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More products from Laughingbird Software :

arrow The Corporate Identity Creator
(Create business cards, letterhead and matching stationery)

arrow The Web Graphics Creator
(3D eCovers, animated buttons,
flip-books and more!)

arrow The Flash Ad Creator
(Animated ad banners and modifiable eMail campaign images)

arrow Website and Flash Templates
(pre-designed website and flash templates that you can customize)

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Creating unique text effects

Tutorial by Marc Sylvester
www.thelogocreator.com

With the Duplicate function (under the MODIFY menu, you'll find 'duplicate logo element') you can create some very interesting text effects.

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My favorite effect (you'll see this on quite a few of the logos I've created in the various logo sets being sold at The Logo Creator) is the "duplicate text with outline" effect.

The Logo Creator's outline feature creates an outline INside of the text. To make the outline appear as an OUTER outline, follow the steps below:

 
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Create your text and add an outline.
Various thickness create different effects.

 
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Duplicate the text (under the MODIFY menu)

 
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Remove the outline from the duped (upper) text.
Simply click the OUTLINE button and toggle the outline off.

 
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Center the two text elements over each other and you have nice white inner text with a subtle outer - outline.

 
This duplicating effect works great for other effects (all of the images below were exported directly from The Logo Creator):
 
06 By duplicating your initial text and creating each outline with a different thickness and color, you can create the 'double outline' effect.
07 Here, I created two text levels with various gradients (play with a few variants!) The upper level is a tad transparent. This makes it look more metallic.
08 This effect was created with duplicate text. The bottom layer contains a 'white to blue' gradient with a black shadow. the upper is a 'blue to white gradient with a white shadow (the white shadow in this case helps to 'fade' the text underneath a bit).

I then moved the upper level down a few pixels for that 3D effect.

 
Another text effect you might like to try is the 'mirror' text effect:
 
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Create - and duplicate your text
 
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Next, by pressing the Format button to the left of your Logo Canvas, you'll see the "H-flip" and "V-flip" toggle buttons. This will flip your text Horizontally or Vertically.

in the image above, I duplicated the text, flipped it Horizontally and blurred it a bit with the Blur button. I then set the transparency of the mirror text back a bit to achieve the effect.


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The Trial version of The Logo Creator can be downloaded from our demo page!
All artwork, creations, and logo designs, found in the Logo Creator website are the property of Laughingbird Software™,

Visit the official sites of our other Laughingbird Software products:
The Web Graphics Creator ( eBook Cover Software ), Laughingbird.com (Web site templates),
Create Animated Ad Banners with The Flash Ad Creator
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The Logo Creator; Its like having a logo design studio ... without the studio!

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