Creating the Pepsi Logo Effect in Photoshop CS5

Posted on by on March 22nd, 2011 | 13 Comments

Pepsi logo tutorial in Photoshop: Pepsi logo tutorial has been carried out using Adobe Photoshop CS5. Before you continue, make sure you have the 3D option available in the version of Photoshop that you are using. Also, you should be deeply familiar with the Pen Tool to follow accurately through Pepsi logo tutorial.

Final Result:

1. Open a new Documents  with Width 600, Height 340 and white color.

2. Create a new layer and Fill it with White (Shift+F5).

3.  Open a new layer. Use the Pen Tool to draw the path below:

4. Right-click the path you just created and choose Fill Path. Change Use to Color and enter #d82a39 as the color for the path.

5.  Delete the path you created in Step 3.

6.  Open a new layer. Again, use the Pen Tool to draw the path below:

7.  Repeat Step 4 but this time enter #002e5f as the color for the path.

8. Delete the path you created in Step 6.

9.  Select the three layers you have created so far, right-click the layers and select Merge Layers.

10. With the merged layer selected, go to 3D > New Shape from Layer > Sphere.

11. Use the rotate options to rotate the sphere until it appears just like the actual logo does.

12.  Open a new layer. Use the Pen Tool to draw the shape below:

13.  Fill this path with #e2a799.

14.  Change the Blending Mode of the current layer from Normal to Screen, and change the Fill to 60%.

 

15.  Go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur, change the radius to 10px and click OK.

16.  Repeat Steps 11-14 for another shape placed on the left of the shape you created in Step 11.

17. Repeat Steps 11-14 on the blue portion of the logo, but fill these shapes with #b7caea instead. Your image should look like this by now:

The logo is ready, but we are now going to add little water bubbles onto the sphere to give it a some cool effect.

18  Open a new layer. Set the Foreground color to 20% gray.

19.  Select t.he Brush Tool and make the following  changes for the Brush Tool Settings:

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13 Responses

  1. am!t bajaj
    Posted on: 4-27-2011

    ye ye , thx , gt a new thing

  2. Posted on: 4-28-2011

    Thanks for this Logo i was looking for this logo my teacher want to make me this thanks dear for showing good

  3. karafich
    Posted on: 7-13-2011

    i have a question, why when i change the merge layers to Sphere, the background is not white like yours. i’m stuck there. i shaped everything but that to change to white drove me nuts. please help.
    thank you.

  4. Posted on: 7-25-2011

    Your post have the information that is help full and very informative. I would like you to keep up the good work you know how to make your post understandable for most of the people.
    Thumbs up and Thanks.

  5. Posted on: 7-30-2011

    Informative tutorial. I like your effort. Thanks

  6. Saqib Qureshi
    Posted on: 12-7-2011

    Very Good Designing. Thanks I am Parities Photoshop…….

  7. Posted on: 3-28-2012

    This is really great and helpful tutorial. Thanks for sharing it with us.

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