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Applying a "path wiggler" to type - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Applying a "path wiggler" to type
In this exercise, I'm going to introduce you to a collection of dynamic effects that I call the path wigglers because what they do is they take a straight segment inside of a path and they wiggle it essentially in a variety of different ways. I've saved my progress as 3D flat fill.ai. I'm going to go ahead and click on this text once again to select it and now what I'd like you to do before we go up to the Effect menu and choose Distort & Transform which is where these commands live and here they are by the way Pucker & Bloat's one, Roughen is another one, then there is also Tweak and Zig Zag and you can play around with them as much as you want, but if you're going to experiment, don't want to be doing it in 3D because it doesn't always work out so well. I've had problems with the program crashing. So the better idea if you're going to experiment once again with any dynamic effect is to pare down the effects that you've applied so far and all you have to do is just turn some of them…
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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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