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Making a diamond-encrusted type

Making a diamond-encrusted type

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Making a diamond-encrusted type

- Sometime ago I had to create this logo for a magazine. Now they just wanted the word, "LUXURY" with some diamonds in it, as you can see. That's what we're gonna do today. We're gonna create this kind of an effect right here. So, I've got a brand new screen right here, and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna just type in some letters. So, pick up a nice fat font, let's go with Helvetica Neue Bold, alright, and actually we'll go with Black. And I'm just going to type in the word "IT." There we go, so I'm gonna go in there and just make it a little bigger. We've got the text, I'm going to take my T and make it a little bigger, a nice big letter like that. There we go, so that's the start. Now what I'm going to do with this is I'm going to go up to Type and say from this I want to make a Path, there's my path. So now I can dump this, I don't need this anymore, cause that's what I'm gonna work with, is the paths themselves. So let's go into the path and save it. So now we got a little…

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