![]() ![]() When it’s merged, choose the Selection tool and press D to set the Fill and Stroke colors to their default white and black, respectively. You can make multiple passes over the shapes and it will continue to add to the current shape. As we did in Step 2, use the Shape Builder tool to combine the shapes. ![]() With the spatter still selected, Shift-click on the VE to add them to the selection. With the shape in place, choose Edit>Copy to save it to the clipboard. If necessary, scale and rotate the spatter to better fit in the area and for the composition. With the Selection tool still active, click-and-drag the spatter between the L and V-it will play the part of O in our scene. Open the Swatches panel (Window>Swatches) and select a dark red to fill the spatter shape. Choose the Selection tool (V) and select the spatter. Because this is an action movie and we’re portraying a blood spatter, it obviously needs to be red. When you have the shape looking the way you want, it’s time to add some color. This leaves you with only the main big shape.Ĭhoose the Warp tool (Shift-R) and use it to push in the longer spatter lines closer to the main shape so that these protrusions don’t get in the way of the copy we’ll add later. Choose the Direct Selection tool (A), select the small shapes that aren’t attached to the main spatter, and then delete them. Click the Break Link button in the Control panel to convert the symbol instance into a basic vector shape. In the panel that appears, locate Grime Vector Pack 09 then click-and-drag it onto the artboard. Now click-and-drag across the top of the V to the E, including the area where they overlap, to merge the shapes together as one.Ĭhoose Window>Symbol Libraries>Grime Vector Pack. Select the Shape Builder tool (Shift-M) and hover your cursor over the V to highlight it. Shift-click on the L to deselect it and keep the VE selected. Select the text with the Selection tool (V), choose Type>Create Outlines to convert the text to regular vector shapes, then choose Object>Ungroup. We’ll create the O later by using a shape. ![]() To tighten the spacing a little bit, select all the letters with the Type tool, open the Character panel (Window>Type>Character), and set the Tracking to –50. In the Control panel, set the Fill color to black and the Stroke to none, then type the letters LVE in Impact font at 300 pts. ![]() Select the Type tool (T) and click on the artboard to set a text object. With so many new productivity enhancements, Illustrator CS5 is so much more robust with image compositing.Ĭhoose File>New to create a new Basic RGB document, and click OK. Here, we’re going after a similar effect entirely in Illustrator. The poster layout made very cool use of masking images with letters and shapes. Here’s a cool technique derived from the movie poster for From Paris with Love starring John Travolta. If you’d like to download the image used in this tutorial to practice these techniques, click here. ![]()
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