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Creating a basic bevel effect - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Creating a basic bevel effect
In this exercise, I am going to show you how to create a very basic beveling effect by adding a stroke to our type and then just slightly nudging that stroke independently of the fill. I have saved my progress as Offset type.ai and I am going to click on my red type here in order to select it, and then I am going to add a stroke here in the Appearance panel. Now, throughout this chapter you will want to keep the Appearance panel up onscreen because we'll be coming back to it a lot, and the Appearance panel is analogous to layers. So just as the layers panel shows you, all of the layers inside of your document as well as all of the object inside those layers, the Appearance panel shows you all the attributes and effects that are stacked up on top of each other associated with the selected object. So what I am going to do here, is I am going to go over to Stroke and I am going to click on the Stroke Swatch in order to bring up the Swatches panel and I'll assign Rich black as my Stroke…
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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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