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 is  that there's an option under the style setting here  that actually, let's have a look. Can you see what it's done? Okay, it's gone in by default. This is, this is on at the moment. By default it might be off. I'm not sure.

Okay, you have to check yours. But under styles and settings, okay? And here the match active outboard style is on  and it's really clear here. Can you see that? It's things just happened  to be on my art board, not  'cause I wanted to match them, it's just they were there. I was like working on another project.

It's cool. You can see this kind of skull pattern going on  and picked all the colors from it. It's very similar to this stuff. So just be mindful if you're looking for like some sort  of unique character or subject  or scene, you need to make sure that is turned off. So I go blo, turn it off and do the exact same thing. Rectangle tool.

Actually what I'm gonna do is duplicate this one. So I'm gonna select it. Hold down my option. Ke mac al ke a pc. You stay there. Go back to this one here.

And I can say with it off, do the exact same thing. Do it again please. You can see there it's gone  and kind of created something new. So that's one thing. Be mindful of uh, match active style. Now what I find even more useful is this one here says pick  styles from a reference.

Okay, so let's go and do this one up here. So we're gonna go to the graffiti. I'm gonna draw a rectangle. I use the M key. It's the shortcut for mm square. Um, but so hit the M key.

Draw out a rectangle and I'm gonna make it a bit smaller. And I'm gonna do, I want a subject. Okay, I want to pick a style. Okay. And can you see it highlights the um, the image. Okay.

Don't have to be on an outboard and just click on it. Okay? And you can pick it from anything I'm picking from  a um, pixel image. It's brilliant. Okay? And I'm gonna go candle and I'm gonna hit generate  and we are going to get ready.

Oh my goodness, look at that. It's gone through. And like pick the style from the jpeg. Oh, it's so good. Let's have a look at some of the other options. Oh good, good, good.

The colors. It's not just the colors though. Can you see it's tried  to do some graffiti ish kind of stuff. It's a really good way to kind of like it. Even if you're not using this image, it's a sample image. Okay?

Even if you're not using it, it might be just the way  to get where you want to go rather than using the prompt. 'cause sometimes you're like prompt  with graffiti on side using vibrant colors  but not that color. Okay. You can use this to kind of, you know,  just use it as a style guide. And let's do this one here. This one's pretty awesome.

So let's go here. Rectangle tool. Let's draw a candle. I'm gonna have to reset the style  and then I'm gonna click the styles again. Click on this. This will change the changing  this panel quite a lot.

So you'll find  It. There'll be a style set  in here. So I've picked my style. I'm gonna hit the same thing. All I've got in my prompt is candle. I'm not sure if you've done it.

I've tried to like black  and white sketch drawing type thing and it's getting better,  but it's so much quicker and easier just to grab an image  that kind of looks like what you want and look at that. Oh, so good. Look at it. I'm just so impressed with myself. Um, so have a look at some of the old,  I'm gonna hold down my option. Keana, Mac alt and a PC to drag out a couple of coffees.

'cause it's nice to kind of, instead of just flicking  through them as just to have them all, all off on screen  and go, oh, that one kind of works. I love the color they've added. Where does they pull that color from? I'm not sure, but it's a great complimentary color. What I find it useful for  as well is when you're designing icons, this is one  of the designs from the Illustrator Essentials course. Um, Melvin.

Neos. Okay here, turtle. Love it. Okay, I am gonna go here. And let's say I need a corresponding icon that is a candle. So I'm gonna go to Icon, okay?

And I'm gonna say let's, uh, reset the style. Let's pick it from the Turtle. Okay? I find Icon sometimes it's good  and it gives you way too much detail. So under Icon, basically it's, what it's really doing is,  can you see the minimal versus complex? So icon, I don't know.

I feel like it's just a drag down subject, which is kind  of what it is for me. It's a little hit and miss if you find yours not as great. Me too. It will get better though. The cool thing about this tool is  that this is the worst it's gonna be. It's only gonna get better.

So I pick the style from that. Let's go generate icon. Minimal vectors, see what we get. Okay? I give it to you, illustrator,  you've done a pretty good job this time. Find out when I'm using it in my own kind of work.

Maybe candle's. Just a nice simple thing that it can make. I'm finding it's generating a little bit much detailed. It's not perfect. It's got the stroker on the outside. That doesn't really happen there.

I'm hoping that will get better as well. But man, you can't deny. Look how good these are.