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To make text come alive, add stoke outlines to it. But to make text stand out, add depth to it with offset strokes. It’s a familiar look often seen in comic book lettering, one that’s easy to accomplish in Adobe Illustrator CS. All you need are layers and the Transform Effect feature.
In this video clip (2 minutes 9 seconds), Deke McClelland shows:
- How to check what effects have been applied to a text layer
- How to edit effects that have already been applied to a text layer.
In the full Total Training for Adobe Illustrator CS® training series, you will learn the fundamentals of drawing, how to use the pen tool, 3D effects, type on a path, Flash animation, and more.
This video tutorial is a QuickTime movie. Click this link “Stroke Offsets for Depth Effects” to download the file.
Note: This file is a 3.1MB download.
If you do not have QuickTime installed, you can get it here:
Excerpted from “Total Training for Adobe Illustrator CS” © 2004 Total Training ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
This article was last modified on January 11, 2022
This article was first published on September 17, 2004
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