today I walk you through how to place yourself into a vector poster design
from start to finish using adobe illustrator
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this video and how to place yourself in a vector poster design you will find
some links one of the links is for its grungy vector download which we're going
to be using later in the tutorial making you document in Illustrator and
today I'm gonna use A3 for my design
use a portrait orientation and of course CMYK with a high resolution
he command or control R to open up your rulers and then place guides ten
millimeters in from the page edge if you didn't have millimeters as the
measurement right-click on the rulers and change it here
I'm just adding these guys to keep everything nice and neat and a white
border looks really professional in my opinion on a poster design
I click the color palette and choose a bright yellow to orange color
and then with the rectangle tool create a shape within the guides we've just
created you can adjust you the selection tool but making sure it's perfectly
moved up to the guidelines absolute position to get a rectangle in your
vector poster design right-click the artboard and hide the guides because we
don't need them anymore also highlight the yellow rectangle and
then lock in position this is going to be the basis of our vector poster design
in today's illustrator tutorial I'm using an image here from the internet
you can find the link for this image in the description below but of course you
can use yourself for this vector poster design so choose an image of yourself
that has a bright background preferably whites open it up in Illustrator and
then make it rather small this is going to help loading times for the next step
with the image highlighted I open up the image trace window we want to choose the
black on white option and make sure you have the ignore white box checked
you can click preview to see how it's going to turn out as well as playing
around the slide options the threshold knob trim an increase or decrease the
amount of black on your image it may take some time to get right once you're
happy need to head up the object image trace and then expand
we now have a vet image of yourself or a person to adds to our vector phasor
design
you can hold down shift and click and drag to resize it proportionally
you're next add some details to opposed to design you can improve the person and
edit or delete aspects of the image
once you're done select all parts that make up the vector person and hit
command or control G to group them together or you can headed object and
group now we can add some details or other aspects to our vector poster
design that's going to really tie it together
using white or black you can add shapes with the pen tool
I'm going for a very graphic now track feel to my place of design using the pen
tool make shapes and move them around or edit them with your selection tools
add as many or as few as you like on your ventilator design
I'm going to show you a very cool technique with a transparency window in
Illustrator we reflect a poster design so open up the transparency window with
the shape selected click make mask and check both boxes and then highlight the
right hand side window with the gren directors opened click 1 and hit ctrl or
command C to copy it then back in the vector poser design in the transparency
window your command will control V paste in place
if you move it over the shape you can see the effect it has
this goes really well with a victim postal design style
so one more time quickly select the shape so you can make a mask in the
transparency window uncheck both boxes and then highlight the right window you
can then copy and paste it when director of your choice pretty cool huh
and this does work for any shape or quality of vector poster design
so finally if I did some typography you can have some fun and play around in
different fonts and layouts I will show you each fun that I've used I'm about to
face a design in case you want to use the same phone as me after I will lastly
show you how to mock up your vector poster design in Photoshop
once you vape on your markup and Photoshop which is linked in the
description below you need to open up the layer folder here and then I will
click the layer that says paste in your design once you have placed it in you
design on top go up to file and save as
it should ask you to save with temporary items by default go ahead and click Save
and then go back to place a design and wallah I hope you enjoyed placing
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