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Design

Zack Arnault
Zack Arnault
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Posted by Zack Arnault
Zack Arnault
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Logo Design Basics - Does this course use photoshop or illustrator?

I plan on taking the illustrator course as soon as I purchase it but would like to learn how to make logos, can I use photoshop? I am taking the design track until I feel like I can stop but the logo design is a skill I want to have.

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Danielle San Miguel
Danielle San Miguel
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Danielle San Miguel
Danielle San Miguel
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The Logo Design course is pretty much a quick look at the brainstorming process. You can still get the gist of it without buying Illustrator, although I recommend his Illustrator course as well. Immensely helpful.

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Ultimately you will want vector versions of your logos. That way every time you resize your logo, it will not be dependent upon pixels or resolution. Rather the logo will crisply resize with your vectors. Illustrator's vectors and pen tools are very diverse, and more precise (e.g. aligning certain points, controlling the radius).