LR Tips Create a Vintage Logo in Illustrator

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Those artisanal logos are all the rage, aren’t they? You know the ones: the hand-crafted looking font (I’m looking at you, Brothers) and a vintage-y looking shield or badge. So now you’ve decided you need one, too…but you can’t find the right piece of vector art with the perfectly symmetrical shield. Maybe, however, you’ve found a perfectly good raster image of one. Maybe you’ve even found one out in the real world and want to emulate it. The perfect specimen No problem. Just fire up Illustrator and draw one! “But…but…but,” I can already here you protesting. “I don’t use Illustrator. I’m afraid of the Pen tool!” Have no fear, timid designer. I was once where you are, my friend, but then I learned this one stupid trick: Cheat. That’s right! Use a photo or other image to trace on top of. Just like when you were 7 and your parents were impressed with your impossibly-detailed drawing of Spider-Man—tracing paper!—you’ll impress even yourself by using a template to create on top of. Set Up the Template Once you find—or take—the photo to use as a guide, you’ll need to get it into Illustrator. Place the image as you normally would (File [...]
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