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Drop shadows and Raster Effects settings - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Drop shadows and Raster Effects settings
In this exercise, we're going to finish off our text by applying a drop shadow and I'll show you a very special consideration that you need to bear in mind. I've saved my progress as Eight-effect type.ai, so called because we have now managed to a mess eight different dynamic effects on this single Type object. Four of them are applied directly to the object, the other four are applied one a piece to the four strokes and that's a lot of stuff. That means every single one of those dynamic effects is interacting with each other. So Transform is applied to 3d Rotate which is applied to one stroke, to another store, to the other and so on throughout this effect. So that means that once we apply the drop shadow, that's going to make things that much more complicated. So if we didn't have all these other effects assigned, then the drop shadow would be no problem for Illustrator. Because all these other effects are assigned, it's going to the take forever. If we don't prepare things…
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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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