Week 2: Photoshop Logos

Craft
I reproduced the old Photoshop logo by using the pen for the background to create layers of shapes and colors with varying opacities. This formed the faint background for the entire composition. The middleground consisted of the face and eye which I used a gradient mesh for. The face was a single gradient mesh and the eye ball was another separate gradient mesh. The pupil was an elipse with a gaussian blur effect. The foreground was the rim of a camera lens which I just used the pen for to make a generic ring.
Concept
This logo is designed to tell the user what the product is. It is a visual photo editing software.
Composition
The camera lens acts as a frame and the eye is the main focal point but shares the center with the background. This is to give the impression of a photograph.

Craft
For the current photoshop logo, it is a simple square with a color gradient offset and on top of a second solid color square. A quadrilateral shape with a gradient makes the left side. The letters are formed with the pen and have a solid color like the square in the background.
Concept
By this time, photoshop is well known so a descriptive logo is unnecessary and it has become much more integrated with other Adobe design software. They all share the same simple logo with different color schemes for easy recognision.
Composition
The logo puts the text in the central focus. The blue color scheme is recognized as photoshop's color scheme. The logo shape is planar to maintain a simple aesthetic.

Craft
For the future photoshop logo, I started with a rounded square with a gradient. It also has an blue inner glow effect set to overlay transparency. A second rounded square is right on top with an black inner glow set to soft light transparency. The starburst is an array of black and white lines with an soft light opacity mask. The letters are formed with the pen and have a drop shadow within them with an opacity mask. The elispe behind the letters has a gaussian blur. The elipse on top of everything on the bottom half is white with transparency.
Concept
I wanted to maintain the simple logo theme but updated almost app-like 3D design.
Composition
The composition is designed to not look flat but 3D and sleek. The inner glow effects and sunken lttering achieve this to make it look 3D.