Total KiCad noob here looking for some help with a project

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I want to make some antennas I found. I have the Gerber files from this site: http://www.maartenbaert.be/quadcopters/antennas/pagoda-antenna/

What I want to do is place my own logo on the top. I read this article: https://blog.seidel-philipp.de/do-it-yourself-pagoda-fpv-antenna-for-less-than-2/#Your_logo_on_your_antenna and it suggested using KiCad.

I have the logo ready but I don’t know how to add the schematic shape to the icon or move the icon from photoshop to KiCad. Any help would be most welcome.

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In the blog you linked it looks like the logo would be on silk. Which does not interfere with the antenna at all. If you want it somehow on copper this might be a different thing.

Getting graphics into kicad is generally quite simple.
If you have it in vector form use svg2mod

For pixel graphic just use the included bitmap2component tool.

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Thank you very much.