DSD at Design House Digital Blog Hop & Tutorial

Time for another amazing blog hop with the designers at Design House Digital. We don't just give digital kits away for free, we give away fun designing advice as well!

 

In this tutorial I will show you how to create outlines for fonts and add embellishments, swirls, and manipulate your lettering.

To get started, open up a new file in Adobe Illustrator and type your wording.  I am adding swirls to my lettering, so I picked a font that is flowy and looks handwritten.  I found a font that is made up of swirls, picked a couple that would go well at the ends of some of my letters.

 

Then select the lettering and the swirls and right click.  Select "create outlines". 

You will notice that it is no longer a font, but a vector object.

 

I wanted my swirl to come naturally out of the "y", so I erased the edge.

I then selected my big swirl and moved it in a natural flowing spot.

For some balance, I selected and moved "girl" down below. 

Also for balance, I wanted to add a bigger swirl onto the edge of the first letter.  I erased it to the thick edge of the letter. In the same way, I erased the smaller swirl so just the right amount of a swirl end was coming off of the "B".

 

Select all and change the color using a color swatch of your choice.

TA-DAH!!!

Now, look what you can get for free just for following along on our blog hop!

DAYDREAM BELIEVER - A collaboration by Design House Digital.

 

We have made it easy to get this free kit...just collect the coupon code letters as you hop from blog to blog starting at the beginning.

My Letter is:

Now, head over to Erica Coombs blog to get some great info from her as well.

 

 

Comments

[Kait]

Great tutorial. Thank you!

[Margie Visnick]

Great tutorial! Thanks for being a part of the hop!

[Judy]

Thanks for the tut!

[Trista]

Super tutorial. The collab is gorgeous. Thanks so much for taking part!

[Tammy Davis]

Enjoyed the tutorial! I will definitely try this!

[Candice S. in Colorado]

what a fabulous tutorial! thank you so much!!!!!!!

[sara paschal]

Oh, this is awesome. Thanks for the tut and being part of the DHD blog hop.

[Shay]

Thank you so much for the tutorial and your awesome contribution to the kit!

[jennybean]

Thanks for the tutorial!

[Trisha]

Love your tutorial. Does it also work with Photoshop Elements 9?

[LaurieW]

Wonderful tutorial

[Melinda T]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing the tutorial!

[Leslie Kiley]

Thanks for the Tutorial ! Love the kit and this awesome blog hop!

[Sherry P]

Thank you for the great tutorial and the letter A !!!!!! This is great fun :)

[Nancy Grant]

Cool tutorial! Thanks for sharing!
:-)

[Clancy]

Thanks for sharing this tutorial with us. Love it !!!!

[KarenH]

This tutorial brought to you today by the letter A..Thank you! I'll have to try it in Fotofusion and see if it works there too..thank you for the letter.

[Desirae Starling]

What fonts are these? I've not seen a swirl font! :)

[Tammy Poland]

Thank you so much for the tutorial!! I am so new that this helps me enormously. Happy DSD and thankyou for the letter.
Hugs,

[Miss Becki]

Thank you!!!

[Heather R... mousemomma]

Thanks!

[sewcalgal]

Great tutorial. And, my birthday is next week so this was very special. Thank you!

SewCalGal
www.sewcalgal.blogspot.com

[Barbara Albrecht]

Thanks for the tutorial.

[Edna]

thanks for the tutorial.

[Ephémère13]

Thank you for the tutorial and for the letter.