How to use Text to Vector Ai in Illustrator

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Course info

104 lessons / 10 hours 33 quiz questions 31 projects Certificate of achievement

Overview

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!

You’ll learn:

  • - 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.

Explore the full course outline for a comprehensive list of topics that will expand your Illustrator prowess beyond imagination.

If you're already comfortable navigating the basics but want to  unlock the true potential of Illustrator, then this Illustrator Advanced course is your ticket to becoming a master of Illustrator! So join me and the ranks of design superheroes and let's embark on this thrilling journey together.

Requirements:

- All you need is a copy of Adobe Illustrator, you can get a free trial from Adobe here to get started.
- A basic knowledge of Illustrator is required. I recommend watching my Illustrator Essentials course prior to embarking on this epic adventure.

Who this course is for:

- Creative adventurers who already have a basic understanding of Illustrator.
- Self-taught Illustrator enthusiasts yearning for structured guidance.
- Graduates of my Illustrator Essentials Course, hungry for more knowledge and skills.
- Visionaries who have developed their own unique Illustrator approach but crave exploration of the vast universe of tools, updates, and time-saving techniques.

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

So what're you waiting for? Let's start the course now!
Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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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.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
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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Transcript

Hi everyone. In this video we are going to look at some  of the artificial intelligence  that is built into Illustrator. Okay? Specifically in this video we're gonna  look at Text to Vector. You might have bumped into it  and played around with a little bit and it kinda works. This video, we're gonna kinda master it  to get it to do our bidding.

We're gonna start with some basic prompts. We're gonna get those prompts to match some of the styles  that are on our art boards. I'm gonna show you some cool tricks  where we can pull styles. See this here, this is a vector graphic, but the designs  and colors is pulled from this graffiti. Cool, huh? It gets better.

Look at this illustration style. That's the sample image. And look, these are the vectors that were pulled from it. They match the colors and the style Super well. I find it's a way easier way to use um, some  of this generative stuff to give it a sample image rather  than to spend ages in the prompts. The prompts are good.

Picking styles  from references is even better. Alright, let's jump in and become the boss  of Text Vector in Illustrator. Alright, to get started, uh,  in your exercise files there's a file in here called  Text to Vector. Oh one. Can you open up that Illustrator file for me? Uh, it might say that it's an older version of Illustrator.

I back save it so that everyone can  open it without problems. Um, we're gonna start on this first art board here. This white doc. Okay? And just the quick run through. Um, well, we'll even start with a tip when using it.

You can go and use it in your properties panel. I find it tricky in here. Okay, I like all this other stuff in here. So I'm gonna get a window and I'm gonna go down  to uh, text to Vector. Okay. And have it as its own panel.

Um, I'm gonna clear out the thing  that I was demoing, playing with. And the other thing is, is that you can actually just type  in, let's type in candle and it will just generate it on the  kind of nearest art board that you're working on. Okay? You can give it a little bit of help. Let me speed through this. There we go.

Okay. So it's great. Okay. It's given us uh, at the moment we're on subject. Okay? It's given us a candle and it's given us just a size.

You can say, actually I want a small one. Okay, so you drag out the rectangle first. Doesn't really matter what's in it, okay? Whether it, mine's got a white fill  and a um, no stroke, it doesn't matter. But with it selected and you do the exact same thing,  it'll try and squish it into there  so you can get the proportions right. There you go.

Got a small candle. And this is more important when we are doing things  like the scene option. This one here. So subject is, think of it as like, yeah,  object or creature or illustration. Regular old thing. I'm gonna draw out the size  of the art board 'cause I want the scene to fill it.

Otherwise it just makes a square. So I'm gonna say, so candle  makers shop in the steam punk style. Okay, I've hit subject. I'm gonna go to scene and do it again. There you go. So scene will set the background scene's.

Funny one, it's all very vague and stuff. It's cool. It's a good starting point. But if we draw the rectangle  first, at least we get it kind of like cropped into the kind  of shape that we want. Now I'm going to just move this over  and some of the big wow, the big learnings  that I had is when you've got nothing on your art board,  you get kind of like some sort of new shape that kind  of came out of um,  whatever you've typed in the prompt. If you're like me  And you are not as clean and tidying, you're really messy.

So let's go to art board two. Okay? Do the same thing. I'm gonna grab my rectangle tool. I like doing the rectangle first. I don't know why you don't have to, but if I do it over here  and I say I want a candle,  I'm gonna make sure it's on the subject.

And I had generate, you know what I didn't realize  for a long time