Hi there.
This is an awesome story.
Where are we going to take a simple text with the idiot block, nothing fancy, and then distort the
text and then add the background just for the text?
It's going to be an awesome journey.
I hope you follow along with me, try to play better with it as much as possible.
This technique is extremely useful.
Let's start.
I'm going to take the title and notice I have a real black 80 point just for simplicity, click and
drag and type winners.
And just bring it over here.
No problem.
Let's go and Aligner, some Golia landed in the center now, of course, I can use the first type tool,
but, you know, it's a bit limited.
I cannot be very fancy with this type of tool.
There is a better way.
How about if we convert this text into object or shapes, if you like, or path, path will be, you
know, the perfect thing.
The way to do that is very easy.
You come to type over here and you have create outline and you're not just the shortcut, meaning it
is extensively used.
You can click on it or you can just right click and they create outlines.
Now it seems like nothing happens except the binding box has changed.
It's got to layer.
So you're not just now we have a group and inside the group, each character has become a component
path.
Now, don't worry about compound, but for now I'm going to explain in detail in the next section that
you can think about it, that you have put several path or path of.
Together and you compound them as simple as this.
There is no military, there is nothing really intellectual about it, just a path that has been put
together.
The first thing I want to do, instead of going to double click to access each letter, I'm going to
unglue our right click.
And you have the group over here.
I have access to each character the way I would like.
Now, the letters have a binding box, I can stretch them.
I want you all kind of stretching.
This is with the Black Arrow or selection tool, but also better than that, I can use the White Arrow
and here I have access to a real path.
I can select one of them, for example, this guy and this guy and move them up.
Now I'm designing my own front, them going around them over here, and maybe I'll do the same here.
I'm going to select this for now, but a shift and take them down.
Up to here is enough.
Then maybe around them.
Come to this guy, try to round it a bit, just a bit, get did not have to be equal distance because
I'm being creative.
Just showing you and I'm playing around.
The way you think about this is for fun, you want to have fun in this, want to create something beautiful.
Now, this point here, the 4.0, I'm going to try to select them and actually I'm going to take them
down.
Pressing shift.
It didn't work.
It has taken these guys with them.
Leave them is OK, let's come to the I, I'm going to select the top two.
Now, let's put the dots here.
This is our dad for the.
So now I'll go for the White Arrow and I can zoom in here, select the points.
And also around them.
And this guy, maybe we around like this very nice guy, we can also extend the eye not to the bottom,
but something like this.
And this guy here may be the daughter of the I take it up here creating something nice.
Guys don't feel like you have to do something now, feel like, OK, how can I make it very beautiful?
Maybe I'll do that, maybe I'll stay here.
Now then, first of all, let's take the upper floor and move them out.
We're playing, we really playing.
And thank the Lord for our move them down now and always make trouble to me.
There's something I don't like which is this line here.
First of all, I'm going to select the top around them, select the bottom and round them.
OK, if I selected even with these guys around, this would be like, terrible.
You know, the ones I'm going to tell them just a bit.
And it looks like this, of course, you can take them down, play the way you would like this, and
I don't want the selection tool and I'm going to duplicate the.
To make a bit of sense.
For the E was the White Arrow this fall, guys here and take them up.
Yes.
And the bottom guys like this.
No, actually, we're going to keep them there on the same line as the I know I'm going to select all
and run them to the maximum.
Actually, I want to do something else.
I'm going to select the anchor point on the corner here and round it to the maximum, something like
this.
Then this one here.
I'm going to it a bit more.
Don't have to be symmetrical so much now that looks good and.
This one and sounded like this, so we have a very special E on the bottom here, select the corners
and just run them just a bit, not much.
Actually, it won't work unless you select this new.
So I'm creating something which is not beautiful at all, but nevertheless, you get my point, I'm
going to go like this, a bit of symmetry will do well for the ah, I don't know.
What do you suggest, guys?
I'm going to take the bottom ones and just take them down.
Actually, I don't like here.
I'll give you a small tip here, just this multi.
You have very many anchor points here that have been created because of the compound path to make this
thing a path, notice there's a path inside and a path outside which proves the point that this compound,
you put them together and if I select inside, I select the not as the artist selected here, that outside
I still select are.
So I'm going to select everything here.
And the tip is to reduce the number of anchor points, but advance, but nevertheless, I'm going to
show you, I would come to object, I would go to Perth.
And here that is simplify.
There is something that will come up and so on, you can simplify it as much as you want and click out,
but you have simplified there is less anchor points now.
At least it can work better.
So let's take the R from here and rotate it or around it.
And this true we around them.
And these two.
We around them, this guy less the more I have a nice ah, there's something wrong, I'm going to take
the top ones here.
I don't know if I will be able and it up.
Not nice.
So I'm going to take it just like this, take the other four here and hope it doesn't distort its distorting.
So that is fine.
Yes, Simsim, I'm going to go to object.
And bath and then simplify.
Click out at the top pointier best shift.
Take it up.
There is no bottom point here, no problem, I'm going to go to the pental here and put one here first
here.
I'm cheating, but it's OK why Taro and take this point and move it down?
That's my style.
It's not fantastic, but it gives us, you know, something that is not a very regular.
I have the award winners here.
Very nice.
I can do like this winners so nobody is able to read it.
I like these kind of things now, you modified your tax in any other way you want, let's not leave
this guy behind.
Take them all.
So now you modified your tax.
You played it like if it is a shape, actually a compound that is object and ships.
Another trick I will show you here.
Let's say you want to invest, you want to punch it inside a rectangle using chips.
But there is one thing I need to take care of is this rectangle, which is a shape.
It's not a compact path.
So very obviously, I'm going to come to object.
I make a compound path, they are all alike now, I will select the rectangle truth and just do a rectangle
from intersect to intersect.
I will press control, extract everything on the output.
Having everything selected, I will come to object and create a compound bath.
That's why we transform the state right now, not this is very beautiful, if I click over and you know,
this is transparent, Gellert background is white.
But the most amazing here is if I use the direct selection tool again, I have access to all the path
I can play with the roundness even more, selecting the path, no play with the roundness if I want
to hear you are or, you know, change the whole design if I want to and let's place an image behind,
I will come to file place and there is an image colors here somewhere.
Here it is.
I'm going to click on place and just click and drag to create it.
It's OK.
We can stretch it.
You know that with the selection tool, I'm going to stretch it is no problem.
And they are selected and arranged.
Sent to back.
You have your witness, you can now change the colors.
I will come to property instead of Phil Black, you can choose to feel can give it any color of the
feel that you want, even if you like to.
And you can, you know, play around with it the way you would like, can eyeshadows shadows and stories
like this.
So actually, if you notice, it is something that is very much used and very useful.
This one I would use if I want to create a very special logo that is based on text, I want to distort
the text and some that other distortion tools that are very useful, but they are a bit advanced for
now.
This is extremely useful for you and I'm sure you want to play with it and create your name, for example,
something awesome.
I will see you later on.