![]() Come to the type tool over here on the left, go ahead and select it. Has anybody ever worked with text in InDesign before? If you do that, in InDesign, for instance, you'll go draw a box, type the text inside of it, right? You can do that in Illustrator but that's not the only way. ![]() The thing about text that I wanna start with is I wanna start with how to create it because there are two types of text objects in here that threw me when I first started. Text, like I said, it's got a lot goin' on here. Now we're gonna put a little text on her.Į. So go ahead and choose lock, selection, and you basically can't touch it. Lock is show it, but just lock it in place. ![]() Hide is just quick temporary, let's get it out of the way, let me focus on something else and then I'll show it again. Tomorrow we're gonna talk more about these. With that object selected, what I want you to do is come under object and you're gonna see, there's two options you're gonna use a lot in Illustrator. In Illustrator, one of the big things you're gonna do is you're gonna lock objects so you don't mess with them temporarily. Now this is gonna be really annoying but when you start working with text, you're gonna have to do a lot of dragging and selecting and if you have any artwork behind the text, you're gonna move it by accident. ![]() Here's what we're gonna do, we're gonna put some text right on top of this box. Now we're gonna get to text 'cause text in here is huge, there's a lot we can do. Adding Text To Your Document in Adobe Illustrator
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