Wedding Vow Art Tutorial

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A tutorial for creating typography art in Adobe Illustrator by filling your initials with your wedding vows. This is a great anniversary or wedding gift.

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Add your letter to the middle of the page. Increase the font size to 800.

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Use "Stroke" to increase the weight to the desired thickness. 

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Adjust the angle of the letter using the "Transform" tool.

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Select your letter then click "Expand" in the Object toolbar.

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Make sure the boxes next to Object and Fill are selected.

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Go back to Object and click Expand again. Then Fill and Stroke.

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Right click your letter and select Ungroup twice.

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Highlight the entire letter. Go to Pathfinder, select Expand.

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Right click the letter, select Release Compound Path and Ungroup.

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Select the Area Type Tool, change font size to 12 and paste text.

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Use Pathfinder to "Subtract from Shape Area" if your letter has any holes.

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