I created a texture called aluminum (supplied at the bottom of this page) and overlayed it onto another layer of the newly created 'before logo' Then again using the trusty magic wand, pick up all of the black APART from the area inside the main letters, invert this selection and then press delete. You now have your 'before' state of your 'Lucasfilm' logo. I also feathered the edges of the 'is Ltd' as this appears softer than the main type. Using the doge tool lighten areas to give it a '3D' look as above. If you haven't done so already save this file as a. If you've followed this (which isn't easy) it should now look something like the one above (minus the shading, which comes next). Postition the layers with this new layer on the bottom, on top of which is your black layer, on top of which is your original logo. Make another layer and fill that with your green colour. Make a new layer and fill this larger selection with black, once more click on expand and follow the same proceedure.

What you are trying to achieve is an 'outer' that you can fill with black. I used 30, but my logo was fairly big in size, it depends on how big you want it to go. Then on the pull down menus choose 'select' and then 'modify' then 'expand' Type in the figure you want to acheive the effect below. Using the trusty magic wand tool highlight all of the black isoide the type of your logo as shown. Here are the bones of your new logo, now we've got to flesh it out. I exported the whole thing into Photoshop (this is where using the Adobe packages is great, porting from illustrator to photoshop to after effects is a breeze). The last stage is to round of the corners to give the type a softer feel then its goodbye illustrator and hello photoshop. Fill the centre with black and the 'stroke' green you should end up with something like this. Now you need to create the type as outlines. Adjust the nodes on the bases of all the characters so they form a 'nice' arc along the bottom, echoing the curve you have just drawn. The curve you have just drawn forms the template for the letters to sit on.

Nothing fancy here, but this forms the next part of the logo development. Next it's the curve and' swooshes' at the bottom. Just remember that they should all line off the top, and they all form a curve around the 'ltd' at the bottom. You may need to condense the letters considerable to fit them all in.

Depending on the amount of letters your company name has depends on how close to the original this will look. So far it's looking pretty ropey, but hopefully it'll get better.

I used Clarendon Condensed (then condensed it some more) to make this overlay. As the Lucasfilm logo is a 'hand rendered' logotype, it's not going to be easy to find an exact match for the typeface. The first thing you need to do is recreate the type. All other work will be done on a different layer. If you have an illustrator version with layers put this on your base layer. Open up Adobe Illustrator and 'place' the logo on your pasteboard. Begin by getting a screengrab of the Lucasfilm logo to use as a 'template'. This is the hard part, from here on in it should become easier. Obviously this is a copyrighted, trademarked logo, so don't try doing anything fancy with it, it's only to be used for none profit fanfilms etc., You all know the story.ДЄnyway, for this 'method' you will need the following programmes.ДЄdobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe After Effects (although I'm sure you can acheive similar results from other programmes that you may have) Information about these programmes can be found here.Д«ecuase of the complex nature of the task, I have assumed some knowledge of using the programmes, this is more of the theory behind creating this.ДЇirst the actual logotype itself. This tutorial is an attempt to help you create your own 'pastiche' of the Lucasfilm Ltd logo for the beginning of your fanfilm.

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