How do you make logos?

[Akira X]

For comics and stuff, like the title. If don't want to use some old font from the computer. If you design it yourself, how do you get it to look all nice and neat and clean so you can reproduce it and use it on different things?

[Dash Martin]

Draw it...ink it...scan it at 600 dpi and save it as a .tif. Then run that .tif file through Adobe Streamline and save it as an .eps file which can be manipulated in Adobe Illustrator if need be.

[Akira X]

Originally posted by Methane
Draw it...ink it...scan it at 600 dpi

If I scan anything 400 dpi or over, my computer has a stroke, heart and asthma attack all at once, then commits suicide

and save it as a .tif. Then run that .tif file through Adobe Streamline

I don't know what Adobe Streamline is, but I doubt my computer would run it.

and save it as an .eps file which can be manipulated in Adobe Illustrator if need be.

And I don't have Illustrator either.

So I guess my real first step is to get a better computer?

[cyspawn23]

find a program that letts u make yer own font if its in text,then just type in and mess wit it threw adobe or whatever coloring program u use,they got some cool filters on there u can buy or whatever;onei;

[Darren Schwindaman]

Basically you need the logo you make to be vector-art. what that means is that the piece of art is calculated like a math problem, so it can be made as big or small as you want without any loss of quality, like what happens with pixels. I'd imagine you could find a freeware program on the Net that would handle vector art.

[Dash Martin]

400 dpi will do. Adobe Streamline creates vector images from black and white .tif files and if your computer can run MSPaint, Adobe Streamline would be no problem...it's very resource friendly and small. I'm sure you can find someone with a copy of Illustrator they'll gladly let you borrow.

[Spidey]

Damn I miss Illustrator.
Anyways, Illustrator is really all you need since you can manipulate existing fonts.

[jacon]

basically you need a computer that doesn't suck, Wesley!

[Chris Piers]

Originally posted by Akira X
How do you make logos?

Well, when a mommy logo and a daddy logo love each other very much...

[Steve Conan Trustrum]

I use a font that is somewhere in the neighborhood of what I'm looking for and then I use Illustrator to convert the letters into outlines. I then add even more points so that I can distort them to exactly the shape I want and then use the pen and combine functions to finish off the basic shape. And then let the fun with layers begin. I have Streamline and use it from time to time, but I'm not a fantastic artist so I far prefer doing it all digital.