- [Voiceover] In this movie, I'll show you how
to place a photograph inside live, editable text,
to create an effect like this.
Now this text is editable,
meaning that you'll need the proper fonts to open it up.
And those fonts include Myriad Pro,
which is most likely on your machine,
as well as Adobe Caslon Pro,
which you can get online from Typekit.
Alright, so the first step is to select the big text,
and then I'm going to go ahead and switch
to the two-column toolbox, and turn on the Draw Inside mode,
and incidentally, if your screen is big enough
that you can stick with the single-column toolbox,
then you'll have to click and hold on the Draw Normal icon,
and choose Draw Inside from a popup menu.
Next, you want to go up to the File menu and choose
the Place command, or you can press control shift P,
or command shift P on the Mac,
and then I'm going to find the storm clouds image,
once again from the Fotolia image library.
You want to make sure the Link checkbox is turned on,
and then also turn on the Replace checkbox,
and click the Place button in order to place those clouds
directly into the type.
Alright now I'm going to switch back
to the Draw Normal mode,
and I'll switch to the single-column toolbox as well.
Alright, now let's say we want to stroke the letters,
the best way to do that is to go ahead and
twirl open this text layer here inside the Layers panel,
and notice this item right here which is called Clip Group,
go ahead and twirl it open,
and that will show you the Clipping mask,
which is the text, as well as the photograph.
So currently as you can see, the photo is selected,
but if you go ahead and target the text instead,
by clicking on its little circular meatball there,
then you'll gain access to the fill and stroke icons
up here in the control panel.
And now all you need to do is change the color
of the stroke by clicking on the second color swatch
and selecting black from the swatches panel.
And a line weight of one point
is going to work out just fine.
Now let's say I want to add a drop shadow as well.
Well, if you try to add a drop shadow to the clipping mask,
you're going to mess things up.
And so notice, if I bring up the effect menu,
choose Stylize, and then choose Drop Shadow,
and I came up with an opacity of 77%,
as well as X and Y offset values of four points
and a blur of five points, notice the color is set to black,
and so watch what happens
when I turn on the Preview checkbox.
For whatever reason, we end up losing
the fill and stroke attributes.
So what you have to do instead is cancel out
of this dialog box and then target the entire clipping group
over here in the layers panel,
and make sure that you see the words Clip Group
over on the far left side of the control panel,
and then go up to the Effect menu,
once again choose Stylize, followed by Drop Shadow,
and armed with those same values,
I'll go ahead and turn on the Preview checkbox
and you can see that this time, things work out fine.
After which point, I'll go ahead and click okay
to accept that change.
Now one of the great things about this effect
is that I can switch it for a different image
anytime I like.
Now I can do that either by targeting the image,
over here in the layers panel,
or I can click on this Edit Contents icon,
on the far left side of the control panel,
and then I'll just go ahead and click on Storm clouds.jpg
and choose Relink, and then I'll locate this file
called Bluish clouds.jpg, and I'll click on the Place button
in order to replace those grey clouds
with something a little more colorful.
And now, I just want you to notice
that this is still editable text,
and so if I were to switch to the type tool,
which I can get by pressing the T key,
and then drag over this A for example,
and substitute it with an O,
you can see that the text does indeed remain 100% editable.
And that's how you place a photographic image
into live, editable text here inside Illustrator.