After ThePrettyPunkPrincess did a great step by step picture guide about how to get avatars and signatures into your profile, I thought it might be helpful to have a companion guide for creating your own logos. First, you need a basic photo editing program like PhotoShop or most anything like it. Second, to utilize the layers function, the image must be saved as a .png file. This keeps every layer separate. After completing your logo, you can save it as a .jpg or .gif to flatten out the layers into one, but by saving the original .png, you can always revisit the logo later and make any changes you may want to, or make new logos.
Here's how I created my logo.
Step 1: I saved a circle logo without a banner that I found on this site to my computer. In my photo editing program, I traced the inside of the circle and deleted the picture, thus giving me an empty canvas to work with. You can also change the color of the cirlce if you want to or change the size of the circle.
Step 2: With the middle of your circle now empty, you can place the picture you would like to in there. Of course, you may need pictures to put in there, so Disney Clips is a great place to find images, along with many other sites.
Step 3: Layers allow you to place multiple images on top of each other in any given picture.
In this example, the web page background is also Aurora's background, which looks kind of plain to me.
Step 4: To jazz it up, I added the castle image to the inside of the circle, and then deleted the portions of the castle image that were outside the circle.
Step 5: With the castle backdrop in place, I placed the picture of Aurora over the castle.
Step 6: Now you're ready for text and banners/scrolls if you so desire. Just save the scroll here to your own hard drive and open it up in your program.
The great thing about shapes like these is that they don't pixelate badly if you enlarge them, so you can make it bigger if you want to. In this case, I chose to use the scroll to cover up the flower below Aurora instead of trying to trace over and delete the flower. The layer function was also great here because it allowed me to adjust only the color of the circle without altering the coloring of the castle backdrop or Aurora.
To add text, just go to the text option in your photo program and insert the text. I don't know how to get the special Disney font, but mine has a lot of different fonts, so I'm okay with that. After placing the text, decide size text you want, experiment with fonts if you like, or change the color. My program has a feature that allows me to insert shaped text, so that's how I got my pin trading text to conform to the shape of the circle.
I hope this helps. Please ask any questions you may have, and if you can't do it, I'll be happy to help, and I'm sure there are many others here who are happy to help as well.
Here's how I created my logo.
Step 1: I saved a circle logo without a banner that I found on this site to my computer. In my photo editing program, I traced the inside of the circle and deleted the picture, thus giving me an empty canvas to work with. You can also change the color of the cirlce if you want to or change the size of the circle.
Step 2: With the middle of your circle now empty, you can place the picture you would like to in there. Of course, you may need pictures to put in there, so Disney Clips is a great place to find images, along with many other sites.
Step 3: Layers allow you to place multiple images on top of each other in any given picture.
In this example, the web page background is also Aurora's background, which looks kind of plain to me.
Step 4: To jazz it up, I added the castle image to the inside of the circle, and then deleted the portions of the castle image that were outside the circle.
Step 5: With the castle backdrop in place, I placed the picture of Aurora over the castle.
Step 6: Now you're ready for text and banners/scrolls if you so desire. Just save the scroll here to your own hard drive and open it up in your program.
The great thing about shapes like these is that they don't pixelate badly if you enlarge them, so you can make it bigger if you want to. In this case, I chose to use the scroll to cover up the flower below Aurora instead of trying to trace over and delete the flower. The layer function was also great here because it allowed me to adjust only the color of the circle without altering the coloring of the castle backdrop or Aurora.
To add text, just go to the text option in your photo program and insert the text. I don't know how to get the special Disney font, but mine has a lot of different fonts, so I'm okay with that. After placing the text, decide size text you want, experiment with fonts if you like, or change the color. My program has a feature that allows me to insert shaped text, so that's how I got my pin trading text to conform to the shape of the circle.
I hope this helps. Please ask any questions you may have, and if you can't do it, I'll be happy to help, and I'm sure there are many others here who are happy to help as well.
