Introduction to Adobe Illustrator
Course 5: Use of Text: Deform
By Aarón Martínez
About the video: Deform
Overview
“In this unit, we will transform the structure of a text into curves with the warp tool and its multiple options. ”
In this video lesson Aarón Martínez addresses the topic: Deform, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 5: Use of Text. Learn how to generate texts as well as choose a typeface and adjust its characteristics to make it curved.
Partial transcription of the video
“ILLUSTRATOR COURSE 5 LESSON 9 Deform In this lesson we'll see different ways to distort text. We can use options such as Flag or Arc. Let's start. Now we'll see how to distort texts. Let's generate a word again, here, "pizza." I like this font. Let's make another version. We'll look for a thickish font for our word "pizza." We have this one. We are going to remove the white parts on the inside. We will convert them to curves, but first remember to make your copy in case we need to make adjustments. Type, Create Outlines. Command + Y, and we can see the vectors here. I'm going to click on th...”
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Course summary for: Course 5: Use of Text

Aarón Martínez
By Aarón Martínez
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