40 Logo Design Tutorials

Logo design is a sophisticated and complex process. The hardest thing to do is to come up with the concept behind the logo. Once you know what kind of logo you want, you sketch and design it. Logo design is one of those things that has to be perfected, because a logo represents an idea,  a brand and an identity. In recent contest I asked Desizn Tech’s reader what kind of post they would like to see, some readers asked about logo design tutorial. In this post, you will find 40 different kinds logo tutorial from beginners to advanced level. Besides logo design, some of the links included broad analysis behind the logo design process which should be helpful for graphic designers and web designers.

1. Quick Logos with Live Trace in Adobe Illustrator

Layers magazine shows how to create a logo quickly using Illustrators live trace technique.

2. Jelly Remake

A very unique tutorial that shows how to create a candy-like logo.

3. Bubble Tutorial using Photoshop

If you are looking a simple logo tutorial, this tutorial shows how to create a simple logo using Photoshop.

4. A Brief Logo Tutorial

An HTML page tutorial shows how to add a refection after creating the logo in Vector.

5. Futuristic Web Logo Design Tutorial Using Photoshop

PSD Rockstar shows how to create an awesome logo using layer styles properties in Photoshop.

6. 3D gradient logo in Illustrator

Nick La shows how to create create a 3d Logo in Illustrator, which is  a great technique  for making 3D graphic objects and icons.

7. Rectangular Glassy Logo

Create a glassy dark looking logo step by step in photoshop .

8. Making the ATI LOGO

This tutorial shows the recreation process of  ATI logo in photoshop.

9. 3d Logo in Gimp

This PDF tutorials shows that you can create a 3d logo even using GIMP.

10. Skype-like logo in Pixelmator

Skype has a very cool looking logo. If you wanted create something like that this tutorial shows how create a similar logo like that.

11. Drawing the Honey Farm Logo

Very detailed tutorial on how to create a professional looking honey farm logo in illustrator.

12. Awesome Logo Using Anime Charater

This tutorial comes from a Professional Logo designer Gary Simon. He shows a detailed necessary process on creating a logo.

13. Create a 3D Logo in Corel Draw

Corel Draw is another well Known Image Editor.  This tutorial shows how create a 3D logo in Corel Draw

14. Logo Presentation tutorial

You have logo that you want to perhaps print it on paper. This tutorial will teach you how to do that.

15. Volks Logo in Gimp

Create the Famous Volkswagen using Gimp.

16. Design the Firefox Logo in Photoshop

A detailed tutorial that shows how you can create the Firefox logo in a scalable photoshop format.

17. Professional Logo

Who said you can not design a logo like professional. Using photoshop pen tool you too can create a professional looking logo

18. Logo Design Process Tutorial

Dryicons has some of the best icons on the web. Now, on these tutorial they present a logo tutorial: from sketching logo in paper to designing it in illustrator and printing in it paper again.

19. Digg Logo in Illustrator

If you thought creating a digg logo/icon was hard, get ready to be surprised. This tutorial shows how create digg logo in easy steps everyone can follow.

20. Step by Step Logo

Chuck Green presenting a detailed analysis and step by step logo creation process .

20. Simple Vector Logo Tutorial

Another tutorial that takes  simple approach on creating a vector logo.

21. Coffee Shop logo in Corel Draw

Create a very unique looking coffee shop logo in Corel Draw .

22. Transformer Logo Tutorial

Using trace counter method create transformer logo in Illustrator.

23. Dark Logo in Photoshop

How about some dark logos?  This tutorial shows how to create a dark logo, which you can your for those a gaming or dark layout websites.

24. Creating the Brand Identity for a Sports Team

This tutorial which comes in a PDF shows how to create a logo and turn it into a brand.

25. Medieval Crest Logo

Are you creating a historic website?Need a Medieval logo? This tutorial shows how to create a crest logo in photoshop.

26. Skull logo Tutorial

Create skull type logo using pen tool in Illustrator.

27. Cloud Logo

PSDCORE presents a very cool photoshop tutorial, that shows how to create could logo for you site.

28. Glowing Sparking Logo

Marco Kuiper’s logo tutorial will blow your mind. Following this tutorial you can create 3D sparking tutorial.

29. Modern Day Green Logo Tutorial.

Creating a site green movement organization and you need a green logo? psFreak tutorial can help on creating a  green logo

30. How to Design a Logo.

This more like a guide line then tutorial. Jacob Cass from Just Creative Design explains how to design a logo in a must read detailed post.

31. Simple Multimedia Business Logo.

In this tutorial you will learn how to create  a glossy and professional logo for a multimedia business website.

32. Leaf Logo

Using photoshop preset shapes  you can create an amazing leaf logo with a Web 2.0 style.

33. Making a Logo

A very detailed and well analyzed and detailed article from Mihai Panu-Ionascu about logos and how create a logo.

34. Logo Design Process and Walkthrough for Vivid Ways

How to come up with the logo design? Whats is idea behind it? Chris Spooner writes about a detailed post about  the process of creating a logo.

35. Retro Logo

36.Designing a Cake Shop Logo

Need a logo for cake shop? This tutorial very nicely show how create a artistic cake shop logo .

37. Create a Planet Logo

This tutorial shows how create a clean and simple logo in photoshop.

38. Fitness Logo

Yet another tutorial that shows how to create a fitness logo using different techniques in photoshop.

39. Simple Vector Logo Design

PSHERO shows how to create custom (vector) logos in photoshop.

40.Creating a Crazy Cool Logo

In this tutorial Fabio Sasso from Abduzeedo teachs you how to create a logo using shapes in Adobe Illustrator.  A very cool concept.
Know the trends in logo design with these graphic design tutorial sites.
Perfect your logo design so your brand identity looks great on all product promotions, business cards, and other marketing materials.

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10 Free and Useful IDE for Programmers and Developers

An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) also known as Integrated Design Environment  is a software applications that provides coding, editing and debugging tool for creating desktop applications, web application, java based application and more. In this post, we have gathered some useful and must have free IDEs for programmers and web developer .

Do not confuse Integrated Drive Electronics- IDE with Integrated Development Environment, which is also known as IDE.  They are two different things. The basic features of an IDE includes :

• A text/ source code editor – To edit different scripting and programming language such as PHP, Phyton.
• A  compiler and/or an interpreter – To transform source code into computer language.
• Build automation tools – For automating to task that developers uses on a regular basis.
• A debugger – To check for errors and mistakes.

Some of the IDE’s that are targeted towards web development also includes FTP.

Why Would You Want to Use an IDE?

If you are wondering how an IDE would benefit you, here is an example. Let’s say you are creating a web app using Java or PHP. You would have to go back and forth between Firebug, text editor and FTP, Firebox. You lose time in switching between different applications. An IDE fills in this gap by keeping you focused on your work rather than switching between different applications. You get features of four or five different applications in one. If you want to get into hardcore coding IDE is a must. So here we have complied a list of free IDE that you can try and use. We will also include some paid IDE software at the bottom of the post.

WebScripter (Mac)

WebScripter is an  IDE for web programmers with a nice and clean interface that includes code editor , FTP, debugger and more features.

Aptana Studio (Windows/Mac/Linux)

Aptana is well known IDE among the programmer and developer. Beside the usual features you can also add plugins , which makes Aptana a must have tools for developers.

Qt Creator (Windows/Mac/Linux)

Qt Creator is mainly used C++.  It has an advanced code editor , visual debugger and many more features.

Code::Blocks (Windows/Mac/Linux)

Code::Blocks supports multiple compilers, including  Microsoft Visual C++, Borland C++, Watcom , the Intel C++ compiler and many more.

Syntori (Mac)

Mainly focused for Java developers who enjoys the mac interface. Includes lots of features for debugging.

NetBeans IDE (Windows/Mac/Linux)

NetBeans is a cross platform, opensource  IDE that supports many languages such as  Ajax,C/C++, JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, Python and more. Pick your scripting or programming language and get to work. You can create desktop, mobile, web applications using NetBeans.

Eclipse (Windows/Mac/Linux)

Eclipse is a multi-language software development environment. You can download the PHP, C++ or Java IDE from here

PSPad (Windows)

A code editor that support many different language such as C++,CSS, HTML, XHTML,Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, SQL, TCL/TK, Unix ShellScript, VBScript, Visual Basic and more. Some features to mention: FTP Client, Macro Recorder, File Search/Replace, Code Explorer and more.

Microsoft Visual Studio Express (Winodws)

IDE from Microsoft that includes a code editor supporting IntelliSense as well as code refactoring. Built-in languages include C/C++ (via Visual C++), VB.NET and C# and also supports other languages such as, Python, and Ruby, XML/XSLT, HTML/XHTML, JavaScript and CSS.
Edit: Visual Studio Express is free not the Visual Studio in General (as a reader pointed out).

Ulzard (Web Based- Windows/Mac/Linux)

If you need an IDE on the go, Ulzard is an useful on browser IDE. Mainly focused on web applications, that relay on JavaScript frame works.
Not Free, But Worth Checking Out

• Coda from Panic
• Dreamweaver from Adobe

Which IDE is your favorite? Is there any we missed here? Share with everyone in the comment.

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