Join Deke McClelland for an in-depth discussion in this video 423 Drawing a letter to match a dingbat font, part of Deke's Techniques.
- Alright, in this movie, I'm gonna show you…how to draw a custom character…to match a Dingbat font.…So, here's the idea.…You may recall the pearl effect…from the previous movie.…And how we drew the pearls around an X and an O.…Well, that X is a character in the font, Zapf Dingbats.…And, it's not really an X,…it's more of a cross-out.…What I wanted to do is create…an O to match that X.…And that's exactly the process…I'm gonna walk you through in this movie.…I've got this sample file right here.…And, by the way, if you try to open it,…and you don't have Zapf Dingbats,…then you're gonna get an error message.…
But that's not really a problem.…Because if you do end up with some…weird looking thing on screen here,…you can just turn off the Dingbat layer,…over here inside the Layers panel,…and turn on the big X outline layer instead.…But I wanna start with the character…just so I can show you how things work.…So, I'll go ahead and grab that live character of type…by clicking on it with the black arrow tool.…And then I'll convert it to a path outline…
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1/13/2011Note: Because this is an ongoing series, viewers will not receive a certificate of completion.
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