Join Nigel French for an in-depth discussion in this video Creating the decorative frame: Part one, part of Designing a Typographic Art Nouveau Poster.
…We now want to create a decorative frame.…And since this is quite involved I'm…going to address this in two separate movies.…To begin with we're going to work on one of the frame edges and colorize it.…And then in the following movie we'll duplicate that,…rotate and flip as necessary, join the pieces together.…So this starts out actually as a piece of type, it's…a glyph from a font called P 22 Art Nouveau Extras.…
I want to create the frame on a separate layer, so I'm going to come to my…layer one, which it seems like now would be a good time to rename that artwork.…I'll create a new layer above that, which I will call frame.…I want to make sure that all other layers are locked.…So Option or Alt+click in the locking column of the frame layer.…Then I will choose my Type tool, click on my…pasteboard come to my Glyphs panel and access that typeface.…
P-22 Art Nouveau Extras.…Where we have various floral, ornaments, and other frame elements.…And the one I want to use is this one.…I'm going to double-click to insert that at…
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Video: Creating the decorative frame: Part one