How to Draw Transformers in Photoshop

You and I both know that Transformers is the best movie to come out in years. Here I will show you how to impress your friends and revel in their glory by making your very own Transformers logo.

Lets start off: This tutorial would be nothing more then stone letters if you used ordinary font. Luckily the folks at nfta.net have made a transformers font you can download here for pc and for Mac. Downloading and unzipping the font is easy but if you don't know how to install fonts then check out this convenient tutorial.

Step one: Create a new canvas using 420×250px. Fill it up with black background, write "Transformers" with the SF TransRobotics font you just downloaded, then centralize the text. Next right click on the text layer and left click rasterize layer.

Step Two: Highlight the bottom of "T" and "F" with the Marquee Tool, hold Alt and keep pressing Arrow down to increase the length of both these alphabets.

Step Three: Here we add the cool alien metal effect to the font. You need to right click the font layer and go to blending options. Now apply the following blending options. (For any missing fields in the following instructions, assume the default setting).a

INNER GLOW:

Blend Mode: Screen

Opacity: 32% Color is white

Elements:

Technique: Softer

Source: Edge

Size: 5

Quality:

Range: 50

BEVEL AND EMBOSS:

Style: Inner Bevel

Technique: Smooth

Depth: 650

Direction: Up

Shading: Angle 129 Degrees

Altitude: 21

Highlight Mode: Screen

Opacity: 75%

COLOR OVERLAY:

Color Blend Mode: Dodge

Color set at 31464F

Opacity: 55%

PATTERN OVERLAY:

Blend Mode: Normal

Choose Pattern Stucco 2 (200x200 pixels grey scale). This pattern can be found at texture fill2 in the preset patterns option.

Now press ok.

Step 4. Hold Ctrl, left click on the Transformer text's layer thumbnail to highlight the selection. Create a new layer, select Gradient Tool and draw across from the bottom left to top right. Change the blend mode to Overlay and adjust Opacity to 50%.

Step 5.

Here is where you make the Autobots and Decepticons. Using your font tool will automatically create a new layer for you, when you make your layer press shift and < then shift and > to make the faces. Then press the check box to confirm. Next go to the "Transformers" text layer you just finished working on, right click and left click on the copy layer style option from the "Transformers" layer and paste it on the logos layers.

Now you should have something similar to the picture above. This is a great way to demonstrate your photoshop skills are truly more then meets the eye!