How to put Text into a 3D Donut Shape?

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Hey there, I'm Dan Scott, an Adobe Certified Instructor with over 16 years of design experience under my belt, I'm part of the Adobe Expert program, and my online and in-person classes have been attended by more than a million people, just like you! Join me as we dive into the exciting world of Adobe Illustrator Advanced! In this course, you're not just leveling up in Illustrator, you're transforming into an Illustrator SuperHero!

In this course you will work on a bespoke brief designed to ignite your imagination, coupled with immersive course videos, you'll be crafting jaw-dropping graphics in no time. Throughout our journey together, you'll flex your creative muscles and construct projects that will elevate your portfolio to new heights. So, let's dive in and unleash your creativity!

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  • - How to use artificial intelligence to boost your creativity in ideation. 
  • - The quick way to take hand-drawn sketches and vectorize and color them. 
  • - The building blocks needed to set you loose on a huge variety of beautiful effects and techniques.
  • - To make beautiful charts and graphs for your documents. 
  • - Color mastery to make quick color adjustments, Pantones, and blend it all together beautifully.
  • - How to master images inside of your illustrator workflow. 
  • - To harness all the secret gems that'll help you level up your typography skills. 
  • - All the tricks of the trade for drawing complex shapes easily. 
  • - To double your creativity with the Transform and Distort section. 
  • - To speed up your personal workflow to get the most out of your creative day.

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- All you need is a copy of Adobe Illustrator, you can get a free trial from Adobe here to get started.
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What you'll learn:

- How to use Text to Vector Ai
- How to use Text to Pattern Ai
- How to use Generative Recolor
- When to use the Scissor Tool, Eraser Tool & Knife Tool
- Advanced Shape Builder Uses
- The differences between the Pathfinder Vs Shape Builder
- How to use the Join tool & Joining Path Ends
- Advanced Pen Tool Tricks
- Width Tool Advanced Techniques
- The Curvature Tool
- How to master corners with corner widget effects
- How to work with Compound Paths
- The difference between Expand & Expand Appearance
- How to create Graphic Styles
- How to make Symbols
- How to use the Smooth Tool
- Advanced use of Simplify Path
- What Live Shape Effects are for
- How to make Repeating Grids & Concentric Circles
- How to make Random Objects
- Advanced Keyboard Shortcuts in Illustrator
- How to add a Gradient on a Stroke
- How to add a Gradient in Text
- How to use the Freeform Gradient tool
- How to use Advanced Color Swatches
- How to use Global Color Swatches
- What is the difference between RGB vs CMYK color modes?
- How to proof colors
- How to use Pantone Spot Colors
- Recolor Artwork & Changing all colors at once
- How to use Blending Modes
- How to work with Images & Blending Modes
- How to make Black & White Images
- Learn Advanced Workflow Tricks
- All the Super Selection Mastery
- How to use the History Panel
- Advanced Fonts Tricks & Tips
- Use Retype to know what Font is being used
- How to put Text Inside a Letter or Shape
- How to use the Touch Type Tool
- How to add a Connected Stroke Around Multiple Shapes
- How to Offset a Stroke with Text
- How to make a Bar Chart in Illustrator
- How to make a Pie Chart in Illustrator
- Layer Power Moves
- Advanced Artboard & Pages Tricks
- How to Unlink vs Embedded Images
- How to Crop Images Rather than Mask
- How to Mask Inside Text & Multiple Shapes
- How to you use the Puppet Warp Tool
- How to use the Distort Envelope Shape & Type
- How to use the Envelope Mesh
- How to blend lines together
- How to make a Linocut Effect
- How to make 3D Gradient Lettering Blends
- How to spin text into a ring
- How to turn text into a 3D donut shape
- How to make a Duotone image effect
- How to make a Roughen Stamp Vector Effect
- How to make a Neon Sign Glow Effect
- How to use a Halftone Effect using Plugins
- Advanced Exporting Assets Tricks in Illustrator
- How to use the Dimension Tool

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I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

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True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

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Hello, it is time to wrap text around this tasty donut. We'll even add this like really fake  shadow down the bottom here. Super easy to do and a very cool effect. Alright, let's jump in and do it. Alright, uh, to start with, I've got some text,  um, on the background. Just type it out now for this one  because it's a bot more 3D than the ring.

Okay. There needs to be a bit more depth in terms  of the height to wrap around. Don't spend too long here at this type stage  'cause the donut ends up wrecking it all  and you end up coming back and forth between the uh, symbol  that we make and the donut. But to get started with let's create uh, kind of a stack  of them and then a few of them side by side like this. What I actually might do is get the donuts down the bottom  here, just I'm gonna hold the option key down  and hit my right arrow on a mac  and that's alt, uh,  right arrow on a PC just to get the tracking out. Does they kind of line up kind of.

And the big gap in here  as well gets exasperated when it gets, um, exasperated,  accentuated, ah, there's a word. It's none of those exaggerated. That's what I want and it's aspirated. Uh, so I'm gonna select all the bottom and hold my option  and use my up arrow on a Mac. And uh, that's alt up arrow on a PC just  to kind of tighten everything up. All right.

Now I'm gonna kind of make a stack  of maybe 1, 2, 3, just guessing. When I say guessing, I've done this already  and I figured it. This kind of works. So if yours is a little weird, uh,  you might find that, yeah, you just need to go back  and forth a little bit between this symbol part  and what it looks like wrapped around the donut. Alright? Um, so with all sorts selected,  we're gonna convert it into a symbol.

So it's open window. Let's go down two symbols  and let's add it. What I might do as well is actually copy and paste it. So I've got another version always  with the copying and pasting. First hit new symbol, give it a really good name. Okay?

Now the trick is to uh, create the donut. And the donut is literally just an aie for an ellipse. Okay, draw it out. I'm gonna pick, uh, color. We made the, uh, ring invisible earlier on. I'm gonna actually make this one  darker 'cause I'm gonna try and keep it.

Actually, let's go a little bit darker. Alright, now  to spin it into the donut, we just go to effect. Go down to 3D materials and there's one called 3D Classic. Let's go. The one says revolve. Okay, and instant, a tiny little donut, shiny donut.

Okay, the way to expand or contract it is this offset here. So I'm using my app arrow. What do I want it to be? I'm holding, shifting up to maybe about 50  and I hit enter, which closes it down. You can open it back up on my properties  panel by clicking the effects. Okay, and that's probably good.

You can rotate it around. Do you wanna see the inside the hole, the donut or not? Okay, I like this kind of like overlap. Look, grab the side. We can adjust this afterwards. So stop messing with it Dan.

Alright, enough missing now just like the ring. Okay, wrapping it around. It's the same thing. We just go map out. But you can see the uh,  the surface is different. Okay, there was 1, 2, 3, 4 for all the different sites.

Now it's just one continuous one that wraps around. Let's do the same thing. We say what symbol did I made? Uh, new symbol three. You can scale it  proportionally by holding shift. This is where you might go back and forth with that symbol  and go, oh, I might put two more rows in.

Okay, to get it to wrap around. That's probably what I'm gonna have to do  because can you see over here it's got some big gaps. You can hit scale to fit, that kind of works,  but you can see there's a gap there. Where does that gap come from? Can you see my symbol actually has,  um, space down the bottom. Let's click Okay, I wanna show you, this is my symbol.

It's got this gap down the bottom  that just comes because that's type. I go into my type, I go into  the symbol by double clicking it. You see this type has this stuff down the bottom. You could expand it  so you can get rid of that chunk at the bottom. What I'm gonna do is just kind of like fudge around it. So by that I'm gonna select on this go to 3D map  and down to map art.

And you can see I kind  of actually just drag it down further. It's only gonna uh, keep  what's actually in that grid pattern. So you can drag your uh, symbol over that  and you'll see it'll get rid of that gap. You can even like get it so it kind of half cuts off. Can you see that gap there? Okay,  so I'm just gonna say Justin, nope, a little bit lower.

Want to connect really up. Here we go. I do like myself, uh, a donut. I am doing GR donuts. Yours is different. I know, but this is just a cool text  effect and we've got some mad  skills now and we're flexing them.

All right? Invisible geometry if you want. It does have a really cool look. Um, harder to read though. I might do one with and one without. Decide whether you want the kind of 3D shading or not.

Turn it on and off and there you go. What I'll do is, um, I'm going to  actually change it from plastic shading to diffuse shading. I like this kind of like flat look. Let it's click OK. Um, let's say that it's just not quite right. We can go through and go into our symbol.

Either make a new symbol and rewrap it  or you can go into the existing symbol  and go, all right, what do I want to do? Maybe you want a bit of space between them. Maybe you want another level in here. So I'm gonna grab another level. Actually I might do it to all of them. So shift,  click all these, grab another one of these.

Eric, you down. So I've adjusted my symbol. Now you said the thumbnail didn't instantly update,  but if we go U uh 3D revolve,  that looked like it updated, didn't it? Let's go to map out. Okay, it's adjusted in here. So I'm gonna have to go through, I'm gonna go to scale  to fit and then do that little trick again worse  and sneak it back out again.

If you update your symbol, you gotta like jump back into the  3D revolve to say, Hey, take another look. There you go. All right. I feel like that's a better kind of fit for the donut. There you go. I like it.

Now that old 3D doesn't have very good shadow. So what I'm gonna do is actually just grab in a  lips and put it here. Okay? Pick an appropriate color like dark brown's good  for me and I'm just gonna do a cheap one. I'm gonna go to effects. I'm gonna go down to blur  and I'm gonna go down to good old gian blur.

Pick something appropriate ish  and then probably play around with the opacity  to get it kind of how I want. There you go. Look at us fake 3D  but with bits of actual 3D donuts. Cool, huh? Just remember though when we are exporting,  we looked at this earlier, is if I look at this,  the 3D on, that's really good. But see the blur down here?

You can start to see the pixels. Can you see the giant cubes of blurring? So  Remember when you are exporting, you can go up to effect,  go to document RA settings and just check. Are you at 72 or you're at the nice high 300. So 300 if you're gonna export for print. If you're going out for digital  or social, just leave it at 72.

Remember cranking this up makes quality better  but it makes the machine run a little slow  so I'm gonna leave my nas. Alright, so that's it. That's how  to make delicious coffee donut shaped, uh,  text in Illustrator. Cool, huh? A little bit of fake shadow going on. Alright, that is it.

I will see you in the next video.
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