today I'm bringing you an illustrator tutorial are we going to create some
cool vector urban lettering with this illustrator text effect tutorial
how's it going people tom with satori graphics here welcome back for another
Illustrator tutorial if you follow me on instagram you may have seen a long long
time ago summer than stalker weekly literally but I uploaded today I'm going
to show you how to make this effect as a vector so you will be able to scatter
design up and down to any size and retain quality in this cam design so use
a welcome the design and lettering and customize it today I didn't have time to
do that so I'm going to use a default typeface to which you can download by
the link in the description will resources for this herb the lettering
text effects are in the description below as usual crazy outlines of the
lettering and then improve the selection like so enabling you to edit each
individual letter
smash command-r or controller on a PC to bring up your rulers so you can then
drag them and ID from the top that align your lettering horizontally you can then
move the resize each letter of your vehicle over lettering we can also grab
the explosion tool and edit each individual's anchor point of the
lettering or even multiple points at once so take your time to use a direct
selection tool to really go into each and every curve of your lettering
customise it to how you think looks best for your design
a really good tip I have for you is to go to objects Path and simplify select
preview and then adjust the amount of simplification you want to add here this
will limit the amount of anchor points on your path allowing you to adjust the
style of the vector lettering easily as you can see on the a here there are many
more anchor points than compared to the n you will now need to open up the path
under window for the next step of this illustrator tutorial and we need to opt
for a stroke rather than a fill in a color palette and choose the color
you're going to be able to see it with the color of your vector lettering
you'll use the pen tool to create a line along I vector lettering to simulate
Lights you would just want to make one fluid line across the lettering
if you mess it up a bit hit delete and retool the line you can go in after with
the direct selection tool and edit a line path anyway
then we can increase the weight here the line and choose this stroke start to
narrow down the ends of the line you can still hit it and move the line around
when you make the next step it will be more troublesome to edit the line so
make sure you make your edits now good then need to outline the stroke of the
line so it's just going to be one shape another strategy then hold down shift to
select the line and letter behind there and choose the - for an optional opened
window the line will now be cut into the shape and it's now just one complete
shape it is true love your letters and then move on to the next step of this
illustrated tutorial in the description there are two more links for two
separated unloads we could add these in Photoshop that our design wouldn't be a
vector select the vector that you want to use and hit command so your ctrl key
on a PC it's copier and then on your lettering hit command V or ctrl V on a
PC to paste it in use the eyedropper tool to select the same color as your
lettering and beside it into place
if you had many of these vectors it may slow down your computer to get around
this you can collect a vector then usually unite option and Pathfinder this
would turn hundreds of shapes to make up that one vector into a single shape and
it helps a lot it may take a while to get it where you want it to be and you
can also use it direct selection tool to edit the vector points as well I'm not
going to grab one of the other vectors these are the ones that you're going to
want to unite the Pathfinder window and then place them over your design as they
use many many shapes to make up the vector so go ahead and add paint
splatters that you want to use for your lettering design
once you happy it put the pup under window again if you haven't left it open
and closed everything that makes will be back to the lettering then United as one
shape like so let me take a while to complete due to the sheer amount of
shapes involved here
now we can change the color of the vector urban lettering and edit it in
many different ways this vector so you will be able to add it to any design the
security and peace of mind other quality is going to remain good the last step
for the tutorial will be in photoshop it's going to be adding a condition
touch and it is optional of course
so copy lettering smilla straighter and drop in to docq in the Photoshop
I've gone for a nice orange tone my background here using the rectangle tool
once I've done that I will flatten the image like so you come under your
control key on a PC to paste your lettering in place and then resize it
with the right size for your design and then on the text layer go down to the
effects option we're going to add a drop shadow of black color the blend mode is
going to be overlay so that you get this nice red effect over the orange play
around with the other settings as they're going to be relevant for your
design only and now signals the end of this graphic design urban lettering tutorial
tutorial
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