- [Voiceover] Alright, now let's say
we want to take that effect from the previous movie,
with it's skinny stroke and it's strong shadow
and we want to thicken up the strokes
and move them behind the letters
and add this beveled edge.
Then, we're going to have to take a very different approach.
So, I'll go ahead and switch over to our
image so far, and I'll bring up my layers panel,
if it's not already available on screen,
and I'll go ahead and twirl open that text layer,
and then you want to twirl open that
clipping group right there and then click
on the letters, which represent the clipping mask,
and shift click on the clouds
in order to select that photographic image.
And I'd just grab them and drag them and drop them
out of the clipping group like so.
And that will go ahead and release all the effects.
Alright, now what you want to do
is click on the clouds image, and if you can't get to it,
try clicking near one of the edges
so that you don't end up selecting the type.
And then what you want to do is
right click somewhere inside the document window,
choose arrange, and choose bring to front.
Alright, now I want you to go up to the control panel
and click on the embed button.
So, in order to pull off this effect,
we cannot have a linked image.
It needs to be embedded inside the file.
And that, by the way, is going to increase the size
of this file, because now it contains the image.
Alright, now what we want to do
is drag the image and drop it into
the swatches panel like so.
And what that's going to do is
create a new pattern swatch.
Now, having done that, you can
go ahead and get rid of the image
by pressing the backspace key or the delete key on a Mac.
And then, go ahead and double click on this
new swatch in order to bring out the
pattern options panel.
And just go ahead and rename this guy 'clouds'
and then press the enter key or the return key
on a Mac to accept that name and then,
you can exit the pattern editing mode
by pressing the escape key.
And, incidentally, I'll be devoting an entire chapter
to patterns in my mastery course.
But, for now, just go ahead and click on that big type
with the black arrow tool, and then
click on the very first swatch
up here in the control panel and
change that fill to the clouds pattern.
Alright, now at this point, we've got a problem.
You can see that the clouds are repeating
over here on the right hand side,
and to remedy that problem, just go ahead
and press the enter key to hide the panel
and then press enter, or return on a Mac,
in order to bring up the move dialog box.
And what you want to do is turn off
the transform objects check box
and turn on transform patterns.
And then, turn on the preview check box
so you can see what you're doing,
and what I did was I started with a horizontal
and a vertical value of zero, like so,
and then I selected the horizontal value
and I press shift up arrow until I saw that edge
over here on the right hand side go away.
And so with horizontal set to 50 points,
and vertical set to zero, you end up
achieving a seamless effect, at which point
you can go ahead and click okay in order
to accept that change.
Alright, now we want to get rid of our
existing stroke by clicking on the second swatch
up here on the control panel and changing it to none.
And now we want to stroke the entire text object
by going up to the window menu
and choosing the appearance command.
Next, go ahead and click on the add new stroke icon
in the bottom left corner of the panel
in order to add a stroke like so.
And, I'm going to increase that line weight value
to eight points, and I'm also going to make sure
that we have the right shade of black selected.
We don't, so I'll go ahead and change
the stroke to a darker black like so.
Now, at this point you can see that the stroke
is interrupting the letter forms,
which looks terrible, so go ahead and grab
this stroke and drag it below the characters like so.
And that'll move the stroke below the fill.
Now, let's add another stroke by clicking
on this one and then clicking on
the add new stroke icon once again.
And then I'm going to change the color
of that stroke to white this time around
and I'm going to take the line weight value
down to four points to produce this effect here.
And then finally, to create the beveled edge,
I'll go ahead and click on the black stroke
to make it active, and then I'll click on the fx icon
down at the bottom of the panel,
choose distort and transform,
and choose the transform command.
And I'm going to change both of
the move values to 0.05 a piece, like so,
so a very small move.
And then what you want to do is turn
on the preview check box, click in the copies value,
and press shift up arrow a bunch of times
until you take that copies value up to 130
to produce this effect here, after which point
I'll go ahead and click okay to accept that change.
And once again, despite all the modifications
that we've made to this text, it remains 100% editable
as I can demonstrate by switching
to the type tool, which of course I can get
by pressing the t key, and I'll just go ahead
and change this second line of type like so.
And that, friends, is how you add a couple
of strokes behind your photo type
by first embedding the photo and then
converting it to a pattern swatch here inside Illustrator.