Core 285 layer, and the screen mode
which is assigned to the Nebula and Galaxy layers,
all of those blend modes require a white background
in order to work properly.
So, what we're gonna need to do is
select the planet and merge in that background.
So, I'm gonna go ahead and turn the background back on,
and then I'll twirl open the Logo group right here.
And notice that we have two layers,
this green layer and the blue layer.
They're both named "Compound Path."
They really probably ought to be named "Earth,"
for the green layer and then I suppose
we could call the blue layer "Saturn."
What we want to do is load that Saturn layer
as the selection outline, by pressing the Ctrl Key,
or the Command key on the Mac, and clicking its thumbnail.
Definitely click its thumbnail,
don't click elsewhere on the layer.
So that's a Ctrl click here on the PC,
or a Command click on the Mac, and you can see
that we now have a selection outline
that traces around the inside of the rocket
and around the inside of the rings as well.
Now go up to the Edit menu and choose
the Copy Merged command, or you can press the shortcut,
Ctrl+Shift+C here on the PC, or Command+Shift+C on the Mac.
Now I'm gonna switch over to my horizontal layout,
and I'm gonna zoom in on the far right side of it.
And you know what, we have one slight problem
where this composition is concerned.
The word "Unlimited" isn't kerned quite properly,
so I'm gonna bring back up my Character panel.
And of course, you can access it by choosing
the Character command from the window menu.
I'm gonna change the lighting to Auto,
just to tidy things up here.
That doesn't actually do anything, though,
because we just have the one line of type.
What is gonna make a difference is
changing the kerning value right here,
that's located directly below the size value.
We want to change it from Optical to Metrics.
And that way the "I" is more or less
centered underneath the "S" above it.
All right, now I'm gonna hide the Character panel,
and I'll go ahead and scroll over
to the right hand side of my document.
And just so things read properly, here in the Layers panel,
I'm gonna put the "Frontiers" layer
on top of the "Unlimited" layer, and then I'm gonna press
Ctrl+V or Command+V on the Mac to paste the logo into place.
And notice if I Ctrl or Command drag it around here,
you can see that the transparency is fully intact.
All right, now I'm gonna move this guy
to the bottom of the stack directly above the background.
And I'm gonna rename it "Art," let's say.
Now, to vertically center the graphic.
I'll press Ctrl+A or Command+A on the Mac
to select the entire image,
then I'll switch over to the "Move" tool,
which you can get by pressing the "V" key.
And that way we end up with our alignment options
up here in the Options bar.
And now, I'll click on the second icon in,
Align Vertical Centers, in order to
vertically align the planet.
And now I'll press Ctrl+D, or Command+D on the Mac
in order to deselect the artwork.
Now, I want to start things off
where the horizontal position is concerned,
by dragging the planet.
And I'm doing so, by the way, by pressing
the Ctrl+Shift keys as I drag.
That's a Command+Shift drag on the Mac,
until the planet is more or less aligned
with the edge of the "D," as we're seeing right there.
Then, I'm gonna go ahead and switch over
to my Rectangular Marquis tool,
and I'm gonna use the marquis in order to
measure the distance between the "E" and the "D,"
which is roughly 370 pixels it looks like,
based on that "W" value that we're seeing
inside the heads of display.
All right now, we'll go ahead and press Ctrl+D,
or Command+D on the Mac to deselect the artwork.
And with that art layer still selected,
go up to the Edit menu and choose
the Free Transform command, or press Ctrl+T
or Command+T on the Mac.
And the reason we're doing that is
to gain access to our positioning values.
And so I'm gonna select the bottom left point
in this reference point matrix.
And I'm gonna turn on the Delta icon as well, this triangle.
And that way, we have relative positioning options.
And we'll go ahead and change that "X" value to 370 pixels,
I believe, in order to scoot things over.
And then I'll turn the Delta off,
just so I can confirm I've got the right position.
And then I decided that was a little too far,
so I decided to take that Delta value down to 270,
so I went ahead and deleted 100 pixels.
And now I'll turn the Delta icon back off,
so that I can confirm my position,
and it's just a little bit low.
It really wants to be 6,072 pixels, like so.
And then I'll press the Enter key,
or the Return key on the Mac a couple of times,
in order to accept that change.
And now I'll go ahead and zoom out
so it can take in my artwork.
Now, at this point, you can either keep your guides
by going up to the View menu, choosing Show
and then choosing Guides to hide them.
Or, if you just want to clean things up entirely,
then you can choose the Clear Guides command,
because after all, the guides have served their purpose.
And now I'll press the "F" key a couple of times
to fill the screen with the image.
And I'll go ahead and zoom in as well.
And that's how you introduce a graphic portion
of the logo into the horizontal design,
by first loading the base layer as a selection outline,
and then using Copy Merge command, here inside PhotoShop.