How do I design a fingerprint logo?

[rivka48659849]

how do I design a logo with the theme of fingerprints- I was asked to design it on a fingerprint with the words imprinted in the fingerprint any idea how to do that?

[John T Smith]

Please post the name of the program you use so a Moderator may move this message

-A program would be Photoshop or Illustrator or ???

[rivka48659849]

Illustrator or photoshop

[JonathanArias]

Get some ink, make a finger print with your finger, scan or the a photo, live trace it with adobe illustrator, and pick from there on your design

If live trace does not work, get the pen tool and roll up the sleeves and trace it.

[Ray Yorkshire]

hi rivka

sorry I'm a little tired and not exactly sure what you mean -the words imprinted in the fingerprint?

Anyway i think you would be best working in Illustrator  rather than photoshop to make any logo

Here`s a sticky post from another forum  nicely explaining why and a few other logo design tips to bear in mind

http://www.graphicdesignforum.com/forum/forum/graphic-design/the-crit-pit/67893-basics-of-logo-desig...

[Monika Gause · Accepted solution]

The name of the company should be one of the lines in the fingerprint?

But they sure want to be able to read their name when the logo is on a business card, right?

So maybe they want to rethink the idea.

To learn how to use Illustrator to draw your designs, just go to the Help section of the menu and read your way through the documentation. Or search for good training in your area if you want to get there quicker.

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[Jacob Bugge]

rivka,

You may start with something like this,

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fingerprint+pattern+vector&t=h_&ia=web

and then use the live Type as a Clipping Mask (or outline and turn into a single compound path), then Object>Expand (Appearance) a copy when you are there.

For readability, it is crucial that that (the gap width in the) fingerprint pattern is small enough as compared to the letters, the shorter the text the easier.

[master31494587nfvx]

Literally running a website of services (homeservicesnearme) in Austin but am unable to design the best logo that attracts the customer as well as other communities. Let me know how can i use Adobe, is there any recommended tutorial on this?

As I'm tight on the budget so I can't hire anyone who can design. I want to design by myself by learning from any platform. If there are some videos for creating stunning videos, let me know plz.

[Monika Gause]

You can just go to the main menu, way to the right there is the Help section. This leads you to tutorials.

You have to learn the boring basics, before you can continue to the stunning things.

Then also you might want to learn the basics of design and video and so on. But probably you just want to pay someone for it, because learning to do it yourself will cost you so much more.

[Bobby Henderson]

Developing an effective logo, brand, wordmark or whatever anyone wants to call it requires more than just tricks in computer software. The creative process and theories in brand design matter more than the capabilities of a graphic design application. We all want any logo we design to look good. Still, legibility is paramount. That trumps style. In the arena of outdoor design (signs, billboards, etc) if the viewer can't read the logo at an acceptable viewing distance (usually from a moving vehicle) then the logo is worthless. It's very easy for us to make logos too complicated and detailed. Outline effects, drop shadows, glowy stuff and anything else that depends on Photoshop-style tricks can look really cool, but also make a logo impossible to read at small sizes. It's actually more difficult to strip away visual details that don't really matter and simplify the brand mark down to what is truly essential. In my humble opinion, the best logo designs are ones that can work in a single ink color and can be readable at any size, tiny or gigantic. And making them vector-based in an application like Adobe Illustrator is very important too. So many people shoot themselves in the foot by designing a logo in Photoshop and then are asked to provide vector-based art of it.

The most important thing is arriving at an idea of what the client really needs (or just wants). I would recommend sketching or doodling out ideas by hand on paper before trying to draw them in a computer. Doing so can actually speed up the process. Applications like Illustrator are good once an idea has jelled and is ready to be refined into something more precise.