today I'm going to show you how to add a stamp effect to your logo design or
even your name in Adobe Illustrator and it's going to be a vector design also
towards the very end of this video I have a very cool announcement to make
I remember you can move to the timecard in the corner if you want to skip the
intro
what is up people welcome back to satori graphics home of graphic design
content right here on YouTube so I'm finally back with my travels and I hope
you guys had a great weekend towards the very end of today's illustrator tutorial
have a coin ounce meant to me so be sure to stay around for that you can use the
tutorial on a logo design you've made or even some text or typography so for
example your name today however I'm going to use much rhetoric graphics logo
design as the example if you use text make sure they outline the type before
by going up to type and create outlines the first thing you need to do is to
open up the Pathfinder window in Adobe Illustrator and then unite every single
part of your design as one
now that you've united everything together grab the ellipse tool and
create a perfect circle by holding down shift and clicking a dragging you need
to then bring up your logo or your tags to the very front and then place a logo
or your tags on top of the circle
I'm going to use the eyedropper tool sample white from the background onto my
logo we need to use the Pathfinder tool again as I open it up and then select
the circle angle logo together and then use the minus for an option this will
cut the logo into the circle - now you have one object for your stamp effect in
Illustrator as you can see my logo is now cut into the circle and that's
exactly what we want we're going to make another circle but this time you only
want to use a stroke rather than the fill
place the circle around the design and then resize it
you can now select both circles and align them like I'm doing here for the
Alta make circle you can increase the weight until you're happy with how it
looks we our stamp effect as you can see I believe my thick outer circle closer
to the logo understand part of the design and thin circle is on the outside
now you need to take the scissors tool and click once on each side of the
circle like I'm doing here this class the circle into two parts
essentially
hold on and click over the type tool and then select type on a path tool click
the top part of the circle and then type in some text that's relevant to your
stamp logo design I find a thicker San serif font works best for this type of
design
you can bring up the tight window here to customize your tags more efficiently
when you're done adjusting your text take the direct selection tool and then
locate the small line on the circle to drag the text around like I'm doing here
you can hit command or control I to open up your rulers and then drag down a
guide to alone your tanks perfectly
now we can add some tanks on the bottom half with the same method as before
however the only difference is that the tanks type to upside down to flip it
back over watch as I use a direct selection tool and click and drag in the
correct place
go ahead and adjust you tack spacing I'm placing
as you can see here I've moved too thick a line on the outside when I change my
fonts you can just use whatever he feels best for your stand like a design also
as I'm doing here go ahead and use the guides to make sure everything is
perfectly aligned
we're now ready to add the actual stamp effect to our design in Adobe
Illustrator
you can use the align window to align the circles that I'm doing here but once
you're happy select everything and then outline the stroke of your design as
well as creating the outlines of the type
again in the Pathfinder window do not everything into one object for the Stamp
effect we're going to need to open up the transparency window also you need to
open over the grunge vectors which I've linked in description below
these vectors can make your computer slow as there are many different objects
that make them up so to make things easier which I forgot to do in the
tutorial select one of the vectors that you want to use and then unite
everything has one object in the Pathfinder window hit command or ctrl C
to copy the grunge vector and then go back to your stamp logo design
in the transparency window with the logo selected click make mask and then
uncheck clip
then select the right hand window and hit command or control V paste the
vector in place you can now use shift to adjust and resize the vector
click the left wind in the transparency window to select off of the mask you can
now add color to your stamp logo effect red is often a cliche color of choice
but blue works also
you can add multiple vented layers on the transparency mask layer adding more
of a stamp effect
so there was my Illustrator tutorial on how to add a stamp effect to your logo
or your text the announcement I have today for you guys is I finally finished
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