Illustrator Tutorial - Basic Text Effects

[2ndstrokedesign]

I have a video on my channel, showing how to apply gradients to text items, without converting them to outlines.

[ZookanProductions]

There is a way of adding gradients to text without outlining it, using the appearance panel. Remove the fill in the panel, and replace it with a gradient, instead of applying a gradient with the gradient tool or the swatches panel. Courtesy of vectips . com

[dingdong141]

awsum man not cheating like others tutorial great explaination thanks

[juan321654]

anyone got a serial for CS5 ? pm me pls :'{

[PessyHo]

You know what???? THis is what I want to learn for double border! you are damm AWESOME! Thanks for spending times for this presentation! Thumbs up! ^.^

[UKCleaningSolutions]

Thank you

[danbennerdotcom]

I like edible text.



[MD3Designs]

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[MoreQuestionsToo]

Awesome. Thanks, Dude!!!

[phildoughty]

I'm sure this is a very basic question & easy to answer.

How to make a fixed ratio selection in Illustrator cs5 as you would in photoshop?

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I want to make square & rectangle selections as per my custom X & Y point sizes/values...

[mstrlekar]

nice

[b19870102]

THANKS A LOT !!!!!!

[publicityplastic]

ps do more text videos.thanks

[ricktx61]

Nice teaching style, useful stuff !

[gie2sexy]

Thank you so much. Keep up the good work!

[megamen6]

Thanks for share with us

[reuel88]

awesome thank you so much

[artiomano]

thanks buddy!! great tutorial

[jonniwatts]

BIG HELP! Good video!

[Lightiel1]

Perfect tutorial. Thank you so much... Us noobs need step by step.

How do you create a colored stroke to outline your gradient text? Example if I want to use a white outline instead of a black one? Thanks again for the great video.

[GAMER0451]

@Lightiel1 for a white outline just change the stroke color from black to white using the fill/stroke (the bottom two squares on your tools palette)

[110491Banter]

Really good tutorial thanks buddy

[KingSkulkZ]

i swear you said! "the text is no longer edible, nomnomnomnom- oh no"

[mctoom]

There are better ways to do those effects..

First effect: do "double stroke" then offset the second one from Effects> Path> Offset Path. It's better 'cause it's easy to modify.

Second one: Select the text > from the Appearance panel click the menu and Add Fill > change that fill to the desired gradient... This is better 'cause the text remains editable..

Thanks....

[barlowcj]

I didnt get the copy and paste. Are you copying the whole TEXT, or just the stroke (if that's possible)? When I do this I get another TEXT popping up elsewhere, and then I cant finished the tutorial

[hybridmaci]

Yes, I have the same problem as you... or am I just simple a beginner? :)

[kloranfm]

@barlowcj : You have to Paste in back, not just paste. When you paste it just makes a copy. You want to paste the copy behind the original text.

[robearishere]

Thanks so much! This is really easy to follow

[bmj14772]

Excellent!!

So simple!

[GFX8887]

Thank U for this. I couldnt figure out why i couldnt make gradients on text.

[JeefieMakeUp]

hey good tutorial, you make it seem v simple :)

[iKuProductions]

yo is this free to download?

[GAMER0451]

There Is a Free try on adobe's site.

But for the full program, you will have to pay about $485

[TheCertifiedKilla]

@iKuProductions Its free at: thepiratebay. com

[StealthApple]

Damn, I need to download Illustrator

[GAMER0451]

Yah, It's an amazing program.

[chris86385]

@StealthApple you mean buy or pirate? :P

[StealthApple]

@chris86385 Not gonna spent that much money on a program. I'd rather pirate it :p

[kharlos84]

@StealthApple pirata bay dont buy shit