0 1 00:00:00,047 --> 00:00:02,335 Hey there, in this video we are going to... 1 2 00:00:02,360 --> 00:00:06,570 put Strokes around the outside of text and graphics. 2 3 00:00:07,227 --> 00:00:09,617 They're not completely, watch this, when they start overlapping... 3 4 00:00:09,766 --> 00:00:13,398 they start joining, but the Stroke remains around the outside. 4 5 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:16,201 It's cool for drawings as well, you can see, this one here has a Stroke... 5 6 00:00:16,233 --> 00:00:18,301 but it's only around the outside of everything. 6 7 00:00:19,115 --> 00:00:20,591 Let's go and do that now. 7 8 00:00:21,029 --> 00:00:22,497 To start with, let's do it with Type. 8 9 00:00:22,522 --> 00:00:26,669 So 'Type Tool', I'm going to put in my 'Living Spree'. 9 10 00:00:29,323 --> 00:00:31,972 If your tracking is way off like mine, I'm going to select it all. 10 11 00:00:32,437 --> 00:00:35,526 Remember, we can hold down the 'Alt' key, and hit the 'up arrow'. 11 12 00:00:36,097 --> 00:00:40,056 That's on a PC, it's 'Option' and the 'up arrow' on a Mac. 12 13 00:00:41,151 --> 00:00:43,745 Get it nice, and then I'm going to make it nice and big. 13 14 00:00:45,971 --> 00:00:49,393 Next thing I want to do is give it a white Fill, and give it a Stroke. 14 15 00:00:49,722 --> 00:00:51,433 So if I give it a Stroke this way... 15 16 00:00:51,458 --> 00:00:53,651 it's fine, but when I start tracking it in... 16 17 00:00:53,730 --> 00:00:56,605 so I'm holding the 'Alt' key on a PC, or 'Option' key on a Mac... 17 18 00:00:56,630 --> 00:00:57,917 and just kind of like, start. 18 19 00:00:58,175 --> 00:01:00,042 You see, when it starts overlapping it does this. 19 20 00:01:00,067 --> 00:01:01,261 You might like that, it's cool. 20 21 00:01:02,026 --> 00:01:04,388 But let's say I just want it running around the outside... 21 22 00:01:04,413 --> 00:01:05,613 that's what we came here for. 22 23 00:01:05,917 --> 00:01:08,112 All we need to do is open up the 'Appearance Panel'. 23 24 00:01:08,183 --> 00:01:12,120 It's under 'Window', 'Appearance', or you can click on this dotted line here. 24 25 00:01:13,269 --> 00:01:18,151 At the moment, the line is around the actual characters inside of here. 25 26 00:01:18,176 --> 00:01:19,573 So I double click the characters... 26 27 00:01:19,598 --> 00:01:22,315 there's the Stroke, that's not where I want it, I'm going to delete it. 27 28 00:01:22,378 --> 00:01:24,823 Or you can just delete it, or not put it on in general. 28 29 00:01:25,253 --> 00:01:26,855 So, let's click off... 29 30 00:01:27,261 --> 00:01:29,198 and click back on it with the 'Black Arrow'. 30 31 00:01:30,026 --> 00:01:32,253 Characters are kind of hidden in this little group. 31 32 00:01:32,425 --> 00:01:34,573 We got this outside group that we can apply it to. 32 33 00:01:34,598 --> 00:01:37,034 That's where the real magic happens. If I click on this... 33 34 00:01:37,409 --> 00:01:40,550 you can see, it goes around our characters again... 34 35 00:01:40,575 --> 00:01:44,393 but watch this, if I drag it down, and outside of characters, just below it... 35 36 00:01:44,659 --> 00:01:46,378 goes around the outside. Cool, huh? 36 37 00:01:47,206 --> 00:01:48,558 Just grab this and crank it up. 37 38 00:01:48,683 --> 00:01:49,894 You don't have to stop at one. 38 39 00:01:49,919 --> 00:01:52,253 I can click on this, which duplicates it... 39 40 00:01:52,278 --> 00:01:54,784 and I can have another one that is that-- 40 41 00:01:54,894 --> 00:01:58,463 Where's those colors I'm using? There we go, that color. 41 42 00:01:58,956 --> 00:02:00,659 Just make sure it's a little bit bigger. 42 43 00:02:01,518 --> 00:02:03,261 I can have more than one around the outside. 43 44 00:02:03,841 --> 00:02:05,396 The Type is still editable. 44 45 00:02:05,864 --> 00:02:07,630 So you can change things. 45 46 00:02:07,755 --> 00:02:10,834 I want to add a Stroke just to the outside, don't add it there. 46 47 00:02:11,154 --> 00:02:13,044 Especially if your undo doesn't work properly. 47 48 00:02:13,796 --> 00:02:15,763 What you need to do is add it in the Appearance Panel. 48 49 00:02:16,257 --> 00:02:17,607 Let's click on a 'New Stroke'. 49 50 00:02:18,262 --> 00:02:20,036 And it's partially kind of right... 50 51 00:02:20,069 --> 00:02:23,295 so I'm going to maybe make a Magenta, so you can see. 51 52 00:02:23,599 --> 00:02:26,333 But dragging it out and underneath contents. 52 53 00:02:26,867 --> 00:02:28,271 Then it's kind of around the group. 53 54 00:02:28,607 --> 00:02:30,857 So let's now increase the Font size. 54 55 00:02:30,882 --> 00:02:32,849 You can see, there's a Stroke still on the outside. 55 56 00:02:33,326 --> 00:02:36,537 I'm just going to make mine black, because that's what I wanted. 56 57 00:02:37,248 --> 00:02:38,794 The one thing you might run into is... 57 58 00:02:38,819 --> 00:02:41,268 can you see, there's something weird happening at the edge there... 58 59 00:02:41,293 --> 00:02:42,242 because of the shape. 59 60 00:02:42,451 --> 00:02:44,787 The Stroke here just might need some adjustment. 60 61 00:02:44,812 --> 00:02:46,420 You might want to play around with the Capping. 61 62 00:02:46,599 --> 00:02:48,818 Probably in this case, it's the Cornering. 62 63 00:02:48,851 --> 00:02:51,294 You might have to go to 'Round Join', just watch it. 63 64 00:02:52,046 --> 00:02:53,873 Types it up, or you might have to join... 64 65 00:02:54,287 --> 00:02:55,724 depending on what you want to look for. 65 66 00:02:57,029 --> 00:02:58,052 Even dash. 66 67 00:02:58,935 --> 00:03:02,630 So that's how to put it around text, and around images. 67 68 00:03:02,778 --> 00:03:04,081 You notice, when I undid before... 68 69 00:03:04,106 --> 00:03:06,201 I undid too much and got rid of the cool Stroke... 69 70 00:03:06,226 --> 00:03:07,146 that I had around the outside. 70 71 00:03:07,171 --> 00:03:08,060 That's okay. 71 72 00:03:08,513 --> 00:03:10,326 One of the things you might run into is... 72 73 00:03:10,351 --> 00:03:13,373 we made this earlier in the previous tutorial... 73 74 00:03:13,599 --> 00:03:16,388 and maybe you want to steal it, so you grab the Eye Dropper Tool. 74 75 00:03:16,616 --> 00:03:18,765 You're like, 'Give me that one, I want that guy." 75 76 00:03:20,327 --> 00:03:21,585 It's that-- 76 77 00:03:21,694 --> 00:03:24,577 the Layer order over here plays a big importance. 77 78 00:03:25,453 --> 00:03:27,608 This is the Stroke, but the Fill here is way at the bottom. 78 79 00:03:28,148 --> 00:03:30,991 So we're going to make sure that the Fill is at the top. 79 80 00:03:31,499 --> 00:03:33,366 We're going to give it a Fill of white. 80 81 00:03:34,304 --> 00:03:38,280 So the Layer order with Fills, you might need to do some adjustments with. 81 82 00:03:39,006 --> 00:03:42,171 All right, that is how to add the Stroke just around the outside... 82 83 00:03:42,196 --> 00:03:43,992 of both type and graphics. 83 84 00:03:44,017 --> 00:03:45,461 All right, let's get into the next video.