04.10.2007

Photoshop Darkness Logo Tutorial

This tutorial will show you how to create a great looking dark logo using Adobe Photoshop.

Start by Opening a new document
Photoshop Darkness Logo Tutorial

Now using the text tool type the word “Darkness” on the screen using white as the color. The font that I am using is blade 2 and the size is 150px. The Blade 2 font can be downloaded here.

Photoshop Darkness Logo Tutorial

Now open the Layer Style window by right clicking the layer and selecting Blending Options.
Photoshop Darkness Logo Tutorial

Now apply an Outer Glow with the following settings.
Photoshop Darkness Logo Tutorial

Now the Bevel and Emboss settings.
Photoshop Darkness Logo Tutorial

Then apply this gradient overlay.
Photoshop Darkness Logo Tutorial

Here are the color settings for the gradient.
Photoshop Darkness Logo Tutorial

Now apply the settings and your image should look like this.
Photoshop Darkness Logo Tutorial

Now we need to add another layer. With the shape Custom Shape tool select the Grass 3 shape, pictured below. This is a default shape in Photoshop CS2
Photoshop Darkness Logo Tutorial

Use white as your fore color and draw a large section of grass over top of your text.
Photoshop Darkness Logo Tutorial

Now set the layer blend mode to Overlay and reduce the Opacity to 63%
Photoshop Darkness Logo Tutorial

Now you are finished. Your final image should look like this.
Photoshop Darkness Logo Tutorial

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Comments

  1. Mukul on April 22, 2007 at 1:01 am

    Loved the final effect! Great stuff…

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  2. ahmed on April 23, 2007 at 3:36 pm

    i loved the tutorial and the effects! very easy and straight forward, thanks.

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  3. arpu on May 14, 2007 at 11:41 am

    Thanx for the nice tutorial

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  4. Sance on May 21, 2007 at 8:12 pm

    hi um i have one problem with your tutorial. I can’t get to the advance blend mode.

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  5. John Ward on May 21, 2007 at 8:45 pm

    Can you clarify what you mean by advanced blend mode??????? To get to the layer styles right click the layer in the layers pallet (lower right corner of screen, usually) and select Blending Options. To change the blend mode of the entire layer, click the layer in the layers pallet and change the drop down box above it to overlay.

    If you are having trouble finding the blending options, you may want to start with the very basics of photoshop.

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  6. George on May 22, 2007 at 6:45 am

    If you have photoshop 2.0 I dont think you have the option of layer styles, that is the problem which I have because most tutorials require layer styles at some point. Thanks for the tutorial though, this effect looks amazing!

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  7. John Ward on May 22, 2007 at 7:10 pm

    Sorry, I believe it is a limitation of Photoshop 2.0. I would recommend upgrading, but I know some people can’t afford it. I use Photoshop CS2 for all the tutorials but will be upgrading to CS3 very soon.

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  8. asdas on May 23, 2007 at 6:15 am

    cool men, nice

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  9. Sirtopdog on May 24, 2007 at 10:46 pm

    Love the look and a fast and simple to flow NICE WORK!

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  10. Steve on May 27, 2007 at 1:10 pm

    couldnt find the leaf brush, and couldnt find how to set gradient colours, but overally great result. thumgs up 4/5

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  11. norekcn on May 29, 2007 at 12:53 pm

    Thanks ~ ~! !
    I come from China, but my English is very bad!
    Thank you to help me to be such many!
    We are the good friend!
    (Above these speeches all are I use machine translation, ha-ha!)

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  12. jaffer Shadick.C on May 30, 2007 at 9:47 am

    Hai This is very good text effects. You was choosed very good background colours any how very good effects by Jaffer Shadick.C

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  13. illusion on June 6, 2007 at 12:31 pm

    Awsome tutorial, can’t w8 to use it on my website =D

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  14. Cryonaka on June 8, 2007 at 1:25 am

    Looks nice!

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  15. bjarkhov on June 26, 2007 at 3:40 am

    gr8 job dear….
    an awesome collection to join the elite club of CS2 collection….
    over all a nice job….keep posting…

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  16. Avanti on July 17, 2007 at 1:24 am

    hello
    First thanx for such good tutorial. the last effect is very nice. i am going to use this.
    thanx
    bye

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  17. faucndo on August 8, 2007 at 6:25 pm

    thanks to this i know how to do that effect.. is lovely.

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  18. Tasheena on September 6, 2007 at 3:10 pm

    hey i really liked doing this stuff in photoshop. i just had a blast with it

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  19. JEY on September 14, 2007 at 11:30 pm

    where can i download that font style in WINDOWS XP OS..? Because i dont have a MAC OS here im only using XP.

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  20. JEY on September 15, 2007 at 12:44 am

    ok now i know..HELP! he!he!he!

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  21. John Ward on October 11, 2007 at 9:03 pm

    That font isn’t a Mac font. I use Windowx XP also. Here is the link for the font http://www.dafont.com/blade-2.font. By the way it is included in the second step of the tutorial ;)

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  22. Photoshop basic effect tutorials on November 21, 2007 at 5:07 pm

    Hi,
    Lovely effect, visit my site for more tutorials also.

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  23. Photoshop animation tutoriala on November 27, 2007 at 3:19 am

    thanks for great tutorial

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  24. Easy photoshop tutorials on December 8, 2007 at 2:01 am

    Very informative and useful. I have to try this soon.
    Thanks

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  25. Avinash on January 14, 2008 at 3:23 pm

    Hey ok the effects were great.. but i have a small doubt.. i still have the outlines of the leaf on the front how do i get rid of them?

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  26. Avinash on January 14, 2008 at 3:25 pm

    ok i kinda made a mistake.. sorry :P

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  27. TeamTutorials on January 14, 2008 at 5:20 pm

    When you draw the shape be sure to select the option on the tool bar for no border (it is a square with no border I believe, there are three options)

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  28. Free tutorials on February 18, 2008 at 2:46 pm

    Nice final touch with the default shape

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  29. nick on March 5, 2008 at 1:33 am

    um well great guide but how do i get the text in the selection tab because i downloaded it but don’t know how to use the blade text

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  32. Jonathan on March 26, 2008 at 4:35 pm

    Thanks for the tutorial. I’ve modified it slightly for my own purposes (I’m using it on a white background for a magazine masthead).

    One suggestion: I don’t think it looks all that good having the wavy grass effect the text’s outer glow. What I did instead was put a selection around the text before applying the grass so that it only affects the text and not the glow behind it. I think that looks better.

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  33. tyler on April 2, 2008 at 7:09 am

    sweet tutorial..if you cant do it ur just an idiot

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  34. paramjeet on April 3, 2008 at 12:06 am

    hey i really liked doing this stuff in photoshop. i like the fire effect but i want to make a digital fire effect in photoshop & set it on desktop.plz help me.

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  35. metingt on April 14, 2008 at 2:37 pm

    tesekürler dankeschon

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  36. Aakash Bhati on April 30, 2008 at 1:36 am

    Really it looks very artistic.

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  37. Beata on May 24, 2008 at 2:03 pm

    Overlay Blend mode – I get with it gray leaves and nothing to do

    I should delete this last layer

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  38. multimodefibercable on October 26, 2008 at 4:40 am

    nice work man digged it …;)

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  39. The Dark Penguin on November 7, 2008 at 10:12 pm

    great tut! very simple and good (for not having many steps) =P
    thanks!

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  41. Gsen on February 3, 2009 at 3:25 pm

    Nice Tutorial ! thx a lot its pure GOLD

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  42. Shourav on February 6, 2009 at 5:38 am

    its very fantastic n useful tutorial. many many thanks.

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  47. glurt on July 28, 2009 at 2:12 pm

    Great tutorial ! I will try to make it by myself

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  49. Zoran on September 2, 2009 at 2:24 am

    Thank you for this, i will use it on my website, it looks cool, the blade font is awsome

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  51. Makke on September 30, 2009 at 11:36 am

    this was very use full thanks alots :]

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  52. PixieDust on October 9, 2009 at 1:56 am

    I just would like to say.. this is so nice. I just go a new version of Photoshop and this is easy and fun to create. The colors worked out great for my needs too. Thanks for the great tutorial. :)

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  56. CaSanoVa on December 20, 2009 at 5:52 pm

    this is real nice and easy..except I can’t find the leaf brush on cs4…mind giving me a hand to find it somewere please? thx man!

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  57. image on December 25, 2009 at 9:51 am

    can please upload a video tutorial regarding this logo..really i need it to make it for my website

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  58. Robert Iachniewicz on January 5, 2010 at 10:09 am

    Verry nice :) Thanks a lot. This tutorial opened my mind for understanding more of photoshop :) (New photoshop player:D)

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  59. berkeleysamson on January 24, 2010 at 11:44 pm

    thank you for this one.. great help .. i learned too much from this site.

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  60. Söve on February 5, 2010 at 9:35 am

    Its great.Thanks a lot.

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  68. Danmonio on March 29, 2010 at 12:00 pm

    hey man thanx for the sweet font!

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  73. John on May 18, 2010 at 1:26 am

    Awesome tutorial! I tried it for my logo but it looked weird. I guess I’m not that adept at designing. Been at it for weeks. It somehow looked disproportionate unlike the one you did which looks great.Finally decided to use the professional services of an online logo design site instead (http://www.logodesignplanet.co.uk) and finally got the logo I wanted at an affordable price and fast too. Lesson learned. I’m not going to design a logo without any professional help though it’s somewhat fun. And liberating.Definitely. Haha.

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  74. Daniel on May 23, 2010 at 5:34 pm

    How can I get on the color settings for the gradient?

    Thanks

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  75. Alex on June 14, 2010 at 10:39 pm

    Fantastic tutorial! Simple, professional, fun! Thanks!

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  76. hermann on June 17, 2010 at 2:32 pm

    nice and thanks!
    but how can i remove the background and i want only the text with the leaf on it without any extra leaf outside?
    thank you

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    John Ward Reply:
    June 18th, 2010 at 8:06 am

    I believe that is part of the tutorial.

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