Creating outlines

Okay, type is fun, yeah great, and there some neat things we can do with the text. …But there are limits, there are things we can't do with text. …And a simple example of that is, I can't fill this text with a gradient. …I can't come over here and select one of these gradients that I wanna use maybe to …give it a kind of a metal look with these silver gradients, can't do it. …Because it's type. I can't put a picture in there; I can't …do any modifications of the paths. Basically it's type. …So how do I go from it being type to it being editable art? …Well, it's actually very simple. Type Create outlines.…

There it is. Just remember that, Create outlines. …When I choose that, notice that now I have the anchors and line, this vector …art that we've been talking about all along. …Let's go to view outline. Now we're seeing this art in outline mode. …Look at the word cycle down here. It's a font. …But I go to type. Create outlines, and now you can very …clearly see those outlines. Now, what does this do for us? …