Now select the still active layer paths, Edit > Copy ( Command/? + C), and open up Photoshop. Hide the duplicate to back up your working shapes. Select your artwork’s containing layer and duplicate it. In your Symbol drop down, select your new arrows symbol and adjust the size until it looks like the image below. Cycle through your object faces until you get the front face, mine is 10. Choose ‘ Map Art…‘ and, once again, make sure the Preview is active. Alternatively, choose ‘ Define Symbol‘ in the Symbols option menu.įinally, selecting your ‘HiGH’ layer, access your 3D Extrude effect in the Appearances Panel. Select your three new arrows and drag them into your Symbols panel. Using the Pen Tool (P) create a short line and apply your arrow brush as you can see in the image below.Įxpand your new brush line ( Object > Expand Appearance) and make 3 arrows that look like the ones in the image below. Using Illustrator’s packaged ‘Arrows’ brush set ( Open Brush Library > Arrows > Arrows Standard) OR make your own brush. Use the image below, which also contains a green flat color ( #D9FFE6) applied to ‘HiGH’ and yellow flat ( #FFFCCC) applied to the dot of the i, as a reference. So, using the Transform Tool (E), I am going to adjust the size relationship between the two. Look at the values in the image below to see how you should adjust the 3D effect on each of your groups.Īs you can see in the example image from Step 3 the ‘FiVE’ extends beyond the reaches of its ‘H’ platform. We are doing this so ‘FiVE’ doesn’t lose its context according to the 3D filter in relation to ‘HiGH’. In the first group turn the group containing ‘HiGH’s elements Opacity to 0% so we are left with ‘FiVE’ but technically still maintain the contents of ‘HiGH’. In the second, bottom, group delete the group containing ‘FiVE’ elements leaving only ‘HiGH’ outlines. So, duplicate your text group through the layers panel. So, we are going to adjust our file so the 3D objects look like the image below. Now I don’t want both ‘HiGH’ and ‘FiVE’ to have the same depth and angles of each other. To gain some comfort with the tool, try to adjust the angels, perspective and depth to match the image below – no worries, all the actual values are provided later. Make sure you have Preview checked in the options panel. Next, go to Effects > 3D > Extrude & Bevel. Finally, convert your text to outlines by choosing Object > Expand. Place ‘FiVE’ on top of the ‘H’ in ‘HiGH’ as seen in the image below. Rotate ‘HiGH’ Counter Clock Wise so it is standing on its side. I used ‘Akashi’ font, if you do not have it you can acquire the outlines of a completed Step 1 here. One saying ‘HiGH’, the other saying ‘FiVE’. For the purpose of this tutorial, create two text blocks. As we are working with Vectors, we don’t have to be overly concerned with the size, but to make our importation to Photoshop easier, lets keep the canvas sizes the same ( 3000×2250 300 dpi).

Open Illustrator and open a new Art Board. You can see a preview of the completed work below. You can also use the Escape key to hide the grid quickly.This is a complicated tutorial, should you have trouble post a constructive and detailed explanation of your problem and I will be happy to work through any struggles! Final Preview On Windows, you can use the shortcut Shift + Control + I to remove the perspective grid. On Mac, you can use the shortcut Shift + Command + I to hide the perspective grid from your project. To add the perspective grid to your page, use the shortcut Shift + P.

If you want to hide the perspective grid quickly, you can use the following shortcuts. To remove the perspective grid from your project, click on View > Perspective Grid > Hide Grid.Īnother way to hide the grid is by locating the small Plane Switching Widget icon that appears next to the Toolbar when the grid is active.Ĭlick on the small X icon to hide the grid. Use the same process to turn the Grid back on.Shortcut to Remove the Perspective Grid.

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