Join Deke McClelland for an in-depth discussion in this video 395 Filling in the gaps between stroked letters, part of Deke's Techniques.
- In this movie, I'll show you how…to fill in these blue gaps, that are appearing…between the thick white strokes…that we applied in the previous movie,…in order to create this final effect here.…But as opposed to being able to apply…an effect directly to the letters,…we're gonna have to convert the letters…to path outlines for this one.…So, the first step is to go ahead…and click on type with the black arrow tool to select it,…and then go up to the Edit menu…and choose the Copy command,…or you can press Ctrl+C, or command+C on the Mac,…and that way we can reinstate this text later.…
The next step is to go up to the Type menu…and choose Create Outlines.…And that converts each and every one…of those letter forms to static path outlines.…Now notice up here in the control panel,…on the far left side, we see the word "Group,"…which tells us that Illustrator's…converted the text to one or more groups.…In order to successfully fill in those gaps,…we've gotta get rid of the groups, which you do…by going up to the Objects menu…
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1/19/2021Released
1/13/2011Note: Because this is an ongoing series, viewers will not receive a certificate of completion.
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