![]() ![]() You can place the original logo over your design on a lower opacity to ensure that all the dimensions of the texts are perfect. To finish this step, add another large black outside stroke to both text lines to add the black backdrop to the text. ![]() Next, adding the effects to the text itself, you’ll need to add a red, inside stroke to “Summer” as well as a gradient overlay to match the original’s orange/yellow fade. You’ll need to add a slant to match the original, ensuring that both text lines are parallel to each other, easily done through the transform tools. The next thing you need to do is add the effects to the text. Most designs will use proprietary fonts or will have text designed at the time so copies are not so easy to make. You’ll probably have to add to your designs the finishing touches to give it the same look as the original but “Close Enough” may have to do a lot of times. Forums are usually good at identifying fonts but you’ll often find that the fonts identified are “Close enough” to the original. I was lucky to find a discussion about this font and found the two closest fonts used were FederationClassic for the “Summer” and BankGothic for the “Slam”. Fonts can often be found online through font forums. Moving on, we need to worry about the text itself. You’ll find a lot of logos, like YouTube and Twitter, stored to this standard on various sites online. They are extremely useful if you need logos for designs both big and small. SVGs are vector graphics that are stored like webpages but can be opened and sized to any dimension you may need. Blocking in gaps with color could also work but may add additional work in the long-term should you make more than one edit.Īlso, it’s important to note that the WWE Logo is an svg vector accquired online. However it might be worth the extra work depending on how you intend to use it. ![]() It’s important to note that, as these lines will usually be hidden by text anyway, detail and consistency may not be that important. However, since a star’s points converge on straight lines, it’s a fairly easy prediction as to where the hidden lines meet. This requires some predictions since certain points of the star are obscured by the text. The best way I found was to use Photoshop’s pen tool and trace out the design’s 3 layered star. The next step is making an editable copy of the logo, specifically one that can be exploited with any text you want. Ideally, a transparent PNG allows for the best quality and avoids things like artifacting that jpegs often have at lower bit resolutions. A quick google search is usually all you’ll need here. A high resolution, recent version of the original logo. Last week, I spent a lot of time working with the WWE SummerSlam logo and I thought I’d run through the process of copying and replicating this iconic logo. With logos, especially the one above, it comes down to how easily can it be replicated and how much needs to be there to be a readable, believable replication. A lot of it comes down to the level of detail required when replicating something. Sometimes this is easy and sometimes this is hard. The one thing I try to do, when doing edits, is making things as clean as possible and as true to the real version as I can. One of the joys of learning about Photoshop and photo editing is being able to make edits like the one above. ![]()
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