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Creating a bevel effect

Creating a bevel effect

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Creating a bevel effect

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- [Instructor] Wings are a very common logo motif, especially for car and motorcycles. In this example, I'd like to recreate these metallic, beveled wings. Let's just take a look at the Layers panel before we get going. You can see that we have, on a locked layer, the finished version and also on a locked layer, the type. This was created by drawing half of it, reflecting that half, and then joining the two together. It has a gradient applied to it. My first task is to, with the line tool, draw a line from the center point, I'm just going to mark the center point with a guide, and extending beyond the edge. I'll then apply a 30% gray stroke 10 points in weight. I'll change its width profile to width profile number four and because that goes the wrong way for what I want, and change the direction of that width profile. so I'm just going to get the width tool and increase the weight of that at the starting point. Now I'm going to rotate copies of this line. I'll press r to access the…

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