Designing an icon for your company using Gimp/photo shop

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How do you create a nice icon for your school so that it looks professional? Would you use Gimp or photoShop?

Say the school is called Ken's English how could you create a professional looking logo?
 
textbook said:
how could you create a professional looking logo?
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With artistic skill! (Semi-sarcastic answer?.....haha:D)

But...GIMP/PS (don't pirate PS, especially for commercial reasons...or you will be destroyed by their legal department, should they find out...and look into GIMP for commercial use..not sure if you are allowed to..)

In any event...you would use a transparent background (so a .png file .gif or whatever) or you could also try software used for making icons (google it)
 
I use GIMP myself. It has some neat logo scripts that you should definitely play around with:
ComputerForumAlienGlow.jpg

ComputerForumFrosty.jpg

These are only a couple.
 
Although I'm not suggesting you use them, the more commercial graphic icons/logos are created in vector applications like Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw. Vector graphics can be scaled up or down to virtually any size without loss of quality since they are mathematically produced. As an example you can bend text to follow complex curves and it still looks perfect.

If you want to use effects such as those from Lucasbytegenius, then you would tend to use bitmap editors. Generally not as sharp as vector graphics. Make sure the logo is at least the maximum size you need. Scaling down in size gives good results; scaling up is usually crappy.
 
Nanobyte said:
Although I'm not suggesting you use them, the more commercial graphic icons/logos are created in vector applications like Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw. Vector graphics can be scaled up or down to virtually any size without loss of quality since they are mathematically produced. As an example you can bend text to follow complex curves and it still looks perfect.

If you want to use effects such as those from Lucasbytegenius, then you would tend to use bitmap editors. Generally not as sharp as vector graphics. Make sure the logo is at least the maximum size you need. Scaling down in size gives good results; scaling up is usually crappy.
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For vector graphics there's Inkscape: http://inkscape.org/
 
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