Glowing Windows Logo Effect in Field | Photoshop Tutorial

In the following tutorial you will use Free Transform, Filter and Layer styles in Photoshop CS5 to create “Windows logo effect in green field”. You can use these techniques to create your own Photoshop Effect & Style after read this Tutorial.

Finale Result

Here is a finale preview of what we are going to create with Photoshop. (Click on the image to see a large version of the result).

 

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 Let's get started!

Step 1: Open a new document
First of all open a new document (CTRL+N) of 900X675 px, 72 Pixels/Inch. And open the background image. Here i used the following image below, you can download it or use a same kind of image.

Step 2: Create Windows Logo shape using Pen Tool
Create a new Layer (CTRL+SHIFT+N).  Staying new layer, create a custom shape like windows logo using Pen Tool and fill with #ffff00 what we’ll be used in the next step. Or download the Windows logo shape from here.

Step 3: Free Transform the Shape
Now we are going to transform the Shape. To transform go to (“Edit>Free Transform” or “CTRL+T”) and then apply Skew, Perspective or Distort to create something like what I have below.

Step 4: Change Blending mode and Opacity
Stay in the Transformed Windows Logo Shape Layer and change the Blending mode to Overlay and decrease its Opacity about 40%.

Step 5: Add Gaussian blur
Now we are going to add little Blur to the Windows Logo. Go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian blur and choose Radius about 1.5px.

 Finished!
There we have it, Windows Logo in field effect using nothing but Photoshop. Here’s the Finale result: