in today's graphic design Illustrated tutorial learn how to make this 3d paper
illusion effect that can then be applied to poster designs and so forth as
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obviously need some typography or some texts and I'm using the font Elrond and
I'm going to use black or heavy as the thickness for my type then simply come
up to type and create outlines from here press a for the direct selection tool
then click on the middle or any middle sections of your type and then press
Delete twice we now have the shape foundation
for our design and we're going to need to make a duplicate so drag it off to
the side then hold down the alt option key and then bring a copy onto the
outboards we then need to make a third copy just a slightly bit lower and off
to the right from the original so again use the adoption key to click and drag
diagonally downwards then select both of the letters and you can actually come
into the outline mode by pressing command or ctrl Y if you want to but
once you have both selected heading to the Pathfinder menu and use the minus
front option
you only want the top section here so we're gonna have to ungroup the shapes
and then delete the lower parts pressing shift annex will shift the stroke of
your shape over to a fill and then again using the option key click and drag to
duplicate this down below you can actually hold down shift to make sure
the duplication travels at 45 degrees downwards so when you're ready you can
now add a color to your shapes and of course experiment in different colors
for your designs but I'm personally going from a light kind of beige color
to a vibrant pinky red after you've learned the technique in today's video
you can of course come back and change the colors or you can actually even
change the colors at a later stage which you're going to find out soon you need
to make sure that the top left shape is brought to the front of all layers then
select both shapes and take the blend tool here W is the keyboard shortcut and
then hold down shift and click each shape once you've now blended the shapes
together but hold down your option key and then click again here and change the
mode to specified steps again you can play around the numbers for your design
but just click the preview box and change numerical values until you're
happy with the design
so now we're going to need to expand the appearance as it's not actually
individual vector shapes so go ahead and expand the appearance of your design you
can then of course ungroup them and this is where you can change the colors if
you want to but I'm not going to do that today on the upper-left object create a
drop shadow and again experiment with the different numbers and values with
the preview box checked this will take a degree of trial and error but once
you're happy click OK when you are happy you can select all of the other shapes
at once and go ahead and add the exactly the same drop shadow effects as
illustrator will remember the previous numbers so we nearly finished today but
to make our design look like 3d paper I do have an effect to add the very end of
the video so now it's just the case of taking our original shape and bringing
it onto your design go ahead and readjust it and scale it up or down so
it overlays the color sections perfectly you then need to bring this shape to the
very front of all layers and then select everything there right or ctrl click the
selection and then create a clipping mask now that looks pretty neat you must
admit however there's one final effect I'm going to add here and that is a
texture effect now you might think that we use the canvas texturizer because it
needs to look like paper but I personally found the sandstone looks
better than the canvas however this is completely up to you but I personally
prefer the sandstone effect
finally to give the proper impression that the actual design is imprinted
inside the paper there needs to be a shadow around the top edge I achieve
this by selecting a rectangle along the edge here and then adding a gradient
with both sides being black however one side of the gradient needs to have a 0%
opacity do this for the left-hand side and the upper edge sections and this
will complete the illusion of having your 3d paper effect printed into a
sheet of paper you can then take this design and use it any which way you want
to so for example making a poster and so forth let me know what you guys want to
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