How to make a professional looking logo?

[teo]

Gary Priester - a professional designer, a moderator here, and the guy behind the XaraXone, wrote a excellent series of articles about logo design. Reading through them you will get a great overview of his design method and hopefully you'll learn lots. You can find them here: http://www.unleash.com/gary/logo/ They are a true gem!

Ross, I will certainly read that. Thank you.

[Ross Macintosh]

I attach a version made keeping the simple arrangement but with more three-dimensional balls as was suggested. I really liked the idea of the yellow ball representing the mentor/trainer.

Regards, Ross

[amoore]

Oh, Ross, that's wonderful!

[bcire68]

Nice logo Ross.

One variation that I might try is to make the blue balls form more of a C (as in Corporate). Still very nice though.

Eric

[samrc]

I like the last version and the suggestion about turning it so the balls form a C. I would also like to see a second version with the gold ball in the center. A bit bigger than the others.

[sallybode]

Another thing to consider in designing a logo is what sizes it will be printed or used on the web. Certain effects do not render well if enlarged or reduced.

[WolfMoonHP]

Couldn't resist putting in my two cents worth...

Thought putting the "C" in the bright circle might look cool!
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Will

[WolfMoonHP]

OOOOPPPSSSS...

Didn't mean to make them so darn big...sorry about that!
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Will

[ankhor]

OOOOPPPSSSS...

Didn't mean to make them so darn big...sorry about that!
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Will

Why not edit them and replace them with the smaller versions?

[WolfMoonHP]

Why not edit them and replace them with the smaller versions?

Duh...I should have thought of that! I already knew how to edit my text, but had to figure out how to edit my images!
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Will