How to Make a Glossy Effect on Text in Illustrator

admin — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:59:13 +0000

Here at the LogoBang blog we’re going incorporate tutorials or other neat tricks that you can try. Here’s a cool way to spruce up some basic text.

1. Choose a font and color you like and type out your desired word.

2. Right click and create an outline of the text.

3. Sheer text with the sheer tool if desired, we made ours look like the image below.

4. Add a gradient to your text, we used a black and white gradient with a 90 degree angle.

5. Make a duplicate of the text (while the text is selected an easy way to do this is to hold down alt then click and drag) and select the pen tool and draw a curved line over the duplicated text.

6. Select the text and curve and choose the DIVIDE option in the pathfinder, delete everything that was on the top portion of the curved line.

7. With both the partial text and original text selected, use the align tool and select VERTICAL ALIGN BOTTOM.

8. Make any additional adjustments to the gradients if required.

9. Add a stroke to the original text.

The finished product should have a glossy look such as above.

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How to Make a Glossy Effect on Text in Illustrator