Illustrator

LIke photoshop illustrator also has a toolbar which you can create shapes, text and lines etc. Unlike photoshop, illustrator uses vector images instead of bitmaps.




When you add text with the text tool you can change the colour of the text or create outlines by selecting the fill colour and the stroke colour. Th stroke colour is the colour you want for your text outline. You can also change the thickness of the stroke to make the outline thicker or thinner.

Also if you select the text and right click and click create outlines the program selects the outlines of the text and creates anchor points for you. With the anchor points you can drag them to change the shape of the text to the way you want it to look like.



You can create a copy of the text you make by selecting the whole text and holding down alt whilst you drag the text to create another copy of it. You can then add an image to illustrator by placing it onto the program. You can drag the text on top of the image and make the text a compound path by clicking object and compound path . This will create an outline of your text