Creating your First Logo

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Logo Design Studio Pro Guide – Part 1

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Creating Your First Logo

Working with the extensive features of Logo Design Studio Pro is easy once you familiarize yourself with the user interface and the toolbars. When you launch Logo Design Studio Pro, a welcome window will open, giving you the options to create a new logo from a blank canvas, open a pre-designed logo template, or open a recent logo project file that you may have previously saved.

Using a Blank Canvas

To create a new logo on blank logo canvas, simply select the large Blank Logo Project button at the top of the Logo Design Studio Pro welcome window. This will open a new blank logo canvas in the main program window. When Logo Design Studio Pro first opens your blank canvas, the canvas window opens a default canvas of 1500 pixels in length by 1500 pixels in width. To resize the canvas, go to the Width and Height section under the Canvas menu tab. Choose one of the options in the Preset Sizes dropdown menu, or select the Custom option and enter your own sizes in the Width and Height fields. You can resize the canvas dimensions in pixels, inches, centimeters, or millimeters; check the Landscape box to turn the canvas sideways, thus exchanging the width and height values. Click Ok to display the canvas you defined. (Other options on the Canvas menu ribbon let you make the background transparent or change its color, add a background image or texture, or change the opacity of the canvas.) You can also create a logo from a blank canvas by selecting New from the File menu (the round logo button at the top left of the main program window) or clicking New in the Logo section of the Home menu ribbon. If you have a logo project currently displayed, you will be prompted to save any changes you made to it before your new project is opened.

Using a Template

Once you select and open a logo template from a category in the welcome window, the selected logo template will open in the Logo Design Studio Pro main program window. Once the logo template appears in the canvas window, you can click on any element to modify or delete it. Different options will become available on the Advanced Tools slide-out pane to the right once you click on a canvas element (just click the Advanced Tools side tab to slide out the pane), depending on whether it is text, shape, or a graphic object. Read the appropriate sections of this help file to learn more about graphics, text, shapes, and taglines, as well as saving and using your logo. To modify a pre-designed logo template to your own look, simply select a template category from the left and then double-click the desired logo template in the Templates View section.

My Logo Projects

If you have previously saved one or more project files in Logo Design Studio Pro, you can click the large My Logo Projects button at the top of the welcome window to view your available project files. To open one, simply double-click on the file to open it in the main program window. Note: Logo Design Studio Pro creates a file for your logo project in your project folder with the extension .ldsv. This file can only be opened within the program and allows you to modify your logo file at any time. Do not move a file with the .ldsv extension out of the project folder; otherwise it will no longer show up in your recent project files. Once you get your canvas set up, you can then add graphics, text, shapes, and taglines. Read the appropriate sections of this help file to learn how to add and modify these elements, as well as how to save and use your logo. At any time, you can choose to open a logo template by selecting New from the File menu or from the Home menu ribbon and choosing a template from one of the categories in the welcome window. Different options will become available on the toolbar and in the Advanced Tools slide-out pane to the right once you add an element to the canvas, depending on whether it is text, shape, or a graphic object.

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