Subtitles of the Movie

The last thing we need to do in our design is to incorporate the logo we created into the actual artwork. So I'm going to from the actual logo document copy everything by dragging out a selection, go to Edit, Copy, and then I'll jump over to the other document that's currently opened, the poster. Now I'm going to grab my layers, and I'm going to, as you see here I have a layer called type. I'm going to lock everything else, and I'm going to paste the type on that layer. Now, just like you I have no idea what I'm going to do with this type. So what I'm going to think about is how this type could best be incorporated into this design. Now I'm thinking that it might look really good sideways down the side of it. So I'm going to put my mouse on the edge of the logo over here, and I'm going to hold down the Shift key. And that will allow me to rotate this in increments of 45 degrees. Then I'll zoom out just a little bit by pressing the Command or Control key and the minus key on my keyboard, and then I'll move this over like so. I'm also going to hit the spacebar so I can scroll over, and I'm going to scale this down so that it fits in that space. And that looks really cool. One more thing I'm going to do is I'm going to just scale everything down just a little bit more like this. And I want to color this text a nice brownish color, so I'm going to grab my swatches, and I'm going to go for something like this color here I think. Yeah that looks really nice. Now I'm going to grab this stroke here, and I don't want to have a fill on it, so I'm going to hit X on the keyboard, to fill, to go through the stroke color, and I'm going to give it a nice color like that, something like this greenish color, olive color. Now all that's missing is something to help this text pop off of the background and incorporate it into the poster itself. So, as you see here I created earlier a layer called black, because I anticipated, before I started recording this that I wanted to put some shape back there. So I'm going to draw a rectangle, and I'm going to give it a black fill. So first of all I'm going to get rid of this stroke, I don't want a stroke. I'll hit X again to return to the foreground color, and now I'll draw out this rectangle. And I'm going to eyeball it, and place it where it belongs, like so. Then I'll fill it in with black. And because I have it on a layer that's underneath my type layer, it's going to be under the type and really make it pop out. Although I have a funny feeling that it's just gone too far. I'm going to have to dial down the color of this black box, I think something like a dark brown instead might go better with the artwork. That's pretty much something that you have to eyeball for yourself and determine what you want to do with this artwork. So I'm going to unlock the type, and I'm thinking about moving the stroke down just a little bit to put it into the artwork some more to really push that design element from type into the artwork. And I think one more time I'm going to scale down the type just a little bit so it fits a little bit more clearly, and have the letters Tut a little bit bigger than everything else as a little design element. So, I think that this is it, this wraps up the artwork. I'm going to hit the Tab key on my keyboard to hide all my tools, then I'll press Command or Control and the plus key to zoom in so we can look at the finished artwork. So I hope you enjoyed this project, and I hope you learned quite a few techniques, and just got a feeling for how I usually work with a project like this. Sometimes it's organized chaos, sometimes it goes smoothly, but that's a part of the creative process. Oftentimes when I'm doing a project like this, I'm making up a lot of the stuff as I teach you this, because I want to show you how I work normally. Usually I have an idea as to what I want to achieve, but I don't really have like steps written down, and I don't know any creative person who does that. So what you're watching when you follow along is spontaneity right in effect as we're doing this together. So I hope you enjoyed it, and please take some of these techniques and just apply them to something else, make another poster on your own, just practice working with opacity masks, and type, and colors, and just have a really good time in Illustrator CS3.