today I have five cool ways to enhance
text in Illustrator with these text
effects that you can try for yourself
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what is up people it's tom with satori
graphics back again with another graphic
design tips video today i'm going to
show you five ways to enhance your text in
illustrator if you haven't done already
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enjoy the video the first way to enhance
text illustrator is cutting text into a
shape while still laying it on an image
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illustrator and we need to generate a
shape so I'm going to make a circle
then create some tanks and make sure it
above all the other layers place and
arrange the text so that takes into
shape perfectly
with the tank selected go to type and
then create our lines we need the
pathfinder window open to go ahead and
do that and select the shape on your
tags and choose the minus for an option
now we have one shape with the text cut
into it and we can edit the shape as we
see fit
just quickly i'm going to show you this
one more time in this rectangle here
we can also lower the opacity to add to
the effect
I already have a video based around a
double stress affect what i think is so
useful i know not all of my viewers have
seen it if we add a straight here we
will not have the same effect of using
the appearance window so go up to window
and then appearances you should text
selected click in the top corner of the
window and add a new Phil we must have
the strength below the fill layer then
add the colors you want put the stroke
and put the fill because this trick is
set behind the fill it will not ever run
the fill I look super cool this way
change the way to what you feel looks
best
you may have a jagged spikes or nominees
like this to make them even out o clock
struck window and change to these
settings here you can then add as many
strokes Jewish from here on out in any
size any color
this is a very quick and a very
effective way to enhance your text in
Illustrator as before crazy our lending
a text hold an old since you see this
icon appear and then click on throughout
to duplicate the text so let's both text
objects and use the align tool to make
sure they are perfectly in line then on
the bottom layer pegs go to object
transform and then reflect so let the
horizontal option then move them
together using arrow keys on the bottom
layer change the fill to a gradient like
so in the gradient window change the
angle so that the dark side of the
gradient is at the top
I will click the voice icon and change
the PSP 20 play around the gradient
settings to design your text affect how
you want it to appear
i'm going to show you an easy and cool
way to add manual highlights and shadows
with your text make sure you have
created the outlines and duplicate the
text using the alt and drag method send
this a new layer to the back and make
the color darker than your original text
move the shadow lay around and see
you're happy now so let's the lighter
color than the original text and grab
the pencil there are two ways to add the
highlights and this is the first way you
can do it use the pencil to literally
drill in the shape of the highlight and
then switch it from a stroke to a fill
the second way is the easier option
there use the pencil to make this a
single line and then add bigger way to
the stroke and change the stroke style
to this option here
the last part of this effect requires
adding a dark or black background to
make a rectangle and then send it to the
bag in the appearance window had a
stroke to the original text layer in the
same color background
and they have it manual highlights and
shadows made easy the last way to
enhance text illustrator is offsetting
text basically cutting out tags with
text I will just show you with one
letter as an example here that's good
for create the outlines of your letters
and move them together in position top
layer is going to be the one that will
cut away from the lower one you need to
open a path finder window and copy the
top letter with command Z as they will
disappear in a moment then minus from
the front then paste the letter back
into position with command V
so there we have it my five cool ways to
enhance tags in Illustrator please like
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