Creating a Logo using Serif's PagePlus X3 Desktop Publishing software

This is my first project I give to myself for logo creation. I am going to show how I used Serif's PagePlus X3 desktop publishing software to create a simple logo for a fictitious company called Sharky's Diving Enthusiasts. The logo would ideally be in single color. To visualize the shark in creating the logo, I have to check out pictures of sharks out from the web, and ideally I would want to have a shark that is somewhat shaped like the letter S to make it easier but there aren't any. Anyway, I proceeded with my project.

1. With the Page Plus workspace open. On the left are the Tools toolbar. I created a circle thru the Quickshape flyout -> Quick Ellipse under the Tools toolbar. 

 2. I converted the circle to curves. Right click on the circle then, Convert To -> Curves. I knew that the circle had been converted to curves as there were already four nodes: top, left, right and bottom of the circle. I manipulate this nodes to put on the desired shape as will be shown below.

    I clicked and dragged the node on the left of the circle:

    To remove a node, I double clicked it and here’s what happened:

    To add a node, I just double clicked on the part where I wanted it to be on the circle. 
    When I clicked on one node, there was a broken line that appeared. The endpoints of this line wereused to give a more customized shape on either side of the point. I choose on the types of curves to determine how the node will behave either a straighten line, sharp corner, smooth, symmetric corner, smart corner:

 3. The shape of the shark especially the front part using the steps mentioned above:

  

    4. The shark was already taking the form of letter S. The shark was rather large in the workspace so I made it smaller by pressing Shift while dragging the size handle on the lower right of the image.

    5. Then I have put the company name along with the image. I edited the image with Logo studio found right clicking on the image:

   6. In the Logo studio I chose the Forte font for harky’s and OCR A Extended font for Diving Enthusiasts. I used the Align tab to center things. Then I closed the Logo studio:

    7. Back in the main workspace, I dragged the logo to the Gallery tab found on the right then named it sharky single color logo so that I can easily drag it to any document the logo is needed:

  
Serif PagePlus X3 is an affordable easy-to-use desktop publishing software for a novices like me. It has been said that it is also considered as a viable alternative to other high priced softwares. As I continue to learn as I am striving any way I can, I am quite hopeful and enjoying every minute of it. Next time I will incorporate this logo to publishing documents. Thanks for reading! Feel free to leave your comments.