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Creating A Logo For An MRSA Website

I recently had to create a logo for a website about MRSA symptoms. I had two initial ideas about what style the design should be:

* based on an image of the MRSA bacteria
* a vector not associated with MRSA at all

Reducing Opacity To Create New Colours

We’re going to create a design with a dark and moody feel now. Create a new document 500 pixels by 500 pixels with a black background. To prepare the colours we are going to use, draw a red (#FF0000) square on top of a black square and reduce the opacity of the top red square. [...]

An Elliptical Logo

Create a new document that is 500 pixels by 500 pixels and has a white background. Draw an ellipse with a width of 200 pixels and a height of 120 pixels. Give it an ellipse gradient with a ‘white black’ preset fill. Position the gradient like this:

Copy and paste the ellipse and scale it down [...]