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Adding stroke effects behind photo type

Adding stroke effects behind photo type - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Advanced

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Adding stroke effects behind photo type

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- [Voiceover] Alright, now let's say we want to take that effect from the previous movie, with it's skinny stroke and it's strong shadow and we want to thicken up the strokes and move them behind the letters and add this beveled edge. Then, we're going to have to take a very different approach. So, I'll go ahead and switch over to our image so far, and I'll bring up my layers panel, if it's not already available on screen, and I'll go ahead and twirl open that text layer, and then you want to twirl open that clipping group right there and then click on the letters, which represent the clipping mask, and shift click on the clouds in order to select that photographic image. And I'd just grab them and drag them and drop them out of the clipping group like so. And that will go ahead and release all the effects. Alright, now what you want to do is click on the clouds image, and if you can't get to it, try clicking near one of the edges so that you don't end up selecting the type. And then…

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