- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you
two different ways to warp type.
When I say warp, I mean that we're applying
a warp style distortion in which we're bending the letters
as well as applying horizontal and/or vertical perspective.
Now one of the ways is pretty obvious
and the other to my way of thinking is more flexible.
But I'll show you both
so you can make your own determination.
All right, so I'll go ahead and click on the text
with my black arrow tool in order to select
that point text object.
Then method number one is to go up to this icon.
On the right side of the Control panel
which by default is going to read Make Envelope.
Now what I want you to do just to make sure
we're getting the same results
is click this down pointing arrow head
and make sure that Make With Warp is selected.
In which case, go ahead and click on Make Envelope
in order to bring up the Warp options dialogue box.
Now assuming that Preview checkbox is turned on,
you'll be able to see that we're applied in the background.
Now by default the style is going to be set to Arc
but you can switch to any other style you like
all of which are represented by little icons.
So I'm going to try out Arc right here.
Notice that you can modify the bend value
in order to either reduce the amount of bend
that you'll apply or if you assign a negative value
to bend the text in the opposite direction.
You can also apply perspective distortion.
So if I increase the horizontal value,
there is that the Z grows larger and the X grows smaller.
If I were to decrease the value,
I'll get the opposite effect.
If I were to increase the vertical value,
I'll bend the letters background.
If I decrease the value, I bend the text forward.
Once again in the effect that I liked,
I'll just go ahead and click OK.
Now the great thing about working this way
is from this point on,
you now have access to all those numerical values
we saw just a moment ago.
So if I want to change the direction of the bend,
then I can enter a different value such as 30%.
I'm not sure I want any horizontal perspective distortion.
So I'll just go ahead and change that H value
to zero percent and also the V value,
that is the vertical value, to negative 10, let's say.
I also have the option of switching from a horizontal bend
to a vertical bend as I'm seeing right here
and I can switch the style to, for example, bulge
which is the effect I'm ultimately looking for,
do stick with a horizontal bulge however.
So I'll go ahead and switch back to horizontal
and I'll drag this guy down.
Now the biggest thing convenient at this point
is that you can't directly access the letters.
That is you can't edit the text.
To show you what I mean, I'll press Control + Y
or Command + Y on the Mac
to switch to the outline mode.
And you can see that the letters actually disappeared.
And that's because they're contained inside of an envelope.
And so these points that we're seeing
represent the distortion container
that is enveloped distortion inside of illustrator.
And so what do you do if you want to access the letters?
Well, then I'll press Control + Y or Command + Y on the Mac
to switch back to the preview mode.
You want to select the second icon right there.
So notice we have two icons.
One that says Edit Envelope.
That's the mode that we're working in right now.
And the other says Edit Contents.
So if you click on Edit Contents,
then you lose all those numerical values
and you gain access to the texts instead
in which point I might just go ahead
and change the X to an A let's say
and then I'm going to press Control + Alt
or Command + Option + Left Arrow
a few times in order to kern those letters together like so.
Then once you're done, you can go ahead
and click on Edit Envelope once again
in order to regain access to the bend and other values
up here in the Control panel.
All right, so that is one way to work.
You have convenient options available to you
in the Control panel
but you don't have direct access to the text.
The final bit of pain is if you want to remove the distortion,
then you have to go to the Objet menu,
choose Envelope Distort and then choose Release
at which point you're going to see this big gray container here
which is the old envelope distortion container
at which point assuming you don't want it anymore,
you would select it and press the Backspace key
or the Delete key on the Mac to get rid of it.
All right, so that's one way to work.
The other and I think more convenient solution
is to select the text with the black arrow tool
and then go to the Effect menu, choose Warp,
and then choose the style of Warp you want to apply.
But you don't have to get hang up on the style
because you can change it after effect anything you like
which is why if you loaded the keys,
I went ahead and assigned the very first warp command,
a keyboard shortcut of Control + Shift + Alt + W
here on the PC or Command + Shift + Option + W on the Mac
and of course the W stands for Warp.
All right, so I'll go ahead and choose Arc
and that's because I can change it to anything I like
after effect such as Bulge.
So I'll go ahead and select Bulge.
I will take the Bend value down to 30% let's say
and then I'll take the vertical perspective distortion
function down to negative 10%.
To apply more less the same effect we saw just a moment ago
after which point I'll click OK.
Now the big advantage to working this way
is that if you want to edit to text,
you just have to press the T key
to switch to the type tool
and then select the text you want to edit
and change it to your heart's content as I've done here.
So I'll just go ahead and change it back to an X
and press Control + Alt or Command + Option + Left Arrow
a few times in order to kern in the X and Y closer together
and then I'll press the Escape key
in order to exit the text entry mode.
Now the down side to working this way
is that you're not going to see your distortion value.
It's up here on the Control panel.
Instead if you want to edit those settings,
then you go to the Window menu
and choose the Appearance command
to bring up the Appearance panel
at which point you'll see along
with the Fill and Stroke attributes
and the Drop Shadow as well.
You'll see this item right here Warp Bulge.
And so all you have to do to edit is click on that item
and that will bring back the Warp Options dialogue box.
Then you could switch the style of Warp from horizontal
to vertical if you like
or you can even change the style of warp
to something like Flag
which isn't going to look too good if set to Vertical
so I'll go ahead and switch it back to Horizontal.
Then I'll click OK to accept that change.
So there you have it.
Two different ways to apply Warp style distortion
to text objects in Illustrator
either by clicking on the Make Envelope button
up here on the Control panel or by assigning
a dynamic warp effect from the Effect menu.