Supernube
New Member
Hello to you all.
I would like to start by saying that I am very new to using Illustrator....and I appologise if my lack of knowledge annoys anybody at any time....but as I said in the Introductions I am just trying to learn.
I have just signed in for the first time on Graphic Design Forums in the hope somebody will be able to help me with a no doubt easy to resolve problem.... I am trying to solve by self teaching ..playing about and lots of online searching
I want to make a individual letter or number that contains text ...the kind of thing you have all seen many times before on leavers Hoodies etc... I can just about manage that ..but I cant seem to give the letter / number an outline or stroke.
I am obviously doing it wrong...or aproaching it in the wrong way..... I can put a stroke around a number / letter normally...but not once or before filling that letter / number with text.
Im not sure if it even is a stroke...or maybe an outline....and Ive stressed myself out so much Im getting stropy :-(
Without having Illustrator open in front of me I cant remember the exact route I took...but I know I had to Object ...expand...then back to Object ...compound path ..release ?..and it seems to be this point I am changing something thats stopping me being able to progress.
This is pretty much the first time I have tried anything with Illustrator...and I know I should start right at the beginning but this is just a little something I wondered about and dived in to for my first "lesson" ...I really would like some help figuring out what I have got wrong...or what I dont understand...just so I can put an answer to it.....Thank you.
Any help or advice will be very much appreciated.
Thank you
Daniel
I would like to start by saying that I am very new to using Illustrator....and I appologise if my lack of knowledge annoys anybody at any time....but as I said in the Introductions I am just trying to learn.
I have just signed in for the first time on Graphic Design Forums in the hope somebody will be able to help me with a no doubt easy to resolve problem.... I am trying to solve by self teaching ..playing about and lots of online searching
I want to make a individual letter or number that contains text ...the kind of thing you have all seen many times before on leavers Hoodies etc... I can just about manage that ..but I cant seem to give the letter / number an outline or stroke.
I am obviously doing it wrong...or aproaching it in the wrong way..... I can put a stroke around a number / letter normally...but not once or before filling that letter / number with text.
Im not sure if it even is a stroke...or maybe an outline....and Ive stressed myself out so much Im getting stropy :-(
Without having Illustrator open in front of me I cant remember the exact route I took...but I know I had to Object ...expand...then back to Object ...compound path ..release ?..and it seems to be this point I am changing something thats stopping me being able to progress.
This is pretty much the first time I have tried anything with Illustrator...and I know I should start right at the beginning but this is just a little something I wondered about and dived in to for my first "lesson" ...I really would like some help figuring out what I have got wrong...or what I dont understand...just so I can put an answer to it.....Thank you.
Any help or advice will be very much appreciated.
Thank you
Daniel