1 00:00:00.06 --> 00:00:01.07 - [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you 2 00:00:01.07 --> 00:00:04.04 two different ways to warp type. 3 00:00:04.04 --> 00:00:06.08 When I say warp, I mean that we're applying 4 00:00:06.08 --> 00:00:10.09 a warp style distortion in which we're bending the letters 5 00:00:10.09 --> 00:00:15.07 as well as applying horizontal and/or vertical perspective. 6 00:00:15.07 --> 00:00:17.08 Now one of the ways is pretty obvious 7 00:00:17.08 --> 00:00:21.05 and the other to my way of thinking is more flexible. 8 00:00:21.05 --> 00:00:22.05 But I'll show you both 9 00:00:22.05 --> 00:00:24.08 so you can make your own determination. 10 00:00:24.08 --> 00:00:27.01 All right, so I'll go ahead and click on the text 11 00:00:27.01 --> 00:00:29.09 with my black arrow tool in order to select 12 00:00:29.09 --> 00:00:31.06 that point text object. 13 00:00:31.06 --> 00:00:35.04 Then method number one is to go up to this icon. 14 00:00:35.04 --> 00:00:37.05 On the right side of the Control panel 15 00:00:37.05 --> 00:00:40.08 which by default is going to read Make Envelope. 16 00:00:40.08 --> 00:00:42.05 Now what I want you to do just to make sure 17 00:00:42.05 --> 00:00:43.08 we're getting the same results 18 00:00:43.08 --> 00:00:46.00 is click this down pointing arrow head 19 00:00:46.00 --> 00:00:49.08 and make sure that Make With Warp is selected. 20 00:00:49.08 --> 00:00:53.06 In which case, go ahead and click on Make Envelope 21 00:00:53.06 --> 00:00:57.00 in order to bring up the Warp options dialogue box. 22 00:00:57.00 --> 00:00:59.05 Now assuming that Preview checkbox is turned on, 23 00:00:59.05 --> 00:01:03.04 you'll be able to see that we're applied in the background. 24 00:01:03.04 --> 00:01:06.02 Now by default the style is going to be set to Arc 25 00:01:06.02 --> 00:01:08.09 but you can switch to any other style you like 26 00:01:08.09 --> 00:01:12.00 all of which are represented by little icons. 27 00:01:12.00 --> 00:01:15.01 So I'm going to try out Arc right here. 28 00:01:15.01 --> 00:01:19.02 Notice that you can modify the bend value 29 00:01:19.02 --> 00:01:21.07 in order to either reduce the amount of bend 30 00:01:21.07 --> 00:01:24.09 that you'll apply or if you assign a negative value 31 00:01:24.09 --> 00:01:27.07 to bend the text in the opposite direction. 32 00:01:27.07 --> 00:01:30.02 You can also apply perspective distortion. 33 00:01:30.02 --> 00:01:32.05 So if I increase the horizontal value, 34 00:01:32.05 --> 00:01:36.05 there is that the Z grows larger and the X grows smaller. 35 00:01:36.05 --> 00:01:38.04 If I were to decrease the value, 36 00:01:38.04 --> 00:01:40.00 I'll get the opposite effect. 37 00:01:40.00 --> 00:01:42.04 If I were to increase the vertical value, 38 00:01:42.04 --> 00:01:44.03 I'll bend the letters background. 39 00:01:44.03 --> 00:01:47.07 If I decrease the value, I bend the text forward. 40 00:01:47.07 --> 00:01:49.05 Once again in the effect that I liked, 41 00:01:49.05 --> 00:01:52.02 I'll just go ahead and click OK. 42 00:01:52.02 --> 00:01:53.09 Now the great thing about working this way 43 00:01:53.09 --> 00:01:55.07 is from this point on, 44 00:01:55.07 --> 00:01:59.02 you now have access to all those numerical values 45 00:01:59.02 --> 00:02:00.09 we saw just a moment ago. 46 00:02:00.09 --> 00:02:03.04 So if I want to change the direction of the bend, 47 00:02:03.04 --> 00:02:07.04 then I can enter a different value such as 30%. 48 00:02:07.04 --> 00:02:10.06 I'm not sure I want any horizontal perspective distortion. 49 00:02:10.06 --> 00:02:12.07 So I'll just go ahead and change that H value 50 00:02:12.07 --> 00:02:15.02 to zero percent and also the V value, 51 00:02:15.02 --> 00:02:19.07 that is the vertical value, to negative 10, let's say. 52 00:02:19.07 --> 00:02:23.08 I also have the option of switching from a horizontal bend 53 00:02:23.08 --> 00:02:27.01 to a vertical bend as I'm seeing right here 54 00:02:27.01 --> 00:02:31.02 and I can switch the style to, for example, bulge 55 00:02:31.02 --> 00:02:33.08 which is the effect I'm ultimately looking for, 56 00:02:33.08 --> 00:02:36.07 do stick with a horizontal bulge however. 57 00:02:36.07 --> 00:02:39.00 So I'll go ahead and switch back to horizontal 58 00:02:39.00 --> 00:02:42.00 and I'll drag this guy down. 59 00:02:42.00 --> 00:02:44.03 Now the biggest thing convenient at this point 60 00:02:44.03 --> 00:02:47.03 is that you can't directly access the letters. 61 00:02:47.03 --> 00:02:49.03 That is you can't edit the text. 62 00:02:49.03 --> 00:02:51.04 To show you what I mean, I'll press Control + Y 63 00:02:51.04 --> 00:02:53.01 or Command + Y on the Mac 64 00:02:53.01 --> 00:02:55.00 to switch to the outline mode. 65 00:02:55.00 --> 00:02:57.07 And you can see that the letters actually disappeared. 66 00:02:57.07 --> 00:03:01.08 And that's because they're contained inside of an envelope. 67 00:03:01.08 --> 00:03:03.06 And so these points that we're seeing 68 00:03:03.06 --> 00:03:06.03 represent the distortion container 69 00:03:06.03 --> 00:03:10.05 that is enveloped distortion inside of illustrator. 70 00:03:10.05 --> 00:03:13.01 And so what do you do if you want to access the letters? 71 00:03:13.01 --> 00:03:16.01 Well, then I'll press Control + Y or Command + Y on the Mac 72 00:03:16.01 --> 00:03:18.03 to switch back to the preview mode. 73 00:03:18.03 --> 00:03:20.07 You want to select the second icon right there. 74 00:03:20.07 --> 00:03:21.09 So notice we have two icons. 75 00:03:21.09 --> 00:03:23.08 One that says Edit Envelope. 76 00:03:23.08 --> 00:03:25.08 That's the mode that we're working in right now. 77 00:03:25.08 --> 00:03:27.08 And the other says Edit Contents. 78 00:03:27.08 --> 00:03:29.04 So if you click on Edit Contents, 79 00:03:29.04 --> 00:03:32.01 then you lose all those numerical values 80 00:03:32.01 --> 00:03:34.08 and you gain access to the texts instead 81 00:03:34.08 --> 00:03:37.00 in which point I might just go ahead 82 00:03:37.00 --> 00:03:39.09 and change the X to an A let's say 83 00:03:39.09 --> 00:03:43.00 and then I'm going to press Control + Alt 84 00:03:43.00 --> 00:03:45.08 or Command + Option + Left Arrow 85 00:03:45.08 --> 00:03:50.03 a few times in order to kern those letters together like so. 86 00:03:50.03 --> 00:03:53.00 Then once you're done, you can go ahead 87 00:03:53.00 --> 00:03:55.07 and click on Edit Envelope once again 88 00:03:55.07 --> 00:04:00.03 in order to regain access to the bend and other values 89 00:04:00.03 --> 00:04:03.01 up here in the Control panel. 90 00:04:03.01 --> 00:04:04.09 All right, so that is one way to work. 91 00:04:04.09 --> 00:04:07.00 You have convenient options available to you 92 00:04:07.00 --> 00:04:08.02 in the Control panel 93 00:04:08.02 --> 00:04:11.05 but you don't have direct access to the text. 94 00:04:11.05 --> 00:04:15.05 The final bit of pain is if you want to remove the distortion, 95 00:04:15.05 --> 00:04:17.05 then you have to go to the Objet menu, 96 00:04:17.05 --> 00:04:21.05 choose Envelope Distort and then choose Release 97 00:04:21.05 --> 00:04:25.05 at which point you're going to see this big gray container here 98 00:04:25.05 --> 00:04:28.04 which is the old envelope distortion container 99 00:04:28.04 --> 00:04:30.05 at which point assuming you don't want it anymore, 100 00:04:30.05 --> 00:04:32.07 you would select it and press the Backspace key 101 00:04:32.07 --> 00:04:36.00 or the Delete key on the Mac to get rid of it. 102 00:04:36.00 --> 00:04:38.00 All right, so that's one way to work. 103 00:04:38.00 --> 00:04:40.08 The other and I think more convenient solution 104 00:04:40.08 --> 00:04:43.01 is to select the text with the black arrow tool 105 00:04:43.01 --> 00:04:46.00 and then go to the Effect menu, choose Warp, 106 00:04:46.00 --> 00:04:49.02 and then choose the style of Warp you want to apply. 107 00:04:49.02 --> 00:04:51.00 But you don't have to get hang up on the style 108 00:04:51.00 --> 00:04:54.07 because you can change it after effect anything you like 109 00:04:54.07 --> 00:04:56.09 which is why if you loaded the keys, 110 00:04:56.09 --> 00:05:00.06 I went ahead and assigned the very first warp command, 111 00:05:00.06 --> 00:05:03.02 a keyboard shortcut of Control + Shift + Alt + W 112 00:05:03.02 --> 00:05:06.07 here on the PC or Command + Shift + Option + W on the Mac 113 00:05:06.07 --> 00:05:09.06 and of course the W stands for Warp. 114 00:05:09.06 --> 00:05:11.04 All right, so I'll go ahead and choose Arc 115 00:05:11.04 --> 00:05:13.07 and that's because I can change it to anything I like 116 00:05:13.07 --> 00:05:16.03 after effect such as Bulge. 117 00:05:16.03 --> 00:05:17.09 So I'll go ahead and select Bulge. 118 00:05:17.09 --> 00:05:22.05 I will take the Bend value down to 30% let's say 119 00:05:22.05 --> 00:05:24.07 and then I'll take the vertical perspective distortion 120 00:05:24.07 --> 00:05:28.03 function down to negative 10%. 121 00:05:28.03 --> 00:05:31.07 To apply more less the same effect we saw just a moment ago 122 00:05:31.07 --> 00:05:34.01 after which point I'll click OK. 123 00:05:34.01 --> 00:05:35.09 Now the big advantage to working this way 124 00:05:35.09 --> 00:05:37.08 is that if you want to edit to text, 125 00:05:37.08 --> 00:05:39.03 you just have to press the T key 126 00:05:39.03 --> 00:05:40.07 to switch to the type tool 127 00:05:40.07 --> 00:05:42.05 and then select the text you want to edit 128 00:05:42.05 --> 00:05:45.03 and change it to your heart's content as I've done here. 129 00:05:45.03 --> 00:05:47.07 So I'll just go ahead and change it back to an X 130 00:05:47.07 --> 00:05:51.01 and press Control + Alt or Command + Option + Left Arrow 131 00:05:51.01 --> 00:05:54.07 a few times in order to kern in the X and Y closer together 132 00:05:54.07 --> 00:05:56.03 and then I'll press the Escape key 133 00:05:56.03 --> 00:05:58.07 in order to exit the text entry mode. 134 00:05:58.07 --> 00:06:00.03 Now the down side to working this way 135 00:06:00.03 --> 00:06:02.05 is that you're not going to see your distortion value. 136 00:06:02.05 --> 00:06:04.00 It's up here on the Control panel. 137 00:06:04.00 --> 00:06:05.09 Instead if you want to edit those settings, 138 00:06:05.09 --> 00:06:07.05 then you go to the Window menu 139 00:06:07.05 --> 00:06:09.05 and choose the Appearance command 140 00:06:09.05 --> 00:06:11.03 to bring up the Appearance panel 141 00:06:11.03 --> 00:06:13.03 at which point you'll see along 142 00:06:13.03 --> 00:06:15.04 with the Fill and Stroke attributes 143 00:06:15.04 --> 00:06:17.03 and the Drop Shadow as well. 144 00:06:17.03 --> 00:06:20.04 You'll see this item right here Warp Bulge. 145 00:06:20.04 --> 00:06:23.08 And so all you have to do to edit is click on that item 146 00:06:23.08 --> 00:06:26.06 and that will bring back the Warp Options dialogue box. 147 00:06:26.06 --> 00:06:30.03 Then you could switch the style of Warp from horizontal 148 00:06:30.03 --> 00:06:32.03 to vertical if you like 149 00:06:32.03 --> 00:06:34.04 or you can even change the style of warp 150 00:06:34.04 --> 00:06:36.03 to something like Flag 151 00:06:36.03 --> 00:06:38.09 which isn't going to look too good if set to Vertical 152 00:06:38.09 --> 00:06:42.00 so I'll go ahead and switch it back to Horizontal. 153 00:06:42.00 --> 00:06:46.00 Then I'll click OK to accept that change. 154 00:06:46.00 --> 00:06:47.02 So there you have it. 155 00:06:47.02 --> 00:06:50.01 Two different ways to apply Warp style distortion 156 00:06:50.01 --> 00:06:52.03 to text objects in Illustrator 157 00:06:52.03 --> 00:06:54.09 either by clicking on the Make Envelope button 158 00:06:54.09 --> 00:06:57.08 up here on the Control panel or by assigning 159 00:06:57.08 --> 00:07:01.04 a dynamic warp effect from the Effect menu.