Using the Type Tool and Creating Outlines in Illustrator

[Treehouse presents] 0:00 [Quick Tips][Using the Type Tool and Creating Outlines in Adobe Illustrator][with Mat Helme] 0:02 Hey, what's up—Mat Helme here with a Treehouse Quick Tip: 0:05 Using the Text Tool and creating outlines in Adobe Illustrator CS6. 0:08 After opening up Adobe Illustrator CS6, 0:13 let's head over to the Tools Panel and grab the Type Tool. 0:16 Then, type in any word; I'm going to use the word "gnarly." 0:21 Grab the Selection Tool and double-click on it, highlighting the word. 0:25 Now, you'll notice our Control Panel has now changed. 0:31 It's now displaying all of the properties for the Type Tool: 0:33 color, stroke, opacity, character of font, font style, size, alignment, 0:36 and various other settings such as xy coordinates and the width and height of the text. 0:42 Now, with the type selected, 0:47 let's go ahead and change the color by using the drop-down on the Control Panel to—say—orange, 0:49 and let's give it a stroke of a dark red. 0:54 Let's bump that stroke up to—say—4 points, keep it uniform, keep the opacity at 100%, 1:01 and let's change the font to Arial Black, and its font weight we'll leave at regular. 1:09 For font size, let's bump it up to 72 points. 1:19 Now, say if you want to capitalize this word, 1:21 you can simply do this by selecting the word, going to Type, Change Case, select "UPPERCASE." 1:24 Now—as you can see—you can also select Lowercase, Title Case, or Sentence Case; 1:33 let's select "UPPERCASE." 1:38 Perfect! 1:40 Now, let's head back up to the Control Panel with our word selected and change the character to Highlands Regular. 1:43 Now, Highlands Regular is not a default font. 1:53 Now, say if we send this font to a friend, and then they don't have this particular font, 1:57 they won't be able to see what it actually looks like. 2:00 Now, if we create this word and turn it into a shape or an object, 2:02 we can do that by right clicking it and selecting "Create Outlines." 2:07 You can also do this by going to "Type" and "Create Outlines," 2:13 or by using a shortcut, Shift + Command + O. 2:18 And that is how we use the Type Tool in Adobe Illustrator CS6. 2:23 For more in-depth tutorials and projects using Adobe Illustrator CS6, 2:28 head over to Treehouse and treat yourself to a gold membership—you deserve it! 2:32

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