Banner

After creating my logo I also had to make a matching banner for my blog. I followed the same theme and 'busy' look. I used the same font and colour for the text, only when I typed it it did not appear clearly as part of the background was also white. To make the text clearer to read, I gave it a shadow and 3D effect so that it came out of the page more. It is now easier to read than before.

Logo

For my logo, I decided my theme was going to be grunge simply because I like the style.

To create it, I started an A3 canvas from scratch on Photoshop. I filled the background in black and created a new layer. The colour black also blends in well to the black background of my blog page. Then, instead of using Phoshop's default brushes, I loaded some more interesting downloaded brushes. To do this I went to the 'Brushes' dropdown list, clicked an arrow on the right hand side and uploaded the brushes from where they were saved (you can download many fonts on websites such as www.brusheezy.com). I chose the 'grunge' brushes in white as I though this colour would be best on a black background. I decided to have a very busy logo as I thought it looked effective and downloaded a matching font for my name from the Internet.