0 1 00:00:03,672 --> 00:00:06,023 Hi there, in this tutorial we're going to create... 1 2 00:00:06,048 --> 00:00:08,523 this Duo Tone effect in Adobe Illustrator. 2 3 00:00:08,548 --> 00:00:11,273 Plus we'll do kind of a Half Tone option over here as well. 3 4 00:00:11,391 --> 00:00:13,930 Transforming this image into these guys. 4 5 00:00:13,955 --> 00:00:16,304 Now this is not an official Duo Tone... 5 6 00:00:16,329 --> 00:00:18,031 that you're going to create separations... 6 7 00:00:18,056 --> 00:00:20,398 and send them off to your commercial printer. 7 8 00:00:20,431 --> 00:00:22,875 It's more like the effect of Duo Tone. 8 9 00:00:23,242 --> 00:00:26,008 All right, let's go and learn how to do that now in Illustrator. 9 10 00:00:27,757 --> 00:00:29,882 First up, open up 'duotone.ai' 10 11 00:00:29,914 --> 00:00:31,245 You don't need to use this file... 11 12 00:00:31,270 --> 00:00:33,203 but if you want to, it's in your exercise files. 12 13 00:00:33,228 --> 00:00:37,297 Why? Because it's got a pink background, and I've got some sneaky text over there. 13 14 00:00:37,451 --> 00:00:40,044 You might not have these fonts so I've got two versions. 14 15 00:00:40,069 --> 00:00:42,451 An outline version, and a one that has the fonts... 15 16 00:00:42,476 --> 00:00:45,138 that you can go and modify to your own font. 16 17 00:00:45,435 --> 00:00:46,528 The one thing with this one... 17 18 00:00:46,553 --> 00:00:48,239 let's go and make sure our document's on RGB. 18 19 00:00:48,264 --> 00:00:51,044 Some of the things we're going to do requires to be RGB. 19 20 00:00:51,263 --> 00:00:54,787 If yours isn't, go to 'File', 'New', and just make sure it's RGB... 20 21 00:00:54,812 --> 00:00:58,380 or over here, 'File', 'Document Color', and just make sure it's in 'RGB'. 21 22 00:00:58,748 --> 00:01:02,435 Let's bring in our image... so 'Command-Shift-P' for 'File', 'Place'. 22 23 00:01:02,748 --> 00:01:05,091 There's one in there called-- I've got two options there. 23 24 00:01:05,116 --> 00:01:08,802 We're going to bring this JPEG in... it's called The Cathedral of Holy Trinity. 24 25 00:01:09,397 --> 00:01:12,724 It's an amazing church here in Ireland, in Waterford. 25 26 00:01:13,382 --> 00:01:17,022 It just looks amazing, that's the main point, that I've used it. 26 27 00:01:17,659 --> 00:01:18,964 So I'm going to bring it in. 27 28 00:01:18,989 --> 00:01:21,284 And I'm going to drag it out, and we're going to start working. 28 29 00:01:21,855 --> 00:01:25,659 Now, I could carry on with this, my problem is I want the sky to be in it. 29 30 00:01:25,684 --> 00:01:28,684 You saw that in the first version, in the intro, it didn't have a sky in it. 30 31 00:01:28,731 --> 00:01:31,956 So often I want to trim all the stuff back. 31 32 00:01:32,339 --> 00:01:34,346 To do it-- Illustrator just doesn't do it. 32 33 00:01:34,847 --> 00:01:37,183 It's Photoshop's job, so I'm going to jump into Photoshop real quick... 33 34 00:01:37,215 --> 00:01:39,940 and just show you how to quickly remove, say this guy. 34 35 00:01:40,566 --> 00:01:42,839 So I've got it open here, I'm going to use this tool here. 35 36 00:01:43,066 --> 00:01:45,292 He's the magic tool, the Quick Selection Tool. 36 37 00:01:45,317 --> 00:01:48,292 If you haven't used him for a long time, he's gone amazing over the years. 37 38 00:01:48,463 --> 00:01:51,825 Watch this, I'm going to click and drag this guy. 38 39 00:01:51,850 --> 00:01:53,748 Amazingly it's got most of the sky. 39 40 00:01:53,780 --> 00:01:56,677 A few little issues, but nothing that's going to hurt my job. 40 41 00:01:58,271 --> 00:02:00,311 All you need to do is click on this option here... 41 42 00:02:00,336 --> 00:02:02,006 that says 'Make Layer Mask'. 42 43 00:02:02,982 --> 00:02:05,693 Problem is, I've got the wrong thing selected. 43 44 00:02:05,718 --> 00:02:08,193 So all I need to do is, before I click that button... 44 45 00:02:08,380 --> 00:02:10,990 go to 'Select', 'Inverse', now I've clicked on this guy. 45 46 00:02:11,505 --> 00:02:13,021 Awesome! Now I'm just going to save him. 46 47 00:02:13,741 --> 00:02:15,209 Save him as a PSD. 47 48 00:02:15,317 --> 00:02:17,614 And I'm going to add the '- No Sky'... 48 49 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:20,716 which I've already done, so I'm going to close him down, and 'Don't Save'. 49 50 00:02:21,388 --> 00:02:23,755 You might just tidy up an image a little bit in Photoshop. 50 51 00:02:23,912 --> 00:02:26,132 And because we're going to destroy this so much... 51 52 00:02:26,157 --> 00:02:28,201 you don't have to be totally special about it. 52 53 00:02:28,545 --> 00:02:30,302 So, now we're going to go to 'File', 'Place'. 53 54 00:02:30,507 --> 00:02:33,163 Illustrator is pretty good in bringing in PSDs. 54 55 00:02:33,188 --> 00:02:36,116 There's no reason to save it out to a PNG, or anything. 55 56 00:02:37,319 --> 00:02:39,428 I'm going to bring him in, and make him the right size. 56 57 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:41,148 It goes edge to edge. 57 58 00:02:44,632 --> 00:02:46,390 I got it, drag him down the bottom. 58 59 00:02:49,257 --> 00:02:50,304 First thing I need to do... 59 60 00:02:50,329 --> 00:02:52,311 is convert him into kind of a vector shape. 60 61 00:02:52,336 --> 00:02:53,890 Kind of gives us that kind of printing look. 61 62 00:02:54,015 --> 00:02:57,108 So with it selected, we're going to go over here that says 'Image Trace'. 62 63 00:02:57,133 --> 00:02:58,163 It's up there as well. 63 64 00:02:58,843 --> 00:02:59,835 I'm going to click on it. 64 65 00:02:59,860 --> 00:03:02,421 And the option I want in this case-- 65 66 00:03:02,446 --> 00:03:04,288 you might play around with a few different ones. 66 67 00:03:04,780 --> 00:03:07,093 I find it looks good just converting it to 'Shades of Gray'... 67 68 00:03:07,303 --> 00:03:09,655 because Duo Tone's just two colors, right? 68 69 00:03:10,452 --> 00:03:12,593 So I'm going to use the color of the background... 69 70 00:03:12,618 --> 00:03:15,437 and a color for the cathedral. 70 71 00:03:16,069 --> 00:03:17,546 So I just want it to be black and white. 71 72 00:03:17,843 --> 00:03:21,327 Then we're going to recolor it once it's finished its little thing. 72 73 00:03:25,224 --> 00:03:26,349 We're nearly there, right? 73 74 00:03:27,263 --> 00:03:28,870 We need to-- 74 75 00:03:28,895 --> 00:03:29,839 It's quite cool already. 75 76 00:03:29,864 --> 00:03:32,692 I need to get rid of the background, the background just appeared again. 76 77 00:03:33,496 --> 00:03:35,216 So to get rid of it, grab the 'White Arrow'. 77 78 00:03:36,074 --> 00:03:38,199 This doesn't have clouds in it, I'm going to click off in the background. 78 79 00:03:38,489 --> 00:03:41,028 'White Arrow', click on it, this guy, and just hit 'Delete'. 79 80 00:03:41,708 --> 00:03:43,067 Going too bad, undo. 80 81 00:03:43,927 --> 00:03:46,154 Before I do any of that, I need to hit the 'Expand' button. 81 82 00:03:46,179 --> 00:03:47,106 It's along the top here. 82 83 00:03:47,403 --> 00:03:48,919 Can't forget that. 83 84 00:03:48,944 --> 00:03:51,161 Then, with the White Arrow, click off in the background. 84 85 00:03:51,513 --> 00:03:53,497 Click on this guy, hit 'Delete'. 85 86 00:03:54,747 --> 00:03:57,216 So the sky is gone, it's all kind of lovely vector. 86 87 00:03:57,241 --> 00:03:59,458 If I go to Wireframe mode, it's really complex. 87 88 00:04:01,114 --> 00:04:02,434 Next thing I want to do is recolor. 88 89 00:04:02,459 --> 00:04:04,747 We did recoloring in an earlier video. 89 90 00:04:04,849 --> 00:04:07,755 Same principle works here, 'Black Arrow', click on this guy. 90 91 00:04:07,934 --> 00:04:11,371 Then I go to 'Edit', 'Edit Colors', I'm going to go to... 91 92 00:04:11,684 --> 00:04:12,942 'Recolor Artwork'. 92 93 00:04:12,967 --> 00:04:14,567 Actually I'm going to jump to these presets. 93 94 00:04:14,599 --> 00:04:17,434 This is the exact same thing, except it's going to save some time. 94 95 00:04:17,459 --> 00:04:18,841 I'm going to say, I want 'Color Job', please. 95 96 00:04:19,474 --> 00:04:22,224 If I move it up, says, this, click 'OK'. 96 97 00:04:22,716 --> 00:04:24,716 What we want to do is... 97 98 00:04:24,741 --> 00:04:29,950 we want to change all of these gray colors to the new color, which is... 98 99 00:04:30,794 --> 00:04:32,575 which color? I'm going to double click on this... 99 100 00:04:33,528 --> 00:04:34,864 and pick a color. 100 101 00:04:34,897 --> 00:04:37,349 What color do I want? I kind of want a purple-y color. 101 102 00:04:37,700 --> 00:04:40,145 What you might find is that it didn't quite do it. 102 103 00:04:40,349 --> 00:04:42,411 Grab the 'Saturation' down here, I find it's easier. 103 104 00:04:43,138 --> 00:04:45,575 Grab this guy, drag this up a little bit. 104 105 00:04:48,669 --> 00:04:49,958 Darken it down. 105 106 00:04:55,182 --> 00:04:57,440 I'm messing about too much now. 106 107 00:04:57,604 --> 00:04:58,682 I'm really fond of purple. 107 108 00:04:58,714 --> 00:05:02,118 So once you've got your colors, let's click 'OK'. 108 109 00:05:02,175 --> 00:05:03,979 Now what we need to do is get rid of the white. 109 110 00:05:04,004 --> 00:05:05,612 You could do this, we saw in Duo Tone. 110 111 00:05:06,010 --> 00:05:07,886 Using the white of the paper, and these two colors... 111 112 00:05:08,066 --> 00:05:11,120 but it kind of looks nicer if I start playing with my Blending Modes. 112 113 00:05:11,230 --> 00:05:14,542 Now because of all this detail here it's really hard to actually see. 113 114 00:05:15,886 --> 00:05:18,237 The shortcut for getting rid of all those lines is... 114 115 00:05:18,823 --> 00:05:20,471 that's right, 'Command H'. 115 116 00:05:21,409 --> 00:05:22,537 We'll turn it back on later on... 116 117 00:05:22,562 --> 00:05:24,441 but for the moment, just turning it off, still there... 117 118 00:05:24,605 --> 00:05:26,175 but at least I can see what I'm doing. 118 119 00:05:26,362 --> 00:05:28,753 And over here I'll just kind of work my way through. 119 120 00:05:30,409 --> 00:05:31,730 Kind of darkened, it's kind of quite cool. 120 121 00:05:33,487 --> 00:05:34,948 Click and drags from the background here. 121 122 00:05:35,902 --> 00:05:37,243 Just work your way through now... 122 123 00:05:37,268 --> 00:05:40,073 and figure out which one gives you the effect you were looking for. 123 124 00:05:40,191 --> 00:05:42,230 I'm going to jump back to 'Darken' 124 125 00:05:42,862 --> 00:05:45,323 It gives me that kind of traditional Duo Tone look. 125 126 00:05:45,348 --> 00:05:47,542 Last thing we will do is just bring in that text. 126 127 00:05:47,567 --> 00:05:49,115 So I'm going to zoom out, here he is over here... 127 128 00:05:49,140 --> 00:05:50,191 I'm going to grab these two guys. 128 129 00:05:50,300 --> 00:05:53,472 I laid this out already, if you hate the layout you can go and adjust it. 129 130 00:05:53,729 --> 00:05:56,320 One thing I might do though is I need to be in front. 130 131 00:05:56,345 --> 00:05:58,917 So I'm going to 'Arrange', and 'Bring to Front'. 131 132 00:05:59,706 --> 00:06:01,764 Cool! One little thing we'll do. 132 133 00:06:01,789 --> 00:06:04,269 You saw at the beginning, that Half Tone look. 133 134 00:06:04,495 --> 00:06:05,878 So I'm going to grab my 'Artboard Tool'. 134 135 00:06:06,019 --> 00:06:08,870 I'll hold down the 'Alt' key on a PC, 'Option' key on a Mac. 135 136 00:06:09,487 --> 00:06:15,336 And what I'll do is, I'll select this, and under 'Effect', under 'Pixelate'... 136 137 00:06:17,691 --> 00:06:19,316 and 'Color Halftone', looks quite cool. 137 138 00:06:20,386 --> 00:06:22,839 You might have to undo, come back to this quite a bit... 138 139 00:06:22,872 --> 00:06:24,324 there's no Preview, click 'OK'. 139 140 00:06:24,526 --> 00:06:26,120 It's going to give me the kind of effect I want. 140 141 00:06:26,145 --> 00:06:28,826 You might play around with it, gives it kind of old school newspaper... 141 142 00:06:28,851 --> 00:06:30,004 really exaggerated it a bit... 142 143 00:06:30,237 --> 00:06:33,019 but yes, it's kind of cool little exercise. 143 144 00:06:33,230 --> 00:06:34,972 Now that's the exercise we've done together. 144 145 00:06:35,112 --> 00:06:36,862 Now it's time for your exercise. 145 146 00:06:36,987 --> 00:06:38,549 So there's homework for this one. 146 147 00:06:38,722 --> 00:06:41,933 What I'd like you to do is find a monument in your town. 147 148 00:06:42,011 --> 00:06:45,237 Doesn't have to be a cathedral, it can be anything, I'd like to see it. 148 149 00:06:45,386 --> 00:06:47,917 So find something online, quick and easy. 149 150 00:06:48,042 --> 00:06:50,839 Find something in your local town, kind of a significant building. 150 151 00:06:50,864 --> 00:06:53,300 It could be anything, could be your dog, I'm happy with your dog. 151 152 00:06:53,980 --> 00:06:55,755 But I'd like you to play around with both... 152 153 00:06:55,780 --> 00:06:57,238 different colors, different fonts... 153 154 00:06:57,409 --> 00:06:59,495 and play around with this kind of Duo Tone look. 154 155 00:06:59,722 --> 00:07:02,362 And I'd like you to send me copies of it. 155 156 00:07:02,776 --> 00:07:05,862 So here's the website here to post your projects... 156 157 00:07:05,934 --> 00:07:08,987 or you can send it to me, but, actually, and send it to me. 157 158 00:07:09,136 --> 00:07:12,652 Send it to me on Twitter, I'm danlovesadobe 158 159 00:07:12,808 --> 00:07:15,097 And on Instagram, on bringyourownlaptop 159 160 00:07:15,823 --> 00:07:17,261 I'd love to see what you're doing. 160 161 00:07:17,286 --> 00:07:19,449 And I'd love to see a little bit about your town. 161 162 00:07:20,023 --> 00:07:22,789 All right, that's going to be it for our tutorial. 162 163 00:07:23,078 --> 00:07:23,953 See you in the next one.