so today we're going to be taking some text as you can see on screen here
and then we're going to generate some really visually appealing 3d text effects by using the
wonderful software adobe illustrator now i do have some crucial tips and also some helpful pointers
that will make the final outcome more efficient for your projects so welcome back and we are of
course in adobe illustrator before we start to make the 3d text effects i need to show you some
important things about today's project firstly you want to generate three different groups of text
so one of them is going to be a main heading and for that i've used the font red wing the second
text group needs to be aligned to the right as you can see here and that's going to make sense
later and then the third group of texts should be down below notice how i've used different font
weights and also different sizes to create some kind of contrast now this makes the design more
interesting and you can play around with differing hierarchies for your design also it is going to be
a wise move to copy your text off to the right by holding down the alt option key
and then clicking and dragging it is just good to have that text there as a backup but another
important part of today's design is going to be the use of color so for mine i actually came
into the explore color scheme panel here and i just applied some color schemes to my swatches
okay so let's get cracking with this 3d text effect we first need to create a rectangle of
any kind of color really and the rectangle tool is m on your keyboard now you could make a perfect
square or a rectangle it's completely up to you and your design today the color of your text
will actually matter initially but we can change that later so go ahead and then open up the
symbols panel and we're going to drop one by one each of those text groups into this panel you can
of course name each different symbol if you want to but i'm not going to do that for today's video
so select your rectangle and then come up to effect 3d and then extrude and bevel
so the blue surface on the cube is going to be your main surface where that large text title
is probably going to go so yeah just rotate the cube around until you think it matches how you
want your design to look also extend out the other dimensions as you can see me doing here so now we
want to make use of that map art option and also please do wait to the very end because i'm going
to show you how to customize the design which most tutorials on this subject probably wouldn't do
so the red outline is going to highlight which of those six sides you're currently working on
and let's assign that large text title from the symbols menu here whilst you resize your text you
can hold down shift and that's going to prevent the text itself from being distorted and to change
the side that you want to be applying artwork on just simply click that right arrow here so we're
now going to apply the text on the left and let's apply the second text symbol that we added earlier
i do need to rotate this by 180 degrees and again if i hold down shift when i do this
things are going to rotate and snap to every 45 degrees so we can keep things
precise and then finally we're going to apply the text to the lower right side of my design
so you can of course spend you know quite a lot of time playing around with the layouts
and things like that and you're probably not going to be satisfied the first time you make
this design as it is going to take a few attempts to get it done properly
anyway once you do have your design you're probably going
to realize that you cannot edit the color of the text
and so we're going to need to first expand the appearance from the top drop down menu
then come into the pathfinder panel and make use of the divide
function this just splits up each and every vector path on your design into individual parts
the thing is though we also are going to have invisible vector shapes that are the
negative space within the lettering itself and we do of course want to remove those
so from here come up to ungroup which is going to ungroup everything and then just click one
of your letters with it highlighted come into the select menu and then select the same color
this will select all of your lettering with that color and then just press command 2 on a mac or
ctrl 2 on a pc to lock it down and then you can just select everything and hit delete on your
keyboard which is going to remove those pesky invisible shapes finally press alt option plus
either command or control and then two to unlock everything and then from here your design should
be customizable in terms of the color and like i said you probably will need a few attempts to get
this done properly because it is kind of a trial and error kind of deal with this design and so
don't beat yourself up if it doesn't look perfect the first time you have a go at this design
and like i said looking for color schemes on the adobe color schemes menu
is really helpful and it does offer up some really nice color schemes as you can see here
with my complementary orange and kind of blue tones and if you want to learn something else
today do remember to click a video on screen until next time guys design your future today
peace
you