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Creating the Sky Logo

In this tutorial, I will be explaining a very simple and straightforward way of creating Sky’s latest logo. We will be using layer styles and

adjustment layers to achieve a transparent glass effect, which will come in handy for many other graphics too.

I used Adobe Photoshop CS3 to create the outcome to this tutorial, but certainly earlier versions of the program will also be entirely

suitable. This tutorial requires no advanced knowledge of Photoshop, and should be easy for everyone to follow.

The outcome of the tutorial is shown below:

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Step One:

Firstly, you will need to download the font that is used to create the sky logo. You can find it at this link here:

http://www.dafont.com/sky-logos.font

Once you have installed the different TrueType font files, they should automatically load up for use in Photoshop. If not, restart

Photoshop and try again.

Step Two:

Create a new document with a white background at a size measuring 500 x 300 pixels. Select the ‘Horizontal Type Tool’ and using the‘Sky TV Channel Logos’ font, type the number ‘8’ with a size of 400pt into your text box using black as your colour. Make sure that

‘Smooth’ is selected in the drop down anti-aliasing menu.

You should now have something that looks like this:

Step Three:

This is where the fun begins! Using only layer styles, we can achieve an awesome transparent glass effect. If you are using the same sized

text as me, these settings will be perfect. Otherwise, you may have to alter them slightly depending on your text size, but they

fundamentally remain the same.

Open up the ‘Layer Styles’ menu by clicking on the small ‘fx’ icon at the bottom of the layers palette, or alternatively, double click on

your layer in the palette. The first style we will be adding is a ‘Bevel and Emboss’. Make sure that the settings have been changed to

match those shown in the screenshot below:





Depth: 225%

Size: 4px

Use Global Light: Unchecked

Altitude: 65 degrees

Glass Contour: Custom

You will also need to add a ‘Contour’ to the ‘Bevel and Emboss’ setting, so check the box underneath in the Layer Styles menu, and

select this to go to the menu. Simply select the first option in the drop down menu with the diagonal sloping line, like the one shown

below:

You should now have something that looks similar to the image below. It looks awful now, but it makes all the difference for later!





Step Four:

Keep the ‘Layer Styles’ menu open, as we will now be adding a colour overlay. Simply select this in the menu, and add a white overlay

like that shown in the screenshot below:

Also, we will be adding a ‘Satin’ to the image, so select that option in the ‘Layer Styles’ menu and alter the settings to those shown

below:

Opacity: 20%

Distance: 14px

Size: 21px

That’s all the layer styling you need! Your image should now look like this:





Step Five:

The final step is to add the blue tint to the text. We will be doing this through the use of an adjustment layer, which are amazingly handy

layers which can be used to change a number of different things such as colour, tone and contrast.

Go to the bottom of the layers palette again, and click on the small circle icon, which is filled in half black and half white. A small menushould then appear, where you should select the ‘Colour Balance’ option. It should open up another menu with different ‘slider’ options

Simply follow the screenshots below to get the correct settings.

Cyan/Red: -40

Magenta/Green: 0

Yellow/Blue: +34

Cyan/Red: -4

Magenta/Green: 0





Yellow/Blue: +16

Cyan/Red: -10

Magenta/Green: 0

Yellow/Blue: +7

Now you are finished! Here is your final outcome:

You may want to expand on this technique through sharpening, experimenting with different colours, or adding more distinct highlights

and shadows. Have fun!

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…More Sky Logo…

Just in case the tutorial wasn’t enough, here is some more Sky Logo fun and facts for you.

This Sky Logo Mix plays with the background music from the original Sky Channel from 1984





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Tommy says:

July 16, 2007 at 7:42 pm

Wow this tutorial is cool!

AvengerX91 says:

July 19, 2007 at 12:40 am

I really like the outcome of this! It looks pretty identical to the real Sky logo. Nice job.

Mudassar Shah says:

October 3, 2007 at 10:04 pm

Hi, I am Mudassar Shah from Pakistan.

i just saw ur site and realy inspire.I am a small Graphics Designer and also doing a job and using Photoshop 7.0. i am very happy

that i learnt something from you. this is ur kindness that u gave us some helpfull tips.i want learn more a lot from Photoshop but i

have not enough sourses.anyhow this is my badluck.

Thanks

Thanks a lot,

Mudassar Shah





[email protected]

Pakistan

Harry Roberts says:


That’s pretty cool. Almost exact outcome, and I got to download the Sky font

matthew says:


Has anyone got the sky font for actual typeing as i want to make one like this but saying slash.

Ethan says:


Really cool tutorial, simple and quick, i tried to do that before, just ended up with a complete mess, but with your help its done in

seconds

nice one!

Designer Dude says:

October 13, 2007 at 1:54 am

What a day! Anyway, hello. I came across your blog posting after searching for creating free websites and your post on rTuts –

Free Designer Tutorials makes an interesting read. Thanks for sharing. I will research more next Saturday when I have the day off

vinne says:

November 17, 2007 at 9:46 am

where do i put the fonts that i downloaded? ( i use CS2 )

good guide! thxn

admin says:


There are some instructions here on installing fonts:

http://www.dafont.com/faq.php

Photoshop should then see them automatically.

Glad you liked the tutorial.

Billy says:

November 19, 2007 at 4:10 pm





I can only see the tutorial till step 3. and it looks nothing like the outcome. Is there a step two that i dont see?

Billy says:


err step 4… sorry about the above typo

admin says:


Sorry about that Billy,

Should be fixed now.

Mike

Billy says:


Thanks for the fast responce and fix

Mikey says:

December 21, 2007 at 9:23 am

This tutorial is excellent!

Only issue is the last step: my color balance option is greyed out, so cant select it. Am I missing something?

Also, is the ‘Sky’ font available to type with? I’m designing a logo & would like the company name in a similar font.

Dazz says:

January 22, 2008 at 1:24 pm

i found the sky font to type with here

http://www.dafont.com/font.php?file=sky&page=1&nb_ppp_old=10&text=Darrell&nb_ppp=10&psize=m&classt=alpha

Great tutorial

Lawrence Job says:


This is an immense tutorial. I’m going to blog this ASAP. Not only does it have an amazing set of links to highly demanded font

resources, it has a tutorial that many designers could do with.

I’ve just got one question. How would you do transparency like on the real logo?

Moses says:

April 15, 2008 at 7:14 am





It’s great but more importantly who and how did they do that animated

sky movie ad. With the glass effect logo actually zooming into the film, (the film was something like the Last Emperor of China) It

distorted the film image as it zoomed into focus. Anyone see that? Anyone knows which graphics company did it? And how?

Richard Wilkes says:

August 28, 2008 at 8:45 am

great tutorial, just one question, when i set the colour balance, the colours dont change on the image. any ideas why?

ZOTOSHOP says:

December 1, 2008 at 1:45 pm

To vinne:

No matter what Ps you have at home, your downloaded fonts go to C:\WINDOWS\Fonts (just in case you have Windows)

Erkan Tan says:

February 5, 2009 at 2:29 am

Woow…:))This is nice job..Thank you for turtorial..

Alex says:


The font file is password protected and asking me for a password before i extract, anyone else had this?

admin says:


Just tried it now and I wasn’t asked for a password.

http://img.dafont.com/dl/?f=sky_logos

Alex says:


Its ok, I just realised i was because I was at university and had certain restrictions on the C:\, thanks for writing a reply anyway

CgBaran Tuts says:

March 27, 2009 at 4:16 pm

Great Tutorial

Raven says:

April 6, 2009 at 4:29 am





Hi there, great tutorial…

I found this tutorial, I think it is very similar and looks like the old sky logo take a look…

Admin Edit: Just wanted to warn anyone following the link that Google is reporting VPDesignz as spreading Malware. Turbogfx

itself is fine and the tutorial is good but it has a link to VPDesignz so be careful!

http://www.turbogfx.com/tutorials/sky-text-logo/

admin says:

April 8, 2009 at 5:29 am

Thanks for the link Raven. Hope you don’t mind me editing your comment

Russ says:

August 15, 2009 at 5:31 am

Excellent Tutorial.

I tried this, and added the HD bit onto it.

Looks Wicked.

=]

Michelle says:


wow this is really good

Brittany says:


Awesome post

Shamima Sultana says:


Nice tutorial….thanks for the post

Logo Design Monster says:

March 2, 2010 at 1:53 pm

I think you have done a really good job of recreating the sky logo. The final logo looks really good. Thanks for sharing the tutorial

Rokaiya Yeasmin Munni says:

August 2, 2010 at 10:18 pm





Nice glass effects logo tutorial.

TTAR says:

February 12, 2011 at 12:15 pm

really accurate.. thanks for sharing..

Chris says:

March 27, 2011 at 4:01 pm

I am not getting same effect it appears to be too blue

ben linford says:

August 28, 2011 at 11:37 am

This tutorial is great!

I’ve been looking to replicate this effect on my logo for watermarking my photographs.

Thanks.

Clipping Path says:

December 3, 2011 at 10:00 am

That’s a pretty cool tutorial, I may make it into a background for my website, thank you.

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