1 00:00:00.05 --> 00:00:01.05 - [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you 2 00:00:01.05 --> 00:00:03.01 how to create the text effects 3 00:00:03.01 --> 00:00:06.02 that we're seeing at the top and bottom of this document 4 00:00:06.02 --> 00:00:09.01 using text expressed as an art brush. 5 00:00:09.01 --> 00:00:10.03 And we'll also see 6 00:00:10.03 --> 00:00:14.02 how you can distort that text using the Width tool. 7 00:00:14.02 --> 00:00:18.04 Alright, so, I'll go and switch over to our problem so far, 8 00:00:18.04 --> 00:00:19.08 and we don't need this text converted 9 00:00:19.08 --> 00:00:21.02 to path outlines anymore, 10 00:00:21.02 --> 00:00:24.07 because after all, we've now saved it to the Brush panel. 11 00:00:24.07 --> 00:00:26.07 So I'll just click one, shift click the other 12 00:00:26.07 --> 00:00:30.00 and press the Backspace key or the Delete key on the Mac. 13 00:00:30.00 --> 00:00:32.01 Now we need to retrieve the path outlines, 14 00:00:32.01 --> 00:00:34.01 to which we've assigned this text, 15 00:00:34.01 --> 00:00:37.07 and that is anything but obvious in Illustrator. 16 00:00:37.07 --> 00:00:39.08 There is no option where you just select the text 17 00:00:39.08 --> 00:00:42.05 and right click and then choose some sort 18 00:00:42.05 --> 00:00:44.06 of release command. 19 00:00:44.06 --> 00:00:47.06 So what we have to do instead is press the A key 20 00:00:47.06 --> 00:00:49.08 to switch to the White Arrow tool, 21 00:00:49.08 --> 00:00:51.08 and then click off that text, 22 00:00:51.08 --> 00:00:54.03 press Control + Y or Command + Y on the Mac 23 00:00:54.03 --> 00:00:56.02 to switch to the Outline Mode 24 00:00:56.02 --> 00:01:00.06 and go ahead and alt- or option-click on the path outline 25 00:01:00.06 --> 00:01:02.04 independently of the text, 26 00:01:02.04 --> 00:01:04.00 and if you've done it correctly, 27 00:01:04.00 --> 00:01:07.08 you will have selected the entire path outline like so. 28 00:01:07.08 --> 00:01:11.01 Then press Control + C or Command + C on the Mac 29 00:01:11.01 --> 00:01:13.07 in order to copy that path outline. 30 00:01:13.07 --> 00:01:17.00 And now, if you like, you can just press Control + 0 31 00:01:17.00 --> 00:01:19.06 or Command + 0 on the Mac in order to zoom out. 32 00:01:19.06 --> 00:01:21.06 Then just grab the Black Selection tool, 33 00:01:21.06 --> 00:01:23.09 which you can get by pressing the V key. 34 00:01:23.09 --> 00:01:26.02 Shift click on this text down here, 35 00:01:26.02 --> 00:01:27.07 and just press the Backspace key 36 00:01:27.07 --> 00:01:29.02 or the Delete key on the Mac. 37 00:01:29.02 --> 00:01:31.02 Now, if you've done things correctly, 38 00:01:31.02 --> 00:01:32.06 Illustrator will get mad at you 39 00:01:32.06 --> 00:01:35.00 because you're trying to delete this path outline, 40 00:01:35.00 --> 00:01:36.05 which means the text won't have anything 41 00:01:36.05 --> 00:01:38.01 to hang onto anymore. 42 00:01:38.01 --> 00:01:39.06 And so if that happens to you, 43 00:01:39.06 --> 00:01:41.09 what you need to do, is just shift click 44 00:01:41.09 --> 00:01:44.03 on that text a couple of more times 45 00:01:44.03 --> 00:01:45.03 with the Black Arrow tool 46 00:01:45.03 --> 00:01:47.05 until you definitely get it selected, 47 00:01:47.05 --> 00:01:49.03 and then press the Backspace key 48 00:01:49.03 --> 00:01:51.07 or the Delete key on the Mac to get rid of it. 49 00:01:51.07 --> 00:01:53.04 And the reason I'm being so cavalier 50 00:01:53.04 --> 00:01:55.07 about getting rid of this editable text is 51 00:01:55.07 --> 00:01:57.03 because I still have it, 52 00:01:57.03 --> 00:02:00.09 it's just associated with those smooth path outlines. 53 00:02:00.09 --> 00:02:03.03 Alright, so, I'll go ahead and turn those guys off. 54 00:02:03.03 --> 00:02:06.07 Then I'll press Control + F or Command + F on the Mac 55 00:02:06.07 --> 00:02:09.00 in order to paste this object in front 56 00:02:09.00 --> 00:02:10.09 as we're seeing right here. 57 00:02:10.09 --> 00:02:13.09 Alright, now press Control + Y or Command + Y on the Mac 58 00:02:13.09 --> 00:02:16.01 to switch back to the Preview Mode, 59 00:02:16.01 --> 00:02:20.00 and with this path selected I bring up my Brushes panel, 60 00:02:20.00 --> 00:02:22.04 and I'll scroll down the list 61 00:02:22.04 --> 00:02:26.01 until I see that first text brush, different strokes, 62 00:02:26.01 --> 00:02:27.04 and I'll click on it, 63 00:02:27.04 --> 00:02:29.00 and then I'll hide the Brushes panel, 64 00:02:29.00 --> 00:02:30.04 and I want you to notice 65 00:02:30.04 --> 00:02:32.09 that things are already working better. 66 00:02:32.09 --> 00:02:35.08 Illustrator has not only auto fit the text, 67 00:02:35.08 --> 00:02:39.07 but we've got a kind of smooth transition at the word FOR. 68 00:02:39.07 --> 00:02:43.01 Alright now, I want to modify this path outline a little bit, 69 00:02:43.01 --> 00:02:46.02 and this is a kind of thing that is made really hard 70 00:02:46.02 --> 00:02:48.03 when you're working with text on a path. 71 00:02:48.03 --> 00:02:49.05 Let's see, for example, 72 00:02:49.05 --> 00:02:51.02 that the path outline isn't really the shape 73 00:02:51.02 --> 00:02:52.05 I'm looking for, 74 00:02:52.05 --> 00:02:54.08 and I still want it to be symmetrical, 75 00:02:54.08 --> 00:02:56.01 in which case, what I'd like to do, 76 00:02:56.01 --> 00:02:57.07 is get rid of half the path, 77 00:02:57.07 --> 00:02:59.04 modify the other half, 78 00:02:59.04 --> 00:03:02.00 and then flip it and join those pieces together, 79 00:03:02.00 --> 00:03:03.00 which you really can't do 80 00:03:03.00 --> 00:03:04.09 when you're working with text on a path. 81 00:03:04.09 --> 00:03:06.06 So here's what I'm thinking. 82 00:03:06.06 --> 00:03:09.07 I'm going to press the A key to switch to White Arrow tool, 83 00:03:09.07 --> 00:03:12.04 and I'll click on this right hand anchor point, 84 00:03:12.04 --> 00:03:13.09 and I'll press the Backspace key 85 00:03:13.09 --> 00:03:16.01 or the Delete key on the Mac to get rid of it, 86 00:03:16.01 --> 00:03:19.03 and just like that, Illustrator already goes ahead 87 00:03:19.03 --> 00:03:21.03 and path-fits that text. 88 00:03:21.03 --> 00:03:24.03 Alright, now I'm going to select this anchor point right here. 89 00:03:24.03 --> 00:03:25.04 And just so you can follow along 90 00:03:25.04 --> 00:03:27.04 with me as easily as possible, 91 00:03:27.04 --> 00:03:29.06 I'll press the Enter key or the Return key on the Mac 92 00:03:29.06 --> 00:03:31.08 to bring up the Move dialogue box, 93 00:03:31.08 --> 00:03:34.09 and I'll change the Horizontal value to negative 12, 94 00:03:34.09 --> 00:03:38.00 and then I'll change the Vertical value to seven, 95 00:03:38.00 --> 00:03:40.05 and that's going to move this point 12 points to the left 96 00:03:40.05 --> 00:03:44.03 and seven points down, at which point I'll just click Okay. 97 00:03:44.03 --> 00:03:46.00 Alright, now, this point needs to come down, 98 00:03:46.00 --> 00:03:48.01 so I'll select it and press the Enter key 99 00:03:48.01 --> 00:03:50.00 or the Return key on the Mac again. 100 00:03:50.00 --> 00:03:52.05 I'll change the Horizontal value to zero this time, 101 00:03:52.05 --> 00:03:56.02 and I'll change the Vertical value to 15 points, 102 00:03:56.02 --> 00:03:59.01 and that'll move that point down as we're seeing here, 103 00:03:59.01 --> 00:04:02.07 at which time I'll click Okay to accept that change. 104 00:04:02.07 --> 00:04:05.07 Alright, now, I want this control handle to be horizontal. 105 00:04:05.07 --> 00:04:07.04 So I'll drag it and then press 106 00:04:07.04 --> 00:04:09.05 and hold the Shift key like so 107 00:04:09.05 --> 00:04:11.03 in order to constrain the control handle 108 00:04:11.03 --> 00:04:12.09 as we're seeing here. 109 00:04:12.09 --> 00:04:15.03 Alright, now, I'm going to select this entire path outline 110 00:04:15.03 --> 00:04:16.09 by alt-clicking on it, 111 00:04:16.09 --> 00:04:18.09 that's an option-click on the Mac, 112 00:04:18.09 --> 00:04:22.02 and I need to flip it around the center of the document. 113 00:04:22.02 --> 00:04:24.06 Fortunately, I set up some guides in advance. 114 00:04:24.06 --> 00:04:26.07 They're down here on this guides Layer, 115 00:04:26.07 --> 00:04:28.06 so I'll just go ahead and turn it on. 116 00:04:28.06 --> 00:04:31.05 And then, what you want to do is select the Reflect tool 117 00:04:31.05 --> 00:04:33.07 from the Rotate Tool fly out menu 118 00:04:33.07 --> 00:04:36.05 or you have that keyboard shortcut of O, 119 00:04:36.05 --> 00:04:38.06 and then I'll alt- or option-click 120 00:04:38.06 --> 00:04:40.05 on that vertical guideline 121 00:04:40.05 --> 00:04:42.05 to bring up the Reflect dialogue box. 122 00:04:42.05 --> 00:04:44.02 I need the axis to be vertical, 123 00:04:44.02 --> 00:04:46.07 after which point I'll click the Copy button 124 00:04:46.07 --> 00:04:50.04 in order to create a copy of that path outline. 125 00:04:50.04 --> 00:04:52.09 Alright, now, here's the part that you could not do, 126 00:04:52.09 --> 00:04:55.04 if you were working with text on a path. 127 00:04:55.04 --> 00:04:57.09 I'll press the A key to switch back to my White Arrow tool, 128 00:04:57.09 --> 00:05:01.04 and I'll marquee these two anchor points right here, 129 00:05:01.04 --> 00:05:02.08 and I'll join 'em together 130 00:05:02.08 --> 00:05:04.02 by going up to the Object menu, 131 00:05:04.02 --> 00:05:07.01 choosing Path and choosing Join, 132 00:05:07.01 --> 00:05:09.04 or you have that keyboard shortcut of Control + J 133 00:05:09.04 --> 00:05:12.05 or Command + J on the Mac, and just like that, 134 00:05:12.05 --> 00:05:14.07 it joins the two paths together 135 00:05:14.07 --> 00:05:17.05 and strokes it with a single art brush. 136 00:05:17.05 --> 00:05:20.04 Now of course, the art brush is a little bit messed up here. 137 00:05:20.04 --> 00:05:22.00 It's upside down and everything, 138 00:05:22.00 --> 00:05:24.07 but we can fix that just by pressing the V key 139 00:05:24.07 --> 00:05:26.06 to switch back to the Black Arrow tool. 140 00:05:26.06 --> 00:05:29.01 I'll click on that path outline to select it. 141 00:05:29.01 --> 00:05:31.01 I'll go up here to this Brush menu, 142 00:05:31.01 --> 00:05:32.07 up here in the Control panel, 143 00:05:32.07 --> 00:05:36.05 click on it and then click on that little dialogue box icon, 144 00:05:36.05 --> 00:05:38.04 just 'cause it's convenient. 145 00:05:38.04 --> 00:05:40.08 And then with the Preview checkbox turned on, 146 00:05:40.08 --> 00:05:44.01 I'll click Flip Along and then Flip Across, 147 00:05:44.01 --> 00:05:46.03 and that's going to fix my text, 148 00:05:46.03 --> 00:05:49.05 at which point I'll click Okay to accept that change. 149 00:05:49.05 --> 00:05:52.09 And now I press the Escape key to hide that menu. 150 00:05:52.09 --> 00:05:55.06 Alright, now, let's say that you want to distort that text 151 00:05:55.06 --> 00:05:57.05 in the middle, so it's taller. 152 00:05:57.05 --> 00:05:59.06 In that case, I'd grab the Width tool, 153 00:05:59.06 --> 00:06:02.00 and that's because you can use the Width tool 154 00:06:02.00 --> 00:06:05.03 to distort any art brush along a path outline. 155 00:06:05.03 --> 00:06:06.05 And so what I'm going to do, 156 00:06:06.05 --> 00:06:07.09 you have to be careful on this one, 157 00:06:07.09 --> 00:06:09.05 you click on this point right here, 158 00:06:09.05 --> 00:06:12.03 and then you shift double-click on this one. 159 00:06:12.03 --> 00:06:15.06 And that will bring up the Width Point Edit dialogue box 160 00:06:15.06 --> 00:06:17.01 for both of those points. 161 00:06:17.01 --> 00:06:20.08 And then I'll change that Total Width value to 1.6 points, 162 00:06:20.08 --> 00:06:23.03 and if I've done everything correctly, which I have, 163 00:06:23.03 --> 00:06:25.03 then I will see this effect here. 164 00:06:25.03 --> 00:06:28.07 Now, let's see if I have enough room to pull this off, 165 00:06:28.07 --> 00:06:30.06 I'll click on this endpoint, 166 00:06:30.06 --> 00:06:33.03 and I'll shift double-click on this one, 167 00:06:33.03 --> 00:06:37.07 and I'll change the Total Width value to 0.9 points like so, 168 00:06:37.07 --> 00:06:39.03 and I'll click Okay. 169 00:06:39.03 --> 00:06:41.09 Alright, now I want to enhance the distortion, 170 00:06:41.09 --> 00:06:45.02 and I can do that by returning to that menu right there, 171 00:06:45.02 --> 00:06:46.07 up here in the Control panel, 172 00:06:46.07 --> 00:06:49.05 and I once again click on the dialogue box icon 173 00:06:49.05 --> 00:06:51.02 to bring up this dialogue box here. 174 00:06:51.02 --> 00:06:53.02 And notice that the Size option 175 00:06:53.02 --> 00:06:56.04 now reads Width Points/Profile, 176 00:06:56.04 --> 00:06:59.03 which means I can now give it a little extra hight, 177 00:06:59.03 --> 00:07:02.03 if I want to, by changing this first value. 178 00:07:02.03 --> 00:07:05.07 And so I'm going to increase it to 120%, 179 00:07:05.07 --> 00:07:07.02 I'll leave the second value, 180 00:07:07.02 --> 00:07:09.07 which represents the minimum, set to 100%, 181 00:07:09.07 --> 00:07:11.04 and I'll click Okay, 182 00:07:11.04 --> 00:07:13.01 and because that thing's in my way 183 00:07:13.01 --> 00:07:14.06 I press the Escape key to hide it, 184 00:07:14.06 --> 00:07:16.09 and I'll just go ahead and show you before and after. 185 00:07:16.09 --> 00:07:20.00 This is before and this is after, 186 00:07:20.00 --> 00:07:22.02 how cool is that? 187 00:07:22.02 --> 00:07:25.08 Alright, now, what we want to do is copy this guy 188 00:07:25.08 --> 00:07:27.07 to the bottom of the artwork. 189 00:07:27.07 --> 00:07:31.07 I'm going to zoom out a little bit here and scroll back up, 190 00:07:31.07 --> 00:07:34.01 and then I'll switch back to my Reflect Tool, 191 00:07:34.01 --> 00:07:38.01 and I'll alt- or option-click on that horizontal guideline 192 00:07:38.01 --> 00:07:41.03 like so to bring up the Reflect dialogue box. 193 00:07:41.03 --> 00:07:43.02 This time I'll set Axis to Horizontal, 194 00:07:43.02 --> 00:07:45.04 and I'll click Copy. 195 00:07:45.04 --> 00:07:47.01 And things look great right now, 196 00:07:47.01 --> 00:07:50.05 but bear in mind that I need to apply a different art brush. 197 00:07:50.05 --> 00:07:52.09 And so, I'll just go ahead and bring up the Brushes panel, 198 00:07:52.09 --> 00:07:55.06 and I'll select curiously handcrafted, 199 00:07:55.06 --> 00:07:57.06 and notice, it's now upside down, 200 00:07:57.06 --> 00:08:00.08 and bad news, the width points are messed up. 201 00:08:00.08 --> 00:08:02.09 But that's a problem that's easily solved. 202 00:08:02.09 --> 00:08:05.05 I'll just go ahead and switch back to the Width tool. 203 00:08:05.05 --> 00:08:07.09 I'll click on this point right here, 204 00:08:07.09 --> 00:08:09.09 and I'll shift double-click on this one 205 00:08:09.09 --> 00:08:12.00 to bring up the Width Point Edit dialogue box, 206 00:08:12.00 --> 00:08:13.01 and I'll make sure 207 00:08:13.01 --> 00:08:15.07 that the Total Width value is set to 1.6 points, 208 00:08:15.07 --> 00:08:17.02 and I'll click Okay. 209 00:08:17.02 --> 00:08:19.04 And then I'll click on this guy 210 00:08:19.04 --> 00:08:21.05 and shift double-click on it, 211 00:08:21.05 --> 00:08:26.02 and I'll take its value down to 0.9, that's our problem, 212 00:08:26.02 --> 00:08:27.08 and then I'll click Okay, 213 00:08:27.08 --> 00:08:29.07 and we end up getting this effect here. 214 00:08:29.07 --> 00:08:32.08 Now, I just need to modify the brush settings. 215 00:08:32.08 --> 00:08:36.00 So I once again bring back my Brushes panel, 216 00:08:36.00 --> 00:08:37.03 make it a little shorter 217 00:08:37.03 --> 00:08:39.05 so that I can better see the preview, 218 00:08:39.05 --> 00:08:43.01 and I'll go ahead and click on the dialogue box icon. 219 00:08:43.01 --> 00:08:45.08 And this time I will once again change that first value 220 00:08:45.08 --> 00:08:49.07 to 120%, and I've got the Preview checkbox turned on, 221 00:08:49.07 --> 00:08:51.04 so I can see that this is working. 222 00:08:51.04 --> 00:08:55.08 Then I'll turn on Flip Along, followed by Flip Across, 223 00:08:55.08 --> 00:08:59.05 at which point we get exactly the effect we're looking for. 224 00:08:59.05 --> 00:09:03.00 And now, I'll just go ahead and hide the panel, 225 00:09:03.00 --> 00:09:05.00 and I'll tidy up the Layers panel 226 00:09:05.00 --> 00:09:07.03 in addition to turning off the guides Layer. 227 00:09:07.03 --> 00:09:08.05 I press Control + Shift + A 228 00:09:08.05 --> 00:09:10.03 or Command + Shift + A on the Mac 229 00:09:10.03 --> 00:09:12.07 in order to deselect the artwork, 230 00:09:12.07 --> 00:09:15.04 and I'll press Control + 0 or Command + 0 on the Mac 231 00:09:15.04 --> 00:09:17.09 to center my zoom. 232 00:09:17.09 --> 00:09:18.07 And at this point, 233 00:09:18.07 --> 00:09:20.05 if you decide things aren't exactly the way 234 00:09:20.05 --> 00:09:23.03 you want them to be, for example, I'm thinking the center 235 00:09:23.03 --> 00:09:25.03 of this text is a little high, 236 00:09:25.03 --> 00:09:27.07 then I'll just go ahead and marquee these two anchor points 237 00:09:27.07 --> 00:09:29.03 with the White Arrow tool, 238 00:09:29.03 --> 00:09:30.09 and then I'll press the down arrow key, 239 00:09:30.09 --> 00:09:34.01 one, two, three, four, five, six times in a row 240 00:09:34.01 --> 00:09:36.07 in order to nudge those points down, 241 00:09:36.07 --> 00:09:38.00 and I'll do the same thing here, 242 00:09:38.00 --> 00:09:39.04 I press the up arrow key, 243 00:09:39.04 --> 00:09:42.01 one, two, three, four, five, six times, 244 00:09:42.01 --> 00:09:45.03 and notice that the art brushes move right along with. 245 00:09:45.03 --> 00:09:46.08 So as long as you like like the font, 246 00:09:46.08 --> 00:09:48.05 and you don't have any typos, 247 00:09:48.05 --> 00:09:51.00 this is perhaps the most flexible way 248 00:09:51.00 --> 00:09:53.03 to create type on a path outline 249 00:09:53.03 --> 00:09:57.02 using a combination of type expressed as an art brush 250 00:09:57.02 --> 00:10:00.04 along with the ever useful Width tool 251 00:10:00.04 --> 00:10:02.04 here inside Illustrator.