Today we will learn how to create text that is located in different planes. One very interesting trick with the Bounding box will let us do it without using 3D modeling. Find out more at the jump!
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Quick Tip: How to Easily Outline Curly Letters
Making smooth looking curves and curls in vector can be tricky, especially if you’re working with hand drawn forms. In today’s Quick Tip I will show the process of outlining some extremely curly letterforms that have been hand drawn and scanned into the computer. The process can be made a little bit easier with the help of some shapes, the scissors tool and the Shape Builder Tool. Let’s Begin!
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Quick Tip: How to Create a Vector Grass Text Effect
Follow this quick tip and learn how to create a simple grass text effect. We will use the Note Paper effect then with the help of the Live Trace options to obtain the vector shapes that we need. The Pucker & Bloat effect can be used successfully in this case to create a pretty realistic grass look. Let’s begin!
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Quick Tip: Create a Slick Golden Text Effect with Adobe Illustrator
In the following tutorial you will learn how to create a slick golden text effect. Although it’s a pretty short tutorial, the sixteen steps cover many techniques and effects that can be used for other projects. The Pen Tool steps may be a bit challenging, but with patience and some basic knowledge you will succeed.
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How to Create a Trendy Retro Type Treatment
A few times a each month we revisit some of our reader’s favorite posts from throughout the history of Vectortuts+. This tutorial by Rype was first published on September 11th 2008.
In this Illustrator tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a trendy retro type treatment with a free font, gradients, blends, and some scatter brushes. It’s a relative easy tutorial containing techniques that can be quickly applied to many other type treatments and various graphic elements.
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This entry is part 21 of 22 in the Vector Text Effects Session
Creating Simple Origami Style Typography in Illustrator
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a simple Origami style piece of Typography. You will create a set of basic shapes to build letters from and see how to refine those into a more realistic look of your type. Gradients and the appearance panel will help us, to create the final completely custom type.
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Quick Tip : Create a Fresh Cucumber Text Effect
Follow this quick tip to learn how to create a fresh and realistic cucumber text effect. You will work with multiple appearances, blending modes and effects like: Feather, Inner Glow, Roughen and Pointillize. You will also learn to create a multipurpose water drop. Let’s start.
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Quick Tip: How to Create a Fun 3D Plastic Text Effect
In this tutorial you will learn how to create colorful 3D plastic letters using the 3D Extrude & Bevel effect and also an all purpose plastic look that you can save in the Graphic Styles and use it in other projects.
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Quick Tip: How to Create Colorful Neon Text with Adobe Illustrator
In the following Quicktip you will learn how to create a colorful neon text effect. By first using a thick font and the Round Any Corner Script you will create the letter shapes. Next, using a calligraphic brush, basic techniques along with some Pathfinder options and masks you will create your own neon text effect.
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Create Colorful, Layered Paper Type in Illustrator
A few times a each month we revisit some of our reader’s favorite posts from throughout the history of Vectortuts+. This tutorial by Diana Berg was first published on December 16th 2009.
In winter, here in the Ukraine it’s rather cold and snowy, I oftentimes find myself creating colorful illustrations that compensate for the cold weather. Today I will show you how to brighten your mood by creating vivid illustrations with layered paper text and ribbons. We’ll create custom type and use Illustrator effects extensively to optimize our work.
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This entry is part 13 of 22 in the Vector Text Effects Session
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