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Incorporating Adobe Stock images with the type

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Incorporating Adobe Stock images with the type

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- [Instructor] Continuing with our Bike To Work poster, I had another idea for how we can use a predominantly typographic approach. But instead of incorporating the type with bicycle treads, we can incorporate it with a bicycle shape itself. I was inspired by this famous piece of graphic design from the 1950s, by Gene Federico. And there's a wonderful interaction between the bicycle and the two Os. Now, our title has two Os. So why don't we try the same thing, or a very similar approach. I've arranged the type in such a way that the space between these two Os is going to allow us to fit a bicycle between them. I'm using a very simple bicycle shape. This is from Adobe Stock. It's just a very simple vector bicycle. So I'm going to select this, copy it, come back here, and paste it. I'll change its color. Now ultimately, I want it to be white. But while I'm positioning it into place, I'm going to choose a different color so that I can see how it aligns with the white of the type. I would…

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