From the course: Illustrator on the iPad: Typography and Type Effects

Picture in type variant

From the course: Illustrator on the iPad: Typography and Type Effects

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Picture in type variant

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- [Instructor] Here is a variant of the picture in type technique that I demonstrated in the previous movie. So I have my piece of type and the typeface that I'm using is Adobe Jensen Pro Semibold. Again, available on Adobe Fonts. I am going to come and add a picture, not surprisingly a picture of Venice. Let's position that on the art board and then I'm going to adjust the stacking order so that it goes beneath the type. I want to connect the type with the frame of the image and have the image showing through the type. So let me start out by just positioning the type more or less where I want it to go, which is down here, bottom right. We'll scale it down a little bit. I'd like it to go there. So now I'm going to come and draw a rectangle on top of the image and this rectangle needs to connect with the top of that type. It needs to connect with it because the rectangle and the type will be a single compound path, a single frame into which the image will fit. I'll need to outline the text, tap done to confirm that. Now I can select the text and the rectangle and make them into a compound path. Now they are a compound path. I'll come to my layers panel, extend the selection to the image that is beneath and make that into a clipping mask. And now we can see the image coming through the shape of the letters.

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