Ever wanted to create your own logo? For your calling card, invitation,stickers or even a logo for your blog? Well, you’ve come to the right place. In this article, I’m going to show you how to make a “Letter Portrait” using Adobe Photoshop.

As you can see, here are the final outputs:

Ready? Let’s begin!

First, let us choose our base photo the one we’re going to use and open it on Photoshop.

Afterwards, unlock the photo in the layers panel by simply dragging the lock icon to the delete layer icon (the one that looks like a trashcan).

Now using the pen tool or quick selection tool, make aselection of the model. Make sure that you’ll cut it out properly. When the selection is done, click on the layer mask icon and we’ll see that the  background is gone.

Now we’re going to add a white background. So let’s create a new layer under our base photo by pressing Ctrl + create new layer. Click on your new layer then paint it white using the “paint bucket” tool in the tools selection.

Temporarily, let us hide our base picture by clicking on the eye of it’s layer. Let us now click our white layer and type the letter of your choice using the type tool. For this tutorial, we’re going to use “Georgia”font. Type your letter and make it bigger by pressing Ctrl + T then press yourshift key while dragging the corners. We must make sure that it’s centered so we’re gonna press Ctrl + A then select your move tool (the one at the top of thetools icon), afterwards select the “Align vertical centers” and “Align horizontal centers” on the options found on the top bar. When your done, remove the selection by pressing Ctrl + D.

We can now turn our Layer 0 active by pressing the eye of it’s layer. I’m going to click Ctrl + T, right click and choose flip horizontal because I want the model to lean on the other side. Afterwards put it on the side of the letter where it suits the best and also change the size of the picture, it’s up to you. You can keep experimenting then go confirm it when you’redone.

As we can see, the black font doesn’t look that great due toher black dress so we’re going to change it’s color. As for me, I’ll choose light blue to match it with the photoshop logo.

What we need to do is remove the area that is exactly outside of your letter. To do that, we need to make a selection of your letter so hold your Ctrl key and click on the thumbnail of your letter. Now we have a selection of your letter but the things we want to remove are outside the selection that’s why we’re going to go to select and then inverse. Now that the outside area is selected, we can now remove the things we want to remove. Activate your layer mask and get yourself a brush tool but make sure that the color of your brush is black. Now brush on the areas you want to remove. If you’re done,  you can now get rid of the selection by pressing Ctrl + D.

Here’s the other style of a letter portrait!

Just like the last time, open your base photo in photoshop then unlock your image. This time, let’s flip it in the beginning so press Ctrl+ T, right click and choose flip horizontal so that she’ll lean on the otherside then confirm. Afterwards, hide the layer by clicking the eye icon beside it.

Let us create a new layer by clicking the create a new layer icon and paint it white.

If the white background is ready, let us now type our letter. Select the type tool then type the letter of your choice. Make sure that it’s in the center by pressing Ctrl + A then select your move tool then choose “Align vertical centers” and “Align horizontal centers” on the options found on the top bar. When your done, press Ctrl + D to remove the selection.

Now let’s add the photo. Select your Layer 0 and put it on top of your letter and turn on the eye so we can see it. Obviously, we need to resize the photo before creating a clipping mask so that we’ll have an idea of what we’re going to do. In order to do that, first let us reduce the opacity to 50% so we can see the A in the background. Then resize it until you’resatisfied with the look. When you’re done, confirm it and make the opacity full again.

Let us now turn your layer into a clipping mask by right
clicking on your Layer 0 and choose clipping mask.

After, create a copy of Layer 0 by clicking on it then press Ctrl + J. Reduce the opacity of your new layer so to see what you have to remove and what remains. I’ll use the pen tool to make a selection of what remains. When you already have your selection, click the layer mask icon andvoila! you’ve got yourself a logo! CONGRATULATIONS! ^_^