Thank you for such a brilliant and easy to understand tutorial!!! Now I wont have to go depressed for not being able to complete a simple task from boss
@Andy Tells Things - no proportion maintained for letter thickness while recreating... Spacing on rounded top of A is yet more than the both sides of A. Sides of A size is yet not maintained for a bar bellow N and sides of N. I bet.... Just stopped video till this part... Thank you...
You miss the point of the video. This is not a font design tutorial. It's a tutorial for beginners to showcase tools and features of the software, and I won't overcomplicate my teaching by drawing attention to something that is irrelevant for a beginner - such as consistency in spacings and sizes. I want the viewer to know they can press M to use the Rectangle Tool and that they can round the top of it. They can figure out design principles and rules in the future on their own if they wish, or with an appropriate tutorial for that.
Can't you just trace bitmap the existing image and use that as a vector? Why do you have to go through all the tracing with the pen tool if the image already exists?
The image that is being traced is irrelevant. For the sake of this tutorial, it doesn't matter, could be anything. It's the knowledge on the software that is important, it's knowing how to use tools and identifying when you should use what. Also, tracing produces mediocre vectors. Extra, unnecessary anchor points, and the end result is just not refined enough in the vast majority of cases.
I never knew you could click on the handlebar with the corner tool (can’t remember the correct name) to only square-off one of the angles! That’s a trick I’m going to have to remember. I use the opacity on my original image as well, except I make a new layer and lock the translucent image into the top layer and then do all of my drawing on the bottom layer underneath. This way, what I’m drawing isn’t completely covering the original. I do this so often I changed my keyboard shortcuts so that pressing 5 will make any object 50% opacity and shift+0 puts it back to 100% opacity.
Yes. You can also image trace inside Illustrator with literally a click of a button and it will vectorize whatever bitmap you want. You can select how many colors you want, you can set a threshold for contrast sensitivity and et cetera. But I guarantee you with 100% of certainty it will never ever be as clean and look as nicely done as if you do it manually. It'll always create unneccessary anchor points, you'll have way less flexibility in editing it afterwards and in general they can look not so great. It's not necessarily wrong vs. right, I use image tracing all the time, but that's just not the point of the video. And I strongly disagree with the whole "you're better off" thinking. But thanks for commenting, tho!
I think you could actually make a tutorial for beginners on this if you wanted. This was way to advance using short cuts and moving so quickly. No shorts cuts for beginners please. We need to become familiar with where to find things and what they are called (by going there).
This was great to show the many ways to achieve the desired result. However - your thumbnail was very misleading. If you're going to show a detailed image for an example in your thumbnail I expect to see that example in your tutorial - not just recreating simple block letters.
I absolutely loved this video, you're excellent explaining every options to create the letters using the basic shapes that made me realized how easy is to create anything we need in this program. I have to watch all your videos but first I'll join your patreon. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge with ll of us! 🙏
Hey Carla! You really got the message I was trying to give! Hahahaha props to you. And thank you for the kind words and the Patreon sub. Much appreciated! Keep on!
I thank your parents for raising a brilliant man like you, sir Andy. You made all simply understandable. Keep the torch on fire sir!
Hahahahaha thank you for these kind words!
Best tutorial so far on tracing letters. Thank you.
you were born to be a teacher, thanks
Much appreciated!
Thank you for such a brilliant and easy to understand tutorial!!! Now I wont have to go depressed for not being able to complete a simple task from boss
12:49 by control + 7 he means command + 7.
Thanks!
excelent tutorial!!!! thank u so so so much!!
@Andy Tells Things - no proportion maintained for letter thickness while recreating... Spacing on rounded top of A is yet more than the both sides of A. Sides of A size is yet not maintained for a bar bellow N and sides of N. I bet.... Just stopped video till this part... Thank you...
You miss the point of the video. This is not a font design tutorial. It's a tutorial for beginners to showcase tools and features of the software, and I won't overcomplicate my teaching by drawing attention to something that is irrelevant for a beginner - such as consistency in spacings and sizes. I want the viewer to know they can press M to use the Rectangle Tool and that they can round the top of it. They can figure out design principles and rules in the future on their own if they wish, or with an appropriate tutorial for that.
Illustrator is way to powerful, thanks for your guides and tips. Really different shortcuts on corel but practice makes perfect thanks
TF?? this guy's so good :D
Can't you just trace bitmap the existing image and use that as a vector? Why do you have to go through all the tracing with the pen tool if the image already exists?
The image that is being traced is irrelevant. For the sake of this tutorial, it doesn't matter, could be anything. It's the knowledge on the software that is important, it's knowing how to use tools and identifying when you should use what.
Also, tracing produces mediocre vectors. Extra, unnecessary anchor points, and the end result is just not refined enough in the vast majority of cases.
You're brilliant!
Thank you :) glad you liked the video!
I never knew you could click on the handlebar with the corner tool (can’t remember the correct name) to only square-off one of the angles! That’s a trick I’m going to have to remember.
I use the opacity on my original image as well, except I make a new layer and lock the translucent image into the top layer and then do all of my drawing on the bottom layer underneath. This way, what I’m drawing isn’t completely covering the original. I do this so often I changed my keyboard shortcuts so that pressing 5 will make any object 50% opacity and shift+0 puts it back to 100% opacity.
I'm too lazy to use Layers. Guilty as charged 😂 but yes, if that's something you do quite often, that's a way better way to keep organized :)
Thank you so much for this wonderful video 😊
Thank you💐
this is cool and stuff but your better off using vector magic literally a click of a button and this is done lol
Yes. You can also image trace inside Illustrator with literally a click of a button and it will vectorize whatever bitmap you want. You can select how many colors you want, you can set a threshold for contrast sensitivity and et cetera. But I guarantee you with 100% of certainty it will never ever be as clean and look as nicely done as if you do it manually. It'll always create unneccessary anchor points, you'll have way less flexibility in editing it afterwards and in general they can look not so great. It's not necessarily wrong vs. right, I use image tracing all the time, but that's just not the point of the video. And I strongly disagree with the whole "you're better off" thinking. But thanks for commenting, tho!
Great video! Thanks!
I think you could actually make a tutorial for beginners on this if you wanted. This was way to advance using short cuts and moving so quickly. No shorts cuts for beginners please. We need to become familiar with where to find things and what they are called (by going there).
Clueless as to how that vectorized the image just drawn. I thought there was saving involved? Slow down my friend.
This was great to show the many ways to achieve the desired result. However - your thumbnail was very misleading. If you're going to show a detailed image for an example in your thumbnail I expect to see that example in your tutorial - not just recreating simple block letters.
Yeah, I guess you're right. I'll change that.
@@AndyTellsThings Thank you!
I absolutely loved this video, you're excellent explaining every options to create the letters using the basic shapes that made me realized how easy is to create anything we need in this program. I have to watch all your videos but first I'll join your patreon. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge with ll of us! 🙏
Hey Carla! You really got the message I was trying to give! Hahahaha props to you. And thank you for the kind words and the Patreon sub. Much appreciated! Keep on!
No, Thank U! for sharing.
very cool, good luck, don't stop
Thanks!
Too fast
slow it
Thank you for the tutorial :D will do my best to learn the shortcuts lol will watch it a few more times :)
Glad it helped! Have fun! :)