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Sorry was writing this tutorial up yesterday when we had a power cut and did not feel like doing it a second time that day. Easy tut would not do that way as no need for "Fish-eye warp", 3D effect" and "expanded outline with gradient". Well that is what I think anyway as difference are so small you would not see them at the size drawn in tut.
Draw large ellipse with the size given.
Draw small ellipse and edit with the Direct selection Tool
Make new layer and copy both in to that layer
Select both and use the Minus in path finder this gives the large O
Give this resulting shape colour given in tut and save gradient as swatch
Make a copy of small ellipse and brining it into this second layer
Draw a smaller ellipse and centre both with align
With both still selected use the Minus shape in Pathfinder
Copy this shape and place it in the first layer
In the main working layer
give this inside O the colour stated in tut
Copy or as tut states just copy the large gradient coloured O and paste in front (ctrl+C, ctrl+F)
Expand this shape from Object menu and remove the fill from the appearance palette
Give this line a 5pt line of white with transparency of 10% I thought 5 was too light.
From the Effect menu go out from stylise and give Inner glow with settings given in tut
Using the Polygon Tool draw a 3 sided triangle at 50n pix. Can't remember if I used the Transform Tool to achieve the 50 pix size. Colour black
Use Ctrl+Alt drag and copy to the right position
Use the Transform tool from Object menu and reflect on horz.
Give white colour
Give 10 pix gaussian blur from Effects menu. - this looked best using CS3
Select both and group (ctrl+G)
Make a copy of inner O and bring to the very front (Ctrl+C, Ctrl+F, Ctrl+Shift+].) and colour white
Select the group of triangles + the white O and go to the Transpaency Palette and from the Fly-out select Make Opacity Mask
Reselect the large "O" shape and make a copy in front (Ctrl+ C > Ctrl+ F) then grab the Ellipse Tool(L), create a 190 by 125px shape
Select this new shape alonw with the fresh copy and click on the Intersect button from the Pathfinder panel.
Fill the resulting shape with the linear gradient shown in the fourth image and lower its opacity to 80%. I just used the gradient from swatches and edited that.
Your shape should be looking good now.
Copy the small O in the other layer into the shape or drawing layer. Fill it with none and add a 1pt, black stroke. Align it to outside.
Then go to Object > Expand Appearance.
Fill the resulting shape with the linear gradient, 237,166,168 - 224,20,72, lower its opacity to 50% and bring it to front (Shift + Control + ] )
Select the large "O" shape in the shape layer and make two copies in front (Shift + Control + ] ) in your drawing layer.
Select the top copy and hit the down arrow once.
Reselect both copies and click on the Minus Front button from the Pathfinder panel. You will get a group with two thin shape so Ungroup.
Remove the bottom shape.
Then select the remaining shape. Go to the Appearance, remove the stroke, the effect and keep only one fill. Make it white and lower its opacity to 50%.
Do exactly the same again, hit Ctrl F twice, (Shift + Control + ] ) and with the top copy selected hit the Up nudge key once
Select both again click the Minus Front button from the Pathfinder panel. You will get a group with two thin shape so Ungroup.
Remove the top shape
Then select the remaining shape. Go to the Appearance, remove the stroke, the effect and keep only one fill. Make it white and lower its opacity to 50%.
Pick the Ellipse Tool and click on your artboard.. Enter 10 in the width box and 2.5 in the height box then click OK. This will create a 15 by 5px shape. Fill it with R=237 G=166 B=168 Place it on the white line at the bottom.
Make a copy of this and fill it with white then rotate it and place. I just use the Alt key to make a copy and the Ctrl to constrain it.
Give both shapes a Gaussian Blur of 5px
Last thing to do is to draw an ellipse of 90 by 25px shape and fill it with R=71 G=5 B=42 then send it to back (Shift + Control + [ ) and go to Effect > Blur > Gaussian Blur. Enter a 5px radius.
Using CS3 I am not happy using the Gaussian Blurs and if I was doing this again I would use opacity and masks to get a better effect.