Logo Design Help - Issue with text

[danbown]

Hi,

Im trying to design a logo and have the letters linked together. Now to get the desired look I'm after it involves removing/erasing part of another letter, the only way I know to do this is by creating another layer and being extremely careful with the eraser/brush to remove it but it looks a little poor so I need a better way of doing this.
There is a logo I have found on Google just to give you an idea called CanyonRacer (im unable to post the image due to being a new member), the A and N are joined together as are the N and R and this is something I need to do, however Im using letters in lower case and the lines aren't straight for the letters like they are in this example. (If you google CanyonRacer logo it's on the 2nd page, yellow logo on a grey background of what looks like a t-shirt)

Another example is the CNN Logo where the letters all flow into each other and where the 2 N's join there is no obvious link.

And a third and final example, kind of like the well known ebay logo but I don't want the colour overlap, I can get the font to overlap but it's the colour overlap I need to remove.

Im using Photoshop CS2 and any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[danbown]

So this is how my text would start and as you can see the m and the u do not curve into each other.

Using my eraser/brush I have mocked up something to give you an idea of what I'm looking to do.

So when it's all one colour it should look like this but a lot neater as I am hoping not to use the brush/eraser.

 

[ibis]

make each letter on separate layer
rasterize each letter
go to layer with "problematic" letter
then edit-transform-warp
there are tiny handles, drag them in order to shape your letter the way you want them
Ctrl+E
enjoy

 

[AbdulW87]

i can think of any other way than writing each letter on its own layer and then rearranging them to get what you want. most of these logos are done in vector programs to give them sharp edges.

 

[danbown]

That appears to have done the trick, it will take some playing round to be able to get it exactly how I want it but that seems to be what I was looking for. Thanks!

 

[danbown]

Abdul, that's probably what I will end up trying because from the playing around so far it drags all the rest of the letter out of position and I only want to remove some of it. Unless of course there are any other suggestions?

 

[danbown]

I think I've managed to do it by partly using what Ibis said and partly something else.

Rasterize the image and then rather than Warp it, use the lasso and because im overlapping the layers and there all the same colour you can't see the difference.

Comes out how I want it so that will do, Thanks again for your help