Overview Midterms

For a midterm project, I would like you to create a banner logo for the danscourses.com website. Watch my video tutorials on how to approach this project and create a logo/image for the web.

Week 7 Assignment Midterm Project - Create a Website Banner/Logo  Image

Project Guidelines

1. Size = 368 x 80 pixels
2. Background Color = #333333 - R:51 G:51 B:51
3. The logo must blend or incorporate into the Gray background color
4. The logo must have text = "DansCourses" or "DansCourses.com"
5. Text must be large enough to be readable and must visually work with Verdana which is used on most of the site
6. The logo must have 3 or more separate images on separate layers
7. The logo must reflect the subject matter of the site, "Computers"
8. The Images you use must either not be copyrighted images or they must be altered enough by you that the copyright no longer applies
9. In the end, you need at least one adjustment layer, one style/effects layer, one layer mask, one text layer, and three separate image layers. 
   

Turning it in:
Due date: End of Week 9

You want to save your project two ways: 1) Do a File > Save As > choose file format ".PSD" - Photoshop Document, this will save your working file and all your layers; 2) Do a File > Save As > Change the file format to ".JPG" to save the jpg version for the web. Once you have saved your image two ways upload your jpg image to Picasa, then post it to the DansCourses Forum under "Web Logo Project." Please send me your PSD file too, as an email attachment, so I can verify your image layers.

Video Tutorials

Some of the tutorials below are from a previous version of this same assignment. I included them because I believe they are still relevant and good to learn from. I hope you agree!

Preparing your web banner logo project

Tutorials from a previous version of this project

Previous Tutorial - Part 2

Previous Tutorial - Part 3