Here's an example. Here who has programmed an MC-Mod and as a picture this:
I'm also working on a mod. (Not finished yet and not uploaded).
And as you can see, the picture is not very attractive. So I wanted to ask if you have any cool ideas for my mod logo. Or how this guy did it
He probably pixelated it himself.
What a job xD
Yes, of course it takes a lot of effort.
It's not that difficult if you can do a little bit of image editing. There are fonts in Diesel style, a little distortion, a little 3d effect and a little color. If you can do something like that in 5 minutes. Photoshop is not necessary for this, you can also do this with GIMP or PaintDotNet or Krita
Oh well, if that interests you, you can surely learn that.