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Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. I'm going to show you how to create a custom, intertwined, monogram logo centered on a simple, but powerful background. If the middle initial of the monogram is larger than the other two, the middle initial is the surname or last name. The first initial is the first name and the last initial is the middle name. However, if all the initials are the same size, the order of the initials represents the first, middle and last name. I provided a link to a website that explains the general rules pertaining to monograms. The link is located in the video description. Create a new document by pressing Ctrl + N on Windows or Cmd + N on a Mac. Make the Width: 1200 pixels, the Height: 900 pixels and the Resolution: 300 pixels per inch. Make the Color Mode: RGB at 8 bits per channel. Then click OK. Let's begin by making the background first. Open your Gradient Tool and make sure the Linear gradient icon is highlighted. Click the Gradient bar and click the "Black, White" preset. Click the lower, right Stop and the color box. Type in 80, three times. This gives us 50% gray. Then, click OK on the Color Picker and the Gradient Editor. Go to the bottom of the document and hold down Shift as you drag up the gradient line to the top. Go to Filter and Filter Gallery. Open the Texture folder and click "Texturizer". The Texture is Sandstone, the Scaling is 100%, the Relief is 2 and the Light is from the Top. Then, click OK. Double-click on the lock. This unlocks the background and opens the Layer Style window. Click Stroke. Make the Size: 100 pixels and the Position is Inside. Click Inner Glow. Click the color box, pick Black and click OK. Change the Blend Mode to Color Burn and the Opacity to 15%. The Technique is Softer, the Source is Edge, the Choke is 100% and the Size is 100 pixels. Then, click OK. Click the Custom Shape Tool and open the thumbnails. Click to gear icon to open your list of Shape presets. Click Shapes and click OK to see the new set in the thumbnail window. Click the diamond shape, which is between the outline crescent and the outline diamond. Make sure it's not the wider diamond, since that shape has slightly, rounded corners. Tick "Unconstrained" and check "From Center". Choose "Path" If you're working on CS5 or earlier, the Path Tool Mode is here. We want to make guidelines that crisscross the center of the document. To do this, go to View and click "New Guide". With the horizontal orientation ticked, type in 50%. Click OK or press Enter or Return. If you don't see the guideline, press Ctrl or Cmd + H. Go back to View, New Guide and tick "Vertical". As before, type in 50%. Then, click OK. Go to the center of the guidelines and...