American Idol Logo: Here’s how to make it
American Idol, America’s most watched TV show for weeks on end, is coming up on its season finale. And just in case you wondered how to duplicate the neon-sign-style logo, you can find a complete tutorial using Photoshop on pagecurve.com.
Here’s a stripped down description:
1. A 500 x 300 ellipse
2. A 23 point stroke on the ellipse
3. Add another stroke in light blue
4. Type “American” using the font Kaufmann Bd BT and rotate about 10 degrees
5. Hand draw a line from the “A” to the dot of the “i” in ‘American’
6. Add glowing outline
7. Repeat with the word “Idol”, but don’t rotate it
If you follow the instructions verbatim, you’ll end up with a logo looking like this:
Which looks pretty good until you compare it to the real American Idol logo. There are some obvious discrepancies in the text that make the Photoshop version appear somewhat novice.
August 16th, 2006
It is obvious that professional graphics design team can surpass any amateur work on Photoshop.
Though, anybody know of any software that bests Photoshop out there?
jhsien
August 17th, 2006
Most designers use Adobe Illustrator to design logos.
January 16th, 2007
And in Adobe Illustrator, one could’ve just used the blue Stroke to thin out those letters.
February 17th, 2007
no
December 11th, 2007
hi my name is sarah patterson im a biggest fan
in american idol. i have been watching the whole season of four five six the contestants from the
season four five six did a outstanding singers that
i ever saw on tv and its feels good to have jordin
spraks to to win the american idol. and i’m sure that
jordin spraks blake lewis gina glocksen sanjaya malaker would never forget about their supportive fan
sarah patterson
February 14th, 2008
Looks the same but on the shaded part is not so fine edited.
February 14th, 2008
looks the same but on the shaded part is not
December 22nd, 2008
make this logo
June 30th, 2009
Awesome step by step tutorial Thanks a lot for sharing your valuable knowledge with us..I learn a lot
June 30th, 2009
Amazing Tutorials! Thanks.
July 2nd, 2009
can I legally use this logo to make myself a t shirt?
March 21st, 2010
thanks for the info, i have been looking for this, is there anyway i can get updates from you on my email, i mean i have heard that this is something called subscribe, but i am very new on the internet and i dont know how to do this :-/