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

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Picture in type

Picture in type

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

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Picture in type

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- [Instructor] Let's create a classic picture-in-type look, I'm going to come and import a picture, first of all, from my libraries. I'll use this image of the Golden Gate Bridge. And then I'll click on that with my Type tool. Select my type. Double tap to select it and type over it my text. I'm not really concerned what it looks like yet. Now the typeface that I want to use for this is a super-condensed, very stylized type face. It's called Fit. And the reason I'm using this, one of the reasons, is that there's so little negative space here that it's going to allow us to see more of the picture in the letter shapes. Let me just size this up how I want it. And I'm just going to increase the letter spacing so that we can see a little bit of space between each of the letters. Like that. If all I wanted to do was put the image inside this type, I can just come to my layers, I can select both of them, or I could just…

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