- [Instructor] Here's how we can create type in perspective
using the perspective grid tool.
To turn on the perspective grid,
come and choose the perspective grid tool.
You can change the grid if you wish.
I'm not going to do that
so I'm going to undo that step.
You may also wish to move it.
I'm going to come and click on this diamond
at the bottom left and just move it up a little bit.
I'll come and choose my type
which I will need to convert to outlines.
Right click, create outlines.
And now I'm going to ungroup this
so that I can de-select and regroup
as two separate parts.
So I'll swipe over the first six letters,
group those, and do the same
for the second six letters.
Selecting now the first part,
I will come to my perspective selection tool
and using this widget here,
I will define the grid that I'm working with,
in this case the left grid, which you can see
is color coded.
And I can now drag my type onto the grid.
I'll now come and choose my second piece of type,
switch to the right grid and drag that into position.
Let me just undo those last steps.
If I want a more dramatic result
I could drag the first piece of type onto the right grid
and have it extend beyond the edge of the grid.
And then the second piece of type
can go to the left grid.
Now, the thing about the perspective grid tool
is that it doesn't know how to politely disappear.
So you might need to come to the view menu
when you tire of seeing it and choose
perspective, grid, hide,
or command shift or control shift I
and then I can move my result to wherever I want it.