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Using Type on a Path

Using Type on a Path - Illustrator Tutorial

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Using Type on a Path

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- [Instructor] To finish this design what we need to do is add some text onto a path that is currently around the main design. We want a word along the top. And a few words along the bottom. So I've got a circle drawn here and because you can only go in one direction around a circle, in Illustrator, I'm going to need to cut the path into two segments. Well to do that, I need the scissors tool. Ask yourself, what do scissors do? Now you're going to say a word like cut and you'd be right. So what's the first letter of cut? It's C! And if you tap C on your keyboard, you'll get the scissors tool. It's just like some form of weird magic. But there you are. And I can come along and click on this path, I've just clicked on the left hand side. And I'm going to go way over to the right hand side, in fact, just about to this anchor point, maybe a little bit north of there and click and there we are. I have…

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