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Adobe Illustrator works hand in hand with Photoshop and I use those two applications all the time to create amazing effects. Now, what we're going to do here is we're going to create a very quick logo and we're going to break that logo down into a graphic and then bring it into Photoshop to add some special effects. Let's go ahead, first of all, by taking our trusty layers palette and I'm going to snap that guy right off and put him right there and what I'm going to do is move it over a little bit and I'm going to go to my type tool. I'm going to create the word shark, but I'm going to leave the A out on purpose because we're going to draw a fin which will represent the A. So I'm going to type the word shark. Once again, I'm going to leave the A out and I'm going to put my cursor right where the A would go and make some room like so by hitting the space bar. Now I'm going to grab the selection tool and I'm going to expand this so I can see the entire word, like so, and I'm going to also change the type to something a little thicker, such as Arial Black, alright, because sharks are very powerful, so we don't really want a little wimpy font for this particular exercise. I'm going to double click once again so I can get to my type tool and I'm going to get rid of some of this space by hitting the delete key. I went a little too far. Now that we have the word shark, or rather sh_rk, I'm going to go to the type menu and choose to create outlines. This will of course break my text into a graphic. Now I'm going to double click where it says layer 1 and name this, and I'm going to create a new layer after I lock this layer down and I'm going to draw the fin on this one. So I'll double click on that guy, name this fin, and I'm going to grab my pen tool and I'm going to draw out a fin. Once again, in Illustrator, as I always try to tell everybody, you don't have to draw everything right where it goes. You can draw it somewhere else. So I'm going to start with the top of the fin and I'm going to click and drag to create the bulging part of the fin. I'm going to click on this point here and I'm going to come over here and click and drag up a little bit, and I'm going to click on the same point that I just finished drawing and I'm going to click on the very first point and I'm going to drag in like so to create a fin shape, alright? Now I'm going to move this guy up into position, like so, and I'm going to give this guy a color. So I'm going to deselect, press X on my keyboard so I can go to my fill, click on the fin itself, and click once on the swatch and give it a color. So we'll give it a bluish color and we'll do the same thing with the word shark, but of course I have it locked, so I'm going to click on the word shark and I'm going to once again give that guy a color as well, maybe a different color just to change the emphasis there. Now we have the word shark, alright? Now let's go ahead and make this guy ready for Photoshop. I'm going to save this document to my desktop first, just in case it crashes on me, which it doesn't do often, but hey, this is a computer. So I'll just type sharklogo and I'll accept the defaults. Now what we're going to do is we're going to send this guy over to Photoshop by exporting, so we're going to go to file and we're going to choose export, and then from the format list what we're going to do is choose something that Photoshop recognizes, which of course is the .psd file format, which stands for Photoshop document. It says sharklogo.psd automatically for me. I'll click export and we'll wait for a moment for the dialog box to appear and I'm going to say okay to everything, yes, do what you have to do my friend, go, but make sure you have right layers because we want to bring both layers over to Photoshop. So I'll hit okay, we'll wait for it to be crunched into another format. It won't take too long because this is not a very complicated piece of artwork. The image has been written and we're going to jump over to Photoshop and now we're going to go to file, open, and this should be on my desktop. I'm going to go to my desktop here and choose the sharklogo.psd. I'll click open and now the logo is here. Let me go ahead and expand this a little bit and you see we have our layers. How cool is that? So what I'm going to do is on my fin layer I'm going to show you something very cool. What I'm going to do is I'm going to add a drop shadow, so I'll go ahead in my mode here where I can grab my layer styles, and I'm going to move this over, move this over like so, manually. I have added my shadow. I can add an inner glow if I want to, an outer glow. I'll change the size of that and I'll increase the size of that and I'm going to go to my outer glow and once again increase the size of the outer glow, go back to my drop shadow and reduce the size of that a little bit, and now I'm going to accept this and, as you can see, by just creating this logo in Illustrator, I was able to bring this into Photoshop to add my special effects, so these applications work hand in hand with one another and you can start off basic with your vector shapes in Illustrator with the full knowledge that you can bring it into Photoshop and add your 3D effects to it, your shading, your blurs, and anything else.