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Applying a dynamic effect to type - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Applying a dynamic effect to type
Over the course of this chapter, we're going to take this document. It's called Poster type.ai, very simple construction associated with this document. We have a big rectangle filled with a gradient in the background. Then we have three lines of point type, all of which are set in fonts that you should have installed on your system, fonts that ship along with the Creative Suite and these include Caslon Pro for the top and bottom lines of type. This bottom line of type is a little bit difficult to read, because it's yellow against yellow. But that will come in handy later. Then this big gradient type is set in Myriad Pro. Then we have got these three star shapes that are all combined into a single compound path. Now if I press Ctrl+Y or Command+Y on a Mac, the document looks like this. This is the Outline mode, so these are the primitive paths in the background here. We've got three lines of point text, all of which are live editable text objects by the way. Then we've got our star…
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Dynamic effects and OpenType1m 12s
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Applying a dynamic effect to type5m 43s
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Creating a basic bevel effect4m 12s
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Building up a multi-stroke effect4m 49s
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Best practices for 3D type6m 34s
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Applying a "path wiggler" to type6m 14s
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Drop shadows and Raster Effects settings4m 52s
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Duplicating attributes and effects7m 8s
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Editing type with dynamic effects7m 27s
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Ligatures, swashes, ordinals, and fractions5m 45s
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Small caps and the Glyphs panel4m 25s
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Warping text and increasing resolution6m 9s
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