- In this movie, we'll decorate the iPhone screen
with this text, as well as this
flower set to a special blend mode.
Now the iPhone uses a custom font,
that's based on Helvetica Neue UltraLight,
which happens to be installed on this system,
and I'll show you how it works.
But it's probably not installed on your system.
If you don't have access to it,
you can find other light fonts
by going up to the type menu, and
choosing Add Fonts From Typekit,
and that will open Typekit in a browser window
as we're seeing right here, and then
once Typekit gets done loading,
you can just go ahead and click
in the search field and enter Light,
and press the enter key, or the return key on the Mac,
to do a search for the light fonts that are
included on Typekit at any given moment in time.
You can see these light fonts demonstrated
down here at the bottom of the screen.
And this icon right here, the first one, indicates
that it's available for the web,
and this second icon, this little cloud icon here,
indicates that it's available for syncing.
So in other words, you can actually
download that font for no extra charge.
It's all part of your Creative Cloud subscription.
So that's one way to work, but I'm going
to show you how to work with Helvetica Neue.
So I'll go ahead and switch to my document
in progress, and then I'm going to zoom in as well,
and then I'll select the type tool,
which you can get by pressing the T key,
and I'll move my cursor inward,
you don't want to see an I beam with
a dotted circle around it, you want to see a dotted square,
at which point, I'll go ahead and click,
in order to position my blinking insertion marker,
and then, you can enter any time you like,
followed by a day, and then a date.
And now, I'll go ahead and press
the escape key in order to create that text object.
We want the text to be centered,
so I'll go ahead and click on the
align center icon up here in the control panel,
or you can press control shift C,
or command shift C on the Mac,
and I'll go ahead and drag this text
so that it snaps into alignment with the vertical guide.
We want this text to be white,
so I'll go ahead and click on the
first color swatch up here in the control panel,
and change it to white, and then,
I'll go ahead and click inside the font option
to select it, and I'll enter Light
in order to see all of the light fonts
that are installed on the system,
which are quite a few, as you can see right here.
But I can hone my search a little bit
by clicking in front of the word light,
and entering Ultra, so I can see
all of the Ultra Light fonts.
And the only one that's upright
and has a normal character width
is this guy right here, Helvetica Neue Std 25 UltraLight,
which I'll go ahead and select
in order to apply it to my text.
And now, I'll go ahead and double click
on that top line of type, in order to
automatically switch back to the type tool,
and position my blinking insertion marker,
and I'll click three times on that top line
to select the entire thing, and I'll
press control shift alt period,
that's command shift option period on the Mac,
in order to increase the type size like crazy,
and then once I get close to the right size,
I'll just press control shift, or command shift period,
until I get my type size to be 48 points
as we're seeing right here, which looks pretty darn good.
Now, I'll click three times on the second line of type,
in order to select the entire thing,
and I'll click on the down pointing arrowhead,
associated with the type style,
and I'll change it to regular old light,
as opposed to ultra light, and then
I'll take the type size down by
pressing control shift, or command shift comma.
Now, the text is too close together,
so we need to expand the letting.
The best way to do that is to click
on the word Character in order
to bring out the character panel,
and then I'll click on this little A
sitting on top of another one,
and I'll change the letting value to 16 points,
and I'll press the enter key,
or the return key on the Mac, to make that change.
All right, now we need to position the text where it goes,
so I'll go ahead and press the escape key
to switch back to the black arrow tool,
and I'll drag that center point
associated with this point text upward
until it snaps into alignment with the top
of that dark rectangle right there,
and then what I did is I measured
the distance from the top of the screen
on a real iPhone, down to the baseline
of this top line of text, and it just so
happens to be exactly 60 points.
And so I'll press shift down arrow
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 times, in order to
move that text into the proper location.
And then I'll click off the text to deselect it.
All right, now we want to add that
flower to the center of the screen.
And I've gone ahead and created
the flower in advance inside of this file right here,
which is available to those of you
who are premium members of lynda.com
But, if for some reason you'd like
to create this effect yourself,
it's a little more advanced than what we've done so far,
but it is available for immediate viewing
in my course Deke's Techniques.
You want to check out episodes 382 and 384,
which tell you how to create this effect
from scratch using nothing more than two circles,
that's all we're seeing.
All right, so I'm going to go ahead
and click on the flower to select this group,
I've gone ahead and grouped these guys together,
and then, I'll go up to the edit menu
and choose the copy command,
or of course you can press control C, or command C on a Mac.
All right, now I'll switch back to my
document in progress, and I'll
go up to the edit menu and choose paste.
Just paste, nothing more, or you could
press control V, or command V on the Mac
in order to paste that flower into the center
of the visible portion of the artboard.
All right, now I'll go ahead and drag it
by it's center point, so that it snaps
into alignment with the intersection
of those two guidelines, and I'll press
shift down arrow twice in order
to move the flower down 20 points.
All right, now I want to blend
the brightness that we're seeing
inside the flower with that blue color of the gradient.
You can do that by clicking on
the word opacity up here in the control panel,
and then clicking on normal in order
to bring up a list of blend modes,
which are more complicated mathematical
means of blending objects inside Illustrator,
and then choose this last one, Luminosity,
and that will keep the luminous levels of the flower
and blend in the color from the gradient in the background.
At which point I'll go ahead and press the escape key
in order to hide that panel, I'll click off
the art work in order to deselect it,
and I'll zoom out so that we can take in
the entire iPhone as well, and then
finally, just in case you happen to open
this document in the future,
I don't want you to get a font warning,
so I'll go ahead and select this text,
and I'll go up to the type menu
and choose create outlines,
or I could press control shift O,
or command shift O on a Mac,
in order to convert that editable
text into static path outlines.
And now I'll go ahead and click
off the text to deselect it, I'll switch
over to the layers panel, and I'll
turn off the guides layer so that
we can take in the phone all by itself.
And that is at least one way to
decorate an iPhone screen here inside Illustrator.