Hello. Hey, we are going to, uh, create this kind  of duo tone looking effect. We're also gonna add this kind of like, uh,  newspaper halftone effect as well. We're gonna start with this image here. We're gonna round trip to Photoshop, which is cool. I'll show you how to do things like RA rising vector  to speed things up.

I love this exercise and a lot of these effects exercises  because there's not really any new skills. They're just combining them all in uh, ways we haven't done  before to do cool effects. It's fun time. We've got all the skills. Let's stack 'em together  and in this case, make our cool duotone. All right, let's jump in.

Right? To get started, uh, I've got a file called Duo Tone Open. Okay, from your exercise files. Now it's just a color background. I've also got some sneaky texts hanging out there. Um, don't really need it.

One thing you need to make sure is  that it is a RGB document. Some of the things we're gonna do needs to be RGB, not CMYK. I can tell mine is RGB 'cause it's up in this tab here. If you wanna change it, you can go to file, go down to  document color setup and make sure it's on RGB. Alright, let's bring in an image. Come on.

Shift P Control shift P on a pc. And in your exercise files there's an image  folder and there's one in here. I'm looking for Cathedral of Holy Trinity. There's one with no Sky  and this one, this is the one I want. Okay, the jp, check it out. It is a very cool photograph  and it is of a church that I visited recently in Waterford.

Oh, I love it all Cathedral. So cool. Um, I love the angle of it as well. Um, so with it selected, we can bring it in. Okay? And I can drag it out to match the edges.

Okay? And I can keep going like this,  but there's this kind of like information in the sky  that I want to get rid of. You saw at the beginning it kind  of had this nice blank area here in just the building. So, um, kind of gives me a chance  to explain like there's times  where actually Illustrator just can't do everything. You need to go out to something like InDesign or Illustrator  or After Effects, depending on what you want to do. In this case, removing the sky is oh, easy in Photoshop.

I'm gonna give you a quick little round trip for that one. So with it selected, there's an option  that says edit in Photoshop  or where is, it's up the top there or it's under edit. Edit in Photoshop. Okay. And I've got it in Photoshop now. And what I want to do is I want to go to Select Sky.

There's just really cool things like this in um, Photoshop. Okay? And if I hit this little mask option, it's kind  of the opposite of what I want mask. So it's select the guy. So I've undone that. So what I can do is see this option here.

It says, uh, flip selection, then hit the mask option. Cool. Huh? Just super duper easy. The only trouble with what I'm gonna do now is  that it was a jpeg so that uh, if I save over the top  of it now it says you can't be a  JP 'cause you've got transparency. I can save it as a p and g,  which allows for that transparency.

Or you might just save it as a Photoshop document. There's no reason why it has to be a p and g. It can be a Photoshop document. Working between Illustrator and Photoshop works great. So I'm gonna put this one in here  and call it No sky, uh, no sky. And that'll be ready for you if you're like,  I don't wanna go to Photoshop.

Okay. Or you don't have it,  you can just start with this file. Cool. So I'm gonna save that and bring it  Into Illustrator. Alright, because we ended up changing the name of it. We can't just, it doesn't just update, we're gonna have  to bring it in again, but we can do some tricks.

Let's go you and go the little linking icon. Okay? And in here you can say Relink. So let's relink. Okay? And let's find that one with no sky.

Now if it's the right size  and the right shape, it should just update. Awesome. Alright, let's make it kind of duo color first. I'm gonna stick it to the bottom is  there's a couple of ways of doing it. Uh, image trace. We'll use the image trace over here.

Okay? And there is like a three color option, okay? And it's, it's lost a lot of detail. If I go to these options here for it, you can say,  all right, what does one color look like? And it kind, it actually goes two color black and white. It has to have those two colors at bare minimum at least.

And you're like me, it's not quite what I was looking for. So what I find a good result is under um,  presets go to gray scale. 'cause shades of gray actually, sorry, shades  of gray is still only one color. It's black, okay? But there's shades of  that black if you forget what I mean. So it is just one color mixed  with the other color of the pink.

The other thing I wanna do is probably,  there's two ways we can do it. You see ignore color is switched off for the moment. It says, uh, can only be done when you set  to this create cutout. Okay? Then we can do this. So give it a sec to rejigger all.

Okay, let's go to ignore color  and hopefully it should actually, is this gonna work? Let's see. Together it work. Perfect. Nice. You can leave that off  and just delete the white um, sky afterwards.

But it's gonna work for me. It's gonna expand, okay? And it's this kinda like super duper really detailed,  you know, church, but it's gonna allow us  to use the recolor. So I'm gonna select it all. I'm gonna go to Recolor  or go up to edit recolor artwork. So in Recolor, okay, what we're gonna do is we're gonna jump  to advanced options.

I go into here very often. It can be, hmm,  quite confusing in here. And what we're gonna do though is  we're gonna just use it quite simply. We're gonna say grab the colors instead of auto,  let's just pick one color please. And of the one color I find using these down the bottom. Okay?

And what I'm gonna start  with is grab the saturation up  to whatever you need it to be. Okay? I am gonna crank it all the way up  and then play with this hue slider. Okay? To get the color that I want,  you can double click it to type it in. If you've got like a brand color that you wanna be using,  I'm kind of just guessing mine.

I want this kind of like purpley color, maybe darker up  to you what you think gonna work with it. We're gonna play around, let's click. Okay. It is hard to see what's going on. Who remembers the shortcut to get rid of hide all the edges. It's hold something down and hit H stand.

That's where you go smash all the keys on your  keyboard and you're like, which one is it? It's command H on a Mac, CTRL H on a pc just hides all  that kind of like lines everywhere. I find I turn that on and off all the time,  but I always forget next time I open up the program  to turn it off again. I'm like, where has all my lines gone anyway,  if I mention it enough, you'll remember too. Let's click on a capacity, we've got selected capacity  and just work your way through. Like what is gonna kind of work nicely  with the image that I've got.

Okay, I already had a play with this  and I quite liked darken  and this is where I might go back into  Recolor, okay? And have  To spend a bit of time picking, you know,  'cause it's changed it quite a bit. So now I can go through  and say, actually I want this to be one color  and I want to play around with, you know, is it darker? Is it more saturated? Okay, which color is it? Now depending on your machine,  you might find your machine is struggling.

Like it's cool that this is Vector. I love it, okay? Because it's scalable forever. But there are times where it's like it's killing my machine. I'm passing it on to somebody in the office  and it's killing their machine. What we might do is just quickly, uh,  show you a little thing you can do.

So you can say object. I would like to rasterize this thing. So we did it right, it was raster,  which is all the pixels from Photoshop when it was  its original cathedral. And then we went, all right, let's uh, turn it into vectors. We can do this color thing. And now  we're going back to Rasta.

Okay? Uh, raster just means back to pixels. I'm gonna make sure the resolution's nice and high,  but your machine will be able  to hack this a whole lot better than sometimes loads  and loads and loads of different paths  and points when it is vector. So you could decide this is not essential,  it loses its blending mode when you do that. So let's go back into here and go in and prick darken again. Where are you?

Darken, darken. Darken. Okay. Alright, the next thing I wanna do is add that kind  of half tone, that kind  of like newspaper print looking effect. And this doesn't matter if you're doing it with the um, uh,  vector version or this ra rise version, it'll work the same. Let's go up with it selected.

It's got up to effect. Let's go down to pixelate. Let's go to this one called color half tone. Okay, shame for some reason there's no preview. Okay? So there's just click okay first of all and it's cool there.

I love that kind of like uh,  offset newspaper printing type thing. But I'm gonna undo, actually it's in effect,  you don't have to undo it. It's an effect that is applied. Okay? So you can open it back up again here in the properties  panel and then just mess around with like what looks cool. Let's try four.

Um, pixel radius, okay. Gives you a bit more, you know, less blobby. Okay? But still I love the kind of like little offset parts  that are all part of that. So there you go. Um, the last thing we're gonna do is bring the text over.

Okay. So I've got some text going on on my one  and I'm gonna have to make sure  that my text is at the front, okay. And that's the kind of vibe we were going for. There we go. I got two column background thing. Can you see in the background there?

Mine's gone a  bit weird around this. If I zoom in, zoom out, you see it went away. Sometimes it happens some effects. It just had like a color bar down the bottom there. It just went away when I have different zoom levels. Okay, there you go.

Magic. Alright, that is a kind  of a duo tone effect plus some other cool things like izing  images and the little half tone thing going on. Plus we round tripped from Photoshop,  tying all the skills together. Skills stacking. Alright, I hope you found that useful. I will see you in the next video.