This tutorial describes techniques used for customization of logo templates, which are available in various formats: .PSD, .AI, .WMF. Please download Sample Logo source files to practice on. Your downloaded sample_logo directory contains the following files:

• CORONETC.TTF - font that is used for company name
• logo.ai - Adobe Illustrator source file
• logo.wmf - source file that is editable in Corel Draw and can be used for preview
• logo.psd - Photoshop source file

No matter which program you prefer for editing your template, first you will need to install the needed font in your system.

Consult Step 1: Installing fonts

1. Select Start>Settings>Control Panel>Fonts to open the needed system folder.
2. Select File>Install Font to open a browse dialog.
3. In the dialog, locate your downloaded sample_logo folder.
4. Click Select All button and then OK.
5. Close the window displaying ...\WINDOWS\FONTS folder.

With fonts installed, you can now choose your favorite graphical editor and complete appropriate step of the tutorial. Each step is independent of others, and all steps explain the same thing . How to customize the text of your logo.

Step 2: Customizing in Adobe Illustrator
Step 3: Customizing in Corel Draw
Step 4: Customizing in Photoshop

Step 2: Customizing in Adobe Illustrator
In this step you will edit the company name and underline. Editing the slogan is not discussed, since procedures are exactly the same. It is assumed that you are using Adobe Illustrator 9.0. Some options might be unavailable in earlier versions.

1. Open the .logo.ai. file with Illustrator.

2. Make sure the toolbox is visible. Select Window>Show Tools if it is not.

3. Adjust magnification as needed by using Zoom Tool from the toolbox.

4. Switch to Type Tool and replace "Company Name" with the name of your company.

5. The text you typed might happen to be shorter or longer than sample text. Use Selection Tool to position new text properly.

6. Since letters have changed, the underline also needs some editing. Select a portion of underline with Direct Selection Tool . In case some other element gets selected instead of underline, send this element to background with Arrange>Send To Back from context menu.

7. Resize lines by dragging nodes with Direct Selection Tool . Holding down the Shift key allows preserving vertical coordinate of a node unchanged thus keeping the underline horizontal.

8. In case you need to remove extra fragments of underline select them and choose Edit>Clear.

9. To obtain additional fragments of the same width and color copy an existing fragment with Edit>Copy and then select Edit>Paste. A copy will appear to the upper left of initial line fragment. Drag the copy in place with Selection or Direct Selection Tool and resize it as described in sub step 7.

10. When you have created appropriate number of fragments of underline and resized them as needed you may want to make sure they are all horizontal and leveled. Select all fragments with Direct Selection Tool by either drawing a box around the whole underline or shift-clicking each fragment. Right-click the selection and choose Average.. Set the radio button to Horizontal position and click OK.

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Step 3: Customizing in Corel Draw
In this step you will edit the company name and underline. Editing the slogan is not discussed, since procedures are exactly the same. It is assumed that you are using Corel Draw 10. Some options might be unavailable in earlier versions.

1. Open the .logo.wmf. file with Corel Draw.

2. Make sure the toolbox is visible. To make it visible right-click the menu bar and select Toolbox.

3. Adjust magnification as needed by using Zoom Tool .

4. Switch to Text Tool and replace "Company Name" with the name of your company.

5. The text you typed might happen to be shorter or longer than sample text. Use Pick Tool to position new text properly.

6. Since letters have changed, the underline also needs some editing. Select a portion of underline with Pick Tool and drag the handles in order to resize line fragments.

7. In case you need to remove extra fragments of underline select them with Pick Tool and choose Edit>Delete.

8. To obtain additional fragments of the same width and color copy an existing fragment with Edit>Copy and then select Edit>Paste. A copy will appear just above the initial line fragment. Drag the copy in place with Pick Tool . Press down Ctrl + Shift after you start dragging in order to keep vertical coordinate unchanged. Resize the copied fragment as described in sub step 6.

9. When you have created appropriate number of fragments of underline and resized them as needed you may want to make sure they are all leveled horizontally. Select all fragments with Pick Tool by either drawing a box around the whole underline or shift-clicking each fragment. Select Arrange>Align and Distribute., set Center checkbox from the left and click OK.

There is much more to Corel Draw than this. Corel provides offline and online tutorials available through Help>CorelTUTOR. This is a good place to start on improving your skillin order to make your logo really unique.

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Step 4: Customizing in Photoshop
In this step you will edit the company name and underline. Editing the slogan is not discussed, since procedures are exactly the same. It is assumed that you are using Adobe Photoshop 7.0. Some options might be unavailable in earlier versions.

1. Open the .logo.psd. file with Photoshop.

2. Make sure the toolbox and tool options bar are visible. If not, select Window > Tools and Window > Options respectively to display them.

3. The image might appear too big or too small. To adjust magnification select Zoom Tool from the toolbox. The options bar changes to reflect zooming options. Turn on Resize Windows To Fit checkbox and click Actual Pixels button.

4. Make sure the Layers Tab is visible. If not, select Windows>Layers to display it.

5. Select Move Tool and right-click "Company Name.Com". In the drop-down menu of layer names choose Company Name.Com. This layer will get selected in the Layers Tab. You may think of layers as of transparent films with images and text placed on them. You can edit the contents of films independently, change the order in which they are stacked, and lots of other things.

6. To make sure you selected correct layer try making it invisible for a while by clicking an eye icon from the left of the layer name in the Layers Tab. The text should disappear.

7. Switch to Type Tool and replace "Company Name" with the name of your company.

8. The text you typed might happen to be shorter or longer than sample text. Use Move Tool to position new text properly.

9. Since letters have changed, the underline also needs some editing. Make layer that contains the underline active (similar to sub step 5). Use Pencil Tool and Eraser Tool to edit the underline. Width for Pencil Tool is set in the Options toolbar. You can display Color Picker dialog by clicking a colored box in the bottom of Tools bar. You may want to enlarge the image with Zoom Tool to facilitate editing.

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