Cola Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Alright, I am trying to place words on this image of a street sign at a crossing. Anyone know a few good ways to do this in Illustrator because I am failing at it. The angle either seems off each time or the distort filter I am using just doesn't come out right when I attempt to rotate it all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayJaxon Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 I'm not sure if Illustrator has a 'Free Transform' option like Photoshop, but if it does, you can use that and you are going to do 'perspective' If you mess around with that a little, it will all line up as if it is on the sign. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MVP Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Try the Effect > 3D > Rotate tool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tBBP Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 I presume you were going for something like this?I did this using Effects > Distort & Transform > Free Distort. Took a little bit of eyeballing, but it only took me about 5 minutes. Of course, this was done afer converting the text to outlines. You can do this while keeping text preserved, but it may be a bit more difficult.Hope this helps. (And if someone knows an easier way to do this here, let us know!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cola Posted February 17, 2009 Author Share Posted February 17, 2009 I did this using Effects > Distort & Transform > Free Distort. Took a little bit of eyeballing, but it only took me about 5 minutes. Of course, this was done afer converting the text to outlines. You can do this while keeping text preserved, but it may be a bit more difficult.Hope this helps. (And if someone knows an easier way to do this here, let us know!)Thanks man. I think I got the effect I wanted...I just wasn't spending the time on it to tweak it like I wanted to at first I think. See the final product in my new thread for what you think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordie_delini Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Those are all good techniques but by far and away the best way to accomplish this is with the type on a path tool. It's simple. Draw a line at the angle you want. Select your type tool, hover over the line. You'll notice the cursor change, when this happens. Click, type, done. Then go into your type palette, go under "type on a path" and select skew. voila. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cola Posted February 18, 2009 Author Share Posted February 18, 2009 Then go into your type palette, go under "type on a path" and select skew. voila.That is the part I will have to remember- thanks a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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