Hi, this is Anne for Graphic Design How To, and today I want to tell you about puppet
warp.
So this is something new that just came out in Adobe Illustrator 2018.
So that's CC, you have to have Creative Cloud to have access to this.
It is actually a really easy way to manipulate things.
And it's been available in Photoshop for quite a while.
So the first thing I want to show you is, where it is.
It's underneath the free transform tool.
So if you hit the letter E on your keyboard, you can see where that gets you.
It gets you to here, and then you can just open up the flyout menu and choose puppet
warp.
It won't let you do anything right now because you don't have anything selected.
So get back on your V tool.
So just hit the letter V, and then select something.
We'll select this logo and then hit your puppet warp which I have set up to a key command
now because I have started to use it quite a lot.
So that is Shift P. You'll have to set that up if you want to use it though.
Okay, so I'm going to show you just a few different ways that you can use Puppet Warp
in your projects.
First, we'll work on this logo.
So I've selected it.
And now I can come in here with the Puppet Warp tool and click on different parts of
this graphic.
I can either click on the little circle inside and move it out a little bit and you can see
what it's doing.
It just kind of makes the whole thing a little bit easy to warp.
I'm going to move this one down, and if you get out here in the dotted circle area, you
can rotate.
I am going to move this one in a little bit.
Maybe move this one up.
I just don't want it to look quite so blocky, like it does right now.
And so that's one thing you can do.
You can use it with type to make it look less blocky and give it a little more character.
Now if you have it all grouped, it's going to group...it's going to change the entire
thing.
But I am going to just cut this and paste behind.
And now we'll just move some of this stuff in here.
Okay, so I'm gonna hit E to get to my free transform and then choose the Puppet Warp.
Oh, okay, first we have to select the item and then choose puppet warp.
Okay, and now I'm going to put a few more in here and move these things around separately,
just to add a little bit of character.
Okay, maybe one up here.
And like this.
And I'll put some up here too.
Maybe we can rotate this around a little bit.
So like I said before, the middle part, the very middle is just moving that entire piece.
And then if we're within the dotted line, but not in the middle, that will rotate it.
And let's get down here and make a few changes.
Just don't want it to look so planned, you know.
Okay, and we'll rotate that a little bit.
Okay, then after I'm done with this part, I'm going to go in and just make a few changes
with the A tool.
And you can move things around if things don't look quite the way you want them.
It's just another way of moving things and selecting things.
The next thing I want to show you is how you can use the Puppet Warp tool with a stroke.
So we've got just the stroke.
I'm going to hit CMD Y to show you what this looks like as just a piece.
So it's a 27-point stroke.
And now I'm going to choose my puppet warp tool, and we'll put some different things
on here.
We can move this up.
Maybe move this down.
And then I'm going to hit Shift W and go into the width tool.
And I'm going to add a point right in the middle.
Oops.
And bring it out like this.
And bring this one in, bring this one in.
And now I'm going to go back to the puppet warp and see if we can make some changes here.
I'm going to switch this one around a little bit this way.
And I'll make this one go the opposite way.
Maybe move this over.
Okay, so it's kind of a quick and easy way to make a little swoosh, and now I can rotate
this and maybe have it as part of the N like this.
Mmm, that's a little bit thick.
We can knock the stroke down a little bit and I am going to outline this, copy, cut
the piece off, and paste it in front, and cut that piece off.
So here we have just kind of a stylized N. And you know it needs some more work, but
you kind of get the picture of what you can do with the puppet warp tool with it when
it comes to the stroke.
And now if we CMD Y, this is not expanded, so it's still just a line that you manipulated
with puppet warp.
I want to show you what happens when you have a live type path selected and then you choose
the Puppet Warp tool to manipulate it.
The minute you click, it will turn it into outlines.
So be very cognizant of that.
You definitely do not want to lose your type path possibly.
It depends on what you're going for there.
But it will make an outline, so obviously, if we do a CMD Y this is no longer an editable
piece of type.
So that's the possibilities with live type.
They really don't exist because it will turn everything to outline.
It just skips that step.
Another thing you can quickly do is create kind of a swoosh look.
I'm going to get my puppet warp now and click a few times in here.
And we can easily manipulate this so that it's a nice little swoosh to add on to our
Y.
And I'll just bring this part of the Y down a little bit.
So we can connect it.
And maybe I should have done that with puppet warp because it's not looking too good.
Okay.
So we will put this connected now.
And so you can see how easy it would be I mean it's not perfect right now.
But you can see how easy it would be to just use that puppet warp tool and get some little
swooshes going.
And there's one more thing I wanted to show you.
If you use a brush tool, it's really similar to this line tool.
So this is a pressure brush.
As I'm drawing this, I'm putting more pressure on my pen.
I use a Wacom.
So I have some different weights in here.
Now if we hit the Puppet Warp, we can make even more edits to this.
Maybe we want to have it a little tighter around here, move it over and down.
Here, we can move this up, we can rotate it like this, even add another point here and
do something similar.
So it really helps you have control over how your swooshes look.
It's really helpful for that I found.
So these are a few ways that I think you can use puppet warp.
It's really been working well for me and my workflow and I love that.
Just something new to add.
So that Is my puppet warp tool tips for the day.
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