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Hi! This is Dan Rodney in this video i'm gonna show you some superhero text effects
in Adobe Illustrator. These text effects are easy to create and more
importantly easy to edit later on.
They're always live you can change anything whenever you want. I'm creating this
for Deke's Techniques: The Challenge
in which he challenged us to create the video tutorial that was inspired by
three of his techniques
first i was inspired by Deke's Technique number 138, creating a
superhero shield in Adobe Illustrator. It gave me the theme for this
but also a lot has blue gradient background
which i'm also using in this tutorial
Secondly was Deke's Technique number 134, adding a border to an image
in Illustrator,
in which he used the Appearance panel
to add a stroke
to a picture, and I'm going to be the Appearance panel a lot and adding strokes,
but this time to text, instead of pictures.
Thirdly i by Deke's Technique 127, creating an upside down face effect
in which he created this creepy effect in Photoshop. No I know I'm in Illustrator
but the upside down thing got me thinking about reflections
and of course my theme is type, so I'm
doing reflections on type
and you may just freak out when you realize that you can actually go in here
and edit these
live
at any point
which is the whole idea behind this video tutorial
let's take a look at how did this
I'll switch over to a starting document
and the important thing here is that I'm not going to use the Type tool
I'm going to be using the Selection tool
I'll start by selecting the type
and it's important to understand the difference between characters and type
characters are like a lot of objects groups into a type object
characters are the thing that are limited
in that they can't have things like gradients applied to them
so if u select your text and you try to click on a gradient to apply it, it will seem
as though it does work
because is being applied to the characters and not the type.
fed up with the characters you'll see that the phil
is a gradient it just isn't working
so we have to clear the characters select the fell
so there is no stroke
or fill when the characters
and i could back up in the type of ject
and here's where i'm going to pass up
don't worry that it seemed to his appeared it's those selected
i'm gonna go daddy fell ensuring the phil to the tight budget that's the
difference some of the characters it's not on that
so what that feels like that again upon a gradient ends
it actually works
it works because it's not on the characters it works because on
and i can go to migrating tool
adjust the direction
do whatever i want
and of course this is still available
mess-up is ending any great stroke that his new in illustrator csx
we skill and increased stroke with
it's very sad and greeted strokes
now in csx
of course we solve the problem that half a stroke it inside the type of and half
is out
so it's obscuring the philip text
unlike with characters where you cannot reported the front to back ordering of
the filled in a stroke
when you doing this on the type of jacked you can't retract the stroke
underneath the fell
printed now you're only seeing half of the stroke
half is being covered over by the felt so this is technically uh... eat point
stroke and sort of a sixteen-point stroke but this is a much better visual
effects
salutes the great impanel
and septic angle
like cell
now if you're doing this in uh... csk five or older you can actually still get
the fact of the greatest wrote
to stop actually using the stroke
you can add another fellow
and then you can take backfill give it a different gradients
right now you don't see it because the talk shows cover over in behind that and
you'll see it
you take this bottom phil
and another fact
called path
offset pack offset means to move out from the current position
you're simply going to offset this or push it out
as far as you want to go
you can put into this field and a trip up and down arrow keys to experiment
with exactly how far are you wanted to be
so this looks like based wrote even though it's technically not a stroke
it's a fellow that's been offset
schism into six and i can do official
british troops
unwinnable allowed to use the stroked
next let's make this phil sent out a little bit more togo and and and and
russia
and by selecting just the fell it's the felt the gets the drop shadow and not
the entire objects what helps asset-backed so off of p stroke
into more depth
we can also add additional strokes
buttons from pune
mca down to a one point
weight stroke
niches hopes a accent
if we want we can actually have this
instead of stroking the flow which had a stroke the other stroke
uh... but with to get a literature for that
when take that stroke
goin and aditi
offset path effects
so once again we're moving it out from its original position
how far out is going to be
exactly p weight of the other stroke
sexually e
point stroke because half isn't pat is out
to make that date
okay
next time we have to deal with these overlaps the don't look very good each
individual
character has been offset
we really need to merge them altogether normally you have to create outlines use
a pathfinder panel
but we will keep all the slides so we want the
affect of the pathfinder
but not the
uh... losses that ability to own points once again take that stroke and we're
gonna add another fact
an action-packed finders has been a fact so they're not destructive
or somebody that had all the strokes together
soviet unified into one piece
super
if i don't know if i can see that has been offset
it's been added together
and you can still go back in there and change the thickness
and if you don't like the also you can take it off
you can play around with exactly how you like a check to be
glass panel due to this
is why one more facts
or defects
if you don't know what these look like sandwiches cheese any one of them
and in here you can actually get by cons to see better what they're going to do
and a check on preview
and put these to zero
to start out no distortion
and here you can bans in one way
i'm going to go
like this
and here you can distort it where you kind of flipping it three-dimensional e
from one side to the next work on the bottom to the top
so here you push the ones i bear
or the other side of the year
mango towards deciding bigger
and then vertically you're flipping the bottom towards you
were the top twenty r
ape-like something
like contract
any of this
can still be edited after the fact
test
awesome typography
next is the reflection
first will need to have the gradient
don't forget we have to clear the characters
through the phone stroke there
then click on the type objects
an ad are still there
that's the photo we can use
greg rental
change the angle
now with matter-of-fact
we need to keep this bill
and then we need to have a second phil for the reflection
semantic bathtub
and click
which do pizza
and the second fiddle we're going to flip upside down
that's going to require effect
under distorting transform
jump reading
narrowing to reflect
were reflecting that on the center access so jim i know we have the
original one
and now we have a second phil
and reflecting that one or on the middle
we really want to reflect upon the bottom
so which i found on al
now is flipping over the spot
now because of things like c
and yes
coming down the little bit you might want to move them vertically up just
slightly
eliminate incline that you might see
vertical scale you might also want to just because of the clear functions are
as vertically call as the thing that is creating them
uh... click ok
each fell has sunal cassidy
this opacity is for the whole object bazaar passes just for the individual
phil the one that transform some click on that
and i can simply reduce transparency
now that doesn't give uh... really convincing
uh... reflection because normal reflections
disappear as they move further away from the object
it's versions of those rare have ended the ability to
edit the opacity part of the gradient
chosen was further away because slowly decreased
we'll pass it in the gradients until it ends up becoming zero percent
met fayed creates more convincing reflection
courses is all that evolved
so you can go in there
and make changes whenever you feel like it
i hope you've enjoyed learning more about adobe illustrator school texas
acts
this is an running
thanks roshan