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Design a Logo Instructions
 

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...
 

TASK  -  You have to design a logo for the above company using a drawing programme.

Here is a step by step guide on how to do it using Serif Draw Plus.
 

Three Stages:

1 : Draw a shape for a Background

1. Load up Serif Draw Plus.  (Start menu / all 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. Use the fill tool to fill the shape with colour
7. (Right hand button with fill tool to change fill and line colour)

2  : Put in the text
 

1. Click on the text tool
2. Click and drag for font size
3. Write the text that you want
4. Select the text with the pointer tool to then change the font or colour
5. Drag 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

Then Export just your logo as a GIF file...

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 your Yr9 ICT folder

You can now put your logo on to a variety of documents that you can design using Desk Top Publishing and Word Processing software...

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