Digital Lettering for Beginners

Overview

“I am going to show you how to vectorize the letters that we have made in the past units using Adobe Illustrator. We will see how the anchor points and other useful tips are positioned when passing your letters to vectors in orthogonal and non-orthogonal form.”

In this video lesson Sindy Ethel addresses the topic: Vectorization tips, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Lettering for Beginners. Learn how to draw stylish letters by using Photoshop and Illustrator.

Partial transcription of the video

“Unit 5 Vectorization Tips We have worked with Photoshop brushes, but if they look for a sharper finish in their exercises, I will give you some tips to pass your exercises to vector format. Let's see them. I am going to give you three ways that I use to vectorize my letters. One of them is very simple, but the other two pass a process called orthogonal tracing. What does it mean? That all angles in our nodes will be right angles. I will illustrate them with the following examples. When drawing a circle in Adobe Illustrator, if we select it with option A, with the white arrow, we see all the...”

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Course summary for: Digital Lettering for Beginners

• Level: Beginner
• 97% positive reviews (173)
• 3540 students
• 6 units
• 24 lessons (3h 42m)
• 16 downloads

• Category

  Calligraphy & Typography

• Software

  Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  3D Lettering, Digital Design, Digital Lettering, Lettering