Hey everyone, in this video I'm going to show you how to make a placeholder logo... we're going to use, well, I've used an icon... from this plugin here, called Iconscout... now it can't be a registered trademark... because it's a free icon from the internet, so anybody can use it... but it'll do great for our kind of portfolio piece here...

also, getting some of these icons can be a little tricky... so I will show you just some--  you might have run into some troubles in the last video... I want to show you to take something like the seemingly simple bird... that actually has quite a bit of grouping and masking going on... I'm going to show you how to just like smush it down into... like a really simple vector...

that might be a little easier to use, plus we'll give the bird a Mohawk... we'll also make our top Nav a component... as well as putting our logo in there as well... which will also be a component, all right, let's get going. The icon that I use, at least the plugin that I use is called Iconscout... we can hold 'Shift I' to open up this, like Resources panel here...

and it will just default to whatever the last one you had selected... so that's 'Shift I', both Mac and PC... and you can see there, Iconscout... now Iconscout might not be the most popular when you're looking... I use Iconduck sometimes as well... there are lots of different icon plugins, the way that I pick...

is, generally I just look to see, used by how many people... when something's been used by only a few people... I feel like it's not as good as the one being used by loads... so it's not a great measure, but anyway, I'm going to use Iconscout, and then... there we go. Now with Iconscout, and most of them...

there is an option for free and premium... so I'm going to go to 'Free' and I typed in "bird"... and I scroll forever, and eventually found my guy somewhere, down... somewhere, I can't remember, but I found it, there he is, hello. The cool thing about these is, like let's just pick another random one... let's pick this guy, he looks cool, so let's have a look at him...

so there's the creator, Loritius, thank you, very much... and often it's part of a pack... so if you're looking for other animals, or other icons in similar sort of styles... you can often go to the pack and have a look, and say, "Oh, yeah"... a little crown in this particular app means they're paid... so they're giving away some free stuff...

but if you want the whole fairy tale pack... you get to go Pro, and decide if that's worth it for you... way easier than drawing all of these. One thing I'm going to do is, let's go into it... and this one here has an SVG and a PNG... I'm going to insert the SVG, and let's pick another one...

let's go to bird again, "bird", is it free? It's not... I'll just use this guy, he's free... let's do this one again. So I'm going to show you the difference between these two... I looked at these earlier, and they're kind of different...

when you haven't done a lot of drawing in Figma that can be a little tricky... this one here is easier, look... so I've got these two, bird, and bird, frames... inside of this one is just two... there's a vector drawing and then there's a dot for it's eye... that's pretty easy to understand and start manipulating...

you decide, actually, I don't want the eye, click on it, I can turn the eyeball off... there you go, goodbye, eye... if I want to double click on it and grab the head, and say, he needs... Duckmohawk, perfect ... and in this case you can see, it's getting clipped out of the top... so I'm going to click on my frame...

and I'm going to say, don't clip the contents... and what I might do with the frame is... can you see here, this option here says, Resize to Fit... resize my frame, so it can fit all the bits inside. This one's pretty easy, this one's trickier... let's have a little look inside, let's zoom in, 'Shift 2'...

and inside of this frame, called Bird... is a path group... inside of this group is another group... and inside of this group is a bunch of different vectors... that are easy enough to understand... there is a mask going on here...

they can get really complicated depending on who drew them... so what we can do, just to, like--  I find it's easy just to go select on it, the parent frame... right click it and say, let's 'Flatten' this, 'Command E'... anybody do that from - hands up - from Photoshop? Just smoosh all the layers together... it's still vector, which is cool, it's just a tidier vector...

there's not so many group upon groups, and upon groups, it's up to you... it'll depend on your Figma experience... my one's got a black border now... so what I'm going to do, is double click it to go inside my vector... I'm going to click on the outside part... I can 'Shift' click all the corners or I can just hit 'Del', and 'Del' again...

I did not, I'm going to click more, goodbye, parent frame... and now I'm going to click 'Done'. I've just got this more simple thing that I understand a bit more, up to you... 'Command Option P' will open up the last plugin that you've used... on a PC it's 'Ctrl Alt P', will open it up. The last thing I want you to do is, 'Shift 1'...

let's look at, what we're doing here, 'Shift 2'... is, hold 'Command', or 'Ctrl', scroll wheel... and let's have a look at this. I'm going to turn it into a component... so my component is over here... where is you?

There it is, there... it's my main component, I'm going to get it to fit the frame... and instead of just calling it Logo let's call it "Logo Mark"... and my one is called "Limerick Techno". So have your component outside of your first frame... put it over here in a kind of a beginnings of a top Nav...

make sure our grid's on, so 'Shift G'... and just make sure that this frame here, for my background is... snapping to my 16-point grid... find something that works for you, find a logo size that works for you... and position wise, oh, that looks good... 'Shift G', turn them off...

this whole thing should be a component... so 'Command Option K', 'Ctrl Alt K... it's called Frame 2, let's call this one "Nav-Top"... and we should keep the original over here... and put an instance back over this way, there we go. Last thing I'm going to do before I go...

is my zooming's backwards... so I use my scroll wheel, like I mentioned earlier... hold 'Command' down, or 'Ctrl' on a PC... you can use a scroll wheel to go in and out... mine's operating backwards... everyone likes their scroll wheel to do something different...

I'm used to mine going the other way, I'm going to go 'Figma', 'Preferences'... or we can go here and go to 'Preferences', and... please hold... 'Invert Zoom Direction', that's what I want... because I prefer to do it this way, it's just--  it means, when I-- all I've done is toggled the way the zoom goes... you understand, right?

So now when I scroll my wheel it zooms in... instead of it zooming out, which didn't feel right, anyway... all right, that's how I got my logo... the only thing you really need to do is just make sure... that your logo and your nav are two separate components... all right, next video.