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DJ85

DJ85

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I've made a logo up but when I put it into ads, social media etc it goes all blurry, I've been told I need to make it a vector shape which means I can resize as much as I want and it wont blur out? I have photoshop is this enough or going by a lot of posts that I need illustrator as well? Is it an easy process?
 
Photoshop doesn't handle vectors as well as something like illustrator but it can do them. You can use the pen tool set to shape and draw out the vectors that way. It's been a while since I used PS for vectors but you can add a line stroke, gradients etc. to any shapes you create. As long as you leave them as paths/shapes they should scale as a vector. All text in photoshop is vector based so as long as you don't rasterise it, text should work too.

Photoshop vectors aren't perfect, there's elements of some of it that aren't truely scaleable but if your logo isn't that complicated with patterns, drop shadows etc. then a photoshop vector should be good enough.

Edit: I forgot to add, if you're ok with using the pen tool in photoshop then illustrator isn't too bad for simple graphics. I've only had to use Illustrator a couple times and it's taken longer than it would do in photoshop but I've managed to muddle through each time ok.
 
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OK thanks ill give it a shot I'm new to photoshop as well so just learning myself. Think my problem is that I made a logo on one of the free websites then screen snipped it and tried to use it like that but its quite some so ill try make it from scratch on photoshop.
 
Of your not busy that would be great, see what you think about it but don't worry if you can't as I have plenty time on night shift tonight to start again. I will send you a trust.
 
Thank you very much for your help I hope it didn't take up much of your time. It works perfect.

Sorry for late reply, on nightshift
 
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