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Quick Tip: How to Use Typography to Create a 3D Text Effect
Mar 12th
Follow this quick tip and learn how to use typography to create a 3D text effect. It may seem complicated but it takes only a few fonts, the 3D options and some extra adjustments at the end. Let’s start! Step 1 First open a new web document. Take the Type Tool (T) and type “Vector” or any other word. The font I’ve used is called Becker Black NF and can be found here . Go to the Object menu and select Expand then Ungroup. We will use these letters only as reference in order to arrange all the words inside them. Step 2 Before we start building the new letters made from words let me explain the ways to do it and the tools that you need. In the image below you can see five examples. As shown in the first example simply take the Type Tool (T) and start typing any word that you want. The same thing …
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How to Create a Vintage Type Postcard
Feb 13th
Follow this in-depth look at the process of designing type for a vintage style postcard in Adobe Illustrator CS5. Harken back to an era when postcards were all the rage with this friendly type style. The tutorial will delve into clipping masks, using bitmap images, working with layers and type effects. Resources Image 1: Philadelphia from Pennsylvania Building Image 2: Cannon Beach on the Oregon Coast Step 1 Select the typeface you would like to begin with for your dominant text. Our word is “HOME”. I recommend a thick condensed sans-serif type and I used Berthold Akzidenz Grotesk. Step 1b Go to type > Create Outlines to turn the type into an object. Step 1c Go to Effect > Warp and choose Rise under the ‘styles’. Input the same numbers shown on the screen. Step 1d With your new type selected go to Object > Expand Appearance. This will apply the effect. Step 1e Create a copy of “HOME” and place it on another layer. Step 2 Select the “HOME” on the bottom layer. Choose Effect > 3D > Extrude & Bevel…
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Create a fancy responsive image-on-hover effect | designrfix.com
Feb 12th
20 Adobe Illustrator Text Effects Tutorial . February 11, 2012. Adobe Illustrator is a great tool for the graphic designers if used properly. You can create scalable vector graphics like logos, artwork , business card and variety of text effects using …
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Feb 12th
20 Adobe Illustrator Text Effects Tutorial . February 11, 2012. Adobe Illustrator is a great tool for the graphic designers if used properly. You can create scalable vector graphics like logos, artwork , business card and variety of text effects using …
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How to Create Smoky Brushes and Type In Illustrator CS4
Jan 23rd
I’ve always been fascinated by smoke, and have experimented a lot with it. So in this tutorial, I explain how to create realistic smoke, make it into a brush and use it for type. Let’s light up our vector cigarettes and get started smokin’! October of 2009 Step 1 Create a new document (Command + N) for print in A3 (297mm by 420mm). Step 2 Make a rectangle with the Rectangle Tool (M) that covers the whole artboard and make it black. While the rectangle is selected go to Object > Lock > Selection (Command + 2), which will lock the object so that you can’t select it. Take your Pen Tool (P) and make a vertical stroke (click to make a start point, then click somewhere over or under the start point while holding Shift to make a vertical stroke). Make the stroke white and the fill blank. Set the weight of the stroke to 0,05mm. If your units are set to something else, like points or inches, make sure that you type in “mm” behind 0,05, or hit Command + K. Choose units and display …
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Quick Tip: How to Create a Mosaic Text Effect
Jan 16th
In the following quick tip you will learn how to create a Mosaic text effect. It all start with the background. A simple rectangle filled with a flat color, a radial gradient plus a Film Grain effect. For the text you will use a nice, free font. After you expand it you will add the final colors and some basic effect. Give it a try and you might learn some new tricks about Illustrator’s 3D options. The final effect is easily edited so you can add your favorite colors or effects. Step 1 Create a 700 by 300px, RGB document. As I …
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How to Add Decorative Glamour to Your Ordinary Script Font
Jan 6th
Sometimes you need to go a little bit wild with your typography. In these cases, you can either take the easy way and choose a fancy font from some of the free font site like Dafont or Urban Fonts, or get creative and give some extra sparkle to your ordinary font, creating a typographic design which can stand by itself. This tutorial, discusses this later option. Beware of the following boolean operations galore! July of 2009 Final Image Preview Below is the final image we will be working towards, as well as a few color variations. Want access to the full Vector Source files and downloadable copies of every tutorial…
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Create a Colorful, Glass Text Effect in Illustrator
Jan 4th
In the following tutorial you will learn how to create a colorful, glass text effect in Illustrator. Learn each step to construct this shiny, vector text effect. We’ll use patterns, transform effects, multiple gradient fills, and more to construct this beautiful lettering. Step 1 Create a 700 by 300px, RGB document. Grab the Rectangle Tool and create a shape the size of your artboard. Fill it with R=241, G=247, B=226, and remove the color from the stroke. With this shape still selected move to the Appearance panel (Window > Appearance). Simply click on the Add New Fill button. It’s the little, white square from the bottom bar. Obviously, this will add a second fill for your shape. Select it and use the radial gradient shown below. Have a closer look at the gradient image and you will notice a yellow zero above the left slider. This means that you need to select that gradient slider and lower its Opacity to 0%. Step 2 Reselect the shape created in the previous step and add a third fill. For this new fill you will need a built-in pattern. Move to the Swatches panel (Window > Swatches). Open the fly-out menu and …
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Create a 3D Grungy Text Effect in Illustrator
Dec 19th
In the following tutorial you will learn how to create a grungy, 3D text effect. Learn how to draw highlights and shadows on your text to give it that 3D punch. Then design grunge effects using blending modes and other Illustrator tools. This grungy text effect is relatively simple to create, though does require quite a bit of attention to detail. Jump into this Illustrator text effect tutorial. Step 1 Create a 700 by 350px, RGB document. First, turn on the Grid (View > Grid) and the Snap to Grid (View > Snap to Grid). Next, you’ll need a grid every 10px. Go to Edit > Preferences > Guides & Grid, enter 10 in the Gridline every box and 1 in the Subdivisions box…
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