- [Instructor] Elsewhere in the course, I've talked
about how to create and apply patterns to type
but we can also apply symbols to type
that is if we first convert those symbols to patterns.
Firstly what are symbols,
on the symbols panel
if we look at the symbols library, we see
that we have all these different symbol libraries
and these are basically clip art libraries
and some of them are actually quite good.
Some you'll want to steer clear of
and there are many more symbols available
from third parties as well.
Now you can see
that I have two symbol instances down here on my art board.
I have added these from the symbols panel.
They are from the nature symbols library
and then I have broken the link to the symbols
so that they are that point just vector artwork.
And then from there, I converted them to a pattern.
I'm going to do that with one more.
So from my symbols library
I will drag out an instance of the symbol.
And then on my tool options
I will need to break the link to the symbol.
Now I can make this artwork into a pattern just
by dragging onto the swatches panel.
To edit the pattern.
I will double click on that swatch before I do so though
I won't just de-select otherwise the pattern
will get reapplied back to that selected artwork.
So I'll double click right there
and I'm going to choose hex by row.
Now I can leave my pattern editing mode now to
apply these patterns to my type, I will select my type.
I'm going to start out by removing the fill color
because we don't want the patterns to combine with that.
So making sure that fill is my active property.
I will just press the shortcut for applying none
which is the forward slash.
Then I'll come to the appearance panel
and I will add three new fields
and I'll apply those patterns
to those fields
Now so that we can have the patterns interact
with each other in a more interesting way.
I'm going to come to the opacity and change that to multiply
so that we are introducing some blending effects.
Now just to bring back some definition to the type
I will come to the stroke currently set
to none and add a blank stroke.