Create Your Masking Text In Illustrator

This time, I will teach you simple tutorial, and maybe some people know to make this, Masking Text in Illustrator. Some people saying, “I really like CorelDRAW than Illustrator!”. But for me, it’s same. We just need a pictures as background and write something on the pictures and Done… Simple, don’t you?

Tutorial review:

Program: Adobe Illustrator CS2 – CS4 (In this tutorial using Illustrator CS5)

Difficulty: Medium

Duration: 20 Minutes

Resource:

None

1. Open your Illustrator.

2. Click File > Place, and browse some images to the stages.

3. And write something on the pictures with Type tool.

4. If finish, click Type > Create Outlines.

And should like this…

5. Text still selected, click Object > Compound Path > Make.

And should like this…

6. And now, text still selected, hold Shift button and click on the pictures. Now, click Object again > Clipping Mask > Make.

And, I finish… And you? Easy, right?

Still not Understand? Recommended to watch my videos…