Plough Farm Topic

Plough Farm uses lots of different documents. Each document has a logo on it similar to the one that I have designed above.

Task- For this task you will make a logo for Plough Farm using a drawing programme.

A logo is a small graphic that a company uses on all of it's products and documents.

It may or maynot include text. I am sure that you could describe some well known ones...

Here is a step by step guide on how to make a logo using Serif Draw Plus.
 

Three Stages:

1 : Draw a shape for a Background

1. Load up Serif Draw Plus.  (Start menu / all programmes / core programmes)
2. Click on Create a Drawing
3. Double click on A4 paper size
4. Draw a Rectangle with the Quick box tool
5. Use the node tool to change the Rectangle
6. You can also change the colour of this shape

2  : Put in the text
 

1. Click on the text tool
2. Click where you want to type the text
3. Write the text that you want
4. You can chang the font type and the colour of the text
5. Use the "move" tool to move the text to where you want it
6. Use the "deform" tool to change the size of the writing that you have done
7. Now drag the text on to the background shape

3  : Put in a small picture
 

1. Load Publisher and add an appropriate bit of clip art
2. Copy and paste that clip art on to your logo in Serif Draw
3. Drag all the pieces together to arrange your logo
4. You might want to just draw a shape in Serif Draw to put on to the background

Then you have to save only the logo you have made as a GIF file...
This will allow you to put just the logo on to different documents
 

To do this:
 

• Use the pointer tool to select all the parts of your logo
• Select “group” from the arrange menu
• Click on File and then “export”
• Tick the transparency box
• Make sure that GIF is selected in the Format window
• Click Export
• Give your file a name
• Save it in "My Documents" in a your year 8 ict folder

You are now ready to put your logo on to different documents.

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