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Hello. Hello, everyone. My name is Alex Lazaris, and I am so excited to be bringing you my first episode or the second episode in Design Fix.
Last week was our first episode with Kladi taking away the show. I'm super excited for today's stream. First of all, I'm streaming out of California, beautiful, sunny California after all of the rain we've had.
So I want to know where you guys are all from, where you're tuning in from. Would love to say hello to the regulars in Chat. Let me just quickly see who's all hello.
Hello. Welcome, welcome. I see Annika.
I see Cody. I see General Kenobi. I see.
Umacorn, Leon Ingram. My boy, actually, Leon Ingram is actually going to be our subject matter expert today. He's going to be the hovering art director and our client that we're going to be working with for Design Fix.
Hello, everyone. I see Sean Kofkoff new intro. Yeah, my bad.
We're working on a couple of technical difficulties on my end today. It's totally fine. We're going to have a great stream anyways.
Does not matter. Anna's in Toronto. Good day.
How are you? Steve new Zealand. What's up, Leon? Candecornia love it, love it, love it. All right, everyone, without further procrastination, without further ado, we are going to be talking about what our project is today.
So Leon already in Chat asking to make the logo bigger. I love it. So for those of y'all who do not know who Leon is, who has never, ever seen his beautiful work, let me show you really quickly who he is over here.
Boom. So Leon Ingram is a visual designer, works at Disney. I don't know if he wants stuff to be known, whatever.
We're not going to talk about that anyways. He's super duper talented. I've worked with him on the Rose.
He has a really beautiful penchant for calligraphy and type. He does a lot of really great logos as well. We worked together on the Rose bottle that's gotten a Dimension Award.
So shouts out to dimension really fun little metal inspired wine bottle. So Leon has built a project called Crash Johnson. You can see this project on his behance already.
We are essentially taking this project and we're going to carry it over into a collateral system. So the theme for today is Doxxed. Welcome to being doxed.
Everybody go give Leon a like and subscribe or all those buzzwordy social media things to do these days. Just go do it. Go click on his thing.
Links are in chat. Let me just drop it in Chat. And if you are wondering which chat I'm talking about, I'm talking about the behance Chat.
So make sure you come over to behance at Slash Adobe Live to tune in and ask Chat. That's where we're going to be reading all your questions. We'll listen to your ideas and we'll incorporate them into the design.
So have a lot of fun with it. So leon has built this really fun brand called Crash Johnson. It's motorcycle Evil Knievels inspired.
It's a lot of fun, but like everybody with full time jobs, and now he has a child, you, you don't have time. So I'm going to help him out. I'm going to give him a little bit of extra time to kind of bring in some collateral, maybe make some social mockups.
You can see he's already got some T shirt. Let's see what we can do with this in this next hour to see how we can bring it all together. But we're going to be working with Inexpress today as well.
So this is a real world example of if you're a designer or brand manager or marketer working at a brand, you can take all these tips that I'm going to show you and bring them from your Illustrator document, maybe your Photoshop document dating something from a JPEG. Something from a JPEG. That's totally fine.
But if you are working with a oh, no. See if my computer is now tanking or not. Is my stream okay? Are we back? We're back.
Great. Perfect. Love it.
Oh, my goodness. All right. Welcome back.
All right, so what I'm talking about is you might be getting a small set of collateral pieces already from your client, or maybe they worked with another designer to hand something off, and they don't know where all those files are. Luckily, Leon is a professional, so he's giving me all of his Illustrator files. Everything's active.
We're going to actually deconstruct that along the way so that you can start seeing how we can take little pieces from your logo and apply it all to your collateral. He's also got another character called Johnny Crash. Johnny Crash was supposed to be the rival of Crash Johnson.
Obviously, they're network rivals, and they're probably at the same races. One's a little bit more Evil Knievel, and one, I think, leon, what did you say was the inspiration behind Johnny Crush? He's got a little bit more attitude. I think he's more of, like, the monster energy drink, whereas Crush Johnson's a little bit more old Americana retro.
So let me know in Chat. So we've got those pieces here. We've also got a PSD that I really love as well.
Leon's a really incredible designer, but he's really good at textures and patterns and kind of breaking up components into be, like, really systemized and actionable. And so there's a couple of things I really love in this is this half tone pattern he's got here is really, really cool. I want to take that and expand upon it.
I'll probably use it like this. I'll probably export out a little artboard here so we can start to play with it. Actually, let's just do that now.
So before we even get into Express, what I'm going to start doing is just exporting out pieces that I really, really love and might be using to texture images later on. Marslava says, I'm literally working on making a T shirt as well and working with Photoshop and Illustrator to make the designs. That's perfect.
That's absolutely what you want to be doing. We're kind of taking a bit of both when it comes to this approach today since we're going to be trying to build out social kit, but also maybe might be throwing some stuff on T shirts as well. We're gonna be using all the tools, photoshop, Illustrator, and Express today really gonna be our focuses.
So I'm gonna go over here, top right of this screen, and really just pull it away from just the images here. I'm just going to use this texture because I love it so much into images. What up, RB? I see you.
I see you. Welcome to the stream. All right, I'm going to export this out.
Bada bing, bada boom. It's not going to work as a PNG because it's a JPEG, but I'm just going to save it as a PNG anyways. CJ card.
I'm going to just rename this half tone. Half tone texture. Boom.
All right, so let's go into Express. So I was starting to work with some stuff already. First thing you want to do if you've worked with a brand in the past, is you're going to want to take your assets that you have from your client.
So in this case, I'm going to just take these images that Leon has, actually. I'm going to keep those artboards shift o and click each of the squares behind it. He's already got one here.
So I'm going to actually just remove the blue background, and then I'm going to export these. So I've got artboards two export as PNGs. I'm going to use Artboards, make sure that's highlighted click range.
I'm going to do two comma, eight, nine, and that will export these three for me. Boom. So what I'm going to do with these assets is I'm actually going to pull them directly into the Express file.
Uma's, asking, what is the font name? Good question. I think he's outlined everything. So I don't have the initial one.
I might not. Let's see. It's called Victor script.
Regular is the cursive one. Victor Script Regular is the starting point for it. Leon says he doesn't remember the full name, but it's been modified.
So he took that, as you can see here, Victor Script. And then he's kind of modified it, put it all on one line, and then adjusted a bunch of the angles to make it more consistent throughout. So that's kind of how he made this logo.
Boom. Look at that. We're learning names of script typefaces already.
I love it. All right, so we've already exported that out. So now what we're going to do is we're going to go in there and we can go into brands.
So this is one of my favorite things you can do within Express when you go into Express. Click. Create a brand.
There's some of our older ones in here, some client ones, some Adobe Express streams in the past. And go click Create a Brand and click upload your logo. And I'm just going to go straight into my Crash Johnson files and just go straight into it.
And I'm going to grab the helmet. Boom. Great logo.
Pick your color. It can pull directly from your color palette already, so it's already doing that for us. So that's great.
Time saver. And then choose your font so we can try to add our own fonts. I don't have Leon's directly given to us, so we're just going to keep it.
Let's see if we can find a vintage. Bold will be our font. But if you have a client or a project you're working on already, you can just upload that directly.
I didn't download Leon, so we're just working around it. Name your brand. All right, pro tip.
So now you've got your brand is doing some thinking for us. I'll show you really quickly what you'll want to do. So you can go in here.
You can also add more colors. So we're going to do that. Just go into the art file real quick and grab the ones that he's already got.
So we got this blue as a background color. Go in there. Bada bing, bada boom.
Save. Add more. Go in there and grab that red.
We already have the red in there. Let's grab the darker blue and paste that in there. Save.
So now we have three colors to work with. We can also add more in there. In there, in that folder.
Can a mod make me my footballer? Oh, my goodness. Hilarious. All right, so we can also set it to other things.
I can also add Leon to this brand, but for the sake of him not messing with me on stream, I'm not going to do that right now. I'll do it after the stream. What you're going to do is if you're working with your brand, what you're going to want to do is go up to the three dots here and then click Make Default.
By doing that, it's going to transfer the star onto this brand, and that's going to say it's your primary brand. So doing that is going to be super duper helpful for you when you're starting to build projects. So let's go in.
Let's just do like, an Instagram post. Leon's been doing a lot of really cool Instagram takeover designs lately, so it's going to break his style a little bit by doing one offs. But we're going to do a couple of one offs really quickly just to show you kind of what we can do with it.
So we can type in here and type in motorcycle if we wanted to and see if there's any motorcycle themes. There are. This feels very crash.
Johnson y. This is if you want to start with a template. This is a pretty strong starting point, to be honest.
I wasn't expecting a mini bike with a sidecar and dude sending it over Fire to be here. Honestly, really impressed. Let's see what we can do.
Sidecar minibikes. Let's go. Yeah.
See, this is wonderful. Things of typing things into your express. You never know what you're going to get.
And it's a great template for us to start with. So what I can do just to start giving us a little bit more own ability to it is I can pull this aside and grab this half tone texture we took. And I'm going to pull it up and see what I can do.
Just texturing this image. I'm going to do is click filters. I can duotone it, I can grayscale it.
But really what I want to do is adjust the opacity and see if I can multiply or screen the image behind it and try to give it like we want that texture to be in there, but we still want it to be legible. I think the halftime pattern might be a little bit too big right now. Hello.
That's 1000% on brand. Great. Send it.
Oops. Already opened up a new page. That was my bad.
Go over here. All right. What I meant to do is actually just duplicate that layer where we're going to try to see if we can fake a repeating half tone pattern.
Not typically the easiest thing to do. There's going to be a weird overlap, so I might have to scrap this direction. But I'm trying to create this texture to be smaller and allow us to have a little bit more freedom when we're looking at this image.
Let's see here. Just shrink that down to the artboard size. I don't like that you can see the overlap, but maybe nobody will notice.
Right, chat. You won't tell anybody. All right.
Edit group ungroup. I can't change the opacity when it's grouped that's a bit. All right.
I'm just going to duplicate these two layers instead. I like it a lot. Intentional.
Exactly. So intentional. All right.
Cool. Quadrants are brutal. I can also just go in and make a half tone pattern towards the end of this as well.
Let's just play with this as one size. It's fine. All right.
Let's see if we can adjust the screening effect. It says multiply normal and screen. All right.
Those are the only options we have right now. I'm going to actually just lower the opacity down, then give it a little bit of texture, but not too too much cool to see this. All right.
I love looking and seeing what other people's templates are in their designs. Do more crazy things. It's already got the great copy that feels on brand for Leon, which is great.
Let's see what we can do with this Crash Johnson logo. I'm going to adjust the size. Maybe I might want this to be just a monochromatic version of this that goes with the do more crazy things.
Let me also see what other things I can do with this filter to bring it to life. Enhancements, contrast, no. Brightness, no.
Warmth, sharpen, blur? No. We might just make our own half ton later. Let's grab the Crash Johnson logo that we already got.
I think he already has a monochromatic version of this logo. No, but we'll make R1 quick. So what we're going to do here is actually just duplicate this, go into this file, and not delete everything.
Going to find the insets. Let's see here. There's a blue.
See if I can delete the backgrounds. Yes. Is that right? Let me see.
So what I'm doing is just clicking through his art files already. It's probably very difficult to watch somebody click and navigate through your beautifully curated design files. And I apologize.
I think it's always fun seeing how people group and layer things. So this is really oh, no. Make me do the work here.
So Leon did a really great job masking out that middle section already. RB was going to say I was going to say create a new half tone Alex. Well, I've got a half tone action script in Photoshop that I can do really quick.
Leon would be a great resource for learning how to make half tons from all right, let's see here. Wait, no. All right, 2 seconds.
Let's oh, my goodness. All right, we're going to ungroup everything. Command shift, GGG.
Just keep pressing that until it feels right. We're going to go in here and try to delete the layers underneath. Cool.
So you go to your pathfinder tool, and then you could do the minus, and then click and then delete. No wrong buttons. Oh, Lord.
Why is it the J? All right. Click, click. All right.
Boom. And then I'm going to just fill that in and see what happens. All right, so if I do that okay.
Sorry, chat. I'm like you can tell my brain is trying to work right now and figure out how to get the result that I'm looking for from his file. All right, let's do it again.
Let's delete. Okay, cool. We're there.
Bingo. All right, let's just throw a layer behind it. All right, cool.
All right, we got a solid logo. As Leon says, the harder you click, the more pathfinding it does. That is true.
I've been waiting for that. All right, thank you, everyone, for bearing with me on that. This is why we do it live.
You can see that no matter how many years of experience you have, sometimes you just need to keep clicking and click harder. All right, so we got artboard nine is the name for this one. What I'm actually going to do is do this in white and then export as logo, and then do Rpord nine, and then do CGA white.
PNG. Perfect. No.
All right, I messed up. All right. 2 seconds.
Select and then make that white. And then make these white. We are what is going on here? Oh, it's because I clicked the wrong thing.
It there we go. All right. Now we can re export it.
Artboard nine, boom. CJ white, boom. Replace.
Great. And now we can go in here and we can start to mess with this. We can also go into our brand section if you go into the logos.
Sorry. Let's go back to home. We'll go to brands, go back to our Craft Johnson, and then I can add this white logo now as part of this brand.
Boom. So now it'll come up all the time. Rojas says it's very frustrating when this kinds of things happen.
I usually feel like a dummy, but I can see this is now common. Yes, it's very common, especially when you're handing off files or getting them from somebody else. This is just always a thing you'll run into.
It's always super fun. I personally love seeing how other people do their files. Whether they're like grouping things or they're locking layers, it's always just fun.
It's a good little exercise to remember how all the tools work in its full capacity. So I just grabbed it and dragged it in. So boom.
That's one image done already using the template, which is super easy peasy just to use from Express immediately, what we're going to do is actually just make another page. So we got one social post done. What I love about this piece that Leon's made this brand in its entirety is the fact that it feels like a Troy Lee designs or a different brand that is really involved in the motorcycle culture.
So for me, that's super important when thinking about this brand. It's cool. So we're going to bring that up.
All right, so we got that. Now what we're going to do is we're going to start to take some of the pieces that he's got. So I ended up pulling, like, an image from Unsplash, but actually, if you go into Photos and you just type in, like, dirt bike, you get a ton of great assets.
And so what you'll see here is there's a bunch of crowns in the corner of your screen. It says, I have access. The reason why I have access is because anything with a crown and anything with a crown is only available if you are an Express or a Creative Cloud member.
Adobe Express is fully free, but it does get better with your Adobe Creative Cloud. Creative Cloud gives you the option for all these great Adobe stock images to be used for your Express project. So we've got really cool.
Like, this is pretty sweet guy doing a no hander, but if I was to try to do that, I would be Crash Johnson. So I don't do things in the air. GG easy.
Do you have any hard work? Alex lashes? Yep. Alex is marketing the new font Comic Papyrus. That is true.
I think we do need a Comic Papyrus. Crash Johnson comic Papyrus. For those of you not in the know, now, you know Comic Papyrus is the all time top ten out of ten font ever used for any of your design needs.
It's a staple on my Adobe streams. Make sure you use it all the time. Just always number one.
Boom. That so good. And just to mess around really quickly, I don't know if anybody's used the 3D tool in Illustrator.
It's gotten so good now. It's super fun. We're just going to actually play with it really, really quickly just to show you kind of some of the great things that it's capable of really bring to life.
Look at this. You've got camo, you've got ripstop camo, three D, one. Comic Papyrus has never looked this good before.
You all are so welcome. Look at that. Crash Johnson, number 110 out of ten.
We can also mess with, have the all the objective laid out. We can give it extra depth just in case people might say, crash Johnson, there's not that much depth to him. But now you go look depth.
Boom. You can also twist it, get twisted, have a lot of fun with that. You can also taper it so you can kind of play with the perspective a little bit.
You can use this button and rotate it around. You can also play with the caps. You can have a solid or end cap.
You can do a little taper. I don't want to taper it too much. You can also do a bevel so you can add a little bit of like a classic around convex.
Some of the stuff you probably were seeing in dimension, it's already super fun. Cody says, so much depth, much. Wow.
That is exactly it. That is exactly it. So much depth, much.
Wow. You can also repeat it so you can give it a little more extra texture. And you can also play with the height of those bevels.
Really, really fun stuff to work with. We've been working with it a lot lately in studio to kind of deliver some stuff or early concepts to clients. So instead of bringing stuff into C 4D or having to model something out fully, we've been using it just as a quick communication tool for our clients.
You can also play with the lighting and change it all up, but I don't want to get fully too detailed into it. But really, it's pretty sweet. Like you've already seen in like 3 seconds.
You've got a really cool little three D, one that normally would have taken you a lot longer to build. So fun in the sun with Comic Papyrus. Boom.
Steve says I opened up a can of worms. Steve's always opening up a can of worms in Chat. All right.
Thank you for the comic papyrus. I'm glad we didn't miss a stream with it. All right, we're going to go back in.
Let's grab this. I'm going to grab a just let's see what we can get. All right, I'm going to take a let's do 1920, 1080, and then I'm going to just do, like, a gradient simple gradient tool.
Boom up. That's pretty aggressive, actually. Nice.
Okay, that seems decent. I've got a Photoshop action script for it. I'm actually just going to mess with a bunch of them, so I'm just going to press Enter really quickly.
I have a bunch of different sizes for us to work with now if we want. I'm going to actually move them over to the correct folder. Just going to press Enter a bunch while it's running its thing.
Shawna, how are you guys doing? Leon says, I can't believe Alex and I haven't streamed together even in the twitch days. What are you talking about? Leon and I have streamed together on our Behance page or the Behance Live. You can go to both of our profiles and see it.
So let's grab this stuff. I've got all right. Actually, hold on.
We got too many things that are going on right now, too many fun things on paper that we can do. All right. I need to find all right, this guy's, like, too happy.
Let me find something that's a little bit gnarlier. Perfect. This is what I needed.
All right, so as a teaser of some stuff that we're working on on the side love this image. I'm going to pull the Half tone into it, and then I'm going to show you how. We can also throw in a couple of other things, like a paper tear and stuff like that.
So let me grab the I don't need to do texture paper right now. No. All right, half tone.
PSB. All right, cool. I like half tone.
Seven. That's pretty solid. What I can do here is I can do, like, select similar.
Select similar. And then I can mask it out sorry. Invert mask and then invert and then I can export this as a PNG Crash Johnson half ton seven, and I can pull this directly into this image now.
So I love that this image is super duper crisp. I love that it's coming with our Adobe Express and our Creative Cloud subscription, but it's way too clean. You can't do something like this where it's super textural with all the dust and smoke and the grit and then have it feel like it's so polished.
So what I want to do here is just quickly tidy it up by adding more grit. More grit and gristle. Always good when you're working with a very aggressive adrenaline sport or something that's very dirty and not clean to begin with.
Where is my PNG pro tip? Always make sure you're exporting to the correct spot. Oh, it's in there. I just couldn't find it.
All right, halftone PNG is the top button. All right, so we're grabbing this and we're going to pull this into the image. Start to play with some of that texture.
Pretty nice so far. All right, so what we're going to do also is we're going to take this and we're going to duplicate this image by going over top, right click duplicate or shift D. And then I'm going to create kind of like a vignette by just playing with it in this space.
I'm trying to align the dots on top of each other. Ha. Nobody will know.
Perfect. So we have that option. We can also just lower down the grid a little bit too, if we want.
We can also multiply it, but it's not going to do anything on this screen. So we're just going to bring it down maybe like twelve to twelve, opacity on it, 12%, just something like that to give us texture but not feel super overwhelmed by it. If we were to bring this into Photoshop, I'd probably mask out this character and keep the background of the foreground out a little bit.
Leon says they'll never know if shows them live. That is true. Perfect.
So what we'll do is we're going to grab that, but we also have to be coming soon. We are going to be making our own paper tear mockups. Leon's already done a great job of starting it for us, and now it's just a matter of packaging it all up.
But in the meantime, let me grab the actual file and we can start to pull it together in this file. So I'm going to show a white paper tear. This is number twelve, I think in our pack that we're going to be making.
Let me grab the make sure I got the correct image and just even putting something so simple as like a paper tear. We already have this kind of foreground element at the bottom right of the screen, but it's kind of blurry and it doesn't really look intentional. So we're just going to actually kind of COVID it up with the paper tear, bring that into the design aesthetic.
We can also rotate this paper tear too, just so it's covering it up more. I'm going to increase the size and perfect. So we grab that easy paper tear installed.
Super duper easy. Annika says have we used anything from the Acid Pack yet? No, we have not used anything from the Acid Pack yet. I don't know if it's going to fit Leon's brand for this project, but we can try towards the end of the stream.
For those of you all who don't know, we have an asset pack that we have made and it's included with your Behance subscription. If you subscribe on Behance, it's a really cool project. It has a lot of different asset kind of textures and waves and things like that you can use for like albums and billboards and things like that.
And if you're following on. Our Instagram. You can see some of those posters we made with them.
Just kind of give you inspiration. Cool. So I love that this image is being cropped now and masked with the paper tears.
It's super duper awesome. Yeah. We do have a free pack available for the acid wave.
I'll get you a link, Eric. You can look at it on this image. Actually, it's on my behance if you want, go in there.
There is this link and you can check it out. There's five. We have a free pack for it.
It's five of them. You can kind of see behind the scenes on how to make the posters with adding your textures and images over it. It's a really cool starting point for maybe an album cover or an image or a magazine and things like that.
You go check it out. Five free assets for you to use there. We might try to see if we can put it all into this.
Cool. So we got this. Let's pull in some typefaces, I think.
Let's see what we can do here. Oh, there's some fun little if you haven't used Express before, you can always start with a templated solution. Let's see if there's a trophy one.
No, there's probably a logo lockup or something like that. Let's do actually, let's just get the logo in there. Treat this kind of like a magazine ad, potentially, where you just need the logo in the corner.
Boom, that's one. And then we can do like let's grab text, add text to project. And then I'm going to go in here and say like July july 17 or 17th, 18th.
I can never type on stream for some reason. Perfect. July 17.
And then we're going to just change this. Make it black, shove it in a corner. Or is that dark blue from the brand? Cool.
So that feels like it could be an invite. Maybe we need to add a title in there as well. We'll do a duplicate to this layer and then say like, no tread left behind.
And then we'll make that bigger. We'll change out the type. That color is not matching.
Let me actually just pull it directly from the logo. We're going to play with this. I'm going to use the referrals, the font recommendations here and see what Express is deciding that might be a good fit for us.
OOH, I like that. That's a great recommendation. Thank you, Express.
No tread left behind. Boom. And then what I'll do is like, write another thing.
Trials. I can't say Trials because it's not a trial bike enduro championship. And then I'm going to want the enduro to be a little bit more legible.
So I'm going to choose a more responsible typeface. And by responsible, I mean kind of technologically pretty, but feels a little fun too. And I'm going to change this color palette to be like an off white.
Let's go over here to this yellow, pull that in and then I'm going to pull this directly centered in the asset. This background image is not playing nicely with it now, so I'm going to just adjust the background image ever so slightly and then pull it over so it's nice and centered and get that type centered too. So I can also play with the line height, lighter spacing as well.
Boom. Perfect. So that gives us like a social post if we needed to really quickly.
Not bad at all, not bad at all. Leon goes, did you just come up with that line? No tread left behind on the fly? Yeah, dude, of course. No, I'm using chat GPT really quickly on the side.
All right, so what we can do really quickly if you haven't used Express before, what I love about this is you can just go like, duplicate this page. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to make this a social story now. So I'm going to take this and I'm going to do resize.
I'm going to click Instagram story. So now I've already turned a bunch of duplicated stuff over really quickly and it's going to save me a lot of time. So what I'm going to do is just pull this over.
Probably because it's a story, I probably won't need to put tons and tons of information in there. I'm going to mess with this background image, play with it, make it bigger. I'll probably have like a click link to go to XYZ section in the website or in this post.
Cool. I'm going to move this up, mask that out. Boom, boom, boom.
Bring that down. And Leon, you can't steal things that I'm doing for you. It's already yours.
This is yours. I love it. You're like, I'm going to steal it.
It's yours. Use it however you want. Boom.
Took 30 seconds, maybe even less to start to put this together for this piece. What I'm actually going to do here is I'm going to take this and turn off the sorry, words are so hard sometimes. I'm going to copy this type.
I'm going to take the enduro championship line. I'm going to press Enter and I'm going to put the date underneath it. What I'm also going to do is I'm going to take the type tool here and I'm going to grid it up.
Not going to grid it up, I'm going to magic it. And by magicking it, I will keep the width the same of the enduro championship and the date below it as well. So it'll be set right there.
Boom. Made that bigger. And what I'm going to do is going to churn this to say like, ah, link in bio in profile.
And then I'm going to change this out. And then I'm going to add an outline to it, make it feel like a button more, and then maybe I'll do a shape instead. So you have different options when you're playing with your shape effects.
In Express. What I'm going to do is actually build out the outside, make it bigger. You can play with different sizes as well and different shape elements.
Maybe I'll no, I'm going to do this one and keep it like that. I'm going to change the type opacity to be there. Oh, no.
There we go. You make it a mask. So the mask will show that black in the background.
Supposedly the masking. Show me the mask. There we go.
Finally mask. All right, I clicked it. It's working.
Lincoln profile. But if you wanted to, you could also go over here and do like swipe up. And you'll get a ton of swipe up options over in the corner.
Just by typing the text tool, you'll get a bunch of different elements to kind of play with. So it's definitely up there. If you want, you can also animate this.
So that's kind of fun. I don't know. Kind of like that.
Let's remove this. Lincoln profile. Swipe up.
All right, we'll grow in here. Just double click it. So we're going to use this template as a starting point.
We're going to go grab the color, click and then click clicking intensifies and then swipe up for more information. The background has a shape already on it. We're going to click into it and then just grab that same kind of boom.
I don't love how tight the bounding box is on the four more information. So what I'm going to do is actually go in here, click the shape, and then build it to be a little bit bigger. And then I can move it down if I want.
Or I can also just make this bigger. I'm kind of weird like that. I like to keep my type locked up and closer to the same width bounding boxes, but you don't have to do that.
Personal preference. And then boom. Swipe up.
Already done. Amazing. Cool.
So badabing, bada. Boom. We've already gotten like three assets made in a very, very quick amount of time.
Let's do another post. Let's maybe make a poster. We've done a social post already.
All right, let's see what we got again. So we got Leon's beautiful image here. I'm actually going to take that and export this out.
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So I'm going to grab that image. Boom. It's a pretty sweet poster already with no information.
It's pretty cool. I like it. But it's missing something.
And that something is information and logos. So what we're going to do here really quickly is go in and grab do you have a monochromatic version of it. Do we need to give Johnny Crash a little bit of love? Let's get Johnny Crash in there, man.
These. So I'm talking about Leon's. So good at doing type in really fun and interesting ways that these are really rad to work with.
I think I'm going to go with this beauty here and then are these all pieced out? Oh, yes. What a legend. I love this.
Thank you, Leon, for making my life so much easier. I pressed the wrong button. I pressed the perspective tool.
Always do that. All right, file export, as, artboard seven, range, seven. Johnny Crash.
PNG export. Boom, boom, boom. Love that.
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Grabbing that. Boom. Johnny Crash.
It's my Johnny Crash, boys. We're working on it. See if multiply screen might be too hard to read.
We'll just keep it black like we had originally. What else we want to do with this guy? Should we make this a Versus poster really quick? I know we have, like, less than ten minutes now. Yeah, let's make it a Versus poster.
All right, we got Johnny Crash here. We got Crash Johnson. Crash doesn't have his own little lockup like this real quick, so grab this boom.
Try to scale it all down real quick. Let's get Crash's helmet to be about the same size. Boom, boom.
All right, I'll place this behind, and then we'll do a stroke. And that stroke, I love that. Like, I can just imagine Leon being like, I wouldn't be doing that type like that right now, or I wouldn't be outlining it that way.
But that's what happens. Friends let friends destroy each other's designs. Let's grab this and then I'm going to stroke this background really quickly.
It so I'm actually going to change this element here. No, I lost the stroke that I was actually using earlier. I found it.
Is this the one? No, I should have just duplicated it earlier. Okay, cool. Perfect.
All right, six minutes. We can do this. Ah, lowering stroke.
Great. Cool. Fine.
Everything's fine. Oh, my gosh. I've lost a detail somewhere in there, and that's okay.
All right, we're going to do Nippo as the typeface for the Versus variable vs. Boom. And then what I'm going to do here is also stroke it and give us a little bit of that.
We'll do outside. Why is it not outside? Cool. Let's do kill that and then outline.
Oh, no, not beach ball time. No beach ball. No.
All right, we outlined it, so we're good stroke, and then we're going to upload it or up to cool. Now it's outside. That's pretty chill.
All right, we're going to grab this group. It together. Boom.
Export as export artboard eight, and then call it verses. All right, let's go. Mohammed is going to sleep at 02:49 A.m..
Get some rest, bud. All right, let's go. We got this.
All right. Versus. I like how, like, the last five minutes of my streams are always a pep talk for myself to get the designs done as soon as possible.
It's actually pretty sweet. I'm pretty happy with how quickly that's kind of come together. We need to put together the little head to head type.
I like nippo as a typeface. Nippo is a free font on fontshare.com. Let's go.
Head to head finale. And then I'm going to command t all caps and then shift and drag. Nipple is a variable typeface, so I can also control the weight of it.
So that's pretty rad. And then I'm going to grab a stroke on it just to make it stand out in the background. Dang it.
I have to outline it again. Remove command, shift o, I think is to outline it. Or you just go in here and then outline boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
Outside only. And then click it. Shift o.
Export, head PNG, artboard nine. Let's go. All right.
Three minutes, we got this chat. All right. Head to head.
Boom. Head PNG. Grab this in here.
Probably could have used a different type or a different color, make it more legible. But you know what? We're not in the business of legibility with Crash Johnson. We're just in the get it good enough.
Done. That is Crash Johnson's motto. If it don't broke if it ain't broke, don't fix it, or whatever the saying is.
All right, we're going to throw in just type as well and then put in the please add text. July 17 through 18th. July 17 through 18th, 2023.
Perfect. And then explore more font options. Can go with this, like, kind of gnarly serif.
Just try that out. So illegible. All right, we're going to have to throw in a background on it and that type is not going to work for it.
Original font fine. Leon says good enough for who it's for. Exactly.
Cool. We're going to do a shape outline on it, make it a little bit more legible. We're going to change the color of it and make it red.
That's not ideal. All right, we'll do the blue just showing bias towards Crash Johnson. And then we're going to add that background color block there, make it a little bit more legible.
So not bad. A minute to spare. We've been able to kind of look at all these 34 five.
Wow. We made a lot more than I thought. We made one with a template, one without.
We took Leon's logos together and exported out each little potential piece. We built an instagram story. We converted that into sorry.
We made a post and then converted into a story. Overall, massive day. We did a lot make sure.
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