In this tutorial, I am going to show you how you can create an awesome 3d logo for your company, personal use, or just for fun!

1.Create a new Document (300x300).

2.Select the ellipse tool:



3.While holding shift on your keyboard, drag a circle near the center of your document:



4.Select a light grey color for this shape by double cliking the color to the right of the ellipse shape in the layers panel:





5.Duplicate this layer (right click the layer and press Duplicate Layer). Now go to Edit > Transform > Scale:



6.Hold Ctrl+Shift+Alt, and while, drag in on one of the corners until you have a small rim around the inner circle:



7.Select a Blue Color for this inner Shape:





8.Rasterize both of the shape layers (Right Click Layer > Rasterize). Now Right click the grey circle layer and go to blending options.

9.Go to Gradient Overlay, and set it up like this:



10.And in the Bevel:



11.Click OK to apply these changes. Hold Ctrl and click the blur circle layer. Now while your grey circle layer is selected, press ctrl+x. Go back into the blending options and add a drop shadow with these settings:





12.Select the Elliptical Marquee Tool:



13. While Holding shift, make a selection like this in your image:



14.Select your gradient tool:



15.Choose the default gradient preset from the preset manager that goes from foreground color to transparency. Set your foreground color to white. Now fill in this selection in a new layer over all of your other layers. Be sure that when you are filling it, you are draggin a line while holding shift, and you are dragging from top of the selection to the bottom:



16.Now Select your dodge tool from your main toolbar:



17.Set up your brush like this:



Hardness is 0%

18.Brush in a circular motion on the blue circle layer so that you get a similar effect to this:



19.Now, make your brush size 200, and click 2-3 times at the top and bottom of the blue circle layer:



20.Now, just add some text, or a picture to your logo and your done!