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Alright, this is our last logo lesson, where I've chosen a company called Java Barn and I've created a very simple but interesting logo with one color. I've used a vector shape for the arrow, text for Java Barn, and then an odd kind of splat shape for a drop of coffee that got spilled. Ok, so this is combining a couple of different techniques, simple as they may be, but also then using text in the body of the logo which is of the same color, but using the stroke around the text to get our separation, ok. Sometimes you'll do things like that and they come across looking pretty good. Let's create our new image. Let's fill that with white. And now let's create our Java Barn. Going to go down to Preset Shape. Now I tend to look through the presets first as opposed to immediately going to rectangle, ellipse, or symmetric shape. Symmetric shapes you get the things like stars, pentagons, you can change the number of sides. Create an octagon. Twelve sides is dodecahedron. But since I don't want any of those, I'm going to go back to preset shape and choose what looks like a barn. Now here's where you have to think outside the box. These arrows don't look like barns, and they're pointing the wrong direction. But hey, let's try one. Let's choose arrow 6. Going to create it. Now you'll notice again, sometimes depending on your background properties and your foreground stroke properties, you can actually mistakenly create different parts to your logo and have to go back and change it later. In this case, I'm going to select Object Properties and turn off the stroke, ok. Now as I'm thinking outside the box, I'm going to turn this arrow and point it straight up so that it looks like a roof. Now, I'm holding the Shift key down so that when I'm changing the rotation, it's happening in discreet increments. So every 6 little bumps there is 90 degrees. If you don't hold the Shift key down, basically it's a free rotate. So let's orientate that so that it looks like a barn. Also going to hopefully be able to, whoops sometimes it's easy to grab the background. Let's widen it out a little bit, and maybe squatten it some. Pull it up a little bit higher in the image and now let's create the splat. Same color, same no stroke, only we're choosing a different preset shape. Ink blot. And, in this case, most of the time I hold Shift key down to get a nice symmetric shape. I think what I'm going to do is not hold the Shift key down and create a perspective looking splat, like that. Now for our text. I'm going to select the Text tool. Go to something simple like Arial. Click outside of that vector object otherwise if you click here, the text is going to wrap inside of that shape or on top of it, but I want it outside. So now I'm going to type Java Barn. Going to select that, and make sure it's center aligned, and actually turn on the stroke and apply. Now let's drag it into the barn, see what that looks like. Going to make it a little bigger, and actually do something different than my original interpretation, so that the text actually extends within and without the actual barn. Now again, because these are vector shapes, I can always go back and change things. If I want a thicker stroke around that text I select the text, and I can do Object, Properties, change my stroke width, and that makes it stand out a little bit better. Or I can even go back to my Text tool, change the text, leading, kerning, tracking, and so forth. Now to center align all of these elements, you would select them all, or one at a time, and now choose Objects, Align, you can choose Centering Canvas and then select them individually and bring them up or down, or Horizontal-ing Canvas, which will just push them to the middle of the canvas and now I can reselect, let's say the ink blot, and bring it up a little if I want to, or lower it. But I think I'm about done with this. Using all of these techniques that you've seen on all of the lessons, you should be able to create a number of different compelling logos, far better than the ones I've shown you here, using Paint Shop Pro.