Subtitles of the Movie

This next project is gonna be quite fun and what we're gonna do is get creative and I'm going to show you how you can take regular old harmless text and turn it into art in and of itself. And we're gonna do that using the word shark because that is a very emotional word. I don't care who you are, I don't care how tough you are, when you hear word shark you're a little kid again. I don't care if your 40, 50, 60 you're a little kid, you want out of the water, you want mommy. So, what I'm gonna do is I'm going to choose a text tool and I'm going to click on my canvas and type the word shark with the font impact. If you don't have impact just choose the most thick font you have something like maybe futura bold or arial bold or something like that. So I'm gonna go ahead and type shark. And just looking at that word I am already afraid, so, now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna make sure my layers palette is open. And I'm gonna go to the options and go all the way to the bottom and convert the text to shapes. Now I'm gonna grab my shape selector tool and I'm going to now change the way this word looks so that it is now art. Alright so the first thing that everyone thinks of when they think of the word shark is that dreaded fin. Your in the water and the only thing you don't really want to see is that. So, let's go ahead and grab the point that's at the top of the letter R. I'm gonna click and drag it up, and just in case you didn't see that I'm gonna undo that and just remember you have to click on the edge, not the center. If I click on the center I can't drag this. I move the entire letter itself. So I want to click on the edge of the letter anywhere actually to select the point that I want. I'm gonna click and drag and move this up like so. And then I'm gonna grab the one next to it and do the same thing. And this one here as well and I'm gonna grab these handles and I'm gonna pull to get more of a little bulge to give us that dreaded dorsal fin or is that the pectoral,no I think it's the dorsal the pectoral ones on the bottom. So I'm gonna go ahead and just move these around until I have something that looks kind of like a fin. Already you can hear that jaws music. Now I'm going to make the pectoral fins by grabbing this guy here and gonna do the same thing, I'm gonna just go ahead and give that little bit of a pull on that handle to get that bulge out and now what we need to do is give this guy a face. So I'm gonna grab the middle point of the letter K, and I'm gonna grab this handle and I'm going to slowly but surely start to form this shark. And I'm gonna pull this handle this way to give him a little bit of mouth and I'm gonna make sure it looks good. Gonna click on this bottom point and move it down a little bit. And I'm gonna just manipulate this until I get the shape that I'm going for. And I'm going to click once on my layer adjustor tool just to see what I have so far. So far so cool. Let's go back to our shape selector tool and I am going to now grab by doing something different I'm gonna click on the edge of the S and I'm going to click and drag out a selection like this to grab more then one of those points. Now you know that I have this edge here, this is all red which means I can click and drag all these simultaneously so I click on one of the points and I'm gonna drag it out like this. Now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna deselect that by clicking away from it. Clicking on the edge once again. And I'm gonna move this part of the tail up like this, grab this point, move that up. And I'm gonna do the same thing over here, I'm gonna click and drag this and I'm gonna click and drag the bottom part and just kind of shape this a little bit into more of fin shape. It'd be really nice if I had a picture of a shark in front of me. And here I am talking about reference all the time, I'm Mr. reference and I have no reference this time. Bad me. OK so, I'm just going by what I think a shark looks like in my mind. So here we go, just by using a regular old font and then converting it to an outline by going to the options at the bottom of this menu here I am able to take this text and turn it into artwork. Now this is a very clever way to make logos and you can use this to put on shirts or mugs or anything like that. It's just a really smart way to re-imagine plain old text and turn it into something that's artwork by simply clicking and dragging the points out. Nothing complicated about it at all, just use your imagination and you should have reference out although I didn't do it this time, But this is a cool lesson on how to think outside the box and turn words into art.