1 00:00:00.03 --> 00:00:02.05 - In this movie, we'll decorate the iPhone screen 2 00:00:02.05 --> 00:00:04.02 with this text, as well as this 3 00:00:04.02 --> 00:00:06.05 flower set to a special blend mode. 4 00:00:06.05 --> 00:00:08.07 Now the iPhone uses a custom font, 5 00:00:08.07 --> 00:00:11.06 that's based on Helvetica Neue UltraLight, 6 00:00:11.06 --> 00:00:13.06 which happens to be installed on this system, 7 00:00:13.06 --> 00:00:15.01 and I'll show you how it works. 8 00:00:15.01 --> 00:00:17.09 But it's probably not installed on your system. 9 00:00:17.09 --> 00:00:19.05 If you don't have access to it, 10 00:00:19.05 --> 00:00:21.01 you can find other light fonts 11 00:00:21.01 --> 00:00:23.03 by going up to the type menu, and 12 00:00:23.03 --> 00:00:25.04 choosing Add Fonts From Typekit, 13 00:00:25.04 --> 00:00:28.01 and that will open Typekit in a browser window 14 00:00:28.01 --> 00:00:30.00 as we're seeing right here, and then 15 00:00:30.00 --> 00:00:31.07 once Typekit gets done loading, 16 00:00:31.07 --> 00:00:33.00 you can just go ahead and click 17 00:00:33.00 --> 00:00:35.01 in the search field and enter Light, 18 00:00:35.01 --> 00:00:37.08 and press the enter key, or the return key on the Mac, 19 00:00:37.08 --> 00:00:39.09 to do a search for the light fonts that are 20 00:00:39.09 --> 00:00:43.04 included on Typekit at any given moment in time. 21 00:00:43.04 --> 00:00:45.05 You can see these light fonts demonstrated 22 00:00:45.05 --> 00:00:47.04 down here at the bottom of the screen. 23 00:00:47.04 --> 00:00:49.07 And this icon right here, the first one, indicates 24 00:00:49.07 --> 00:00:51.06 that it's available for the web, 25 00:00:51.06 --> 00:00:54.06 and this second icon, this little cloud icon here, 26 00:00:54.06 --> 00:00:57.03 indicates that it's available for syncing. 27 00:00:57.03 --> 00:00:58.08 So in other words, you can actually 28 00:00:58.08 --> 00:01:01.03 download that font for no extra charge. 29 00:01:01.03 --> 00:01:03.09 It's all part of your Creative Cloud subscription. 30 00:01:03.09 --> 00:01:05.08 So that's one way to work, but I'm going 31 00:01:05.08 --> 00:01:07.09 to show you how to work with Helvetica Neue. 32 00:01:07.09 --> 00:01:09.07 So I'll go ahead and switch to my document 33 00:01:09.07 --> 00:01:13.00 in progress, and then I'm going to zoom in as well, 34 00:01:13.00 --> 00:01:14.08 and then I'll select the type tool, 35 00:01:14.08 --> 00:01:16.07 which you can get by pressing the T key, 36 00:01:16.07 --> 00:01:18.06 and I'll move my cursor inward, 37 00:01:18.06 --> 00:01:20.01 you don't want to see an I beam with 38 00:01:20.01 --> 00:01:23.01 a dotted circle around it, you want to see a dotted square, 39 00:01:23.01 --> 00:01:25.02 at which point, I'll go ahead and click, 40 00:01:25.02 --> 00:01:27.07 in order to position my blinking insertion marker, 41 00:01:27.07 --> 00:01:30.00 and then, you can enter any time you like, 42 00:01:30.00 --> 00:01:33.03 followed by a day, and then a date. 43 00:01:33.03 --> 00:01:34.09 And now, I'll go ahead and press 44 00:01:34.09 --> 00:01:38.05 the escape key in order to create that text object. 45 00:01:38.05 --> 00:01:40.01 We want the text to be centered, 46 00:01:40.01 --> 00:01:41.05 so I'll go ahead and click on the 47 00:01:41.05 --> 00:01:43.08 align center icon up here in the control panel, 48 00:01:43.08 --> 00:01:45.04 or you can press control shift C, 49 00:01:45.04 --> 00:01:47.07 or command shift C on the Mac, 50 00:01:47.07 --> 00:01:49.01 and I'll go ahead and drag this text 51 00:01:49.01 --> 00:01:52.00 so that it snaps into alignment with the vertical guide. 52 00:01:52.00 --> 00:01:53.07 We want this text to be white, 53 00:01:53.07 --> 00:01:54.07 so I'll go ahead and click on the 54 00:01:54.07 --> 00:01:56.06 first color swatch up here in the control panel, 55 00:01:56.06 --> 00:01:59.01 and change it to white, and then, 56 00:01:59.01 --> 00:02:01.09 I'll go ahead and click inside the font option 57 00:02:01.09 --> 00:02:04.01 to select it, and I'll enter Light 58 00:02:04.01 --> 00:02:05.08 in order to see all of the light fonts 59 00:02:05.08 --> 00:02:07.08 that are installed on the system, 60 00:02:07.08 --> 00:02:10.05 which are quite a few, as you can see right here. 61 00:02:10.05 --> 00:02:11.09 But I can hone my search a little bit 62 00:02:11.09 --> 00:02:13.07 by clicking in front of the word light, 63 00:02:13.07 --> 00:02:15.08 and entering Ultra, so I can see 64 00:02:15.08 --> 00:02:17.03 all of the Ultra Light fonts. 65 00:02:17.03 --> 00:02:18.07 And the only one that's upright 66 00:02:18.07 --> 00:02:20.03 and has a normal character width 67 00:02:20.03 --> 00:02:24.08 is this guy right here, Helvetica Neue Std 25 UltraLight, 68 00:02:24.08 --> 00:02:26.01 which I'll go ahead and select 69 00:02:26.01 --> 00:02:28.01 in order to apply it to my text. 70 00:02:28.01 --> 00:02:30.01 And now, I'll go ahead and double click 71 00:02:30.01 --> 00:02:32.02 on that top line of type, in order to 72 00:02:32.02 --> 00:02:34.04 automatically switch back to the type tool, 73 00:02:34.04 --> 00:02:36.05 and position my blinking insertion marker, 74 00:02:36.05 --> 00:02:39.03 and I'll click three times on that top line 75 00:02:39.03 --> 00:02:41.04 to select the entire thing, and I'll 76 00:02:41.04 --> 00:02:43.01 press control shift alt period, 77 00:02:43.01 --> 00:02:46.01 that's command shift option period on the Mac, 78 00:02:46.01 --> 00:02:48.03 in order to increase the type size like crazy, 79 00:02:48.03 --> 00:02:50.07 and then once I get close to the right size, 80 00:02:50.07 --> 00:02:54.01 I'll just press control shift, or command shift period, 81 00:02:54.01 --> 00:02:57.07 until I get my type size to be 48 points 82 00:02:57.07 --> 00:03:00.07 as we're seeing right here, which looks pretty darn good. 83 00:03:00.07 --> 00:03:04.00 Now, I'll click three times on the second line of type, 84 00:03:04.00 --> 00:03:05.07 in order to select the entire thing, 85 00:03:05.07 --> 00:03:07.09 and I'll click on the down pointing arrowhead, 86 00:03:07.09 --> 00:03:09.06 associated with the type style, 87 00:03:09.06 --> 00:03:12.02 and I'll change it to regular old light, 88 00:03:12.02 --> 00:03:14.01 as opposed to ultra light, and then 89 00:03:14.01 --> 00:03:15.05 I'll take the type size down by 90 00:03:15.05 --> 00:03:18.02 pressing control shift, or command shift comma. 91 00:03:18.02 --> 00:03:20.02 Now, the text is too close together, 92 00:03:20.02 --> 00:03:22.03 so we need to expand the letting. 93 00:03:22.03 --> 00:03:23.09 The best way to do that is to click 94 00:03:23.09 --> 00:03:25.03 on the word Character in order 95 00:03:25.03 --> 00:03:26.09 to bring out the character panel, 96 00:03:26.09 --> 00:03:28.06 and then I'll click on this little A 97 00:03:28.06 --> 00:03:30.03 sitting on top of another one, 98 00:03:30.03 --> 00:03:33.01 and I'll change the letting value to 16 points, 99 00:03:33.01 --> 00:03:34.04 and I'll press the enter key, 100 00:03:34.04 --> 00:03:36.06 or the return key on the Mac, to make that change. 101 00:03:36.06 --> 00:03:39.03 All right, now we need to position the text where it goes, 102 00:03:39.03 --> 00:03:41.01 so I'll go ahead and press the escape key 103 00:03:41.01 --> 00:03:42.09 to switch back to the black arrow tool, 104 00:03:42.09 --> 00:03:44.09 and I'll drag that center point 105 00:03:44.09 --> 00:03:46.08 associated with this point text upward 106 00:03:46.08 --> 00:03:49.09 until it snaps into alignment with the top 107 00:03:49.09 --> 00:03:52.03 of that dark rectangle right there, 108 00:03:52.03 --> 00:03:54.01 and then what I did is I measured 109 00:03:54.01 --> 00:03:56.06 the distance from the top of the screen 110 00:03:56.06 --> 00:03:59.03 on a real iPhone, down to the baseline 111 00:03:59.03 --> 00:04:01.04 of this top line of text, and it just so 112 00:04:01.04 --> 00:04:03.08 happens to be exactly 60 points. 113 00:04:03.08 --> 00:04:05.04 And so I'll press shift down arrow 114 00:04:05.04 --> 00:04:08.08 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 times, in order to 115 00:04:08.08 --> 00:04:11.02 move that text into the proper location. 116 00:04:11.02 --> 00:04:13.08 And then I'll click off the text to deselect it. 117 00:04:13.08 --> 00:04:15.02 All right, now we want to add that 118 00:04:15.02 --> 00:04:17.01 flower to the center of the screen. 119 00:04:17.01 --> 00:04:18.06 And I've gone ahead and created 120 00:04:18.06 --> 00:04:21.04 the flower in advance inside of this file right here, 121 00:04:21.04 --> 00:04:23.00 which is available to those of you 122 00:04:23.00 --> 00:04:25.02 who are premium members of lynda.com 123 00:04:25.02 --> 00:04:27.02 But, if for some reason you'd like 124 00:04:27.02 --> 00:04:28.08 to create this effect yourself, 125 00:04:28.08 --> 00:04:31.06 it's a little more advanced than what we've done so far, 126 00:04:31.06 --> 00:04:33.07 but it is available for immediate viewing 127 00:04:33.07 --> 00:04:35.09 in my course Deke's Techniques. 128 00:04:35.09 --> 00:04:39.05 You want to check out episodes 382 and 384, 129 00:04:39.05 --> 00:04:41.03 which tell you how to create this effect 130 00:04:41.03 --> 00:04:44.07 from scratch using nothing more than two circles, 131 00:04:44.07 --> 00:04:46.01 that's all we're seeing. 132 00:04:46.01 --> 00:04:47.02 All right, so I'm going to go ahead 133 00:04:47.02 --> 00:04:49.06 and click on the flower to select this group, 134 00:04:49.06 --> 00:04:51.04 I've gone ahead and grouped these guys together, 135 00:04:51.04 --> 00:04:53.06 and then, I'll go up to the edit menu 136 00:04:53.06 --> 00:04:55.01 and choose the copy command, 137 00:04:55.01 --> 00:04:58.03 or of course you can press control C, or command C on a Mac. 138 00:04:58.03 --> 00:04:59.07 All right, now I'll switch back to my 139 00:04:59.07 --> 00:05:01.00 document in progress, and I'll 140 00:05:01.00 --> 00:05:03.05 go up to the edit menu and choose paste. 141 00:05:03.05 --> 00:05:05.03 Just paste, nothing more, or you could 142 00:05:05.03 --> 00:05:07.05 press control V, or command V on the Mac 143 00:05:07.05 --> 00:05:09.07 in order to paste that flower into the center 144 00:05:09.07 --> 00:05:12.01 of the visible portion of the artboard. 145 00:05:12.01 --> 00:05:13.09 All right, now I'll go ahead and drag it 146 00:05:13.09 --> 00:05:15.06 by it's center point, so that it snaps 147 00:05:15.06 --> 00:05:17.06 into alignment with the intersection 148 00:05:17.06 --> 00:05:19.04 of those two guidelines, and I'll press 149 00:05:19.04 --> 00:05:21.06 shift down arrow twice in order 150 00:05:21.06 --> 00:05:24.00 to move the flower down 20 points. 151 00:05:24.00 --> 00:05:25.05 All right, now I want to blend 152 00:05:25.05 --> 00:05:26.08 the brightness that we're seeing 153 00:05:26.08 --> 00:05:30.00 inside the flower with that blue color of the gradient. 154 00:05:30.00 --> 00:05:32.00 You can do that by clicking on 155 00:05:32.00 --> 00:05:34.02 the word opacity up here in the control panel, 156 00:05:34.02 --> 00:05:36.05 and then clicking on normal in order 157 00:05:36.05 --> 00:05:39.00 to bring up a list of blend modes, 158 00:05:39.00 --> 00:05:40.09 which are more complicated mathematical 159 00:05:40.09 --> 00:05:43.08 means of blending objects inside Illustrator, 160 00:05:43.08 --> 00:05:46.05 and then choose this last one, Luminosity, 161 00:05:46.05 --> 00:05:49.04 and that will keep the luminous levels of the flower 162 00:05:49.04 --> 00:05:52.06 and blend in the color from the gradient in the background. 163 00:05:52.06 --> 00:05:54.08 At which point I'll go ahead and press the escape key 164 00:05:54.08 --> 00:05:56.07 in order to hide that panel, I'll click off 165 00:05:56.07 --> 00:05:58.09 the art work in order to deselect it, 166 00:05:58.09 --> 00:06:00.09 and I'll zoom out so that we can take in 167 00:06:00.09 --> 00:06:03.06 the entire iPhone as well, and then 168 00:06:03.06 --> 00:06:05.06 finally, just in case you happen to open 169 00:06:05.06 --> 00:06:07.02 this document in the future, 170 00:06:07.02 --> 00:06:08.08 I don't want you to get a font warning, 171 00:06:08.08 --> 00:06:10.09 so I'll go ahead and select this text, 172 00:06:10.09 --> 00:06:12.03 and I'll go up to the type menu 173 00:06:12.03 --> 00:06:14.03 and choose create outlines, 174 00:06:14.03 --> 00:06:16.00 or I could press control shift O, 175 00:06:16.00 --> 00:06:17.09 or command shift O on a Mac, 176 00:06:17.09 --> 00:06:19.04 in order to convert that editable 177 00:06:19.04 --> 00:06:21.08 text into static path outlines. 178 00:06:21.08 --> 00:06:22.09 And now I'll go ahead and click 179 00:06:22.09 --> 00:06:25.01 off the text to deselect it, I'll switch 180 00:06:25.01 --> 00:06:26.09 over to the layers panel, and I'll 181 00:06:26.09 --> 00:06:28.07 turn off the guides layer so that 182 00:06:28.07 --> 00:06:31.01 we can take in the phone all by itself. 183 00:06:31.01 --> 00:06:32.09 And that is at least one way to 184 00:06:32.09 --> 00:06:37.01 decorate an iPhone screen here inside Illustrator.