From the course: Designing a Logo for a Band
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Creating a web-optimized logo - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Designing a Logo for a Band
Creating a web-optimized logo
To create my web optimized versions of the different logos, I'm going to use Save for Web. But, before I do that, I need to chop my page up into individual slices so that from this one file we get 12 different versions. And I also need to convert my CMYK colors to RGB colors. The black that I'm currently using when we view this on screen is going to be rather grey, and it's not going to have the impact that an RGB black would have. So, let's do that first of all. I'm going to come to File and Document Color Mode, and then change my Document Color Mode to RGB. Then I will select one, I'll use my Direct Selection tool, select one piece of black art work come to the Select menu and choose Same Fill Color. I'll now come to my Color panel and if necessary change my slides to RGB, and then I'm going to move these all the way over to the left so that they read zero, zero, zero. So that we now have a nice rich screen black. Next, I need to slice my page. If I turn on my guides Cmd or…
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Choosing colors for the logo3m 30s
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Evolving the logo idea5m 7s
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Fine-tuning the logo design3m 50s
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Preparing variations of the logo design4m 11s
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Formatting the logo for different uses1m 40s
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Saving separate versions of the logo4m 55s
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Creating a web-optimized logo4m 3s
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