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Logo Design Studio Pro Guide – Part 3
Slide-Out Panes
Logo Design Studio Pro‘s slide-out panes are the most intuitive and convenient features in its interface. These context-sensitive panes automatically display the necessary tools based on your selection on the canvas, be it an object, a shape, or text. You can dock or undock them as you prefer.
Left Slide-Out Pane
The left slide-out pane is located at the left side of the canvas. The left slide-out pane features a list of objects and taglines accessed by tabs. To slide the left slide-out pane out, simply move your mouse over one of the tabs. The pane will remain displayed until you click the canvas or one of the tabs on the right sidebar.
To dock the pane, click the horizontal pushpin icon on the top right corner of the pane. The pushpin will change to a vertical position and the pane will stay displayed until you either click the pushpin again to close the pane or the “X” to close it permanently.
Note: If you close the pane permanently, the control tab corresponding to that pane will disappear from the sidebar. You can restore that tab by clicking the corresponding button on the View menu.
Objects Tab
The Objects tab on the left slide-out pane lists a variety of objects that you can insert and customize for your logo project. These objects are organized into different categories to choose from. To insert an object, choose an object category, select the desired object from the list and click on the canvas at the place where you want the object to appear.
Tagline Tab
The Tagline tab on the left slide-out pane lists a number of slogan captions that you can insert into your logo project and customize as you need to. To insert a tagline, select it from the list and then click on the canvas where it you want to insert it.
Right Slide-Out Pane
The right slide-out pane is located at the right side of the canvas. The right slide-out pane features a set of advanced tools and layer controls accessed by tabs. To slide the right slide-out pane out, simply move your mouse over one of the tabs. The pane will remain displayed until you click the canvas or one of the tabs on the right sidebar.
To dock the pane, click the horizontal pushpin icon on the top right corner of the pane. The pushpin will change to a vertical position and the pane will stay displayed until you either click the pushpin again to close the pane or the “X” to close it permanently.
Note: If you close the pane permanently, the control tab corresponding to that pane will disappear from the sidebar. You can restore that tab by clicking the corresponding button on the View menu.
Advanced Tools Tab
The Advanced Tools tab on the right slide-out pane features options to modify your selected logo element. You can duplicate, delete, flip, rotate, skew, or control the opacity or stroke weight (line thickness) of text, shapes, or objects.
The Advanced Tools pane has three tabs: Stroke Text, Solid Text, and Shapes; the first two tabs feature controls for those two types of text, while the Shapes tab features controls for shapes and objects. The correct tab displays automatically according to the type of element you have selected.
Notes: The Rectangle and Ellipse shapes offer all the controls listed for objects. The Rectangle shape also adds one more slider, Corners, which can be use to round or sharpen the rectangle’s corners. In addition, the freehand drawing tools offer the same advanced options as the other geometric shapes.
Note that the available controls vary according to the type of element manipulated.
- Click Duplicate to make a copy of the selected element or Delete to delete it.
- Slide the Opacity slider left to make the element more transparent or right to make the element more opaque.
- Slide the Stroke slider right to widen the thickness of the element outline, to the left to make it thinner.
- To flip the element horizontally, click Flip Horizontal.
- To flip the element vertically, click the Flip Vertical. This is a good way to create a mirrored or reflective effect with a duplicated element.
Use the Width and Height sliders to adjust those dimensions of the element. Slide the slider to the right to lengthen that dimension, to the left to shorten it. To adjust both dimensions proportionately by adjusting only one of them, check the Preserve Aspect Ratio box.
Slide the Rotate slider to the right to rotate the element clockwise, to the left to rotate the element counterclockwise. Rotation angles are oriented like a compass, with zero degrees as up/north, 90 degrees as right/east, 180 degrees as down/south, and 270 degrees as left/west.
Slide the Skew Horizontal slider to the right to skew the top edge of the element to the left and its bottom edge to the right. Slide the slider to the left to skew the top edge to the right and the bottom edge to the left.
Slide the Skew Vertical slider to the right to skew the left edge of the element upward and its right edge downward. Slide the slider to the left to skew the left edge downward and the right edge upward.
Layers Tab
The Layers tab on the right slide-out pane features a canvas overview of all the layers in all the logo elements on all the canvases in your logo project. (Each new element you add to a canvas is placed in its own layer.) You can select one or more layers by checking the box for each layer you wish to select in the Layers list. Each selected layer will be surrounded by a set of sizing handles (dots).
You can then drag selected layers around the canvas or place them above or beneath other layers. When you drag one layer over another layer’s position, it is placed on top that layer by default.
| << Part 2: Using the Logo Design Interface |
Part 4: Working With Logo Shapes >> |