17 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating a Logo Design 2024

Your brand logo will be one of the most important assets of your online presence. A logo is something that people remember you by. If you manage to accumulate enough reputation, people will begin to use and promote your brand logo elsewhere, establishing even more credibility for you. That is why it can be so important to create the kind of a logo that you will be proud of, a logo that will best resemble your business, and its ideas. Though of course, logo’s aren’t just for websites, but also for real life products, for special occasions, and other situations where a logo would be required. What it comes down to, is the process of manifesting a beautiful logo that would suit your needs, and that would best represent your ideas.

Tools like Adobe Photoshop have existed for many years already, and Photoshop has certainly become the household tool for graphic design for the web, as has Adobe Illustrator; a few of the tutorials we will mention will be using Adobe Illustrator as the base software. Creating a logo can take as much time as you want, it really does come down to the vision you are trying to achieve. Movies, comics, scenery, creative drive, all these small things have inspired for designers to explore new and unexplored areas of logo design, which is why you are going to see so much versatility in this post, an immense amount of creative expressions that come from some of the best designers in the world.

Photoshop tutorials for creating logos have been published on the web as far back as 2006, with the average popular post being published in 2008, but the Photoshop software itself has changed a lot since then. We did our best to include logo tutorials published in the recent 2-3 years to ensure that all the tutorials are up to date, and use the latest Adobe software standards. Though, if any of the tutorials are a little bit older, we decided to include them for the inspiration that they may provide for your logo projects.

Creating a crazy cool logo

Abduzeedo is one of those design resources that have taken a long time to evolve and mature, and find its own voice. The people behind Abduzeedo are designers at heart, working in many different areas of graphic design, and frequently sharing their findings through structural and insightful tutorials. Creating a crazy cool logo is a recap of a business proposal that Abduzeedo crew was presented with: to create a unique logo for the company Zagora. Although the logo process took much more time than displayed in the post, it does show the process of using a simple “circles” approach to create a unique logo experience. In just ten steps, a unique logo experience is created, and now you can recreate it too.

Photoshop: Clean Professional Logo

The tutorial you are about to explore has more than 1.5 million views on YouTube, and we would assume that the combined exposure for this tutorial has been more than 2 million. It’s a Photoshop tutorial created by Corey Harris, on how to create a clean and lean professional logo. Tens of thousands of websites are now fully functional with their custom logo thanks to this tutorial. Unless you’re looking to utilize everything that modern graphic designer has to offer, you can easily rely on a tutorial as seen here, to help yourself create a clean logo that’s going to be enough to make a statement about your dedicated to the business you’re running.

Create a Slick Business Logo

A business needs to ensure that the logo its using, is reflecting the true values of the business. A result that is easier to express than to achieve. This click business logo tutorial is going to help you with achieving a fairly slick result of a logo. Albeit, a very simple result. If a mascot isn’t your thing, and you like to stick to the basics — such as standard text logos, this is going to be your tutorial for sure.

Creating a Retro Logo

Aviva Directory has been promoting Photoshop tutorials for many years, in fact, it’s one of the oldest still running Photoshop resources on the web, and their tutorials continue to serve the Photoshop community every single day. Animations, basics, drawings, effects, special effects, text effects, web graphics and layouts, Aviva Directory excels in many Photoshop categories, including logos. This tutorial is for recreating a Retro Logo effect. Unlike the previous one, this one actually has some extra visual drawings added to it, creating a more personal logo experience for your website.

Web 2.0 Logo Reflection in Vector format with Illustrator

Logo reflections is a really cool Photoshop feature to learn, well.. any reflections actually, not just text. You might already know how to do this in Photoshop, the amount of tutorials related to this matter are countless, but what Jay Hilgert is giving back to us here, is a recreation of a Reflection Logo using Adobe Illustrator. It is very likely that those who use Photoshop are also going to have access to Illustrator, so we find that this particular tutorials has a good place in this Photoshop logo tutorials roundup.

How To Create a Retro Badge/Emblem Style Logo

Spoon Graphics is run by Chris Spooner, an experience graphics designers from the United Kingdom. The design work published by Chris has reached millions of people, and his tutorials carry a legacy alongside them. The first logo tutorial from Chris is going to be all in relation to Retro design. If you’re running a gym, and need a logo idea to use right away, perhaps this Retro Gym Logo is going to be a good fit. It’s a circled logo with several layers, in the middle of logo you have a weights icon added to it to really tie the concept together. The thing with Photoshop tutorials is that a lot of Photoshop starters want to share their concepts and ideas too, but they usually start to get tired in the middle of the tutorial, and begin to leave out important details, but when it comes to Spoon Graphics tutorials, they’re always thorough, from start to finish.

How To Create an Origami Style Logomark in Illustrator

Origami originates from Japan, a folded paper design pattern that once converted into digital format, can actually become a very authentic experience for the users exposed to it. In the tutorial you are going to be working with Adobe Illustrator. Chris takes the design idea to a new level by googling some photos of birds, typicall where origami get its folded inspiration from. Once you find a good bird design to mimic, you can begin to create an outline. Thouands of social shares later, this is one of the most frequently used Photoshop/Illustrator tutorials for how to recreate origami style logos.

How to Design a Logotype from Conception to Completion

This logotype tutorial goes way back to 2007. It was the first tutorial that Spoon Graphics published, already then Chris was portraying a deep understanding of logos, and he decided to share his own logo workflow that talks about going from a logo idea, to the full logo completion. His most important recommendations are about using vector software when building a logo,, such as Illustrator. He also recommends to create logos that you can reproduce in single colors. And since logos are often used in flyers and business cards too, you need to ensure that once the logo is scaled down, the lines remain intact. You will learn and grasp all these concepts in this single tutorial.

Logo Design Process and Walkthrough for BioThemes

BioThemes is a now defunct website, but once upon a time it needed the help of Spoon Graphics to have them design their stunning logo. A leaf covered, rich logo pattern that shows how personalized logos can be, and in the tutorial you will come to learn what it takes to create a logo that stands for a brand. It all starts with using a single tree leaf and then using that leaf to amplify the logo to make it seem more rich. A very intricate and detailed logo that should inspire in you to create some cool creations yourself.

Step-by-Step Tutorial to Create a Business Logo with Photoshop

Udemy is world’s one of the most popular platforms for sharing, creating, and participating in online courses. Udemy gives back to the web community so much, and they extend that generosity on their blog as well, where they can be frequently seen publishing interesting articles and tutorials on how to achieve certain things, in this example — they have an author publishing a Photoshop tutorial on how to create a business logo for your business. It’s a modest business logo and you should be able to create logos of your own once you’re finished with the tutorial. Never hesitate to ask the author of the post questions or leave feedback.

Create a Classic Vector Crest Logo

Vector crest logos are the kind of logos that are usually built with a mascot in mind, or at least significant symbolism in mind. While many of our Photoshop logo tutorials focused around creating single images, or single text logos, this one from Tutsplus goes much more in detail about structuring a logo that incorporates the business name and also accompanied images to go with it. You will be using Pathfinder a lot in this Photoshop tutorial, so if you were planning to learn about Pathfinder anyway, this intermediate tutorial will be a great resource to begin with.

Create a Cool Music Logo on a Grunge Background

Music websites, music brands, and music businesses are also deep in the logo sphere. It’s wonderful to see how the logo scene has evolved and how different categories and types of websites use different logos to appeal to their visitors. Music related sites are often seen using blended and grunge optimized logo templates that indicate exotic creativity, as you will inevitably see in the demo here. The difficulty of completing this tutorial is intermediate, but that is going to be the price to pay to learn some invaluable Photoshop skills. Dating many years back, this is still a very famous tutorial for those who are hoping to recreate a music-oriented logo with an attached background.

How to Create a Chalk Logo Effect in Photoshop

What’s so cool about chalk logos? The best part about a chalk logo is that it looks surreally real. Just go outside for a walk and walk by a famous bar or a pub, you will quickly notice that these types of establishments love to put out their chalk boards with cute drawings on them, and now you can recreate that eye catching effect for your digital establishment as well. We were quite chuffed to learn that this is actually a Photoshop logo tutorial that’s aimed at complete beginners, even if the time of completion is a little above average. You will need to take note of the fact that the actual drawing in the logo was created by hand, meaning it was drawn on a piece of paper and then scanned onto the computer. Some say this is not a true Photoshop achievement, while some say that is is a wonderful way to bridge the pencil creativity onto a digital format. You are in charge of deciding which statements sounds more true to you.

How to Create the Batman Dark Knight Logo in Adobe Illustrator

The Batman series couldn’t be more popular than they are, both the series and feature films have gained a following of immense ratios, and graphic designers all over the world are trying to recreate the Batman logo using Photoshop. And now you can too, thanks to Andrei Marius from Tutsplus who was kind enough to create a tutorial on how to create the Batman logo, with nothing but a little bit of Photoshop and Illustrator. Very solid design by the time you’re done with it, and beginners can jump on creating this one too, lots of exciting Illustrator features to be learned and understood. Like so many graphic designers have already pointed out, Illustrator is where it’s at when it comes to digital logo design.

How To Create An Epic Metallic Band Logo

Web and graphic designers aren’t just seen creating content on demand, designers love to put a little of their own touches to a design, such as in this case. A metallic logo design that will compliment music bands and music oriented projects. It’s not like those people who are in music bands don’t understand design, quite the opposite — they too wish to deliver to their fans an experience that’s going to resemble their music and the music values. And a logo such as this can be easily transformed for the use in many external outlets as well, not just for the use as a logo.

Fitness Logo Photoshop Tutorial

Fitness companies and brands are going to want to create logos that resemble something that has to do with fitness, for example — a stretching silluet of an athlete, or weights, or skipping rope. Each industry and category usually requires a personal touch to really tie together what the brand is about, and if you are part of a fitness startup or business, you will benefit greatly from the following tutorial.

Dache: Logo Design Process

The logo design workflow or otherwise known as process is going to be very important to understand for those designers who work with logo designs more frequently, so basically freelancers and contract workesr. Here’s a guest post on Web Designer Wall from David Pache who talks about his own logo design process, and gives you some ideas that you can adapt on your own. Wonderful to have these super-experienced artists share their wisdom with everyone.

Best Photoshop Logo Tutorials

Coming across the best of the best isn’t always that easy. The web is a huge platform, an infinite resource of content, including tutorials for software such as Photoshop. We know that quite a few of the tutorials in this particular collection date back a few years. Still, we did our absolute best to ensure that a lot of the tutorials are also up to date, and can be practiced in the newest versions of Photoshop today. We encourage our fellow community members who do graphic design work with Photoshop to also, share their tutorials and guides so that everyone can learn at a more steady pace.