New look, New Logo.

I haven't blogged for a while. To be honest I've been out of the country and I've had little to say anyway. But now I've decided to get things moving with Bomb Blast Media. I've been learning lots of new stuff and I have a couple of new website on the way, one of them is hopefully my own. But in the meantime I have set up a Portfolio site on Adobe Behance, so take a look http://bombblastmedia.myportfolio.com/. Hopefully, now I'm Back I will be able to share some of the stuff I've been learning.

Cheers.

Dave.

How to Create 3D Text in Photoshop

How to Create 3D Text in Photoshop



I've started to look at my techniques of coming up with logos. So I am going to be sharing the tutorials I do and the results. This one was in Photoshop and was a little tricky to follow especially step 5, where I pressed just the ALT and down arrows to create duplicate layers as the Ctrl + Alt and down arrows basically just turned my screen upside down. Anyway this is what I created, let me know how you do.

Messing around with new logo ideas.

Every so often I like to change my logo on social media, especially as I noticed that my icon on many social media platforms was circular and my usual logo just didn't work. So I was doing a tutorial on Tutsplus and changed a few things around and came up with this, which looks great in a circle as it looks 3d. Here's the link to the tutorial, https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/hazardous-red-background--psd-7 and here is the logo in use on my Google+ page. BB media G+ page

Practicing layer styles in Photoshop.

I find the learning process never ends with Graphic Design. Especially when it comes to Photoshop and Illustrator. But I also have to go and refresh my knowledge about subjects I already now about, so every so often I delve into the Tutsplus archive to find tutorials like this. The tutorial is about layer styles. Something I new about but I never used, after this tutorial though, that just might change. So below is my version of the tutorial and here is the link to the original.  Enjoy learning. http://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/metallic-styles-in-photoshop--psd-5

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Been a long time.

I haven't posted for a long time, reason being, that I was plaiged by Robots. Yes my lonely Blog was not being viewed by anyone except other machines. this was a little dishartning. But I have now come to the conclusion, Sod em and hopefully I may get some proper readers one day. 

 

 

First Paid Job.

I was asked by a new company to create a logo for them. The brief was it was to be similar to many open source logos, as the company will be working to install Linux onto company computer networks and to have a slight retro look, with colors that were professional but not to clinical. So to start off with I researched open source logos, followed by a few rough sketches and then finally some very rough ideas done in Photoshop, which I then sent to the client for feedback.

They said they liked the colors and the font, but they were not sure about the button with the 3 on it and the layout of the logo. So I took the elements they liked and turned it into something a little different. I experimented with the Cinema 4D plugin that comes with After Effects and then finished the Logo off in Photoshop. This has opened up whole load of new possibilities for me and luckily the client liked this final Logo and has given me some more work, so hopefully this is the start of something for me. This is what I came up with.