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Retro Surf Logo Design

 

Use a series of selections, gradients and colors to create this surf-inspired design with a retro theme.

Corey Barker

Corey Barker is Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and is an Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. Corey has also made numerous appearances on the highly rated podcast, PhotoshopUser TV, and is co-host of Layers TV.

25 Comments

  1. Dave Walter said on — September 4, 2009 @ 4:10 pm

    Most excellent. Surfs up Dude

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  3. LeDriver said on — September 4, 2009 @ 9:21 pm

    Cool :o )

  4. Chirag said on — September 5, 2009 @ 12:35 pm

    I love the color choice! Another great tutorial! Thank you so much!

  5. Jacques said on — September 5, 2009 @ 3:42 pm

    Hi Corey,

    Can you, or someone else, please tell me why I can’t see the video for these tutorials?

    I cannot even see where the video is supposed to be, there is no placeholder or link to it, only the one sentence describing it.

    I would really appreciate it.

    Thank you
    Jacques

    P.S. I use Firefox v2

  6. LeDriver said on — September 5, 2009 @ 7:52 pm

    Jacques, right click on the screen of the video that tell you about jw-fly player

    http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/

    Me i use Google Chrome.

  7. Bob Murray said on — September 5, 2009 @ 11:40 pm

    Jacques, update your Firefox, they are past version 3.5 now.

    Corey, nice tidy tutorial, thanks. Please continue to use such riveting subjects in your images. Nice touch.

  8. Robert Jewett said on — September 6, 2009 @ 10:44 am

    These tutorials are great, but very slow to load (if they load at all). I am using FF3.5, and it does not load. I have tried Google Chrome and the latest version of IE on multiple computers on two different networks. Still, no luck.

    I just thought you should be aware.

  9. Tommy Lynch said on — September 8, 2009 @ 10:13 am

    Great tutorial…..love it

  10. Dawn @ My Home Sweet Home said on — September 8, 2009 @ 10:16 am

    You are always so creative!

  11. Darla said on — September 8, 2009 @ 12:18 pm

    I’m a relative newbie to PS and love learning all I can about it. Thank you for sharing your great tutorial!

  12. Tania said on — September 9, 2009 @ 5:52 pm

    I really like this one. really cool. =]

  13. custom logo design said on — September 10, 2009 @ 5:07 am

    great and creative tutorial

  14. jean-Pierre Prieur said on — September 17, 2009 @ 3:11 pm

    I LOVE THIS SURFING RETRO POSTER… THANKS

  15. The Other Graphics said on — September 18, 2009 @ 7:32 am

    Really cool effects Cory , I watch you guys all the time and as always Great Tutorial.
    Thank You For the Great Ideas.

  16. Hayden said on — September 26, 2009 @ 1:32 am

    I bet you saw a Pablo Cruise shirt…thats what the logo looks like hahahaha :)

  17. Matt said on — September 30, 2009 @ 2:05 am

    Great tutorial, it looks awesomeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
    thankss

  18. David said on — October 12, 2009 @ 11:33 am

    Your work is great and inspirational thanx for the videos

  19. Quinn K. said on — December 7, 2009 @ 3:45 pm

    Very nice! Like the flow….what font did you use to create the text?

  20. McKenna said on — December 17, 2009 @ 5:01 pm

    Awesome! I’m just learning Photoshop and this was the best tutorial I’ve done so far. My logo is so sweet, althought I kinda like it with all the layers on too! THANK YOU!

  21. oliver1991 said on — January 26, 2010 @ 3:10 pm

    hi all

    could someone please tell me what font that was?

    thanks :)

  22. Jim M. said on — May 31, 2010 @ 2:29 pm

    Really decent post… I love it. Keep ‘em coming… :)

  23. Radziwill said on — August 3, 2010 @ 3:22 pm

    Good stuff. I like yours work.

  24. Creative Logo Designers said on — February 17, 2011 @ 4:39 am

    We are LogoProDesign as a Creative Logo Designer, We checked your artwork collections. Those are amazed us. Thanks for that type of good work collections. We regularly checked your website for good artwork example.
    Thanks
    David Thomas

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