- [Instructor] In this movie,
I'll show you how our text remains 100% editable,
despite the fact that we've assigned a Calligraphic Brush,
two Art Brushes, and a Scatter Brush.
And then we'll go ahead and fill the letters with a pattern
that aligns to the background.
All right, so first thing I'm going to do
is select my text with the Black Arrow tool
and then I'll highlight the font value
in the Character panel by pressing that keyboard shortcut
of mash-your-fist F.
That is, Control + Shift + Alt + F here on a PC
or Command + Shift + Option + F on the Mac.
All right, now we want to shift to Minion Pro Bold
and so I'm just going to enter Minion Bold like so.
And because I've loaded every single style
associated with this font,
I'm still not quite seeing the one I'm looking for.
I want this guy right there, Minion Pro Bold,
which with any luck is installed on your machine as well,
even if you're not seeing all this other stuff.
All right, now at this point
the text is a little bit too big.
I want to leave the type size, however, set to 360 points.
So I'll go ahead and select this Horizontal Scale value
and take it down to 84%
and then I'll select the Tracking Value right here
and set it to -60.
And these are just values that I came up with
through the usual trial and error.
All right, so as you can see,
all of the Brushes are updated on the fly,
making them some of the most flexible features
in all of Illustrator.
All right, now here inside the Appearance panel,
I'll select the top attribute, which is that orange fill,
and then I'll add a new fill
by clicking on the Add New Fill icon
in the bottom-left corner of the panel,
or you have that keyboard shortcut of Control + \,
that's going to be Command + \ on the Mac.
Now you may see a little bit of a delay because after all,
we are piling a lot of complex effects on this text.
All right, now I'll click on the Fill swatch
here in the Appearance panel
and I'll select this denim pattern
that I've created in advance.
And, again, I will be showing you
exactly how I made this pattern in the very next chapter.
All right, so I'll go ahead and select this guy
and notice that it comes in at the wrong size.
It's way too big.
And so I'm going to scale this fill
using a dynamic Transform effect.
So make sure the fill is active
and then go up to the Effects menu,
choose Distort and Transform,
and choose the Transform command.
Or, if you loaded D keys, you have that keyboard shortcut
of Control + E or Command + E on the Mac for Effect.
And that's going to bring up this dialog box.
I'll go ahead and change both the Horizontal
and Vertical values to 77%.
I just happen to know that this is what I did
in order to transform the background.
Next, I'll set the Angle value to -30 degrees
and then I'll turn on the Preview checkbox
to make sure I've done everything right
at which point, I'll see that
I haven't done everything right
because I'm actually not only transforming the pattern,
I'm scaling and rotating the text as well.
And so what you have to do to fix that obvious problem
is turn off the Transform Objects checkbox.
You should leave the Transform Patterns checkbox on.
After which point, you can go ahead and click OK
to accept that change.
And then lastly, I want to go ahead and blend the pattern
with the fill below
by making sure the top fill is twirled open.
Then you want to click on the word Opacity right here
and change the Blend mode from Normal to Overlay
is going to end up producing the effect we're looking for.
All right, now finally, it occurs to me
that I might like to edit this text for real,
and so I'll go ahead and select the Type tool,
which you can get by pressing the T key.
Then I'll just select the letter U
and I'll replace it with the letter I.
And if you're working along with me,
you can enter a lowercase 'i'
because the all-caps style is turned on.
After which point, just go ahead and press the Esc key
to accept that change.
And now, just so we can see the effect
a little more closely, I'll press the F key
a couple of times to switch to the Full Screen mode.
And then I'll zoom on in as well.
And that's how you edit live text,
even if it's riddled with Brushes and other effects,
here inside the world's most powerful
vector-based drawing program, Adobe Illustrator.