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Hi guys, Ian here, and today, I'mma teach you how to do customized Survivor logos for your fanons!

First off, I'll show you my logos.



I've made logos for all of my seasons except Culture Clash (an online friend was gracious enough to make one for me, which inspired me to learn photoshop). Just a disclaimer, I'm no graphic artist, I'm just teaching you what I know and how I do my stuff.

To get started, you must have Adobe Photoshop. If you don't have enough funds to buy the original, here's a portable version which allows you to run the program with no installation needed; and it's free!

Now with that settled, download this empty logo template I made. If you want to change the background color of the logo, click the "fx" button to your lower right, select "color overlay" and choose your preferred color. If the photo has a transparent background and but you wish it to be in silhouette, use color overlay. If the background is NOT transparent and the picture is not in silhouette, you the magnetic lasso tool to crop out the desired photo before doing color overlay. Here are examples of images best used for logos:



Find silhouetted png images online. If the photo has any solid background color, you may want to use the magic wand tool, just adjust tolerance level to your preference. Best examples would be vector images, silhouettes of people, ancient buildings (Angkor Wat, Pyramids, temples), mountains, plants and tribal/floral patterns.

Now for the font, the "Survivor" and "outwit, outplay, outlast" bits have been done for you, just use color overlay to change their colors. Now, you may pick from several fonts used on the show (refer to this thread for such fonts), or just search online.

If you want your layers to have margins, click "fx" and choose stroke, then choose your preferred color. 