Vintage/Retro Text Effect Tutorial | Adobe Illustrator

[@EverettHolcomb]

Quick tip: Hold Shift while using the eyedropper and it will apply that color to whichever one (the fill or stroke) you have selected.

[@SteBradburyDesign]

Damn, I never knew this! Thanks for the tip man, i'm sure this will help many others too!

[@THUNGUNS]

does it work with spot colours? or only process?

[@juliahess14]

This is about to change my life 😭

[@areyouearthing]

Give me month and I may be able to accomplish this. You are the first person to detail the seamless connection of the duplicated stripe pattern! Good video! Hopefully, you are being well-compensated by KZbin!

[@EauClaireSkater]

I felt pretty confident with Illustrator and knew your steps before you did them, until that last part. Adding that to my tool belt, nice work!

[@SteBradburyDesign]

ayyy thanks man! glad I was able to teach you at least something :)

[@paulcarrabbajr]

Blake Spiegel same here bro!

[@TheDeanmoz]

Been using illustrator for 2 years and I had no idea about the cmd+d function, swear I learn something new from every one of your vids, cheers bro!

[@EauClaireSkater]

Excuse me?

[@aininsofea9895]

hey i dont really understand how u did that at 3:25 would u please explain it to me? sorry i am a bit new in computer stuff

[@izzyslater2684]

Obsessed with both your tutorials and your intro music

[@pixelandbracket]

Awesome effect, you seriously covered SO many different tools & techniques!

[@SteBradburyDesign]

Thanks man! :)

[@djnishu]

Everytime I click pathfinder it hang and quit illustrator. 6:26. please advise how to fix it.

[@djnishu]

found a solution. its just the RAM. closed all software. one more thing my file was saved in cloud folder. I had to move the file to local drive and it worked.

[@sabianchase_]

The first video I have seen on your channel and I subscribed just because of the intro! I assume the rest will be great!

[@alenomada3222]

For those whose computer crashes after using the blend tool: I was playing around and found a way to do it that avoids this. I used the blend tool but just used like 20 steps (It would look like a zigzag)...then what I did was to unify all those copies so they become one and then erased all the corners, leaving just the first and the last one. And tada! you get the same result :) I hope this helps!

[@besartreqani4584]

Yo man im very excited that u started to upload again keep up the good work.

[@ssmssharma]

loved it man!!! I would love see more like these!

[@Dwx3986]

I am in love with this tutorial =D Your tutorials become better and better. Never thought that this is even possible, but you made it, haha. Can't wait for your upcoming videos =) stay fresh!

[@raedjibrail]

Amazing. Learnt a few tricks can use generally. Thanks for sharing.

[@muldoon67]

Very enjoyable vid. Got it to work, although the 500 blend crashed AI on the O so had use the pen tool to draw the curved shadow. I don't think you mentioned holding ALT when using the Shape Tool to delete various parts.

[@doricdave]

same here, when clicked unite it crashed...on a M3 iMac!?

[@msidiq7341]

nice work!! just little correction about "dark blue shadow" in letter "O". its more logical if the the initial shadow point is on intersection of "dark yellow shadow" and "light blue object". sorry my english is limited, hope u understand what i mean.

[@jasonfantonial]

lol I thought i was fast with the shortcut keys... but this guy make it so effortless lol efficiency and shortcuts!

[@orbit7082]

OH FINALLY YOU ARE BACK

[@SteBradburyDesign]

aye, I am back!!!

[@orbit7082]

Ste Bradbury Design Thanks man we missed you, I gotta say I knew everything which was going on, on this video and could actually do it but I was so not expecting the last part where you had the lines saved to the swatches, totally helped me!.

[@MarkRichardson90]

Solid tute man! Good idea with the drawing the lines onto the square, I hadn't thought of doing it like that!

[@maryrees5996]

Learnt so much from your brilliant tutorial. Thankyou.

[@carlluparia3839]

awesome, that was amazing , thanks man

[@sufi_sb927]

when I open this youtube I always check Ste Bradbury Design if you have new vid :) so awesome

[@mellotron_scratch]

When i want to apply unite pathfinder on my word (which is a bit longer than hello) my PC freezes. I have 16 gb of dd4 and high end PC, idk what is the problem. Is there any solution for this?

[@llst3phiiexll]

SAME

[@bernatoliva7774]

great, thank you for sharing the way you achieve things, it's great to know it!

[@jpsdesign1]

thanks for sharing!!! very nice and clear explained!!!

[@andreir3821]

still cant quite get what does that "expand" or "expand appearance" does. Always when im trying to do this some messy things comin up

[@dariordz688]

Loving all this know how!! I'm learning a lot, thank you!

[@doricdave]

Found it really hard to follow at the white lines section and when finished the shadows under white lines don't marry up (on different letters ie Y or A) to the white lines so the white looks like it's floating. Main shadow also looks odd, wrong shape. Sorry but just doesn't look right to me.

[@toriwhite6840]

I'm having issues with the shape builder tool. I'm following all of your steps and have the correct things selected, but it does nothing when I click on what needs to be removed. Any suggestions?

[@24Perezident]

I'm stuck at the @4:50 mark. Every time I try to use the pencil to get rid of the light blue shadows, this pops up: "Please use the add anchor point tool on a segment of a path" Do you know how I could fix this?

[@tsogade9764]

same, have you found any solution since?

[@ChinmayiKaushik]

Use the pen tool (the one with the + symbol to ADD anchor points), not the pencil tool.

[@global-sequence]

How did you isolate the stroke towards the end? My stroke is cemented to the layer so that when I duplicate it, it duplicates the whole text (object) layer.

[@mazgan3890]

very helpful tutorial! Fairly new to illustrator, when i went to create the darker blue shadows the pen tool clicked to points but they ended up not being exact in the end (wasn't seamless) any idea why that might be?

[@WeiWeiKhoo]

I have the exact same problem.... have you found the solution?

[@juanpablobenedetti3858]

Do you have a tutorial on how to create a logo like yours? Also with the animation will me awesome. Thanks

[@angelo_knf]

Nice effect! Very useful video! 👍

[@smilelock5089]

so beautiful brother

[@illumizoldyck911]

how can you add this motion blur to mouse arrow on mac, please ? ❤❤

[@MadebyMighty]

Love it man, great tutorial! :)

[@penny1459]

Perfect retro logo!

[@WeiWeiKhoo]

Very useful tutorial! However, I have problem with the pen tool, I can't get them aligned, even tho it says intersect when I clicked. Please help

[@MrRharbert]

if you keep running into the 500 blend tool/pathfinder problem... direct select the color you DONT want to edit Select>Same>Fill Color and the lock it...repeat that for all except the blend...then pathfinder unite each letter blend separate..it takes some time but its doable.

[@alexalt2630]

Awesome tutorial. Thank you.

[@ievanemunyte]

OMG your intro is soooo good

[@alenomada3222]

When I use the blend tool my laptop gets crazy slow...and I was doing it only to one letter! Is there a way to make it less "heavy" for the laptop? I have a Macbook Pro :/

[@muldoon67]

Same for me. Crashed Illustrator when doing the shadow on the O. I would try going for maybe 200 instead of 500. I doubt the blend will look any different

[@hsiaotingwang5093]

Question: You mentioned in the video "I'm using square Rocky key" which I do not understand what is it? Thank you.

[@321Celina123]

He's saying 'Square bracket'. Meaning this [ ] . :D

[@hsiaotingwang5093]

Celina, thanks a lot. ^^

[@paulcarrabbajr]

why has it taken me this long to know the CMD D function?? great tutorial bro! so clean

[@SteBradburyDesign]

haha I thought the same thing when I found that out, it' so useful!

[@paulcarrabbajr]

Literally used it today haha

[@syedreza72]

i was following you on insta amd eagerly waiting for this turorial 😄 i have a question ste what you do to learn new techniques plz expalin that 😊 Hope that you will consistently upload great tutorials like this 😀

[@jessieclips3478]

do you use a Imac? if so what Imac?

[@amylinn1337]

I am not able to change the color of the blend. Starting with black letters, it just shows a gray. Any suggestions?

[@adamw.7169]

Doesn't the zigzag pattern when zooming in defeat the purpose of it being vector?

[@Gautenglive]

HELPED ME 5 YEARS LATER .

[@alejandroochoa6590]

Super cool tutorial bro.

[@josefc7787]

How do you place the color pallet above the art board? Also I tried doing this with a longer text and I failed.. I got super confused on placements.. Can someone provide some tips on how to go about this? Thanks much. Great Vid sir. Subscribed to your channel.

[@muhammadnazmi2134]

hm sory.can i ask for a help.Where can i get the font on the video.It is unclear whether it is 'vibas','bivas'.Sorry for my English

[@djnishu]

I have recreated HELLO. Now can I change HELLO to something else? or I have to recreate?

[@xxpriscila]

For some reason when I'm trying to create the dark shadow for the O my pen tool doesn't show any anchors. What are your selection and anchor display settings on Preferences? x

[@moozeazzy6031]

Press Command + H in Mac / Ctrl + H for windows, your anchor points will be visible after that :)

[@aronsen]

Once I expanded the blue part Illustrator got superslow and kept crashing, is it necessary to do that or can I just use the shape tool anyway? Edit: Nevermind, I figured out a solution! Thank you for a great tutorial!

hey you! when do you do other video?

[@FernandoNascimentobr]

Really good tutorial, thanks!

[@ngocthao9642]

This is awesome! thank you for shaing

[@valerieadame9934]

My computer crashes when I try to expand the object what do i doooo!

[@loisr.8000]

same

[@marjogedaro8115]

3:23 what command was that?

[@nawlsone586]

send back

[@devandvan]

Keep inspiring other! You are the man!

[@TheRoots1904]

When I try to draw in the shadows (dark blue) the placement of the pen tool is off. I click on the corner of light blue piece and it places my starting point below it by like 5 pixels. It's driving me insane!

[@TheRoots1904]

When I line it up with the blue piece, it places my starting point down and left by about 5 pixels.*

[@xxpriscila]

that was happening to me as well and what fixed it was turning off the "align art to pixel grid on creation and transformation" in the top right menu (I'm using CC btw)

[@arjanagababu]

When I'm 3d designing.... Can you tell me why the preview is too late... its take more time ... i am using i3 processor and 12 GB RAM and 1 TB hard disk and GPU 1050 with 2GB... what i need. please help me. how to decrease time of preview.

[@marcosahagun8825]

your processor is probably bottlenecking the rest of your computer. Your graphics card and the amount of ram you have are too good for your processor

[@gitamaharsi8017]

i can't find the blend tool in photoshop 2015.5 help please?

[@charlieparadine-james6875]

Great tutorial man

[@StudioDeux]

uhm, i cannot for the life of me delete those two halves of the upper and lower stroke for inside the letters. how on earth does one go about doing that?

[@goofgafster]

Learn so much from these, thanks for this! I have been using (Cmd+C) and then (Cmd+Shift+V) to paste in place but the (Cmd+F) is much simpler. That and the tip when creating a pattern, so helpful

[@ArbitraryNoun]

Thank you for narrating.

[@abduldesign117]

Thanks for the tutorial, keep up the good work!

[@PrepareTheLifeWithin]

im completely stuck on the 0 part, mainly where you add the shadows. like when I go to unite the two, it wouldn't let me take the excess off, it'll just take away the whole thing or none. is there any other solution to do the shadow in a different way??

[@estellaallegra4220]

The same thing happened to me just now, did you ever figure out how to fix it?

[@PrepareTheLifeWithin]

Estella f sadly no :( I’m sorry

[@DaaftPunk63]

i don't know why but when i click mith the pen tool on an anchor point, it put it a little bit aside the anchor point and makes everything wrong ! ^^

[@letaantonius1849]

same tho

[@panayiotistsiros3586]

Very nice, keep up the nice work!

[@tinjoyformaran]

what is that command square bracket key?

[@iremkaya9103]

ctrl alt 9 on my computer. you just gotta do "]"

[@Pankaj-Verma-]

Great video!

[@jawedkhan5954]

i like it nice

[@gibbssportspix]

Every time I try and go to Pathfinder

[@jenicaodango3477]

same here

[@llst3phiiexll]

same I thought my computer sucked but obviously its the program

[@dudikoffski]

Me too. I'm stuck at this step now :(

[@nawlsone586]

try not creating a document higher than 2000 by 2000 pxls, could also try not using 500 steps in blend like he does, 200 is good enough. add more ram to your computer/.

[@512banana1]

nothing but love

[@jesperjee]

Are there any good beginner tutorials on this?

[@LozVegas]

Nice work and a great tutorial! Cheers Ste! ;)

[@jcalebmarte]

Thank you for this Stephen!

[@SteBradburyDesign]

You're welcome!

[@蕭志航]

Your videos are awesome!!!!!!

[@SteBradburyDesign]

Thanks man!

[@alejandrovelarde3297]

What font is it that you use? thanks

[@itsqueenfareeda]

Loved it!

[@katarinaax]

I don't have a suqare braquet key? Do i just move the layer foward?

[@juiceboxh3ro]

] and [ are the square bracket keys

[@nafsmedia]

outstanding

[@laurencegr5338]

and for the darker color as shadows, you could just adjust the opacity of the layer..

[@rahmanaan5286]

nice tutorial !!!

[@marissamccall7530]

What is the font you used again?

[@msidiq7341]

bebas font. it's indonesian language means: free

[@Elly_Rose]

Thank you for the tutorial! It was very useful:)

[@isyrafsyahmi68]

Thank you!

[@geraldmariwa]

..yeah...i choose this one ...on Instagram... keep up the Amazing work ...

[@mcbaltz]

AWESOME!

[@CPR306]

When you realize that everybody's wrong, and Ste Bradbury rewrites the song.

[@SteBradburyDesign]

You know it ;) hahah!

[@mashable8759]

YOU ARE AMAZING :o Thanks for TUT.

[@andr3alau]

Hey Stephen! I'm trying to recreate this but I don't know what's wrong with my blend tool, it doesn't make smooth blends, I usually do 255 steps since I always use it for irregular shapes and works fine, but for this I even tried using the same font you used and it makes sawtooth (worse with 500 steps) :S:(

[@andr3alau]

Do you know if there's a way to reset the tool? Or is it a preview problem? I looked up online but didn't find anything helpful.

[@Reiizz]

Hey, i'm two month late, but i was struggling with the same thing, but i find a solution if you still need it and anyone who's passing by. The problem appear because you have the "Align to Pixel Grid" options activated. You can find it in the options (up-right corner) of the "Transform" panel. For existing objets, you have to select them first and then turn off Align to Pixel Grid using the checkbox at bottom of Transform panel. Hope that'll be usefull

[@andr3alau]

Jaaaa! I tried so many things at the time and nothing worked. Works perfectly! Thank you so much, Théo! 🌟

[@VintagePixiDust]

That was exactly my problem as well and I was searching the comments to see if anyone else had the issue....thank you so much for this!!!

[@REWirez]

Just bought the new iMac Pro for this purpose and still crashes...

[@thanhha9977]

How can you create 6 rectangle of color above the workspace? T,T

[@estellaallegra4220]

You can create them manually which is probably what he did, you can use the rectangle tool to draw 6 rectangles then fill them with the colours you are going to use

[@moozeazzy6031]

Great Tutorial, Thank you so much :)

[@CaitlynLeiataua]

Great tut, easy to follow! Thank you! (:

[@abayyazid2087]

Keep make stuff like this broo

[@bnop9001]

When I do CMD+C, CMD+F, ALT + CMD + C i get the error "This requires a selection of multiple objects. The top object must be a single path or mesh, or a symbol containing a single path or mesh"