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Editing text that includes dynamic effects - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Editing text that includes dynamic effects
Now, the great thing about keeping my type editable is I can make modifications to it. The client comes to me and says, the name of our product is not black chat, it's black cat chat, and so I have to go ahead and modify this lower line of type. In this exercise, I'm going to demonstrate a trick for editing type that has a bunch of effects assigned to it, because it can be awfully doggone slow, as you're about to see. I've saved my progress as The gradient type.ai. I'm going to switch to my Type tool, and I'm going to click in front of Chat right there, and I'm going to enter capital CAT space. And then I'm going to sit there and watch Illustrator do nothing. It brings up a Progress bar for a second and enters the first C, and that's it. The other characters get lost in the shuffle. And it doesn't even render the Drop Shadow properly, it's rendering the Drop Shadow with hard edges. So what I need to do if I hope to get any work done, because otherwise I'm going to have to enter each…
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Gradients are good1m 15s
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Assigning a gradient fill6m 9s
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Using the gradient annotator7m 31s
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Editing multiple gradients4m 36s
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Establishing symmetrical gradients5m 28s
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Creating a radial gradient5m 46s
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Adjusting the midpoint skew3m 23s
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Mixing gradients with blend modes6m 11s
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Making a transparent gradient6m 42s
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Drop shadows and dynamic effects5m 58s
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Assigning a gradient to editable text5m 42s
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Editing text that includes dynamic effects2m 56s
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Assigning a gradient to a stroke6m 46s
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