Hi, this is Anne for Graphic Design How To, and today I'm going to show you how to warp
your text to fit a shape in Adobe Illustrator.
Alright, let's get started.
Alright, so I'm in Illustrator now and I'm going to go to Create New.
We'll just come over here to Print, and I'll choose Letter, and then we'll Create.
So now I'm going to just type some text.
So I'll hit T on my keyboard, that'll bring me to my Text tool right over here.
And I'll click once and type "Grad" in all caps.
Now come over to my Selection tool, get right on a corner and then hold SHIFT and drag that
so it's a lot bigger.
Now we'll just click and drag to move it over here.
And I'm going to change this to the Cyclone Shaded font.
Make it bigger again.
And now there are a few different ways to warp your text.
You can come up here to Effect and go to Warp and basically these are presets that allow
you to warp it in a lot of pre-selected ways, but also make changes as you go.
So the first is Arc.
Now you can change the bend and have it not be so drastic.
You can also distort it horizontally or vertically.
So you can get some pretty crazy things going on here.
We'll say OK.
Now when you do this, it actually puts it into your Appearance.
So we'll come down here to our Appearance window.
If you don't have this open, you can come up here to Window and Appearance.
OK, and so we've got Type here in our Appearance, and we've also got this Warp.
So basically, if we hit CMD Y on our keyboard, it doesn't show the warp.
And that's a good way to know whether it's an effect or actually your text doing that.
So I'm going to hit CMD Y or CTRL Y on a PC again to get back to the normal view.
But that is a really great thing because it means we can change it after we are done with
it, in a way.
So later on, we can just click here.
And if we decide we don't want it that crazy, we can come in here and click on the Warp
Arc in the Appearance palette.
And we can bump down that bend a little bit, get rid of the horizontal, and maybe the vertical.
All right, so now let's move on to the Arc Lower.
And I'm not going to go over all these because it kind of gives you a little picture that
shows what's going to happen.
So there's really no point in going over all of them.
But just know in all of these, you have the same types of distortion that you can use
so it's pretty cool.
OK, I'm just going to cancel that.
And we'll just delete this warp from here.
So that puts us right back to our original 'grad' word.
Now the other way of warping items is to use your own shapes and put that text inside the
shape.
And the only issue with this is sometimes it gives you some pretty crazy results.
So I'm going to paste in a grad cap that I've already built in Illustrator.
And I want to show you how we can put this word into the cap and kind of follow along
the edges of it.
To do this, we're going to use something called an Envelope.
And it's pretty easy to use that.
Sometimes, as I said, the effects are kind of crazy.
I'm going to hit G to select this part of my grad cap, and I'm going to copy that.
And then I'm going to paste in front, which is CMD F. Now I'm going to make this a little
bit smaller.
And this will be where my text is going to go.
So I'm going to move this up and put it right on top of my text.
This is going to end up being like a window so we don't have to have a fill or stroke
on it.
So I'm going to go ahead and take that off.
Just come over here and click the 'None' button.
And when we do this, we have to select two things.
So we have to select a top object, and then whatever we're going to put into that top
object.
So I've got the top object selected, I'll hold SHIFT and select the word 'grad.'
And now we'll come up here to Object > Envelope Distort and Make with Top Object.
So you can kind of see that it did this crazy thing to it.
If you hit CMD Y or CTRL Y on a PC, you won't be able to see your text anymore.
So to get that text to be still editable, you can come up here to Object > Envelope
Distort and Edit Contents.
And then you can see the text here.
So now if we hit CMD Y or CTRL Y on a PC, we can see the actual text back there.
So it gets kind of crazy when it gets stuffed into corners like this.
So another way of doing this would be to just chop the two edges off so it wouldn't be able
to wrap all the way down in there and just have it chopped off here.
Let's try that.
So I'm gonna copy this again and paste.
We'll make it a little bit smaller.
I'll hit M to get my rectangle tool and draw a couple boxes.
I'll hold SHIFT and OPT to copy.
And I'm going to select all of those things and hit SHIFT M, which is my Shape Builder
tool, hold OPT and then just delete these parts out here.
OK, so I'll type 'grad' again, get on my selection tool, and make it much bigger.
And the text has to be behind the shape.
So we need to do SHIFT CMD left bracket or Object > Arrange > Send to Back.
Now select them both and go to Object > Envelope Distort and Make with Top Object.
Now sometimes you'll get an error message like this.
And I think the reason this is happening is because this is a Compound Path, it needs
to be just a regular path.
So to do That, we can just select it.
Go to Object > Compound Path and Release.
Now we'll select both go to Object > Envelope Distort and Make with Top Object.
OK, and that's worked.
And we don't have this crazy thing going on in the corners over here.
All right, let's edit this.
And I'm going to change my black text to white.
And now I'll move it down into the graduation cap.
And that's it, the text is actually flowing into the shape like we had hoped.
So those are two ways that you can warp your text.
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