Welcome to a new tutorial guys today we're going to cover how to fill a
custom shape or a text with a photo an image in Adobe Illustrator here we go
let's jump into the tutorials so I'm gonna create quickly and you file a new
canvas and I'm gonna create an a4 for print let's say today we're gonna create
a travel cover for our calendar I don't know something like that so we actually
have something to work on so I'm gonna create an a4 let's start with a text
let's say I want to feel a text with an image okay first thing I'm gonna do I'm
going my Facebook page so I can grab one of my photos and I really love this
aerial photos of multiple channel in Tuscany I went in November it's an
amazing place go and check it out so just drag and drop it that's the easiest
way or you can save it if you are here you can just save it on your computer
and then import into Adobe Illustrator but drag and drop easy alright here we
go paradise alright we have our photo right
here we want to fill a text so what we do is select the text tool make a box
and we're gonna bride 2018 okay 2018 that's very tiny that's what
she said and we increase the size and also I want a very bold font so I have
this Gotham ultra which is huge and again that's what she told me that's so
funny let's say I want to show a bit of the
houses right here of the village and the mountains at the background and tiny bit
of sky okay so I position my font my text right there and there's my main
layer make sure your image is underneath your text okay so what do you want to do
select your text hold shift and select your image underneath go to the menu
object clipping mask make there you have it that's your text feel with your photo
okay let's say you're not happy with the position of your text alright so what
you want to do is double click on the text
and now you can either select the text itself so move it around like this or
you can select the photo of the background and you will see there's a
bigger canvas with these square cameras I just move you around and I just move
the photo so you you can position it as you as you like as you wish now let's
say you want to feel a shape instead of a text that's delete everything for a
second we go here on the layers press on the beam delete everything I'm going to
import my beautiful beautiful fall again there it is boom a positioning as I want
I'm going to create a star so you go here on the shape
- you think great whatever shape you want the tangle or star or polygon
whatever I created a star for now so that's my path I'm movie here I hold
shift and I select the background to my photo go to object clipping mask make
here we go again if you want to decrease or increase the size of your shape you
double click select on the path and you just do that and you can move it around
okay same thing as you're here if you're not
happy with the position of the background photo you select your photo
within the background and you move it around until you are happy that's pretty
cool I think it works out I still don't like the design so don't like my
calendar page here my calendar cover I just delete everything then again just
to start from scratch let's say now we want to merge a few shapes together and
then fill them with a photo I go into my shape tool I create a circle make sure
your color a year of the background is different from your canvas background
otherwise you're not gonna see that shape so I create two layer two circles
or could be also a star there you have it so we've got three different shapes
okay I'm going to import my photo again and make sure it's under underneath your
shapes so in this case we need to merge the three shapes so I'm gonna
like the first whole shift select the second select the third still holding
shift and then go to objects I do compound path make and in this case and
this tool would merge the three shapes together now I want to fill them with a
photo so I will shift select a photo go to your object clipping mask and make
again and here you go so you got three shapes filled with the same photo and
again if you want to move the background photo the background image you
double-click and you just move around your photo until you're happy there it
is you want to see something more complicated let's do it okay I want a
font and a custom shape so I'm gonna use the pen tool in this case to create my
own shape let's delete everything again that's a scratch and gonna import my
photo I'm still in isolation mode make sure you go back so you double click
outside of the canvas and you go back to the full mode here I'm going to import
the photo I'm gonna make it tiny bit bigger this time because I wanted to
I've got my signature here by the way go and check my website
www.lazzemetalshaping.com Decorah 2018 that did lot of traveling and i want to
create my calendar with this beautiful photo here so i've got my text and i
want also to create a like a road like a a real path there starts from the number
one and he goes down all the way here so use the pen tool is a very awesome tool
you can create a lot of stuff and be creative with it okay this is very basic
road so i let you work on the curves you know you because pat a bit of time but
this is really really quick idea but there you have it you have an idea
of what is happening here I'm very picky so I have to make it good now okay cool
all right this a tiny bit more complicated because to merge the text
and the custom-shape that with a pen tool you need to do you need to convert
the font your text into outlines if you don't create outlines on the font what
happens is it will tell you it will give you a warning board so you can't really
merge the two you can create a compound path I show you so this is my normal
text and I hold shift and select the path as well
I go to object compound path make and I get this warning board that says they
brought the shapes needs to be a path so in this case I'm going to convert the
text into power lines again I right-click on the mouse and go create
outlines hold shift select my path and now I can create a compound path so make
cool now they are together so if you move them they they stick together
control said I go back and now I hold shift select the background go to object
clipping mask make that is we have our very simple but still quite cold
calendar cover and again you can add elements and do whatever you you want
that was a quite quick tutorial I wanted to be faster but I realized there's
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