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Creating a halftone type design

Creating a halftone type design - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating a halftone type design

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- [Narrator] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. In this movie I want to share with you a process I've used to create, fun, half toned styled designs. I've turned to this method to create everything from T-shirt graphics, which was the original inspiration behind this method, and custom editorial typography as well as other designs and layouts needing this look and feel. So we're going to go ahead and jump into this and the first thing I want to show you is just some live type here. This is actually a font I created back in the mid-90s called Beat Street and I don't know how many of you have tried this feature. I do not think it's available in CS6, I think it's CC and above, and that is the touch type tool. So if I select that, what does that allow you to do? It allows you to take any live font that you're using in Illustrator and you can isolate a live font, the characters, and it allows you to manipulate them, to rotate them, to move them, to scale them and you can grab…

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