Lettering and Calligraphy with Affinity Designer

1. Introduction: Have you ever wanted to create literally of cartography prints, but I don't know what the start are gonna have the time or ability fluid by hand. Do you want to learn Affinity Designer while at the same time create a collection of phrase that you can use to decorate your house or to sell my sites. If so, this is your class. Hi, my name is Sandra. I haven't Union this side now. I'm self-taught illustrator. I'm the founder of playful and Wednesday. And my objective is to Barney's boring walls. Your house, seeing with personality. I have always love later imprints and calligraphy pens. I think there's something very human, very special above them. I said the signer, I have several ratios. Would I use quotes as they might motive of the design? You can take them on that issue shop, the link is or maybe you. This class is perfect for affinity. The assignments beginners, as I will explain how to create the prints with vaccines, basic tools. But I also, I wanted to step by step the more complex ones. It is a great class for affinity express worth. It will serve as an introduction to lettering and calligraphy. Lettering and calligraphy. Our old arts that fulfills groin. Writing beautiful. They connect us with words and their meanings in different than a special. Thanks to programs like Affinity Designer, they're easier to master than ever. I really hope you'll give me. 2. Your class project: Your class project is going to be to create that creative test print. But because I believe in learning by doing every class has a class project, you will learn I create the alone the way it is a bit of instant gratification plan. But don't worry, I have compiled a collection of textures, prints, fonts, and color palettes to help you along the way. The link of the resources is on the Resources tab, and I will put the password in the screen. Now, what we'll learn how to do, I'll see you. 3. First initial - Placing patterns: In this class, we will learn three basic techniques, very important ones. The first one, the first one is about this. How to use it, how to choose it, how to align it. The second one is how to place an image. There is a particular way to do it and how to use that image, that part and that inspire us as a basic for our design. The third one is an introduction to layers and layer effects. With this spastic thickness basic techniques, you will be able to do a collection of prints like this one. Let's get through. Let's start creating annual image, go to New and go to print. So you'll have enough quality. Read the print. I you select to use A3, it's big enough. And in this case we want a vertical orientation. Now the first thing to check is that drawer in the designer persona and they go to the test tool. It is. But if you press a bit, you see that there is two options. So you want the frame fixed tool, go for one corner to the other, use the guides if you leave them. Write the letter you want. In this case, I'm going to write an E. Make it bigger so you can see it. Well, these tools over there, you center the letter. You don't have to do it. You didn't have to center. We're going to do it because the letter is going to be the focus of this sprint. But anything that is science, this is Europe. Your option. You decide. Now we are going to choose the font. If you check the little number that is on the phone, it just means that different options every phone has. We choose advice, didn't have to choose this font, but just choose one that is chunky, is going to look better for this kind of design. Now, I want it bigger. So I'm just trying here different sizes. 400 is good, but anything we can go a bit bigger. 750 perhaps it'll cut around 50, looks a lot better. Now, we are going to do is add the element of design here. And it's going to place five plays an image on top. You're going to have to use the same as I did. But I'm going to use this original William Morris image. I like it and you are going to have it available. I usually place it on the center, but you're gonna have to, but I think it's a good place to start. So look at this. Now we have a new layer. The linear is put on top of the previous one. So you can think of layers like semi-transparent sheets. You can put several on top of each other and you are going to just look to the top of one. The one that is on top is the one that is going to be visible for you. Now, what I'm going to do is make this layer a bit bigger with this image, the ledger doesn't change your side, just the image that is on the layer because I just want the image to fill the page. For that. Yes, click and drag. Now, we're going to do in an initial airway. So why can't see the initial because it's on the button. To change. That is very easy. You go to the Layers, click on the leg as you want to move and just drag and drop the bottom. That it is the eosin top. Because of that, you can see it, but I don't want the black initial. You will hear an InDesign. Repetition is important. We're going to repeat the colors. You just go to the tool. Click on the yellow that you have to have the perfect, the exact yellow that the image has. Now we're going to make the little to stand out a bit. So both with facts and choose outer shadow. Now, I'm going to put some values here that I think look good, but you don't have to use the same. This is a personal preference kind of thing, like everything in design really. And I will probably change them later once the whole design is made. So I choose this, I think it looks good. You can see that because we're making a shadow on the bottom of the E. The E is casting a shadow. Now stands out. Better. To finish, we're going to make another repetition for that. I want the ball there. I pick a rectangle and I want, I don't want a fill color. I wanted to make transparent for that. I click there. This rectangle, It's only the border. And because of that it can be on top. Go to stroke and make the border. Why that does a slide there. And again, this is your preference. I wouldn't go in to choose a size, but do them have to use the same? Display a bit, making your own? There it is. Now we have a bother. Now that I can see the whole design. Yeah, I want a bit more of a subtle. So just click on the sign and again, playing a bit. This time is that you are going to get back and forth and change things. But I like this design. I think it looks beautiful. And you can do one for a relater of the alphabet you toward. Wasn't that easy. Now you have a quick technique to do an infinite variety of prints. You can do initials as I did. You can do numbers, you can do lens. You can do simple shapes like a heart or a house. I'm curious. So please post your first initial down below, and I promise I will give you a like. In the next class, we are going to learn about clipping layers and how to blend the initial. See you then. 4. Fill initial - Layering and Clipping: In this class we are going to learn about clipping mask layers. How do you use them? What are they? For the first time, we are going to use blending modes. They are very easy to use tool really, but they are very powerful. Both techniques combined, we allow you to transform your first initial into something like this. Of course didn't have to use the same pattern as the first-class and dissemination, you can do something new and totally different. Let's get to it. What about doing a different design with the ECE? Going to remove the shadow for the address. Click there, the seller will disappear. And we're going to learn about clipping mask. For that, we are going to file and place. We know how to do this and you'll have this problem. Thus cancel click outside the test. This happens because you have text selected flail File Place again and there you have it. Problem-solve. Well, click the same limit. Places in the center again is just a way to start. Now, we're going to drag this layer inside. You go down and to the right release. Now you have created what is called a clipping mask, a clipping layer, sorry. This spring that Judas place it inside. It has the shape of the nothing outside. You can see, but it is still an image. You can move it, you can escalate, you can rotate. You can do whatever you want with this image, but it's going to be clip. But the shape that is on top of it, in this case an eight. What I'm going to do here is just this nicely leaves, I want them to be on the vertical part of the, I think it works better, beautiful than the protein is. If I show the background, you can't see anything really. So we are going to move these rectangle to the background, to the bottom. And I'm going to fill it with these gray color because again, repetition is important in design. In see any difference for that. To change that, welcome to use these two here it is the blending mode. You are going to change the blend of the layer. This is one of the more useful, more powerful tools that you have. What you are doing is changing the layer that we're working on this case, what is called original. You can see it affects the layer that is below. Please just play with these values and choose the ones you like. And in this case I'm choosing Luminosity. I'm changing a bit the opacity as well. Now, the T doesn't pop up. We can shadow again, but why not create just a bother and make a big boulder? The E pops up. And now that I'm seeing it, I think we can play the original, the background layer up is more create contrast and contracts is the second thing that is really important in design as well, reputation and contacts. I think we can make these a bit more contrast and a bit more contrast. And we're going to do it with size. So we're going to pick the background, I'll make it a lot bigger. You have this little leaves ambiguity leaves that contracts beautiful. And then you'll have, is, you'll have a new way to create an initial. But we already have created an a, so we're not chatted. We are at text tool. We can just select the letter and tinted or make a word of it. We are just to Zimbabwe and see which one I like. No surprise here. I like the that it is my initial with this technique just changes the print. You can have a lot of variety. All these letter use the same technique. Displays an image, change the color, change the border. Just do whatever you like. I didn't the breast in most powerful. My recommendation is that you play with them, all of them, and see how the results change. And I am so ready to see what we're working in. So please post them below, and I promise to share it on my social media. The next class, we are going to learn how to create motives with our pattern and the Selection tool. And also how to take scholars to any of our prints in at really fun and creative way. The message, and I see you and then S class. 5. Creating motifs - Selection techniques: In this class, we are going to learn how to use the selection tool to select the motifs of our print, use them as declarations. We will also learn about the edge effect. This is one of the most found ways to change the color of our print. And at the end, you will have something. This, Let's get through it. In this case I want to do is just add some motives that we are going to pick from the print we've been working with him, William Morris yellow one. Place it. If you just zoom in or make it bigger, you will realize that patterns are usually made of motives. In this case, we have big leaves, small leaves, little clusters of flowers and leaves. First step to use this motifs are to rasterize. Now we can work with pixels. Go to the pixel persona, just click there. Now, use the selection brush. Click and drag. You can choose different widths. This is trial and error. Click and drag to select these little clusters. If you're using a different motif, your selection will be different. Of course, you don't have to use the same selection that I did. This is a personal choice. You can carefully, but don't worry, you can always undo, go back and forth. Once you have this selective, if you copy and paste it, as you see you have a new layer, then you can move around with the move tool. I just undo you that you can also delete. You can select or delete and get only the big leaf. That's however you prefer. In this case, I have a new layer. I'm going to call it flower. And this is one of the motives are going to use. I'm going to repeat the process, but I just accelerated the video so you don't have to watch me to do it carefully. You'll have the steps on the screen, the motive with the brush tool, copy and paste, and do it as many times as you want. Then you have a second layer. Now what I'm doing is there's hiding the motive search icon. Select Morrissey. Picking this cluster of flowers and leaves. You have the print and you can hide it or delete it. I'm going to delete it because we are not going to use it anymore. But hiding is perfectly normal. Now you have these three motifs that of course, work beautifully with the letter. Because again, it's the same motifs. Select him so we are repeating. Now what we're going to do and I will probably accelerate the process, is just play with the position, with the placement of these motives. You can rotate, you can tell size, you can copy them, you become flip them. Gas. Select this. I am just a scaling here. I felt it will work better. The size. You can choose one truth the second with control, and then flip them, is a mirror effect. So just play with it. Positioned the motifs wherever you prefer. Now what I'm doing is yes, copy and repeat. So I have 41 for each corner. And in fact, I think this one looks better of there. Now I'm going to change the color. The HSL is one of the most useful tools for coloring and changing the intensity of something. So right now I'm changing the color of these little like grief to our orangey one with more orange pop-ups a bit. Because we want a bit of contracts that match. Or yes, it's, I want something subtle in this case because we want to use this orange color so we have repetition. I'm going to use that color as the stroke of the letter. And just use the drop. The color picker. Click on the orange and use it, as you can see here, as the stroke of the letter. Because repetition is good, I'm going to use the same color as the border of the rectangle. Here it is. Let's see if I like it more with it or without the corners. And I like it more with the code as you'll have a beautiful, this is ideal for weddings. Software designs, but you can use wherever. Printer models have colors that you like. Motifs technique is full of possibilities, isn't it? So show me what I've just done. Posting is below. I promised to answer to share it on my social media. The next class we are going to start from scratch again. For the first time you're going to do a full name and you know what, you are going to chop. I literally have to do a poster that is CON message. I'll see you in the next class. 6. Sport initial - Pen tool intro: In this class, we are going to do from scratch. I support inspire print, like this one. For that, we are going to learn character manipulation. With that I mean, the manipulation of the letters of a word. Rasterized, rasterizing best. We're going to use for the first time, the Pen tool. Let's get to it. In this case, we are starting with o. The font that I use in this case is, case is called doses or two. And it's going to be available for you. It's a free font as well. With the OH, selected. Go to this little window that is called character. These options, these numbers would allow you to do is to change how your phone looks like. It could be like slanted like now, or it could be bigger, or it can be wider or longer, or have more space or less space between the lines. What I want here is a bit of a chunkier, longer form, like an elongated one. No wider, but I think more vertical one like this. Because we are playing with scale, is going to be a bit of center. To center it manually. You can use the guides for that. Go to the rulers, click and drop till it change color and you will have a vertical center and vertical line. You do not have them show guides, Social there. Then manually, I think it's a good way to do it. You can just center the line. Right now I'm going to duplicate, rasterize and go to Duplicate because I don't want to lose the changes. And if I made a mistake, I can always go back. Now I have two O's. I'm going to write the name of the boy that is going to get this poster in this case. Let's make the beak, the name Center and bigger. So what I'm going to do now is create two guides. So remember, click and draw, and they go on to drop them on the bottom and top of the text box. Now we are going to pixel persona. We are good to select the rectangle selection. To make a selection again, but this case with a rectangle from one top to the bottom. Now we rasterize, oh, selected click Delete. And I didn't know if you can't see it on the OH, on the layer. But what we've done is remove this center part. When we saw the name Oliver is between the two chunks of the o. What I'm going to do now is create a bit of interest. For that. I'm going to use the pen tool. The word is going to be C. Select the yellow color and just click once on one corner and click twice on the other corner. Repeat to create a bottom line. That's it. You'll have two lines created with my pencil. Now you can select the two curves. That is the lines, but the layer is called curve. We've saved. You can select both at the same time, thus make it a bit wider. I'm playing with a name, so you have a bit of a same size, lines and name. Deaths move. This is a preference kind of thing. I think I like the lines between the name a bit closer. Now to finish the poster. So it's a truly Ruby poster. Test. Create a corner, sorry. Our rectangle to frame everything. Just put it with the help of the soon. Put it a bit off on the middle there and there you have it. It is a good thing, isn't it? You can customize. It changes the color to match the colors of your team. I'm putting numbers instead of initial. It's full of possibilities. In the next class we are going to work a bit more with the pen tool so you gain confidence using it. We are going to create a Harry Potter inspire print like this one. See you in the next class. 7. Slytherin S - Modify Shapes with nodes: In this class, we will learn how to transform the shape of any liquor. In this case, welcome to transform an S in less snake to create the Harry Porter is five print. We will do it using nodes and don't worry, you will see that they are more easy to do that. We also will practice a bit more with the pen tool to gain a bit of confidence. And we will change our brushes for the first time. Let's get to it. Now we're going to create, use a different technique. With the notes and pencil. We start the same. We use the letter from side-to-side. Going to make it bigger. And I'm going to use an S because I'm going to do is leave it in poster for Harry Potter fans. Nothing different. Center, particularly with centered horizontally. Here. We are going to change colors. Going to use a palette, a color palette that is called hire reporter that I created for you. Those are just colors so you can use them freely because they don't want to lose information. I'm going to duplicate. This phone, gets blocked. It so do they intend to buy mistaken, I did. This rust second layer go and convert to curves. You're going to have all these nodes that if you click and drag, then as you can see they can move. Be sure you are the designer persona. I wouldn't allow tool selected. What I'm trying to do here is to create the snake from the S. For that I'm going to drag and drop, drag and drag, click and drag, Sorry, nodes, and move the handles on convert denotes with a combination of these three tools. See, now I'm moving a note. Now I'm moving the handle. Now I'm moving a hand. As you see you can m change the curves and tense the shape. Going to click there and now convert dynodes. So it's a bit rounded. Moving the node and moving the node, I'm repeating. So you understand what I'm doing? I'm moving the handle, I'm moving a handle, and I move in a node with these three steps, moving the node, moving the handle, converting the node, you have really powerful tools to modify and create any shape you want. Obviously creating a snake and don't try to create exactly the same as snake as I did. I did this. A snake twice. Twice was different. The snake, I think I like this one better. So you can of course do this, make as many types of reward, but don't get obsessed trying to do exactly the same as snake as I did. Try to glue your own. And I thought it was going to be beautifully. Now we have the head, but I think it's a bit abrupt. I think a bit I want a bit of a softer curve there. Yeah, I like that ellipse tool. What I'm going to do is the eye. So this nine is make, and because we are doing a slit that in one case you don't know the colors of this limiting is our gray and green to gray eyes. I going to pull the eye there and just rotate a bit for that, just click and drag and it's going to move. I think I like lighter color. You've got copy and paste it, or you can come here and duplicate. We know how to replicate. We sing it greatly before. I think I want it thinner. Go in and out to see how it's looking. Go to the pen and we're going to do a straight line. So click and double-click to close. Click to start, Double-click to close. That's the way to do straightened like with depends studies and change the stroke color to black and IB change the brush. You didn't have to do it, of course. Make them a bit thinner in this case, because I like small details. I'm just flipping this one. So they're like a mirror, but it's so small that you shouldn't do it. It takes too long. Now we are going to do again straight lines. Now. We're going to explain how to do how to play with a pen. What we do with the pen is click and double-click with forest string lines. And click. Click and drag for curve lines. Suggest that you practice a bit. And if you go and double-click on the last one, you have a closed curve. Again, we're going to do the tongue. So we wanted to read. And how you do it is click and drag. Click, click and drag. This makes these little curves click, click and drag. And don't worry too much. For the same. We are going to change it later. Selection TO red color and we have a tongue. Sorry for the misspelling. We're going to put it before the snake. You just see what is outside of the snake. Now, we use the nodes exactly the same that we did with the S. We move the handles to see I select the node and move the handle. Delay like the curve. You can move them. You can graph. You can don't, don't overdo it. The liter tone, as you can see, you are going to do, we're not going to say too much. But I think we have a beautiful term there. Now I'm going to select the eyes and pull them, clip them with V snake decile. It's a bit more organized. Nothing more. I like to add a bit of decoration to this thick. So I'm going to pick again the pen and just click and double-click. Click and double-click several times. So I have I'm doing lines on top of this snake. I'm sorry, I didn't select the color on the width before. But you're going to see, so what is the meaning of this? And with CIF unclicking, I'm going to select all the curves, these lines and gray again and make the stroke there a bead. Why they have these lines. I'm going to change the brass again. We're going to clip them on the separate less as we did before. We have these lines on the body of the serpent and only of the body of the serpent. So it looks a snake, a snake less than limiting the snake. We have. That looks like a snake. And if I tried to put the tone, clip the tongue with the sub and everything disappears. What I'm going to do is create that group with the snake and the tongue. Doesn't have to read. I think everything looks more organized this way. Then going to put everything, even the little nose, the slits of the notes, and then go up and down. And now I'm going to put the name song with these Harry Potter risk. Going to repeat the lines. So we have a similar effect. What I'm doing here is just add a bit of interest and facilitated because you know how to do all of this. I'm adding more test. I'm adding a background, I'm adding a border. It is nothing new here. The only thing that is a bit interesting is that I adding two borders. For that is just do add as many rectangular as you want without as many as you like. Here to amateur interest. On the bottom, I'm going to add the characteristics or build tools of liberty that is coming on. Determination. This is beautiful, but I'm going to add a bit of interest for that. I'm going to add texture. One of the easiest way to do it. I'm placing these grand image. There is white and black. The only thing is going to do is to color variation. I need to choose one. Blender mode and opacity. So you see mostly background, this gray background. Let me show you a different colors how it looks. Look. The only thing that this texture with the blending that I chose is doing is to add a bit of color. Variation, goes on radiation. So it looks a bit warm. Not that flat. This is the first step to create like a film. We are going to do something similar again with a different image, place, and grunge texture. But now we are going to learn something new. That is, how to add a mask and how to embed colors. This is a great image to add. Warms less 20, Mitch, but it is too wide. So I'm going to embed them for that. I'm going there and click, Invert. Everything that was white, black, and everything that was worth is not white. I'm going to create a gray rectangle because that is the corridor. I want. The background texture layer on top, click Rasterize to mask. Now what you see is that we have these green on top. If we just clip the layer, the green layer with the mask, where we are doing is test these, these texture, these warm looking like this sign has thousand or GAS. The corals have started to disappear. Of course, change colors, play with opacity, play with blending modes, play with colors, and choose the effect that you like the most. It. But I think I'm going to take this price determination. I think it will look a bit better in vertical. As you can see, every time we have a design, I keep tinkering with it. Because you never know which is going to look better until you do it. We are going to use the character options here. And where I'm doing now is reduce the space between the lines. I think it looks great. I myself am a Ravenclaw, but I truly love this poster. And you can use States technique of moving nodes with any shape. It doesn't only work with letters. In the next class, we are going to work even more with the pen tool. We're going to make a test to follow. It is predictable. I see you. 8. Inspirational quote - Following a path: In this class, we are going to use the artistic test tool for the first time. With that and the pen tool, we are going to create a print like this one. So let us get to it. This time we are going to use a different text tool. As you can see here, you have two different text tool, the frame text tool, that is the one we've been using till now. And the artistic distal to sold you the main difference, one of the big difference, I'm just going to write my name both ways with a frame tool. If you move the frame, if you'll make it bigger or you make it smaller, that doesn't affect the size of your text. It doesn't affect the test you write inside. But when you use the Artistic Text tool, the frame, that text will try to be as big as the frame. I believe you, if I saw you, I write exactly the same my name again, but look what happens when I make the frame bigger, the test case bigger. Easy to manipulate the test this way. Both of them have different uses and you can do different things with each of them. I'm going to show you one of the things you can do with the artistic this, this is very cool. So be sure you are in the designer persona and select the Pen tool and make a curve. Any curve, an open or closed curve is George choice. I'm going to do like this way. B, simple bath. And then with the artistic tool selected, hover and click. And look what happens. We do hover. Unclick. The tests that you write afterwards is going to follow the curve. On the top or on the bottom depending on where you pull this little green triangle that marks the start of the line. When you have your test is just test. You just can't select it and change the font. We're going to use advice again. You can make it bigger or smaller, you can center it. You can work with it like normal test. And it's very cool that you can force it to be on on the other side of the curve. Right now, what I'm going to do is just center it. I'm using guides as always and just move it so it's on the center line. You can play with the curve. You can do real-time modification. So we are going to do it again. Select only, this only works in the artistic test tool. Step one, create the path. Any path you like. It can be as closed circle with a, can be a hard, it can be anything hover with the mouse on top of this shape, on top of the curve and click on right. Thus, it is very effective as you can see, what I don't like it like that. So I'm going to select the test. As I told you before, in design contracts is very important. Repetition and contracts. To choose a contrasting font that follows that work well together. What you'll have to do is opposite. They have to be very different. The case we have a very big, very chunky green font. We want something small and thin and handwritten. And I like the idea that you are telling someone to dream bigger and the board dream is bigger. Strong font. Find out the only thing I'm doing is I'm changing the shape of the curve. And as you can see, the font, the letters, the test. It just moves around. Very funny to do really. Again, I've told you this before, but don't worry, just play with it and you can make mistakes. See. That didn't look good when the E was tilted, but to just move it around, we just control C to undo. And now I'm just adding a background, plain color with a white background, we are sorry, whiteboard. Now I have selected with Qlik and saved both layers at the same time, just to center. Nothing fancy there. Now what I'm going to do is a little cloud. Remember with the pen tool, the trick to do curves is click, click and drag. Click and drag, click, click and drag. Click, click and drag, I'm thinking must be sick of clearer me to say that pen tool, most people is terrifying about the Pen tool. As you can see, it's really easy to work with it. I'm just right now. The only thing I did was put a white fill color on the shape. And thus it, you'll have a cute little cloud. Because this is a positive message. I think a little hard work beautifully, wonderfully. And it has a bit of repetition. You're having two opposite corners are white shape. Really, that's it. Remove the guides. You'll have a positive message poster there. I am. So looking forward to see what you do with this one, please. Both older rock below. And I promise to give you feedback and I post everything on my social media. The next class we are going to learn a new technique. For that. We are going to use the test to the pen tool. You will be able to create something like this. I'll see you in class. 9. Poem print - Filling a shape: This is the last class. We are going to learn how to create a fun shape with the pen tool. Fill it with test. We will also teach you a bit of a creek that some firms have that M allow you to add a bit of an ornament on it. Let's get to it. We are going to work with the frame text tool again, and we're going to put it in shite as safe for that. We're going to create a shape. You're going to have to do the same as I do, but in this case, I'm going to do a wave. So I remember to create a curve with a pen. You just click, click and drag. Don't try to make it perfect the first time. You don't need that, you have a shape now, just make it green is blue. Now you can modify ampere fed the shape with a node store. Again, I'm going to modify it probably two or three times more. So don't try to be perfect. Don't lose time on early in the process. As you can see, you don't have to get it perfect with the pen. You have to use the pen tool and the known tool to get the perfect shape. Now this is more or less a wave. I'm saying I'm happy. I'm going to call it wave. And I need two of these because I need the shape and the color. I'm going to duplicate it. Right on the click, right on duplicate. And I'm going to block this one. I don't modify it. And I'm going to work with the first one. Go to the test tool. Sorry, Of course first you need a test. Copy this poem by Emily Dickinson, and I'm giving you a PDF with you. If you want to use the same test. Then go to Frame Text tool and hover inside. You will see that CEP click, I'm based. Write your test. As you can see that this is going to follow, is going to be inside of that CEP. Let's make it bigger. As you can see, the test changes with the shape of that you have. We are going to use this form that is called elegantly writer. And we're going to use the bold version. I wasn't going to make it a bit bigger. See? Thirty-six to bake. 3030 is perfect. There's click the Move tool. High the wave. See. I think you can see very well that the test is creating this shape, is following the shape. Now we are going to make a bit more different, few modifications because with a test the curve is, is different. You'll see different. You're going to do this probably several times until you are really happy with a safe. And I think that looks like a wave with a bit of form. It's definitely probably but I'm happy with it, but I don't like that the title is they're going to cut and I will copy it later. Now, I can make the test a bit bigger, 30 sales assistant to bake. So let's try, I don't know, 3434 thing is going to work very well. So let's again go to the notes again and Morgan, so everything is inside. You can use the technique with songs, with a bull, with your wedding vows, inside of our ring or inside of a hard with the names of your family inside of a house, things like that. I'm just trying to make the perfect shape and now use the Move tool and center it. That's it. Well, that's okay, but we want to put the title of the poem, at least the title of the poem, the offer. So I started early, took my dog by Emily Dickinson. And it is a sea theme. Boy. That's why I choose a wave, a bit on the nose, but I still like it. Now we're going to try something different. We're going to use these Aristotle script and then going to provide it for you. It's a free font as well. I'm choose, I chose this font because let's make it a bit bigger so you can see it. Some phones have different swash options. What are Schwartz? Is it started leaking decorations that some old phones have. This curly thing that fonts have. Let's zoom in and select the title of the poem. If you select the whole poem and soluble that. If you select the poem, go to the character layer onto this little like a swash symbol and click on them. You have to have those selected. If you click, you see there is two options. Choose the source one, look at that. I know it's too much, don't worry, but I wanted you to look at the options that you have to work with. So I just want the swore she wants in their first and last letter. So I selected the rest and clicking this and sort and go to default. And this looks a lot better. I'm going to do the same with the E of MME and the n of Dickinson. You selected formed go-to source salads swash. That is the curly part with Emily. Do exactly the same and you have this little curly that finish very beautifully. You can do this for just one phone and do an initial like we've been doing. Right now. I want to create a background. I don't want this to be change. I want to work with the color one. I block the test wave and work with the color wave. I want to get a background. For that. I'm going to create a rectangle. We've done this before, but we're going to do something different. So once you have the rectangle, don't go here to fill and click. When you click on Fill, you have these three, this menu with three options. I'm going to talk about the gradient one, if you go here and click, you'll see what happens. You have a field that is a gradient that goes from the color on the left to the color on the right. And you'll have several options here, several slides and numbers that you can play with. And you'll see that they change how the gradient works. But what we want really is to change the colors. You go to the little circle, click on it, and then click on the rectangle. And as you can see, you can change the color. We are using this green storm see kind of green is blue. That I think it works very well. You are going to have this palette as part of your class. You can play with the opacity, but I think I like it like this. And you can also can change the type of gradient we are going to use. The linear one is my favorite, but you can do others issue like, you know how to change it now. You can also reverse. We're going to use the original, but now you know how to do it. It's just a rectangle is, there is nothing different here. We're going to put on the background and we're going to rotate it because I liked the darker color on the bottom and this is probably the easiest way to do it. Now. The wave is to match. So we are going to change the blend of the blend mode. Again, as always, you have to try and see which ones you prefer. I know my favorite blend modes, but they don't always work with the chorus and music. Now, going to place an image that is like a marvel of a storm or something like that is like the weather map. And I think it works very well with this sea theme. Again, that's changed. The blend mode. The background is almost done. I really like how it looks like. Now we are going to duplicate this test because I want to have the test as part of the background. As you see here. One of the colors you've used is of course the gradient. So you can apply this field to your phone. And do you see what the Fed is? You can still go click there and change that graded doesn't have to be the same that you use before, but I like it like that. When do you test? It is very effective to duplicate your test. We are using I use it, the duplicate one, use it as a background as part of the decoration, but you have to be sure that you can still read well, the original one. For that there is a few tricks. And changing the size, changing the opacity, unchanging the blend mode of that secondary decorate. The corrective tests works very, very well. Move it around. And it has to be subtle. And it has to contrast very well with the test, with the original test. Now I realize I don't like this font. I like the phone, but not for this point. For this design. Get back. I use the original one. And right now I'm, I'm just playing with the design, trying to perfect the database. I'm changing the color of the phones and the blending mode of the fonts. And as always, this is personal preference and you can use the corners to one. You perhaps preferred to use white or black or a contrasting orangey yellow, it could work well, It's just do your thing. That's if you have a poster, a beautiful poster of Emily Dickinson poem. It is a pretty powerful technique, is it? It is pretty cool. And with a bit of imagination, you can do a lot of things with it. You can do songs. You can do nursery rhyme, for example, inside out the bear. You can do your favorite book, perhaps the phrase page or her reportedly not inside a lightning bolt, it will be pretty cool. Or if you are getting married, you can print your wedding bows and do our pregnant it, it is a worker. I really would love to see what you're doing with this class. So please don't forget to post all your boy doesn't have to be adjusted. Final one, I love to see the staff steps that you're taking. So post everything that we know will give you figure. 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