What you'll need
1. Open Illustrator and click on Create new. |
2. On the New Document window click on Print and select Letter as preset, then click on the blue Create button at the bottom right.
3. On the main menu click on File, then select Place… from the drop-down. |
4. Navigate to the practice file and select "make-holiday-card.ai", then click the Place button.
5. Left click and hold your mouse on the top left of your document. Drag the mouse down to a nice fit to the bottom right so that the rectangle fills the page evenly.
6. From the toolbar on the left select the Rectangle Tool. Left click and hold the mouse to draw a rectangle over part of the drawing. |
7. On the Properties panel on the right, find the Appearance section and choose a red Fill color for your rectangle on the pop-up window.
8. From the toolbar choose the Type Tool. Click and drag a text box on your red rectangle. Replace the placeholder text. |
9. On the Properties panel with the text still selected change the text Fill color to white.
10. With the text box still selected, click the Fonts drop-down list from the Character panel. 11. On the Character drop-down menu select Find More. Change the font face to Arboria Bold and click the cloud icon to activate the font so it syncs to your computer.
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Tip: To get access to the font collection of Adobe Fonts you first must connect your Illustrator to Adobe Fonts. When you see a pop-up asking for connecting to Adobe Fonts click OK. Once you've connected Illustrator to Adobe Fonts type Arboria Bold into the search bar. Select Arboria Bold, and then click on the cloud icon right next to the font. A quick download will start and integrate the font into your system.
12. Click on the text field, then shift + click the rectangle behind the text in order to select both objects. |
13. Click on Group under Quick Actions on the properties to group the text and the rectangle.
14. Once you've grouped the text and the rectangle you can change the opacity. Click on Opacity in the Properties and select Multiply in the drop-down menu.
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