Matt, aside from your talent, which you have immense quantities of, your didactic approach is excellent - clear, concise, and you don't assume anything, or take for granted your audience's skill level - it is a joy watching and learning from your tutorials -- please keep them coming my friend.
one thing i wanna thank you for is not talking with the assumption everyone one watching is an expert at photoshop i for one am very beginner so this was super helpful thnk you so much.
Very helpful. I'm facing a pretty big typography customizing step for my client's logo. So your tutorial will really help me and makes the process less daunting. Thank you!
Maybe you can put in the title that this is for beginners since you explain things like what the difference is between a fill and a stroke box. Just a suggestion.
This is a great tutorial! I'm creating a wordmark for my personal brand and wanted to bring my personality into it and this video solved all the questions I had.
Thank you! this video actually helped me. You do need to work on your explanation/rambling a bit because it can get confusing to some people. Other than that nice job
Such a great tutorial! Thanks for sharing so detailed insight! Would have love to seen how you made that T! Is there another video where you show that?
The process should be pretty much the same as the rest of what I showed. Just work with the original letter and then figure out ways to extend or adapt the overall flow. I tend to sketch using a brush first, and then once I think it's in a good spot, I move onto using the pen tool to create the "final" look.
I know you really know what you are doing but I tend to get lost with your instruction. You start to explain one thing the jump to another. I have a difficult time following you. I have added my own customization to a font that I want to "merge" in to a custom font, but I can't seem to get those steps right. I get my design looking great then I can find a way to combine what I have done with the original font. UGH!
I could swear I responded to this, but I guess not! So I don't remember messing with the actual smooth tool settings much, but it does care a whole lot about how long your smooth path is when drawing it out. So try using it over shorter sections, or longer sections if that doesn't work. Usually smaller sections tended to work better for me, unless I was trying to smooth out really long curves.
When making a logo with a font, is it 100% necessary to customize the font and make additions to it? Is it necessary to make it different so that when someone else downloads the font, they can't immediately type out what you designed?
Sometimes I have seen font creators upset if you customize their fonts, even if they offer them to you for free. Have you experienced this? Not sure if they think someone will customize and use in a new font they create themselves?
I think once you do anything that is commercial in use it's smart to read the license over and make sure it's all good. The specific situation you describe tends to be prescribed by larger font foundries who want to maintain strict control over their fonts and their associated appearances. You're definitely right that people will re-mix fonts and then re-sell them as their own. Licensing issues like that are slippery and difficult to nail down as I'm not an IP lawyer (hurray for that!), but air on the side of caution when in doubt.
I watched your previous tutorial on how to slice letters and it was very helpful. However, when I use those sliced letters on a dark background, the edges look ... kind of jagged it looks good on white background . This actually happens to me with every text object made in illustrator. I attempted to use the smooth tool but then the font looses its style. What could I be doing wrong? (when I'm exporting for web it looks just fine :( )
What you're seeing is called aliasing. Make sure when you're viewing it in whatever program, you're viewing it at 100%. If you view it smaller or larger, those jagged lines may appear as the program is having difficulties rendering it to scale. The important thing (which seems to be working for you), is that when you export it looks clean at the needed size.
