Learning to Design Logo's, etc...

I am not a complete photoshop newbie, but I have absolutely no experience making logo's or any type of "header" in photoshop. What are some good tutorials/learning sites for photoshop? All i know of is Good-tutorials.com.

Thanks.

 

www.psdtuts.com (they publish outstanding quality tutorials) and also (for vector design, which you will need when designing logos) www.vectortuts.com

 

psdtuts.com will do yes but for logo design i think it's more than photoshop skills.
Here's an interesting article http://justcreativedesign.com/2008/05/22/why-logo-design-does-not-cost-5-dollars/

 

Sure, of course.

 

View different types of designs to get more ideas and practice daily. Search on search engines and there will be a lot of tutorials available

 

well once you will start searching on Google from the Photoshp tutorial Keyword. You will find many website there for tutorial.

 

I tried that a few years ago and I found the best sites from my friends. Thats why I asked on the forum.

Thank you everyone! I appreciate it

 

use illustrator, not photoshop

 

I cant afford that

 

Just practice... and learn with the 1 000 of tutorials that you could find...

 

start making some free (or $5) logos/banners for friends or ppl who don't mind not-so-pro work.

I was actually in the same situation as you not too long ago. Then someone was looking for a $5 banner for their forum so I took the job (thinking $5 was standard pay...). You'll learn just from the process of trying to make the best banner u can. Cuz in order to make a nice banner, I had to find nice font. So I went looking for fonts. Then I had to experiment with colors and in doing so I stumbled upon new tools and I had to figure out what they did (or look them up).

I looked for a bunch of photoshop tutorials to learn how to make my text look more pro. Here's one site I used for text tutorials in the beginning:
http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/Pho...he-best-80-photoshop-text-effects-on-the-web/

remember, ALWAYS do the best you can on projects - it's easy after a while to kinda just meet the project instructions and stop there. But really you should always try to make each design better than the last one u made. Cuz:
1) u learn a lot more thru the process
2) u build up a good portfolio

 

Take a graphic design course and actually study the theory of logo design. So many bad designers out there already...

 

You can read 100's of books,tutorials and still be no good the only way to learn is though trial and error. spending time just messing around with photoshop or what ever you use is the only way.

Remember 'practice makes perfect'...not read a book and it will just happen.

A good place to start is in the contest section here, go for the lower priced contests and over time you will improve. Your best work is normally done for money...and the will to win.

Geoff