Design a Logo in Adobe Illustrator, Superfast!

1. Welcome: Welcome to the class. I'm excited to have you here. And I hope that this is just enough information that you feel like you can dive in and make something really cool, have all the tools at your disposal without getting too overwhelmed by a class that might be, you know, five or 10 hours long. 6.5 hours later. So, it's going to be fast and furious. It's gonna be very basic, sprinkled in with a little bit of advanced tips and tricks that I use to make my work flow fast. But don't let the speed scare you. Wo. Starting out, when I first started, I was incredibly slow. I didn't know what I was doing. I couldn't draw. I couldn't make anything. So I've been there before. I believe you can do this, and I'm excited to have you in the class. Here's a quick screenshot of where I ended up when going through this process. You can see I made this fictitious unicorn brand thing. Pretty random, no backstory, whatsoever. Just make it something fun. So I'm hoping that by the end of this course, you'll have something fun to share with the class as well. Now, if you get lost along the way or have questions, don't forget you can post in the discussions below. There's also some resources attached that you can download and check out. And my hope with this course is that it gets you up and running really fast with a few tips and tricks that will help you make something fun that actually looks kind of cool without really having to know hardly anything about Adobe Illustrator yet. So I do have some more advanced courses if you want to learn a lot more nuance, in Adobe Illustrator and more theory behind what makes a good logo, things like that. But the purpose of this course is just to have you kind of kick the tires and see if you even like it, and see if you can make something fun, how to open something up, make something real quick, and then export it to share with the world. So that's the hope. That's the goal, and I can't wait to have you dive in and follow along. And then once you're all done, don't forget to share with the class. So make sure you do the exercises, make something, export it, and then post it below. I can't wait. Thanks so much for joining this class, and let's go ahead and dive in. M 2. Let's Get Started!: All right, to get started with this, what we're going to do is go to dafont.com. That's df nt.com. Here it is. And on the home page, you'll see we have all of these categories. So there are a lot of fonts to choose from. Specifically for today, we're going under the Dingbats section, and you can see we've got a lot of different categories. I'm going to come down here to various and scroll down. We have all kinds of things. And we're gonna go to fairy tales and click download. Now, you can follow along or you can pick your own, whatever you want to do, One thing to realize is each one of these characters, instead of being a letter, like AB, CD, whatever, these are all images instead of that. So when we type this into A W Illustrator or in any software, these shapes are going to show up instead of the letter. So let's go ahead and get this Font installed. I just downloaded it. I went to my download stack. I'll click on it to unzip it. And you can see I have this fairy tales dot TTF file. It might be at OTF file. It just depends on what kind of a font it is. Doesn't really matter on a MAC. I can just double click, and it's going to open up my font book, which manages all my fonts. And I've already installed this, so I don't need to replace it, but it would show the little install button, and I would click on it. If you're on a PC, it's a similar process. And what we're going to do is jump into Adobe Illustrator. So now that we've got our font downloaded, at least for me, if you're following along. We're ready to go. If you want to spend more time clicking through all of these and seeing what you can find. There's all kinds of stuff, even logos for different brands. If I click on this logos, category, we could download social media icons, different brands, all kinds of stuff, all kinds of stuff. So just check this out when you get a minute. Maybe you want to make something for Batman. I don't know, download the font, and get ready to go by installing that on your computer, and we'll dive into the next lesson. 4. Add a Shape Then Create Outlines: All right, you've got your font installed, you've got your new file setup. Let's go ahead and bring some artwork into the Canvas. To do that, I'm going to hit the letter T on my keyboard, which is the same as clicking over here on the Type tool. Now, real quick before I get too far ahead, I want to make sure you and I are looking at roughly the same thing. So in Illustrator, over here on the very top right, there's this little switch work space icon. And if I click on that, There's a few different layouts depending on what you're doing in illustrator. So maybe you're doing some automation or maybe you're used to looking at how illustrator was back in the day, the classic mode, or maybe you're trying to do some painting, and it'll change all of the different windows and tools to reflect what you're working on. So for this tutorial, we're going to jump into essentials, And then I'm going to click on that again and go to reset essentials. In that way, you and I are looking at the same thing as we get going. Okay, let's start bringing in our shapes. What I'm going to do with that type tool again, I'm going to click once on my Canvas, and you can see that it puts in some Luram Ipsum, which is Greek filler text until we get started here. So I'm going to come over here and click in the character and search for the font that I just installed, which was fairytale, something or other. Let's see. Fairy Tales. Tails. There it is. Alright, and it changes all of those letters to be the shapes. So what I can do is click on the Move Tool over here, and I can grab this handle and start to scale it. If I go down shift, it'll keep it from skewing. And you can see I have all of these different shapes, but maybe this isn't the shape I wanted. So what I'm going to do. Get that type tool again. Double click into my text. Let's go ahead and triple click, so it highlights everything. And then I'm going to come up here to type in the menu, and I'm going to come down to glyphs. So glyphs are the individual characters of the font of each thing. So I I scale this window a little bit larger, and then down here on the bottom right, I can click on this little mountain shape to zoom in. You can get a better idea of what glyphs are available in this font. So because I triple click into this text before I opened this window, it's still selected, and I can come through here and I can pick any of these images I want. I'll go ahead and double click on this little unicorn here. I double click. Let's try that again. There we go. I'll close this glyphs window, and now it changed this. And this is still technically a font. So if I use my move tool and I click on this and I shift and drag to make that larger, It I can't access any of the individual handles to change anything on this. So this is still a font. So what we're going to do, the magic and all of this, this entire course revolves around this one little, I guess you call it trick, whatever. I'm going to hold down the option key, click and drag, to make a copy, and I'm going to come up here to type and then I'm going to come down to Create Outlines. The shortcut for this on a MAC is Shift Command Zero or Shift command O rather. So Shift command O, create outlines. And now we have a true shape, a vector shape inside of Illustrator instead of just a font that's been typed out. If I come back over here and I click on my direct selection tool in the tool bar over here, the same as hitting the letter A on my keyboard for the shortcut. Now I can come in and I can grab individual points on this character, and I can move things around and create a custom design based off of another shape. Alright, so now you see where we're going with this. Go ahead and take a minute to bring in your own icon, your own shape from a font that you selected to continue creating your super quick logo. 5. Customize Shapes And Add Some Text: Alright, welcome back. In this lesson, we're going to look at how to customize our shape a little bit further, add some texts, and then eventually export this quick logo. So what we're going to do is, I'm just going to zoom in here. I'm using the space bar, and then command, at the same time, shortcut to turn this into a Zoom tool by clicking and dragging. I could also hit the letter Z to switch to my Zoom tool over here in the tool bar and click and drag to o in out. But I found it's just faster if I hit the letter V to jump over to my tool. Spacebar, command, Zoom in and out or just space bar to move around. And that's how I quickly navigate on my Canvas here. Alright, so what we're going to do. I just want to customize this a little bit and make it a little more unique. So maybe I want to delete some of these shapes down here. So I had to letter A to get my direct selection tool. I'm going to click once here, hit delete once, and then hit delete one more time. And I'm just going to go through delete, delete, click on a point, just to kind of knock out these shapes. Maybe I want to change the tail a little bit, do the same thing, make it a solid shape. Maybe the same thing up here on the main. I don't know. Maybe you like it. I'm just trying to make it a little bit different than the original image that I brought in. Just kind of make it a little bit custom instead of just copying and pasting from somebody else. Now I'm going to hit the letter Q, which changes to my Lasso tool. And you can see in this little sample here, how you can use the Lasso to drag around different path segments or points and objects to select specific things at a time. So let's use that to select this little horn here. So I'm just clicking and dragging around the horn with the Lasso tool. Now I'm going to hit command C to copy that shape. Command V or control V if you're on a PC, to paste it. And then I hit the V key real quick to change back to my move tool. And I apologize if I'm flying through these shortcuts, but if you're familiar with my tutorials, I like to work as fast as possible. So I found over the years that just about everything inside of any of the software you're using has a keyboard shortcut. Take the time to learn the shortcuts. I'll help you become really fast. Now I'm going to hit the letter R to get my rotate tool. I'm going to click down here, so that's my point that it rotates from. Hit the letter E to get my scale tool. I'm going to scale this down a little bit, hold down shift so it doesn't skew it. I'm going to get my move tool, hold down option to drag a copy. Let her R to rotate, rotate the sky, let her E to scale it, hold down shift. We're just continue on doing this, rotating it, scaling it. Just kind of making something random. Something fun. There we go. Just kind of move these around. Alright, so we went from being a unicorn font to almost like a dinosaur. Honestly, I don't know what's going on here. This kind of looks weird now because we deleted the hair. And so maybe I bring the shape back over, or maybe I just delete this little weird hump now. I'm going to click on it with the selection tool. And there's a lot of ways to go about this process. I'm going to hit the letter P to get the Pen tool. And if you hover over a current point with the Pen tool, you'll see it gets a little minus sign, and I can click on these anchor points and I can delete extra anchor points to keep the path solid and closed without messing things up. And then I can also, if you go underneath the Pen tool, click and hold, come down to Anchor Point Tool. I can modify these anchor points and drag and drop them wherever I want to create custom shapes. Hit the letter P to come back to the pen tool. And a shortcut to get that convert point is the option key or the ult key on a PC. So I've got the pen tool selected, I could hover over this handle, hold down the option key, and now I can drag it. So I can quickly change back and forth between deleting paths and modifying the shape. So this is where it's really cool to start with the shape here and what we learned and then kind of create something custom. All right. So the next thing we want to do, if I were to move this around, you'll see that things don't stick together. So there's a few ways to handle this as well. I'm going to select all of this hold down Option and drag a copy down. And don't forget that when you're working with artwork, it's all digital, so you make as many copies as you want. All right. Now, one thing that I just remembered before I get too far down the road is I haven't even saved this yet. So if I were to have had my computer crash, I would have just lost everything. So don't forget We got to save. We'll go to file, save. And let's just call this Unicorn logo, or maybe you want to call it my Quick logo, whatever you're working on. Okay? We're going to go to our desktop, and I'm going to make a new folder. Let's call this my Quick logo. We'll create a new folder. And we'll go ahead and just save it right in there. We'll click Save. We'll click. Okay. All right. So now if our computer crashes or anything happens, we at least have a backup. Okay, so continuing on, I'm going to merge these shapes together. So what we're going to do, there's a couple of ways to do it. I'm just going to drag another copy over. I can go to or I can hit command G on my keyboard to quickly group it. It's the same as going to object down to group. And what that does is it takes all of these pieces and it groups them together. So now if I click away and come back, everything kind of sticks together. But you can see if we zoom in, all of these are still separate items. And if I double click into this group, I can still select each one of these individually, which might be handy if you want to keep it a little more editable to change your mind in the future. Or when it's time to package this up, let's say you're all done creating the shapes and you want to merge into one piece. Another way to work is to highlight this. I'm going to hit Shift M on my keyboard to get the Shape Builder tool. If I hover over this, you can see the sample here of how the Shape builder works by clicking and dragging over pieces, it will merge them together as one. So I can click over here and I can click and drag, and now it merges all of this together. If I hit the option key or the alt key on a PC while I click and drag, it'll actually subtract. So if I click in here, it'll actually delete that, or I can click and drag back over the top of them to merge them again. So a lot of ways to work here if I want to merge these together as one shape. And now I have a little unicorn icon that I could use with my logo. So in the next video, we're going to add some more text to this, and then we'll continue on making our super quick logo. 6. Customize Further And Create Iterations: All right. As I make logos, I tend to make a mess on my campus. I have all kinds of stuff going on. In this case, this is pretty minor. But sometimes I want to clean it up as I go, and I like to use artboards and Illustrator to do that. So to get your artboard tool, guessed it, another shortcut, shift and the letter O on your keyboard, which is the same as clicking on this little icon in the toolbar. And your artboard tool basically creates and adjusts R boards on the Canvas. So all of these artboards can be exported separately. Maybe envision this as being like two pieces of paper. What I'm going to do is did that fast. I'm going to click on the title here, but before I do I'm going to hold on the option key or the alt key on a PC. And then click and drag, and it drags a copy over of my artboard with all of the art on it. To get it to copy all of the things as you go over. Over here in our little artboards properties here, we have this landscape or portrait or all of these little shortcuts here. But down below it, we have Move Artwork with Artboard. If I turn that off, And then I try and drag a copy, put an option and drag. It drags the artboard, but not the artwork. Okay? So, if you didn't see that, just a reminder on the very top right, we are using the essentials layout, and if I hit reset essentials or if you hit reset essentials, you should be seeing about the same thing. Now, this is contextual, depending on what you click on. All of these options down the side are going to change. So because I had my artboard tool selected, when I click over here, that's how I was able to change how the artboards behave, whether it moves the artwork or not. Okay. So with that being said, I'm going to go through and delete these extra ones that I don't need by using the Move tool, clicking and dragging and then hitting delete. And now I've got just the one icon that I want to work with, okay? So we're just kind of keeping things clean as we go and giving ourselves options in case I mess something up, and I want to go back to maybe this stage where we still had some of these other pieces, okay? Alright. So now we need to add some text, and I don't know what to call this things. We're just going to make it up. We're going to call it We're gonna do all CAPs Unicorn brand. I don't know. And we are still in the Fairy Tales font. So all of our letters that we typed out are actually shapes. So let's go ahead and fix that. With our text selected, I've just got the selection tool clicked on it. Over here, I can change the character. So I'm going to search for something. I have a font called Din on here. This is actually a font shift to buy, but I like it. So I'm going to throw this on here. I'm going to highlight all of these by clicking and dragging. Hold on Option. Click and Drag, Hold on shift, to make it straight. There we go. All right. I'm going to change this to another font. Let's go for I don't know, Hal Vatica maybe. We'll scale this down. Then let's do another one. Let's make one called, and actually, these are getting pretty big. I'm going to highlight all of them. Hit the letter E to get my scale tool, click the corner, start to scale it, and then hold down shift so they don't get skewed. And then let's drag over another copy. Let's change this font to something else like I don't know, Montserrat is a super popular font. We'll click on that. Maybe we'll make this guy instead of being bold, we'll make it light. Maybe we'll take the space out. That's cool. Maybe we'll scale it down. That gives me an idea for something else. Let's move this guy over here. And now you can see how I'm flying through things and I'm using my keyboards for all kinds of shortcuts there. The letter V to change my move tool, the option key to drag. Clones. Let's click on this and change the paragraph to be right aligned. We can drag this over, so it kind of flows around the tail a b. So this is how I work through and try and create quick iterations. Just to kind of see what works and kind of see where my brain goes. So in the next video, I'm going to go ahead and refine this a little bit further. If you're following along, which I hope you are, go ahead and play with your logo, your quick logo, see what you can come up with. And then we're going to learn how to push this further, add some color, and then export these. 7. Add Some Color: Okay, so now that we've got an icon, and we have some text below it. This is basically a logo. And a reminder, this is obviously a super fast course. This is not at all in depth of my logo design process. My intent is to help you get up and running quickly so you can kind of experiment with it and explore and create something on your own. If you'd like more in depth training through the courses, I have some other courses that go much further in depth that are hours long. If you'd like to learn those, there should be a link below or check out my profile, and you'll be able to see. Okay, so I usually work in black and white, if you've noticed here, we haven't added any color yet because I like to make sure that the shape of what I'm designing makes sense. Before I add colors that might fool my brain into liking one version over another. By working in black and white, you can see a logo in the shape for what it truly is to see if it makes sense, and then add some color. So if you want to add some color to this, what we're going to do is just select it, and you can select the whole thing. Come over here and double click on your little color swatch, fill and stroke icon here in the tool bar on the far left. You can see that if we double click on it, we get this color picker picker, color picker window. And we can drag and drop in here, just drag to kind of pick what color we want, or we can scroll down here and get different tones. Huge tone, saturation, all that fun stuff. If you have a Hex code, you could paste it in here. You can modify it by cyan Magenta yellow and black or red green blue values. So there's a lot of ways to fill your color, which is beyond the scope of this tutorial, but one trick I will show you, if you have an image of something else you want to copy, you can bring that image into illustrator. So let me show you how I would do that. I'm going to jump over into Safari, and let's just find a quick image of a sunset or something. I don't know. Hey, sunset in Cals Belt 920 to night. Let's look for an image. All kinds of cool sunset images. The lots of ways to work. I could right click on this and copy the image. Let's see why I'm There you go. Copy image. Come back into here, right click and paste. And now I've got an image in here. Or you can take a screenshot. This is a little more advanced, but if you can't right click and copy on a MC, you can get command, shift, and the number four, and then start to click and drag anywhere on your screen. And before I let go, this is the trick. I'm still holding on to the mouse button. I'm going to hold down the control key, and now it copies whatever was inside of that screenshot onto my clipboard, and I can paste that image that screenshot anywhere, whether it's in Microsoft Word or Illustrator or Photoshop. I can paste whatever that was. So if you find a website where you can't download the image, you can just take a screenshot. Okay? So now I've got some color samples. The other thing you could do is jump over into color adobe.com. There's lots of color tools on the Internet. I'm going to go x out of there. Lots of ways to work, but let's, Oh, this is really cool, and I like this. I could just take a quick screenshot of this. Hold down control, copy to my clipboard, paste it in here, Zoom down. Now what I can do if I want to recolor my logo real quick, I can make a couple of copies. I use my eye dropper tool, the letter I, and I could sample any one of these colors. So now it's loaded that color. You see if I click on this, you'll notice over here on the side, my fill color is changing. Okay. So I'm going to get a color here, and then I'm going to hold on the option key, and it turns from being a sampler to being a color paster. So now my eye dropper tool changes. I'm holding down the option key, our option key in my Mac key on a PC, and I'll paste by clicking, and now it changes that color. Now, for the font, if I go to paste a color, let's just sample maybe this color here, hold on O option and click. It changes the whole thing. So what we want to do before we get too much further is click on this, come up to type, create outlines. And now, just like we did with this unicorn image, this is all a shape. So if I wanted to, I could grab this any one of these things with the direct selection tool, and I could modify my logo to make it even more custom. Okay? So I typically like to do that with my logos. And again, in the other courses that I've made, you'll see exactly my process and how I do that. But for this, we're just trying to apply some color real quickly, hit the letter I to get my eye dropper tool, click on here, or I can just select a piece of this by hitting my direct selection tool. Clicking and dragging to highlight the part that I want to change color of, come back to my eye dropper tool, and then I can sample color from anywhere. So maybe I want that to be this dark color here, or maybe the light color. I'm kind of making this up as I go clearly. We'll select the word brand, at the letter I, and we'll change this color to something else. Okay. And before I get too hung up on what the color is going to be, let's go ahead and move this over here. Don't forget to save. Oh, my goodness. Command S. Control S on a PC. Save as you go. We'll make a couple more copies. Now, here's another tip. I'm going to highlight this. Hold on an option, click and drag, hold down shift, to make it straight, and then let go of everything. I'll hit command D a couple times, and it'll duplicate the last transition you just made or Control D on a PC. Alright. So I've got some different options that I can start playing around with. So I can come in here and start sampling colors from my images, and pasting individual colors on things, or I can highlight a whole bunch at a time. Change my color that way. So just go through and colorize your logo until you get something that you're happy with. Something that is a adds a nice contrast. Wow, that guy. That's kind of cool. I would stick to one to three colors. Keep it pretty simple. Make sure there's good contrast. All right. Now, in the next video, we're going to go ahead and jump through the process of getting this ready to export. And 8. Export Your Logo: Alright, in this video, we're going to learn how to export your artwork. So I'm sure you know this from working with other programs. Most of the time, there's a lot of ways to do the same thing. So I'm going to show you a couple of different ways that I've found that have been helpful for me to export my artwork. The first one we're going to get right into it. So I'm going to come up here into Window, and we're going to come down to asset Export, and it's going to open up this asset export window. You can also get there if we had a different workspace open, for example, if I wasn't on essentials, I had essentials classic. I'll go ahead and reset my workspace just to make sure. You can see right here this little square with the arrow pointing out the side. This is also the asset export window. So I could click on that. I could also just click on this tab and tear it off, and now I've got to open just like before. There's a lot of ways to get to this window. But once you get this window open, what we're going to do is drag in the assets we want to export. So we can either drag it in this way, and if I do that, you'll notice it split things up into two different assets. So when I export this file, if I wanted to create, let's just say a JPEG of this at full quality. Size wise. Scale, we'll just leave it at one x, which means it's a one to one scale. I click Export. Let's go to our quick logo file. Let's make a new folder, and let's call this Exports. I'll choose that folder. And now it successfully exported that. Let's go check it out. Let's go to our desktop, my Quick logo, exports JPEG. So not only did it name it asset one and asset two, but it split it up into two different assets. That's not what we're looking for. What we want to do is have these B one. So I'm going to do it with both of these selected, and if you do select them, you just click on it. Shift, click on the other one. Click on the Trash Can to delete it and try again. So this time, I'm going to highlight both of these. I'm going to go to Object Group or that shortcut again, Command G. Now that it's grouped, when I drag this in there, it comes together as one asset to export, okay? I can rename this whatever I want. Let's just call it unicorn brand. And I'll click on it. I'll click Export. It'll export a JPEg in that folder. Let's go see what it did. Alright. So we still have these other two from the previous export. But then we've got a new file called Unicorn brand dot JPEG with my Unicorn brand in there. And you can see it's really tiny. It's only 40 kilobytes. This will be tough to use in most applications. So what can we do to fix that? Well, we could click on the little scale button and make this four times as big and export it real quick. We'll replace the other one and just see how much bigger it is. This one's a little bit larger. It's about four times as large as you'd expect. Looks a little bit better, but we can do even better than that. The other thing we can do, the other way we can get this into this Export window is select your artwork. We're going to right click, and we're going to come down to collect for Export. And this is where instead of grouping it, we could have just selected all of this as a single asset or as multiple assets. So it'll split them up however you want to do this. We'll click a single asset, and now it put it in the asset export window as well. So there's a lot of ways to work here. We could do the same thing by selecting all of these. Let's just see what this does, if I right click, collect for export as multiple assets. It's going to bring them all in as multiple pieces, okay? They're so selected, I'm going to hit the trash can because I don't want to do that right now. Alright, so that's one way to get your work out of the box. Another thing you could do when we export J pegs, you'll notice it has a white box around everything because a JPEG file doesn't support transparency. So if I were to bring this into a design, let's just say I bring this back into my canvas by dragging and dropping. It brings it in, but it brings the white box with it, which is not what we want. If we were to move this guy up here, You can see we want it to be transparent when we go to use this. So the best file type for that transparency is going to be. Let's jump back over into our asset here. Click on it. Change the format from a JPEG. We could do an SVG, which stands for scalable vector graphic. We could do a PDF or PNG. So depending on how you want to export this for your people, if you want to be flattened, but still have transparency, use a PNG file. We can also add a scale. So I'll click on that, and we can change the format to a SVG. We can add another scale and change the format to a PDF. And now we have all these different options. Let's go ahead and click Export. I'm going to make a new folder called Exports two, you can see the difference of what this does from the beginning. So we'll click choose. It exported everything. Let's go back and look at it. So were Exports two folder, not only did it create all of these files, but it neatly put them into separate subfolders, which is really handy for handing this off and keeping everything organized. Now, you'll notice it named at assets four PDF because I forgot to rename this thing before we exported it. So depending on your workflow and how you do this, if you're organized up front, when you're all done with this, it'll make it really easy to do everything in one shot and save you a ton of time. So with a PDF, I can drag and drop this into Illustrator, and you can see it brought everything in. What happens if I do this? Perfect. Okay. Do this. All right. So when I brought in the PDF, you'll notice when I go to click on it, it has these you don't see the anchor points right away. So I got the direct selection tool and I clicked on the corner, and I deleted this transparent, like container that it brings in as a PDF, and I do that again for this one. And now when I click on it, you can see a PDF retains the vector editability on this. PDF is a good file to use to share with people. Plus Adobe Acrobat is a free program that anybody can use to view your file. If you wanted to share your artwork with somebody else, exporting is a PDF is a pretty great way to go. Same thing with a PNG, which stands for a portable network graphic. A PNG supports transparency. You'll notice we don't have the white box around it. Which is great. I could drag this asset right into Illustrator or word or anywhere I want to use this, and this PNG comes in nicely. It looks really crisp and good. The only downside is with a PNG, even if I go to delete these anchor points, I'm actually deleting the whole thing because a PNG is not editable vector, okay? Let's jump back into our SVG file. SVG is also an editable file. And if I bring that in right away, you'll notice it has all of the outline showing. I don't have to delete the extra box like I did in the PDF. I can jump right in and start editing all the shapes if I wanted to or changing colors, doing whatever I want to this artwork. So that's why it's nice to have multiple file types as you export. One other thing we could do is we can export the entire artboard. So if I go to file down to export, Export As. I can choose to use boards, and I can choose a range. So right now we have two or three R boards on my Canvas. Let me cancel this. I've got two R boards. Arboard one and R board two. If I go to file, down to export, Export As, we'll use artboards. I can change my file types here from a PNG to a JPEG, all kinds of stuff. Let's just choose JPEG. New folder. Export three, just to see what this does. Give it a name that makes sense, and we'll click Export. And now I've got a few more options. So we can use a different color model. This is something we didn't get into too much, but general rule of thumb and RGB would be red, green and blue. It's for screens. Your screens display light as red, green or blue. If you're going to print this, you want CMYK, which printers use Ink, they use cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. So I would choose CMYK, if I wanted to print this on a printer. We'll keep the resolution pretty high at 300, if we're going to print it. Make sure we've got a high quality file, and we'll click Okay. Let's jump over into our finder, go to Export three to see what it gave us, and it gave us both of the canvases, okay? So you see how this would be helpful if we wanted to export the entire canvas we are working with or if we want to do just a piece of art at a time. Alright, that was a lot of information. Hopefully you're not too overwhelmed. Don't forget it's a video. You can play, pause, rewind, fast forward, play back slow, play back fast, whatever you need to do. In the next video, I'm going to show you one more piece, pushing this just a little bit further on how I would present a logo to a client. And what the b of the. 9. Push Your Exports Further: Alright, in this lesson, we're going to learn how to push our exports just a little bit further, especially for those of you who might want to share your logo and present it, whether it's in your portfolio or to a client, or post it in this class down below in the project section. I'd love to see what you guys made in this quick course. What we're going to do is we're going to make another board, another canvas here. I'm gonna hit Shift O to get my artboard. I'm going to drag a copy over here, but hold on the option key. I'm gonna click over here. Did I get two artboards? I did. Okay. No, we didn't. Alright. Squirrel. Click on the Move Tool. To deselect this. I'm gonna zoom in a little bit by using that shortcut space command and then clicking and dragging. I'm going to delete all of this extra stuff because it's in the other artboard. And I think I'm going to work with let's just drag these guys down out of the way. I'm gonna hit the letter M to get my rectangle tool. I'm going to click one time so it opens up my rectangle dialog box so I can type in the exact dimensions I want because this is 11 " wide by 8.5 " tall. If I want to cut this half, it'd be 5.5 " wide by 8.5 " tall. We'll click okay. And now I have a rectangle that'll divide this canvas exactly in half. I'll get my move tool, and you should see these options to align things across the top. If you don't see that, go to window down to a line, and it'll open up the actual align Window toolbox for you here. Okay? And now I'm going to click Align to the Art Board, which is what this white Canvases. I can select that here. Or up here in your Options bar across the top, I can click on this little drop down and make sure I'm aligning to the artboard. Now when I go to select these icons, I can make sure I'm aligning exactly where I want them to go. So I want this to align to the right and vertical center. Okay? I'm going to close this window. And now what I can do is I can make a few different versions of this logo. Let's drag a copy up, it the eye dropper tool, select the dark color over here. So now I have it in black and white. Maybe scale it up a little bit. And I'm going to align this center. I'm going to drag a shape over here. And then I'm going to swap it to a stroke. Shift click on my little logo, and then let go of everything and click one more time on the shape. So you see it gets a thicker stroke around the outside. That's telling these two pieces that I've selected that I want this big shape to be what I'm aligning to. So now I can use this alignment to align to the top, the bottom, wherever I want to go, but I want to be centered horizontally and vertically. Now I can delete the shape. I don't need it anymore. I'm going to hold on option, click and drag a copy over to this side. G my eye dropper tool and just click on the Canvas to change it to white. And it was behind the shape. With it still selected, I command shift and the right bracket key, which is right next to the letter P to bring it all the way to the front. The other way you can do that is going to object down to arrange bring to front. Shift command on the bracket. There's your shortcut. Okay. Now this is in front of that shape. I'm going to get my move tool. Shift click on my rectangle. And then without touching anything, I'm going to click one more time to tell it that this is the shape I want to align to or go center and vertically center. Now I've got one sample of what this could look like in black and white. I'm going to hit Shift O to get my artboard tool. I'm going to hold down option, drag another copy over. This time, I'm going to do a few different things here. I'm going to change the color of this background. And then command C to copy this shape. Command F to paste it right in front. That's the same as going to edit. Paste in front. It becomes in front of the other shape. I'm going to scale this over. There we go. Change the color to something else. Command shift left bracket or object arrange, send it back, so it's now behind. I've got two different shapes, basically. Maybe I'll click on this guy. Double click here. Bring the color down just a little bit. Let's change this to be white. There's another look. Shift O. Drag this down. Let's do another color variation based on this guy. Maybe we drag this guy up, make a couple of copies, play with some of the coloring a little bit. The letter Q, to get lasso selection around here. Change the color of that. We can go through and we can make a lot of different iterations very quickly. Let's delete this. Maybe we'll bring this one over. Scale them up. Command shift right bracket, bring it to the front. Shift click, my rectangle, click one more time. Line it up. Well, now we can't see this. So let's get the Lasso tool and select this piece here. Maybe we make this white. Or maybe we make it more of a cream color. Let's jump over here and just see what happens. So we can go through and we can quickly create all of these different iterations. I'm going to group these guys together, Command G. Shift click the rectangle, click one more time, and then line them up perfectly. All right. I'll do the same thing to this. Group it. Align it. All right. So now we've got some options to play with here. Okay? So let's go ahead and shift O to get my artboard tool or click on the little artboard icon here. And you can see we have these different artboards, and I can see the 03 in front of it telling me which artboard number it is. We've got the third R board, the fourth R board, and the fifth R board, and I can rename these up here and the Options bar. So because this R board is selected with the Artboard tool, the artboard name pops in up here and I can click on that and I can change this to black and white. And I'm going to come back over here to essentials and reset essentials in case you're still in network flow just to see what happens. Shift O to get my artboard tool. I'll click over here. And you'll notice with the essentials, I don't have the option to change the title up here. So what I need to do is come over here to the properties window, and I can change the artboard name here. So we'll call this one Purple or Lavender, AR, ER. Oh, no, spelling. I'm an artist. Not a writer. My bad. Okay. Next, we'll come down to this guy, and we'll just call this. We'll just call this one Option. Three. Just showing you you can do whatever you want. It doesn't matter what you name these things at all. All right. So now that we have our names, we want to export boards three, four, and five. We don't want to export one and two. To do that, we're going to come over here to file, come down to export, export as, and we'll do Exports four, again, to show you what each different setting, how it changes what happens here. We'll go and export some J pegs, we'll use the R boards, and this time we're going to use the range of R boards three through four. I could also do 34, so I'd only do Rboard three and Rboard four, or in this case, it could be three f. So it'd skip Rboard number four, but what are we doing? We had 34 and five. So 35 is what we want. All of those. Okay? We can name this, whatever we want. Whatever we name this main file, it's going to add it to the file, and then at the end of this, it's going to add the artboard name. So I'm going to put a dash at the end of this here. So it's going to be my Quick logo, and then whatever the artboard name is. We'll click Export. We'll change our settings here to whatever we want. Since I'm using it for screen, I'm going to change it to RGB, so it looks best on a computer screen. We'll leave it high. Down here, we're going to embed the color profile, which will help it look true to color, no matter if you're using a mobile device or PC or MC, or whatever. It should keep the colors relatively close to the same. We'll click. And it's going to quickly export those three canvases here. Let's jump down here and look what it named it. We've got I guess I didn't need to use the dash here ca it added an underscore. So anyway, my quick logo, black and white, Lavender, and 04. I'm not sure why the name didn't stick on that last one, but if I hit Space bar to quick preview, you can see we have a quick export of our different samples. 10. Class Project and Next Steps: I hope you enjoyed this quick course. It was very quick. I realized halfway through that I was talking really fast and going through all kinds of stuff. So if you're a total beginner, I hope I didn't overwhelm you. Don't forget, go rewind it, watch it again. Please ask questions below if you got stuck with anything. And also check out some of my other more in depth logo design courses where I'll get you up and running with my actual workflow, starting from scratch, sketching things out in my sketchbook, and going all the way through the logo design process. I've got other courses where I've actually worked directly with clients, getting their feedback, and how I handle that as well. So be sure to check those out. But hopefully, you learn something in this course that you can get up and running fast and create something that you're proud of, something that's fun, and more importantly that you want to share with us in the class. So take a minute, export whatever you made. Even if it's garbage doesn't really matter. Just going through the process of getting something in the computer, doing some stuff, and exporting it to share with us. I'd love to see what you're working on and I'd love to keep in touch. So ask questions if you need them. And otherwise, I'll see you in the next class. Thanks. H