Illustrator Plugins/technique 77 Responses

Last post: 11 months, 1 week ago | Thread started: Jun 14, 12, 12:10 p.m.

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• RustyStew

  Hey guys, I'm trying to find a good way to bend text in Adobe Illustrator CS5. Not sure if there is something built in that I'm missing or an awesome plugin that does exactly what I want to do. Maybe a way to create two vectors and fit type between them?

  Here is an image of what I'm trying to accomplish:
  

  

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  Jun 14, 12, 12:10 p.m. – Permalink

• albums

  Envelope Distort
  

  

  

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  Dog-earJun 14, 12, 12:16 p.m. – Permalink

• phatwrx

  Mesh tool,
  Warp > misc options
  Live Paint and adjust
  Trace and adjust

  • Any one of those could be used alone or in combination– phatwrx1/2

    ouch, that just makes it harder to edit later on– monospaced2/2

  

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  Dog-earJun 14, 12, 12:18 p.m. – Permalink

• RustyStew

  Cool, thanks guys. I'll try it out.

  

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  Dog-earJun 14, 12, 12:23 p.m. – Permalink

• monospaced

  My preferred method is to draw a rectangle over the art I want to warp, select both, and use Envelope Distort > Make With Top Object. This gives you a lot of control if the other methods above aren't working for you.

  • < this– spendogg

  

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  Dog-earJun 14, 12, 1:28 p.m. – Permalink

• albums

  I meant to say Word Text Effects

  

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  Dog-earJun 14, 12, 1:38 p.m. – Permalink

• Centigrade

  These are back....
  FilteriT
  http://www.cvalley.com/products/…

  

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  Dog-earJun 14, 12, 1:44 p.m. – Permalink

• RustyStew

  The warp options I have found in the past to be a challenge when creating complex archs and buldges because you have to mix them all together and manipulate individually. The Envelope Distort is new to me. Very excited about playing with that some. Not sure how I've missed it up until now.

  • yeah, warp is weak. use my method– monospaced

  

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  Dog-earJun 14, 12, 1:44 p.m. – Permalink