Creating logos can be a lot of fun. I suggest downloading gimp(it's free) and making a logo there. They have many tuturials on youtube on how to create stuff. I made a few you might like.

If I were in your position, I would go to the site http://fiverr.com where there are countless people begging to create logos for you for $5. It is so cheap that you you can hire 20 people to do logos for you for the cost that a college student would typically charge for a logo, and then just pick the best one. Simply type "logo" in the search box.

Back when I began my ventures on computers in 98 on AOL, I was one of the many mesmerized by the world of AOL "proggies". I began to code my own with VB and I remember one of the things I loved to focus on personally, was the whole intro art. I saw a few, I can't remember the names now, but their amazing fire effects with their lightening bolts blew my mind away. Thus began my journey of design.

Well, I think Logo is something shows your philosophy and type of business. I am not expert in marketing but like your question.
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I gave it a shot. Tell me what you think.

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I would try a simple text generator -

http://cooltext.com/
http://www.textspace.net/

Just play around a little - with a little bit of luck you will have a great logo and its really effortless.

Here are some of my suggestions for your logo making:

1. http://www.logomaker.com Click on design it for free for free logo making

2. http://www.logoease.com

3. http://www.logoyes.com/logocreator.php

4. http://www.thelogocreator.com

5. http://www.grsites.com/logo

I hope those links helps

you can make cool logo with photoshop

I think you already nailed it my friend. I visited your site and it looks good. Are you looking for a specific picture inside the font? I can easily remedy that.

Well, I think logo creation is not simple enough ......it's the first point of interaction and gets into minds of customers.
So must keep in mind, your logo is ; easy to recall and easy to pronounce. It cab be translated in every language and have simple and short words.
I am not a designer but have deep insights on brand management. So first you need to develop a plan, then after you can easily to contact to any site like; logomaker, ilogo, easylogo or any professional logo designer then develop it for you according to the guidelines you provide.
iblogzone is not good enough your logo as I mentioned above creates uniqueness and tells the massage you want to spread.
So think on it, select two -three words logo that best represent your blog, topic and related info. then develop alternatives and select the best possible one, also try to use graphics that match your blog template. Logo must be fit into the color scheme on your bog.
besides logo, I recommend you to further create a tag line (slogan) that clearly positions your blog into the minds of users.
thanks

Get help from experts who do logo designs in affordable cost orelse get it one in freelancing sites.

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This is smart that you have asked this especially for a blog logo. There are 3 big parts to a logo on the blog
1) what it looks like is really important other words why would you want to even ask this question. Basically the best way to start is come up with some basic ideas that fit your blog maybe sketch a couple up on paper or in photoshop. Once you have an idea you need to get feedback from people you know who have artistic skills or go find some one who you would value their opinion and know what they are talking about. like mention earlier you can also use http://fiverr.com and get the same thing done it will just cost you 5 bucks.

2) You need to make sure you logo fits your blog. You have already made sure it looks good and fits the blogs style but you need to make sure it is compatible with your blog and you can place it where you want. You will also want different file types and sizes of the same logo. This makes it so you can post your logo wherever you want not only on your blog but whenever you post it or embed it on other sites you will be able to.

3) This really doesn't have to do with the creation anymore but once you have it created put it on google images and such so you get more traffic to your blog through your logo. I mean after all that work you have an amazing logo and you should be proud but you should also get a little extra traffic along with it right.

That is how i would go about creating a logo if you don't have any connections of artistic skills i would recommend finding a graphic artists or an internet engineer to help you. This is a crucial step on getting your blog out there especially if you want it to go big so take the time and don't be afraid to spend a little money. Also the other comments are great for do it yourself creating a logo but i would keep in mind all of the things I have listed if you choose to create your own from scratch

You can find a bunch of inexpensive ready-made logo designs at the following sites, most can be customized.

Here are some to try -
Logo Search - http://www.logo-search.com
LogoMaid - http://www.logomaid.com
Web Design Elements - http://www.webdesign-elements.com

Hey why you don't use logomaker (site in sources). I have made a brilliant logo for my site. When you are done making that logo then it will ask you to buy it permanently but you just click the FREE WEB LOGO button and it will give you a code in which there would be a link to your logo's picture. Just copy that and paste it in your computer. You could use this anywhere............No need to worry...........!!!IIf you still need help then you could ask me...............!!!!!

LogoEase is online tool for 100% make your own logo designs in few minutes. You can save logo in various formats include eps, png, jpg and tiff. There are 100s images to manipulate and add fantastic fonts as well, you can make variation on design, layout, font and color of logo.

1. Take your photo.
2. Open it in MS Paint (Start-> All Programs -> Accessories-> Paint)
3. Select "Resize" from Image menu.
4. Set horizantal and vertical boxes 16 pixels from the opened window.
5. Save it.
6. Open http://www.coolutils.com/Online/Image-Converter/
7. Convert your image to .ICO file.
8. That's it.

Many ideas here. I'd try the following approach first. It's not sure that it could work for you, but if it does, it could be the fastest route. It has worked for me on occasion.

Look for the file extension of your favorite vector graphic design software. E.g. .ai for Adobe Illustrator or .cdr for CorelDRAW. Search "logo filetype:cdr" or "free logo filetype:cdr". When using this string, you find for example www.sharealogo.com.

Also on www.adobe.com, the distributor of Illustrator a.o, you find a market place with logo resources. Go to community - exchange/market place - illustrator then search on logo.

Hope this helps.

use the Photoshop to make one and upload to your website accordingly!

How to Create a Logo for Your Website the Quick and Easy Way
Logo Making for the Graphically Challenged

How to Create a Logo for Your Site the Quick and Easy Way
by Christopher Heng, thesitewizard.com

One of the common tasks when starting a new website, be it a blog or an ordinary site, is to create a logo for the site. Depending on your artistic talents, creating logos might be something you can do in your sleep or it may be something that gives you insomnia. If you are one of those who finds it difficult to design and draw pictures, this article is for you. It deals with how you can create a logo, or even a banner, for your site the quick and dirty way, almost reducing it to a science so that talentless people like us can't fail (too much). Your logo won't win any awards, but at least you will have something that you can place on your website.

WARNING: This article is hazardous to the mental well-being of graphic artists and anyone with a creative streak. The atrocities that pass for art here may cause anguish, horror, high blood pressure and cramps (too much cringing). Do not proceed any further if you have even a modicum of artistic talent.

Ways to Get a Logo for Your Website
Before beginning, you should know that there are alternative ways to get a logo for your site.

1.If you run a business and already have a logo for your company, such as that found on your company's letterhead, simply scan the logo to use for your site.

2.If you run a business but don't have a logo, you really should hire a professional logo design company (eg, like this) to create it for you. Following this article may ruin your reputation.

(Explanation: While the steps to creating a logo for your website mentioned below can be applied by anyone, if you really feel that you are a dummy at making logos, and have a reputation to maintain, it's best to get professional help. On the other hand, you may surprise yourself. We sometimes cripple ourselves by our own lack of confidence.)

Tools You Will Need
1.Painting Program
You will basically need some sort of drawing program. There are many free ones available from the Free Drawing and Painting Software, Image and Photo Editing Programs page at thefreecountry.com. I personally use a commercial tool: the expensive but well-regarded Photoshop. (Actually, I use the extended version, hoping that its additional features will compensate for my artistic deficiencies.)

2.Fonts
You will probably also need to have a selection of different fonts (typefaces) on your system to use for your logo. Most people find the default selection that comes with their system somewhat limiting. You can get some free ones from the Free Fonts for Webmasters and Designers page.

The Science of Creating a Logo for Your Site
1.Overview
Now that we've established that we are not going to create a work that rivals Van Gogh, let me reduce the logo we are about to create to its component parts:

1.a picture or symbol of some sort;

2.the name of the site or company and an optional short and snappy slogan.

Put together, these components make logos that may look like (but are not restricted to looking like) these:

Type 1: Photo with words superimposed

(Believe it or not - the background is a photo of a piece of varnished wood. Okay, so I'm a lousy photographer too.)

Type 2: Picture in the centre or side, with the site name spanning it or to one side

Type 3: Picture that forms the background to part or all of the site name

Type 4: For the absolutely hopeless: pure text

There is no fixed size that your logo needs to be. It depends entirely up to you and your site design. You might want to have a mental picture of your web page as being something that can fit into a 1024x768 resolution monitor. If you want your site to fit into smaller screens, like 800x600 screens, which are now lesser used, then the width of your logo must shrink accordingly.

My site logos tend to be around 200 pixels (give or take) wide and 50 to 100 odd pixels high. But that is merely a choice I made, because I wanted to put it in the corner of the web page. The other examples pictured above tend to have the width seen on many blogs and company websites. Don't be a slave to what others do though; your logo can be whatever size you want it to be.

2.Steps to Designing Your Website's Logo
You will need your painting software for the following steps.

i.Create the picture
You can get a graphic for your logo in one of two ways:

1.Using a Photo
If you are really feeling too lazy to draw a picture, get a digital camera and take photos of things around you. Take a walk in the park, or the city, or even your living room, and snap photos of objects that you can use. Obviously don't take photos of branded objects or things that might be the logos, trademarks or property of others, but there are many other things that don't fall into that category. Don't be too narrow in what you look out for — remember: your photos do not necessarily have to be directly related to your site name or product. The logo of one programmer's blog has a scenic photo of a well-known bridge in the backdrop of the name of his site.

Photos can be the basis of not just the "Type 1" logo (entire photo with words superimposed) above. You can shrink or crop your photo and move it to one side of the logo with your site name beside it.

2.Drawing Your Own Picture
The adventurous among you can draw a picture instead of use a photo. Here are some tips before you start:

■Draw your picture separately and save it in its own file. We will integrate it later with your words to make your final logo.

■A splash of colours, however improperly applied, can still look good in the final product. Especially when it's either sandwiched between your words, or to the side of your words. Your visitors will probably see it as some abstract, symbolic expression of your thoughts and not your clumsy attempt to control the mouse.

■If you can make it look cartoonish enough, people will attribute your bad drawing to a deliberate attempt to make things look like a cartoon or a symbolic representation. They won't realize that you were really trying to make it look like a real person (or object).

In other words, if you are not really a good artist, try to make your clumsy drawing look like a cartoon or a symbolic drawing. The more you try to make it realistic looking, the worse it will look. Exaggerate some aspect of what you are drawing, make it look like a caricature and everyone will think you're an artist. (Okay, not everyone.)

■Use your painting software's built-in shapes tool to create shapes for your picture, and fill them with colours. This is an easy way to create logos of the type labelled "Type 3" above. With some software, like Photoshop, you can also create gradient fills where the colour fades out or darkens from one part of the shape to the other.

■If you are drawing a complicated picture, with many elements, use your software's built-in capability to let you draw things in layers. Layers, in Photoshop and other such painting software, are basically a way to separate different elements of your drawing into blocks that can be separately moved around, modified or deleted. This way, when you make a very bad mistake, you can simply delete that particular layer (or element of your drawing) and not have to redraw everything from scratch. Support for layers can be found in the Photoshop's "Layer" menu.

■Don't be too anxious and think that you're clumsy if you can't seem to make the mouse draw in a controlled fashion the way you can on paper. When you draw with a pencil, you are using the muscles designed for fine motor control in your hand. When you draw with a mouse, you are using your wrist, which is not able to produce the same kind of precise movements that your fingers can. If you are determined to draw lines or shapes in a precise way, you may want to get one of those graphic tablets with a stylus that attaches itself to your computer. But you generally don't need to do that if you are just creating the occasional logo (unless, of course, you are so inspired by this article that you decide to go into logo designing as your life's vocation).

Once you're done, save your picture in a file of its own.

ii.Creating the Final Product: Adding Your Site's Name and Optional Slogan
1.Create a new canvas or picture.

2.Load the image you created earlier in another window. Use "Edit" and "Copy" from your menu to copy the picture to the clipboard. Close the image you created earlier, and switch back to the empty canvas you created.

3.Create a new layer for this empty canvas, and call it "picture" or any name you wish.

4.Paste the picture from your clipboard onto this layer.

5.You can use your "Move Tool" (which is what it's called in Photoshop) to shift the picture anywhere within this new canvas. If yours is a picture that should be on one side or the centre of the logo, move it accordingly.

6.Create another layer for this canvas, and call it by the name of your site. If your site has two words in its name, create a layer for each word. This gives you maximum flexibility in moving the word around in the picture. Into each layer, use the "Horizontal Type Tool" or text tool (whatever it's called in your software) to type in the name you want. Remember that you can change the fonts, the size and the colour to your satisfaction.

7.Move all the elements around in the picture till you are satisfied.

8.If your logo has a white background, and you want to give it a border, do so in your software. To create a border in Photoshop, click "Select" followed by "All". Then click the "Modify" menu item from the "Select" menu, followed by "Border...". From there, you can choose the width of the border (it's up to you). Then, from the "Edit" menu, click "Fill". In the "Contents" box, you can choose "Black" for a black border, or click "Color..." to select the colour yourself. Leave the rest alone unless you know what you're doing.

9.When you are satisfied, save your work under a new name. Do not overwrite your earlier picture file, so that if you change your mind, you don't have to start all over again.

10.For posting to your website, you will need to save the file in one of three formats: GIF, PNG or JPG (JPEG). If you have included a photo in your logo or banner, the PNG and JPG formats are better suited to preserving your colours. If your picture is a simple image with few colours, saving it as either GIF or PNG will probably produce a file that is smallest in size. Other than considerations like these, it makes no difference to the browser which of these 3 formats you choose, so it's up to you.

Note: while you are still working on your logo, save the file in your painting software's native format (such as PSD for Photoshop). Only save in one of these three formats as the final step before including the picture on your site. Your software's native format is designed to preserve all the necessary layers and elements that you have create so far, so that you can optimally work on your picture without loss of colour, resolution and information.

Congratulations. You have finished making your logo. Don't worry if the initial few logos give you nightmares. Like all things, you will get better with practice. If you have a personal site or a hobby site, the logos you create should be more than adequate.

Ihopethis tutorial may helps you

Before you design, you write. What does your blog stand for? What first inspired you to create the blog? As a person goes web-surfing by, what do you want your image to be to capture their attention? Is your blog edgy, conventional, thoughtful, bombastic?

Then start surfing the web for images that capture the essence of what you wrote down. Check out clipart sites, modern art sites, grunge art sites. Get an image that is close to matching your responses. You may have 2 or 3 images - that's the best.. Use a photo editor to play with the images. Always try to minimalize
the images down to their simplest form. As you work on the symbol, give it a back story. What do the elements mean?

Even, if you decide to use a graphic designer to give you a clear copy of your logo or to take the logo design further, you will have a foundation to discuss over.

I came up with the logo below for a Facebook group to attract Christian ministers.

The foundation of the logo is the Celtic cross. Where the Celtic cross has a circle, I have hands reaching out. In the middle is a dove with can also be seen as a pair of praying hands.

How to make an awesome logo

First before you start, be sure to check out my design course that shows you exactly how to create awesome logos and websites in photoshop and illustrator! I also just finished writing a new tutorial on how to make a website located here.

Introduction
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Back when I began my ventures on computers in 98 on AOL, I was one of the many mesmerized by the world of AOL "proggies". I began to code my own with VB and I remember one of the things I loved to focus on personally, was the whole intro art. I saw a few, I can't remember the names now, but their amazing fire effects with their lightening bolts blew my mind away. Thus began my journey of design.

I've designed for approximately 9 years now and I've learned a lot. It has also helped me make money online. From mainstream corporate professional design, to fun gaming design, to adult design. The accumulative experience of all these avenues have really helped further my abilities when I confront each new project.

In this tutorial, I will start and finish a logo while documenting the entire process. I encourage you to open up photoshop and follow every step, it will help you learn a lot more than just reading it.

I've used the technique I will be teaching to develop a lot of logos. Here are just a few:

Adobe Photoshop

I will be using Adobe Photoshop CS2 to design this logo. Many swear by illustrator, but I believe for the purposes of making a tutorial, it'd be best to use photoshop as it will cater to a wider audience. More people have used photoshop than Illustrator. Besides, I've created 95% of all my logos in Photoshop, so take what you will.

Let's Start : The Project

A buddy of mine runs a gaming website, bluelaguna.net, and he has wanted a new logo for some time, so I agreed to do it for this tutorial. So let's take a look at the current logo:

(Note: The image above isn't a logo, it's an entire header. The actual name bluelaguna.net along with the slogan is the actual logo. I thought it would be a good idea to show the entire header though to see how it reacts with the overall design.)

One of the most important things this logo lacks is readability. When a user visits a web site, or visits any medium in which a logo is displayed, the first thing that hits them should be the logo. And for some reason or another, the first place us humans look is the upper left hand corner of a site. The current logo is placed in the middle of the header and the small font and the dark blue in "BLUE" is hard to read.

There's also nothing exciting with this logo. For a logo to be effective, it has to "brand" an image, it needs to stick in your head. All this logo is is times new roman on caps lock.

Now that we've gone over why their current logo is not suitable, let's begin with the actual tutorial.

Gathering Information

It's important to always know the specifics of what you or the client is looking for before you start. Generally for most projects, I only need to ask the client 5 questions:
1. Name of the service/product: BlueLaguna.Net
2. Any slogans to use?: "Your #1 Source for RPG Media"
3. Any specific color schemes in mind?: Match the current design
4. What are you trying to convey through the logo?: Serious game-related site.
5. Any other specifics: You don't have to use the current header design. Get crackin'

Pretty straight forward, now we know what we have to work with.

1. Setting up your Document in Photoshop

* Once you have photoshop open, go to File -> New. Then specify the name of the logo, and a width of 600 and a height of 500.
* Then click "OK" (Refer to the screenshot below).

After you click "OK" Your setup should look like this:

(I'm on a 1600x1200 resolution.) For the menus on the left, I have the layers view, and the Characters in view.)

2. Experiment with Font Selections

As a starting point, I always experiment with a font that I think will work well with the logo. You have to develop an eye for what font will or will not work, with the specifics of the project in mind. Since for bluelaguna we're trying to focus on a serious yet gamer'ish feel, a serious font selection might be the best bet. Having yourself an arsenal of fonts is very important. I have several thousand myself.

* Select the Text Tool on the left menu: (As shown on the image to the right)

* Adjust the settings on the Text Properties at the top to match these settings:

* In the character window to the right, set AV to -60 as shown below: (This simply shortens the space between each separate character, I like starting out with this setting, I don't know why :)

* Type "BLUE LAGUNA" in the document space (First, be sure that the background is white, you can use the fill tool for this. And I've decided to go with all caps to start out with, since all caps is generally deemed more serious).

* With the type tool selected, and layer 1 selected, select the font list menu (where it says Arial):

You can do this next section in either three ways.
- Hit the "Down" arrow to change the font view of "BLUE LAGUNA".
- Hit the Down Arrow of the Font List to see the list of available fonts with a tiny preview of the font.
- Download a font viewing program.

I personally just use the first method, although I sometimes use a font viewing program. Our goal here is to find fonts that might work with the logo.

* Once you come across a font that looks like it could work, you should Duplicate the layer in the Layers Window to the right, and then hide the previous layer (The layer you right clicked and selected "Duplicate" from. This way, you've saved that font selection (the hidden layer), and you have a new layer to find more fonts from):

3. Good and Bad Font Selections

Since our goal with this particular logo is to be serious, we need serious looking fonts. It simply takes time to develop an eye for what is serious and what isn't.

Here are a few examples of bad font selections for this project:

The first logo (the top), has a very laid back, fun / unprofessional tone to it.

The second logo is simply "goofy" looking, and it's generally always bad to select a logo that has an inherent shadow.

The third logo is way too "ragged" with its frills all over the place, definitely a no go.

Calligraphy logos are generally outdated, especially ones with weird "drops" coming from them.

The last logo you can hardly even read. Remember, a logo should be easily readable.

Here are a few examples of good font selections for this project:

All of these logos with the exception of 4 and 6 are pretty much similar.

#1, 2, 3 & 5 are all very simplistic and serious in appearance.

Logo 4 still appears "serious" even though it is significantly different from the rest. I chose this just in case I want to experiment with piecing together fonts for the word "Blue" and "Laguna".

Logo 6 is a very bold / italicized logo that says nothing but serious.

4. Finalizing a Font Selection

Once you have some possible font selections, each in their own layer, you further analyze them and see which works. With logos that have more than one word, most of the time it is good to separate the appearance of the words from each other. Since this particular project has two words, "Blue" and "Laguna", we're going to want to separate them by possibly choosing two different fonts. You can also separate words from each other by keeping the same font, but changing the color. So I'm going to experiment with the 6 good font selections above.

This is what I've come up with:

Although I didn't use one of the 6 fonts I selected initially for the word "blue", I simply used an unboldened version of "LAGUNA", which keeps a consistent feel but also allows for separation of the two words.

5. Adding in a symbol

Sometimes logos work well with only the use of fonts, but most times adding in a relevant symbol of some sort will really make a logo stand out. When I say "symbol", I mean any part of the logo which isn't actual text. So let's start with the first font selection from above:

Now here is where having an eye for design and experience is a really big help. We need to begin contemplating ideas of what exactly we can add to this logo to make it awesome. So, the first thing I do is just sit there and stare at the font selection and think of what exactly the product/service/site is all about. Well, BlueLaguna.Net is about gaming, more specifically speaking, it's a site that offers RPG media (Role Playing Game) media. Therefore, we have two things to work with: RPG and Media. What exactly can we associate with both RPG and Media? Well, we don't necessarily have to convey both RPG and Media through the logo (if you try to get too complex, the logo will become cluttered). We can choose one or the other if we want. I think it'd be most logical to focus on the whole RPG aspect, as you can find media all over the place and it isn't an entirely unique concept.

So let's do some research on Role Playing Games. We need to figure out a symbol which can really represent RPG. The current BlueLaguna.Net features a 3d female, perhaps that has something to do with RPG? Well, let me do a search on images.google.com for "RPG". The results turn back a few different female characters, Hmm! The first few results, keeping in mind the 3d female character on the current header of bluelaguna.net, seem to suggest that depicting a female in the logo might be the best bet. It also seems that weaponry / mystical environments are associated with RPG as well.

Now that I know what I can associate with RPG, I can come up with some possible ideas for a symbol. I think maybe featuring a face of one of these RPG'ish females with maybe a hint of mysticism.

The Pen Tool is your Friend

The most important tool when it comes to logo design is the pen tool. If there is one tool to thoroughly understand, it should be the pen tool. The pen tool allows you to create any shape(s) you want, and maintain vector format (which is very important if you ever want to size your logo up n' down (for professional print or whatever.)

It's always good to draw your logo by hand without copying over a picture (vector tracing), but if you aren't very talented and don't have much experience, it might be your only option. So for the sake of making the biggest impact on this tutorial, I will teach you all an awesome technique for creating great looking symbols for you logos.

Finding a suitable picture

If you're going to trace, I always suggest using a site like istockphoto.com to find the image and pay for it. This way you won't be using copyrighted images to trace over. Or taking your own picture to trace over. Unfortunately though, istockphoto has nothing with RPG or "anime". So I just went on images.google.com and found a picture which I think is suitable, here it is:

When I came across this picture, I got the idea that I can vector trace over her face and hair to create what I want, and then integrate it along with the font selection in some unique way.

So once you've found the picture you want to trace (if not the same one), save it to your hard drive, open it up in photoshop, CTRL-A, CTRL-C to select it and copy it, and go back to your main logo document and CTRL-V.

Now you've imported this picture into your logo document. Once you've imported it, with her layer selected, you can cut off the bottom half of her body. (Select the first tool in the upper left corner of the tools menu, Rectangular Marquee Tool), select the bottom half of her body and hit the delete key. Your screen should look something like this by now (You can hide the text layers behind it).

Vector Tracing

Now select the magnifying glass in the tools menu and select around the girl, it will look like this zoomed up to about 400%:

Now select the pen tool in the tools menu:

Make sure that the foreground color (the black square at the bottom of the pic to the upper right ---^) is the same dark blue color of the text we specified.

In the layers window to the right, select the little round circular > icon on the upper right corner of the window, and click on "Create New Layer" in the window that comes up. Hit "OK" and then in the layers window, with the new layer selected, change the Opacity to 0%. We do this because once we start tracing over the image, we don't want the dark blue color hiding the picture of the girl below.

And with the pen tool selected, click a point somewhere on the outline of the hair (at the top), and then click to make another point somewhere on the hairline where the line will begin to form. You can hold down and "direction" the angle of the line to create a certain type of curve. It takes awhile to get the hang of, but it's very easy once you get the hang of it. After plotting points of an entire section of hair, yours should look similar to this: (Note: I've lightened the opacity of the girl to illustrate what your lines should look like so far)

(opacity 100%)

It's not perfect, but for now it's a good start.

Now I'm simply going to continue creating more shapes, like the facial features. After 15-20 minutes or so of creating the different facial features and the face itself, here is what I have come up with:

As you can see, I specified a different color for the face (light blue). And by now I have around 15 different layers. There's a separate layer for the top portion of each eye, the bottom portion of each eye, the middle, and the small glare. There's also a layer for the face background, and the ear.

So let us continue and add some shading...

After about 20 more minutes of shading, this is what I've come up with:

There are a total of 3 different layers for the hair. It's somewhat of a tedious process to do hair shading simply because there's a lot of strands of hair! But you have to just condense them and get the general idea of the shading and it will work out well.

Then I did some light shading work on the face and the neck.

Now I consider the actual draft of the symbol complete. Let's make our initial text layer visible and see what we can do to integrate the symbol with the text.

First, you will want to select the very last to the very first vector layer that you created (you'll have a couple dozen or more), hold down the shift so you can select them all. Then in the layers window click the little circular round button and select "New Group From Layers". This will put all of the layers of the girl, into one easily manageable layer group. This way, you can move around the one group and it will keep all of their positions together so it won't break up her face.

Now this actually doesn't look too bad, in and of itself. But the proportion of the anime head is too big, in relation to BLUELAGUNA. So we will want to scale down the head. Let's try moving it over to the left, and adding the slogan + the ".net" text. This is what it looks like:

Now it looks pretty damn good eh? The only other thing I did, was with the pen tool, I added a white shape over the "B" in "BLUE" so that the face doesn't collide with the B.

Unfortunately I messed up and didn't design this over the dark blue'ish background that the bluelaguna.net has. So I'm going to change the colors of the logo to fit a background of an appropriate header for the site.

As you can see, simply changing colors around can really change the look and feel of a logo. I'd consider this logo a winner.