in today's illustrator tutorial I'm gonna show you how to use a specific
technique to make a text effect post there as you can see on the screen right
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later in today's video so let's make this technique and this curved text
effect poster design and obviously we need some text to start off with so
press command or control T for the character window and then choose your
font I personally will go with a sans-serif and I really tall kind of
font and I'm going for Antonio and bold also with a low tracking you're going to
need to create the outlines of the text so we can actually work with it and
manipulate it into the way that we want to for our poster design which you're
gonna see later using a specific technique so as you can see I've now out
loud' my texts and I press a on my keyboard I access a direct selection
tool which allows me to actually select specific anchor points around my vector
shape now this file that you go for and the approach that you know you want for
your attacks is up to you but I'm gonna select about this kind of area and hold
down shift and click and drag downwards to extend the typography
now as you can see the beyond my bowl just doesn't look very good at all I'm
going to achieve a very nice and neat end result so I'm going to show you how
to you know resolve an issue like this firstly you can multi-select anchor
points by holding down shift and then moving them around and if you don't hold
down shift the Berenstain alignment also you can click a single anchor point and
you can change the handle which will obviously change the curvature of the
line and thus the shape of the actual letter itself I'm gonna make this peak
well or fatter and the magnetic a guide from the left which you can press
command or control part if not the rulers if you didn't have them I'm gonna
set up a guide so I can actually use the pen tool by pressing P on my keyboard
and drawing a vertical line and directly along this guide ultimately creating a
shape that's going to cut out that part of the section of the letter
you must remember to ungroup your lettering before you can perform the
subtract option in the Pathfinder window
but once you've actually taken away any unwanted areas you could head back into
the lettering with the direct selection tool and make sure everything looks neat
and orderly for your text poster design
okay so we've got our text and now we're gonna use the technique that actually is
gonna allow us to warp the typography itself need to select all of your text
and then you come up to objects and volute distorts and then make with mesh
in a new window that appears you can choose the amount of grids that you want
to use I'm gonna use 8x8 for this actual design here but you may want to
experiment with things since you know see what works for your design select
rly all you do is you take that there exhalation tool by pressing a and then
you select the row of points you want edits and then simply note them on your
keyboard left or right
now you can you know experiment with different styles and different lengths
of not months I've got some more tips to show you actually in this tutorial so
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so here's my final poster design I went for a gray background and I've added
some typography with a you know left-to-right balance
from diagonally speaking but that's one tip that I want to share with you and
that is if you press command or control K to bring other preferences you want to
change the nudge settings which will allow you to move the points on your
envelope mesh faster or slower depending on the size of your document also you're
going to want to expand your shape or your typography afterwards which will
allow you to change you know edit the actual style the color and so forth and
if you include everything can then edit individual letters and I can make my
poster look more interesting by say extending the L upwards which I think
looks pretty cool
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