

Use the pen tool to draw the outline of the image that you want to keep and make a clipping mask to cut out the background.


There isn’t really a background remover tool but you can remove the background by making a clipping mask. It should have “NO Fill” and “No Stroke”. Removing image background in Illustrator is not as easy as in Photoshop. Once you are done click “OK”.ġ0 - Now select all the Colored Paths (Shift key) and apply a “Drop Shadow” but use these values instead.ġ1 - Select the “Rectangle Tool” (M), draw a Rectangle covering as much of the colored paths as possible. Select one of the White Paths and go to Select > Same > Fill Color to select the rest.ĩ - Go to the “Appearance Panel”, click on the “Effects Menu” on the Bottom-Left side of the Appearance Panel and navigate to Stylize > Drop Shadow… and use the following values. Repeat “Steps 4 to 7” alternating Black and White text until you reach the outside of your Canvas.Ĩ - Select each Black Path and replace the Fill color with some other shades from the “Swatches Panel”. Simply duplicate that outline you already have (menu 'object', then 'transform' then 'copy' with the 0 value everywhere) Then set your outlines to 'Align stroke to inside' in the stroke panel. Go to the “Pathfinder Panel” and choose “Unite”. Change the “Fill” color to Black and make an “Offset Path” with the same value as before. Then, go to the “Pathfinder Panel” and choose “Unite”.Ħ - Right-click on top and choose Arrange > Send to Back.ħ - Now, make a “Copy” and “Paste in Back” (Command/Control + B) making sure that the copy is at the bottom of everything. Or use the same options in the “Align Panel”.Ĥ - Make a “Copy” (Command/Control + C) then “Paste in Place” (Shift + Command/Control + V) and change the Fill color to White.ĥ - With the new text still selected go to Object > Path > Offset Path and use an “Offset” value of 0.3 cm. Center it using the “Horizontal and Vertical Align Center” options on your Top Menu and make sure that “Align to Artboard” is selected. Use Black as “Fill” color.ģ - Right-click on top of it and choose “Create Outlines”.
#CREATE OUTLINE ILLUSTRATOR FREE#
For this tutorial we are using the Free Font “Wask New” from Vasilis Skandalos.ġ - In Illustrator, create a “New Document”.Ģ - Select the “Type Tool” (T), choose your font (we used “Wask New”) and type your text.
