Now let’s change the color of the upright text and the black background shape. When done, click the left arrow in the gray bar at the top of the document to exit Isolation mode. Select the text object or highlight it with the Type tool, then change the Fill color to white in the Control panel. The text is still editable, even though it appears as paths in the grid. To change the color, you need to enter Isolation mode, so double-click the object and it will screen out everything except the object. You may discover that you can select the object but not change the color. Once the shape is drawn out, choose Object>Arrange>Send to Back.Ĭhoose the Selection tool and click on the perspective text object to select it. (Tip: When using the Pen tool, press-and-hold the Shift key to ensure the horizontal lines are straight.) Click on the first point you created to close the path. The shape should be just slightly larger than the perspective text. Draw a shape around the entire area of the perspective text. Select the Pen tool (P) and in the Control panel, make sure the Fill is set to black with no Stroke. In the movie trailer, the shadow letters are actually inverted to the background, making the shadow appear white. Remember, to make adjustments to the perspective text, use the Perspective Selection tool. Shift-click-and-drag a corner handle to scale it so that its bottom edges line up as close as possible to the top edges of the perspective text so that the perspective text appears to be a shadow. Now, choose the Selection tool (V), select the original upright text we created, and place it above the perspective text. Even though the grid isn’t visible, you can still move the text around on the ground plane with the Perspective Selection tool. With the text scaled and positioned where you want it, choose View>Perspective Grid>Hide Grid.
![type on perspective grid illustrator type on perspective grid illustrator](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/8b/22/6a/8b226a794ab313a1711d0d75eebda3ce.jpg)
Holding the Option key (PC: Alt key), drag one of corner handles with the Perspective Selection tool and scale the object so it covers a wide area of the ground plane, as shown here. Choose the Perspective Selection tool (Shift-V), click on the mirrored text we created in Step 2, and drag it into the ground plane of the perspective grid. This ensures you’re working only on this plane of the grid. (Note: A grid must be visible in order to see the widget.) Click on the bottom plane of the cube it should turn green. Use the control handles (circled) to widen the grid area and push the ground plane up to get a lower angle. To change this, choose View>Perspective Grid>One Point Perspective>. By default, Illustrator displays a two-point perspective grid however, for this effect we need a one-point perspective grid. Select the Perspective Grid tool (Shift-P). This will flip the object horizontally, giving you a mirror image. Choose Object>Transform>Reflect and in the dialog that appears, click the Horizontal setting in the Axis section, then click OK. Press Command-C (PC: Ctrl-C) to copy the text to the clipboard, then press Command-V (PC: Ctrl-V) to paste a duplicate copy of the text object. The different weight of the words will make it easier to read. Using the Type tool, highlight just the word ADJUSTMENT and change the font to Arial Black.
![type on perspective grid illustrator type on perspective grid illustrator](https://designshack.net/wp-content/uploads/typeperspective-8.jpg)
Click on the artboard to set the text object, and type ADJUSTMENTLAYER without a space between the words. Select the Type tool (T), then go to the Control panel and set the font to Arial and the size to around 48 pt. It’s an interesting reversed shadow effect that you can re-create simply by using the new Perspective Grid feature in Illustrator CS5.Ĭhoose File>New and in the New Document dialog, set New Document Profile to Basic RGB and click OK.
![type on perspective grid illustrator type on perspective grid illustrator](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AqXHH12HUf8/maxresdefault.jpg)
Recently, I saw a trailer for a new movie called The Adjustment Bureau with Matt Damon and was intrigued by the title art.