Designing a logo

[B&H Digital]

Hi everyone

This is for personal use.

I want to design a logo that I would use for websites, business cards, letterheads, flyers and a lot more things like that. How would I create it so that I can use it for all these things? I have all Photoshop and can knock up something decent in it - but obviously when you enlarge/decrease image dimensions the quality sometimes goes

Any advice would be appreciated

Thanks
Ryan

 

[Stationery Direct]

You need to be using vector software such as Adobe Illustrator.

 

[B&H Digital]

You need to be using vector software such as Adobe Illustrator.

I'll probably make myself look stupid here, but is that the graphic type that uses calculations?

 

[Stationery Direct]

yes, see here > http://www.graphicdesignforums.co.u...ster-images-vs-vector-images-explanation.html

 

[nburman]

Hi B&H,
As Mr H said, you always want to be designing a logo using vectors and never with bitmaps. If you have something in a bitmap format it can be traced and converted to a vector in a relatively short amount of time (i.e. it's not an expensive job). For compatibility you don't want to be messing around with Corel Draw either. Stick to Adobe Illustrator! Good luck.

 

[Websynergi]

You could try out Inkscape. Draw Freely., its a free vector program. I've never tried it myself but the benefits of creating a vector logo rather than in bitmap one is huge, I've done some large format work and trying to use a pixel logo on a huge banner can create problems.

 

[TDesignCo]

As already mentioned - illustrator is the way forward here!

If you don't have the software I would look into getting it drawn up properly in Illustrator for sure.