• Adobe Illustrator

  Swish

  Posted by Andy Merritt on January 5, 2010 at 9:45 pm

  Hi All,
  Can someone tell me how to put a swish through a font and then to make this a different coler there by having a two tone effect.
  All the best and thanks in advance.

  Allen Strand replied 16 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Allen Strand

  January 6, 2010 at 7:50 am

  I may be off base — but many effects are done with masks. To make two tone fonts you can convert the fonts to outline. This creates a bunch of filled objects. You can then move the filled outlines to a black/white mask where it masks everything except the “filled” area of the font. Once that is done you can then draw anything you want on the lower layer which includes a two-tone gradient and that is what you will see.

  Note: You may be able to move the font to a mask layer without converting to outlines.

  Note: It has been a while since I tried this in Illustrator but I have done it numerous times in PhotoShop.

  My apologies if I missed your question.

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