From the course: Designing a Typographic Grunge Poster

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Setting up the document

Setting up the document - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Designing a Typographic Grunge Poster

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Setting up the document

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Let's do some essential setup. I'm going to chop my type into chunks. Cut it and then paste it as a separate piece of type. We'll delete the punctuation. And we will replace the word four with the numeral four. I'm now going to put the word communication on it's own layer. Which I'll name. We'll then turn off the visibility of layer one. So that we can concentrate just on the working progress, I consolidate my view and increase my view size. With this type selected, I am going to change the type face to a very popular type face during the grunge era, the mid 1990's, template And then from my character panel, I will reduce the tracking value so that the letters are closer together. Now, I'm going to zoom out so that I can see a good portion of my pasteboard. And I want to massively increase the scale of this type. Making it so big that about half of the word falls onto the paste board. I'll then duplicate that and we'll run the other half below it. I'm going to reduce the size of that…

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