today I have an illustrator tutorial well show you some illustrator gradient techniques
so follow along rand recreate some cool illustrator typography effects in
today's tutorial graphics tutorial
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this design could be considered an illustrator typography logo but it
doesn't have to be a logo design so I've pretty much labeled it as a gradient
typography effect design in illustrator you need to type out your word or your
words with the type tool so Jesus is a similar to mine here for your typography
design it is the font I'm using in case you want to know what it is you want to
use of something that's quite a thick and blocky and a sans-serif font we need
to first expand the typography and then in group it to start today's Illustrator tutorial
as you can see here now the public reason groups in command R or control R on a PC
control wire to binoculars you can then bring down a guide select all of you
typography and the guide but then click the guide one more time
so I said thick ibly line around there
in the align window you can then make sure everything is perfectly aligned the
guides like so using the arrow keys on your keyboard you can then move the
typography letters left and right
with the direct selection tool you can also hold down shift to select multiple
anchor points at once and then nudge them over to you you want to leave a lap
this part of the typography design I
want to unite the first two letters into design in the Pathfinder window so they
become one shape this is where we can't add the grain effects to our typography
design make sure the slider is set to 100% along with your colors and we're
going to use three colors for this design to click in the middle of the
slider to add a third one
if you click here in the gradient window you can access the greyscale colors we
want to use shades of gray and white for this type of clear design the white want
getting the middle of the two darker shades on the left and right
here we can change the direction of the gradient effects on the topography
design and this would give an illusion of light
we can move them exactly behind by moving it to the back of all layers then add
another gradient style effects to the letter I will adjust the gradient slider
with the same technique as before at the same time I'm going to skip ahead for
this part of the tutorial so here's my gradient effects typography so far in
today's Illustrated tutorial select one of the letters and access the gradient
window and then double-click the box from here we to access the RGB window
and then copy the code with command or control C and then in the fill color
pasty in the command with ctrl or command V
with the rectangle tool I'm going to make a rectangle and then place it
behind the gradient effects topography
because it is a similar shade the gray shadows the topography will almost look
as if it's blending into the background in some areas now in your gradient
window make sure you have only two colors this time then turn the light
shade down to a zero percent opacity with the RGB color code we copied before
paste it back into the dark section of the gradient techniques
to really make our illustrator typography effect look really cool in
today's illustrator tutorial take the pencil and then with the gradient you
just made make a shape like mine here
and you can see that it was pretty cool now I'm not any area you have ography
you want to overlap itself I'm quickly going to show you how to remove a
section of the illustrator typography lettering with the pen tool make a shape
over the area you want to remove to let the shape and a letter of those by
holding down shift on the keyboard and then in the Pathfinder window choose the
- run option with the direct selection tool we can go back in and move the
points around to make a crisp outline on your gradients and your lettering
I've been testing out the shape the letter will automatically be brought to
the front of all layers so I'm going to send it to the very back and then bring
it forward one layer above the background
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