Description
Want to make a logo? You can learn design and try your hand at creating a logo yourself. You can hire a graphic designer to make a logo for you. Or you can try to find templates online to purchase.
Another alternative is using a logo generator platform and sees hundreds of logo variations with your company name in a few seconds.
Get 15% off Placeit today and test out the logo maker here: (affiliate link) https://bit.ly/placeithowfinity
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In today's video, I want to show you how to use Placeit and create the perfect logo for your business, side hustle, or YouTube channel and Instagram profile.
Placeit is a platform by Envato. It has many features beyond the logo maker such as product mockups, video creation tools, and design templates. But for this video, we will focus on the logo maker.
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How to make a logo without any design skills
Hey everyone. In today's video, I want to show you how to create a logo for yourself, for your business, even for your YouTube channel. And it's a really simple process that really blew me away from the way the first time I tried it out. Previously in the past, there were a few different ways I got logos made for different companies or my clients.
I would hire designers, but typically I had to spend up to $500 to get a nice logo. And there were limited. They would give me three or four to choose from and narrowed down to one. Or I use platforms where you could get a template and edit those in other software on your computer or design it from scratch.
But I don't have the design skills. So when I came across this option, it really intrigued me because he gave me so many different options of a logo. So I didn't even have one to really think what my logo was gonna look like before. I just typed in my business name. And he spit out a bunch of different logos, and then I narrowed it down from that.
So I wanted to make this video to show you exactly how I did that. And you could do this for yourself and create a logo for whatever you need it for. And I have an affiliate link from them in the description below this video. It's called Placeit, and it's from a company called Envato, which I've been using for over 10 years for creating everything you could think of from website templates to creating video animations, stock music.
So I've been a fan of Envato for a long time and Placeit comes from them. So let's jump on the computer here. I want to show you exactly how to create a logo from scratch for yourself, for a client, or for any business. Again, if you click the link below this video in the description box, it's going to bring you to Placeit here.
And as you could see, there is a lot here that you could do from mockups to design logo, video, game gaming, and under each one, there's a bunch of different things like a t-shirt design. You could do mockups and see what your product looks like, but let's go to the logos tab right here. This is what we're going to focus on in this video.
And assuming you already have a name for your company, for your business, for your clients, you would just type that in here. In my case, this is called Howfinity. So I would type that out. You could also see all templates if you don't have a name yet, and just want to get some ideas, but let me go ahead and press next and see what happens.
Next I will pick an industry and different industries are going to have a different style of design. So this is kind of important to do this first, but you could always change this. I'll show you that too, but let me go ahead and choose education to start and see what we get. So I'm going to press the let's go.
And in just a few seconds it's going to create all these different types of logos for me. But what I really like to do before I even browse these change a couple of settings up here. One is your color palette. So you have two different colors and it uses those to create these designs. If you already have one in mind, you could go ahead and change that here or leave it as is.
In my case, the blue and red are actually the ones I use in my logo too. But if I wanted to make, for example, white and black, I could just go ahead and choose these just to get some variety to that. Then you have choose a graphic. So I could select this and choose from all these different graphics or search graphics here.
So I'm going to actually do that. Because I know one thing about the logo that I want. I want the infinity symbol in my logo, so I just searched for that. And then I have some options here. So if I had a gaming channel, actually, this is really cool, but let me go ahead and choose this one. I like this one.
And as you could see right there, it's going to update all these different logos for you. Now don't worry if the text is not correct, for example, I'm not an art school, but this is all going to be editable once I narrow everything down. So now I could actually browse through and think of how my logo will look.
So it could be Howfinity, social media and technology videos, or whatever I want to put on underneath that. I could edit that on the next page. Let me go ahead and change this. When I was actually testing this out, I really like consulting for some of the examples that he gave me. So you could basically change the category any time to see what other sets you are going to get out of that.
And it actually changed those colors for me, but it kept the design. So as you could see. This to me, looks a lot better, different fonts, different layout. And as you could see, if I keep going, there's a bunch of them and underneath a whole bunch of different pages, I could look through. Really, really interesting.
I really liked this one, but instead of consulting, I'm going to type how-to videos. So Howfinity, how-to videos. The logo, let me try a different color. So I'm going to go ahead and change that. Let me just see what a red one is going to look like. So it's going to refresh all these logos for me with red instead of green.
So you can play around with these colors on this page. And actually, I did like green. I'll just go to a lighter green instead of here. Okay, let me go ahead and click this to show you what happens on the next page. Now, this is where you would do your final edits. So if you want to change the name of the company or business or your name here, you could go ahead and do that here.
You could change the font and the color. You could do the same thing with the text underneath it. So in this case, how-to videos, I'll go ahead and change it. Now it's asking me to make an account here. So I'm going to go ahead and do that. So I could continue with my editing and I actually used my Envato login since I already have that on my Envato marketplace account.
So now I could play around with color some more if I wanted to do that. So on the left side is the color of the font. And then on the right side is the graphic, I could still change out the graphic with different graphics if I wanted to do that as well. So I don't have to really worry about making everything right on the first page.
Now you could go ahead and favorite this for later and continue browsing, or you could go save it as a draft. Or download it. There's also this option to change the color of the background, but I usually like the white color here or the transparent one is very useful. If you want to put your logo on a website, for example.
So typically white or transparent is where I would start with the background and I'm going to press download. Now, let me just show you exactly how the pricing works. And this is why I really love about this. For this monthly price here, you basically get unlimited access to everything, not just this logo, but everything this website has to offer.
So I'm going to get this logo and I can make a bunch of other logos or create videos. And I'll go ahead and make other videos about how to use all of these in the future. So this is the one I would typically go with on a monthly basis, but you could just get a one-time logo, which is again, a lot cheaper than hiring someone to create this logo or spending a lot of time trying to create it yourself.
But if you didn't like what you see, it doesn't cost you anything. So, this is only if you really got the perfect logo and you want it to do it, and it's good for commercial use or whatever you want. And it's in a very, very high resolution. So you can make many, many sizes from this 4,000 pixel logo. Now, if you want to see more videos like this, I'm going to create more videos on this platform to show you all the different things you could do from design to creating videos from scratch in upcoming videos.
So if you want to see those, make sure you subscribe and click the bell icon for notifications. Thank you so much for watching this video and I'll catch you next time.