 Oh yeah, what's up guys? This is Kerspite. My friends call me Bigsy! I'm back in action today. I'm going to show you how to create your own logo for free using Photopia. That's right, or Fortopia, depending on how you want to pronounce it or photopea. I don't know. I don't know what the heck to how they pronounce it. Guys, this is a free online photo editor. It's a graphic design tool. It's completely free, and it's pretty amazing. It's like Photoshop, but like a diet version of Photoshop. And what am I talking about? Well, here we go. Here is the original design. So this is the hand-drawn version that I just took this off the internet as an example. So here's a hand-drawn logo. And then here is the finished version. When I turn on all the layers and I turn the bottom layer off, this is the finished version. And it looks pretty much exactly like the original. You'll notice that it does have a little bit of an organic hand-drawn look. It doesn't have the exactly like perfectly symmetrical angles and lines. And that's quite on purpose. So let's go ahead and start from scratch so I can show you how to do this. So I'm going to delete all the layers and, well, I can't delete the bottom layer. So I'm just going to delete all the layers except this one. All right, let's try again. Come on, goodness. There we go. Delete layers and we're on our way. So this is the original background image. Now, the first step and probably the most important one for you guys is getting started out. Again, it's free, but you want to start with a logo and you generally want to draw it. So either draw it yourself or maybe you got a friend who's a really good drawer or maybe you even purchase it online and you got somebody that you buy it off of Fiber or one of those types of places. Either way, start off with a hand-drawn version of your logo like this one. And the first step to put it into the finder is you basically just grab the image. So I've got it under my teaching folder and I'm just going to drag and drop it in here and that's what it would show up as. So I'm going to delete the top layer, rest of. So we dragged and dropped it in. The next step is an important one is you want to drop the opacity of your hand-drawn layer from 100% to about 40%. Let's go with 40, something like that. Yeah, okay, good. And the reason why is you want to be able to see it because we're basically going to be tracing over. It's kind of like onion skinning. We're basically kind of like tracing, but we're going to, we want to see it but we don't want it to be too dark so that, you know, interferes with our next step. So here we go. The next step is we're going to create a new layer. And you do that by pressing this little dog-eared new layer button down here. It looks like a piece of paper with a folded over ear. And we're going to create a new layer. The first step, we're going to go ahead and create this top little triangle type hat thing. And for this one you basically want to use the pen tool. The pen tool is right here. You'll see here when I click on it there's a pen, there's a free pen, and then there's a curvature pen. In this case we're just going with the straight pen, but do keep in mind there are many types of tools that you can experiment with and use as you see fit. I have zoomed in a little bit so I can see what I'm working with a little better here. And now I'm going to draw ahead and start the drawing. Now before I do that, for this instance, because this does not have a fill, I want this to be empty and I just want it to be strokes on the outside, I'm going to go ahead and when I've got the pen selected, I'm going to click on fill type and I'm going to make sure that the X here is selected, which means no fill, and then the stroke. In this case we're going to make our logo black, but you can of course choose any color you want. And for this individual case I want to go with a stroke width of about 8.8 pixels. Again you guys can change that depending of course on your own logo. So we're on layer one. We're ready to go. Let's start. I'm going to left click here on one of the corners and I'm just going to go right corner to corner to corner. Very simple. Just like that. And when I do that, you'll notice that it closes. Also you will notice that it does seem to peek out a little further than you might like. And I'll show you how to change that in the last part of the movie or last part of this tutorial if that's something you want to do. So we create a new layer and layer one is now the top little hat thing. We're going to create a new layer and we're going to go ahead and we're going to create the bottom. So we're making sure you're selecting layer two. Making sure the pens tool selected. We're just going to go quickly do it again. One, two, three, four. Done. Okay do you see how easy this is? This is how we start creating a logo. I'm going to do it again and now I'm going to create the letters. I'm going to create the A so I'm going to go one dot. See how I'm doing this everybody? Beauty. Maybe that's a little wonky position. You can always command or control set to undo if you don't like the position and something like that. You see there we go. There's the A and done. Now I'm going to create a new layer, layer four. I'm going to create the inside of the A. See I still haven't changed the tool and this one has all sorts of wonkiness to it but that's okay. That gives a character. Okay good stuff. Now we're just going to keep going. See did you see how this works everybody? This is the trick to creating a free logo using photopea. That's it. Now I've just started creating a layer after layer after layer. Now I'm going to show you a new technique not to bore you here. Another thing you can do is you can use these path and direct select tools. Let's go with the direct select tool and you're going to see now like if I close if I click on layer one. Layer one is this here right. It's the top triangle. When I have the path or the direct select tool you can actually hover over it and you can now see that I can hover over the points. So if I don't like where that is positioned like let's say I wanted it to be right out here or in here somewhere because it's not quite where I liked it. You can go ahead and make that change. You can also double click on it and you'll see here when I double clicked on it it changed the end style. So instead of having that hard straight lines now I've got a nice softer tip here. So if I did something like that for example it's a little softer. Let's go ahead and click over here hover double click and it changes it. You see what's happening here and then I could just move this piece in and then not like that but something like that maybe and then if I click out and I zoom out you'll see here that it doesn't have the long sharp edges like it does at the bottom here. So these are the types of things that you can adjust as you see fit. Again yours is different than mine. What your logo looks like and what mine looks like are totally different things. While I have you here let's just go real quickly here and do the last step. Layer six real simple. I'm going to go back to the pen tool so it's right here and let's do the M. I'm going really quickly through this because I don't want to take too much time and everybody this is how you go ahead and create a logo for free using photopea using only free software. You now when you're done it for example you can always just go ahead and go oops you can click out and then you can go file and then of course you can save it or you can even export it as in this case make sure you export it as a PNG because this has background transparency you would just call so it'd be file export as PNG and presto. You see this is exactly what you would see just like I thought and if you don't want the bottom layer to show up you drop that off and then you try it again file export as PNG and you see the logo goes through. That's how you create a logo for free using photopea. Please ask me any questions if you have any concerns and if there's anything else you want to learn or see of course ask me it's big C. Check it out. Thanks for watching. Be back soon.