Hello Guys!! In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to How to Design Cool Logo using Bevel and Emboss Effects in Photoshop. A logo can be described as the face of a company. Quite often, it’s the first thing that a likely customer will notice about your business. A logo is much more than just an icon it is a point of identification for clients. A well-designed logo is an easy way to convey to the customers that your business is professional, trustworthy, and provides quality goods or services.
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Images used:
- Stock: SLIVER BACKGROUND and LEATHER BACKGROUND from fuzzimo.com
Fonts used:
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- Aparajita BOLD
- Bauhaus 93
Step 01
- Open the Photoshop software.
- Go to the “File” menu and click on the “NEW”(you can also use Ctrl+N).
- Select the size according to your requirement.
- Now take the new layer and select the “Horizontal Type Tool” from the “Text Tool”.
- You can select any font, here I m using “Aparajita Bold”.
- Now write the alphabet “D”.
- Again take the new layer and write alphabet “O” in the next line.
- Adjust both the alphabets as you wish, here I m overlapping both the alphabets at one end of “D”.






Step 02
- Now take a new layer.
- Go to the “Shape Tool” and select the “Ellipse Tool”.
- Draw a circle around the alphabets.
- Adjust the color and size of the stroke from the “Stroke option”.
- Now press Ctrl+T and resize the circle.
- Right click on the “Ellipse layer” and select “Rasterize Layer”.Now take the “Pen Tool”(you can use any Selection Tool).
- Select the area of the circle which overlapping on “D” and deletes selected area.
- Do the same processes for the area which overlay on “O”.




Step 03
- Now we will give silver look to the alphabets (it’s all off to you which look you want to give).
- Take a silver background(it will open in a new tab).
- Double click on the silver background layer and unlock it.
- Now select the “Move Tool” and drag the silver background to the original design canvas.
- It will be overlapping on the whole design.
- Now bring the cursor between “Silver layer” and “O layer”.
- Now press “Alt” and then click, the silver layer will overlap on the “O” and its look like the silver alphabet.
- Did you notice that “O” is overlapping on “D”.so go to the “O layer” and “Add Mask Layer.”
- Now take the “Brush Tool” and drag on the area which overlapping on “D”.
- Now apply the silver look on liter “D”(don’t apply mask layer on “D layer”).






Step 04
- Now right click on “O Layer” and select “Blending Options”.
- Tick on “Bevel&Emboss” also on “Contour” and “Satin” and then click on OK.
- Do the same processes for “D Layer”.
- Now right click on the “Ellipse Layer” and apply the same Effect on the circle.




Step 05
- Take a new layer.
- Now take “Text Tool” and select the font style and size.
- Write below the circle your company name, here I write “DesignOptimal”.
- Now right click on “DesignOptimal Layer” and select “Blending Options”.
- Apply the same effect as we apply for circle.
- Now let’s add background, so open background which you want to add.
- Here I m using Leather background, so double click on the leather background layer and unlock it.
- Now drag the leather background into original design canvas and keep this layer above the original background layer.
- Now press Ctrl+T and adjust the background.
- Here is the final outcome.







