Merging our Logo

Quick reference

• 00:05 Now that we've got our clean logo and a couple of iterations to look at,
• 00:09 let's think about which one of these we wanna use as our final.
• 00:13 Now, I wanted to show you guys something else that you can do here which is.
• 00:16 If you wanted to release the mask that we've applied here, in order to move
• 00:20 the texture around, all you have to do is select it, come up to the object menu, and
• 00:25 down at the bottom here where it says clipping mask and you can choose release.
• 00:29 Now as soon as you do that, you'll be able to modify the placement of your texture
• 00:34 and rotate it, scale it up or down, pretty much anything that you wanna do.
• 00:40 Okay, so I just wanted to show that to you guys that you don't worry that
• 00:43 once you commit to this, you won't be able to change it or anything else.
• 00:48 Before we continue and make the final call here,
• 00:51 let's just think about you if there's any other options that we may wanna try.
• 00:56 So again I'll select my background layer here.
• 01:00 And I'm gonna have to lock it because I wanna put the mask back on.
• 01:02 So I'll press Command + 2 to lock the background layer.
• 01:06 And now you'll see that I have another shape selected which has no fill and
• 01:09 no stroke.
• 01:10 And that is the copy of the background that we were using as our clipping mask.
• 01:14 So again, I'll select the texture, and this time come up to the object menu,
• 01:19 choose Clipping Mask and then Make, all right?
• 01:24 And now, I can unlock everything and there we go.
• 01:28 So I just want to show you guys how you can release equipping mask and
• 01:31 edit the contents, so you don't have to feel stuck.
• 01:34 And if you wanted to try even one more version, you can select this whole group
• 01:38 here, hold down Alt option and Shift and drag it over.
• 01:42 So, let's again try to release this clipping mask and
• 01:46 let's say this time instead of using our Midtown orange colour
• 01:49 we actually wanted to use the background colour.
• 01:51 Now similarly to how we can only see this Midtown orange in our darker and
• 01:56 yellow areas, we can now only see our texture on the lighter areas or any area
• 02:01 that is not a dark shadow colour and doesn't match the colour of our texture.
• 02:07 So this is, one more iteration or possibility that we can look at it, it's
• 02:11 either one of these three, I think that this one might be a little bit too much,
• 02:15 now that I've looked at it for a little bit longer.
• 02:18 So I think one of these two may be the way to go.
• 02:21 And it's really just a question of where do you wanna see the texture?
• 02:24 Do you wanna see it in the darker areas, or do you wanna see it on the And
• 02:29 I kinda feel like this is probably our winner here that we wanna use.
• 02:34 So let's go ahead and bring up our layers palette.
• 02:36 And I'll just come up to the window menu and choose layers.
• 02:39 Or you can use the shortcut, the Fn key + F7.
• 02:43 So for simplicity sake, now that we know which version we're gonna go with,
• 02:47 we can actually get rid of this middle one.
• 02:50 And we'll just copy our contents of our third art board and
• 02:53 paste it here onto the second one.
• 02:56 Now we can just go ahead and delete this third art board,
• 02:58 by grabbing out art board tool, clicking on this third art board and deleting it.
• 03:03 Now one other thing we wanna do here before we merge it together is select our
• 03:06 background from our iteration, and I'm going to press command and X to cut it.
• 03:11 Come over here to my BG layer, unlock it, and then press Command + F.
• 03:16 So we'll now have both of our backgrounds on the same layer, essentially.
• 03:21 So I'm going to rename the ITERATIONS layer to TEXTURE LOGO, go ahead and
• 03:25 click on this box here and
• 03:27 release the clipping mask by pressing Command, Control plus Alt Option and 7.
• 03:32 Or you can use the menu shortcut that I showed you before,
• 03:35 clipping mask released under the Objects menu.
• 03:38 What I wanna do from here is actually instead of using the background as a mask
• 03:42 is using the whole logo itself.
• 03:45 So I'm gonna select the logo, press command +C, then command+F to
• 03:48 paste it in the front, and I'll bring up my pathfinder and merge it all together.
• 03:54 Now if that doesn't appear to be doing anything,
• 03:56 we can just choose unite, and that's going to make this all
• 03:59 one shape filled with solid white that you can see here.
• 04:02 Now, while that's selected, hold down the Shift key and
• 04:05 select your texture, and then press command control plus 7.
• 04:09 All right and now,
• 04:10 you've basically applied your texture to only the inside of the logo.
• 04:15 So it's no longer appearing outside of it, which is good because if we put this on
• 04:18 a different coloured background or anything like that, you won't have to
• 04:22 worry about the texture spilling it over, you can handle it separately.
• 04:26 So, that's exactly what we want.
• 04:29 All right? And now I can zoom out a little bit,
• 04:31 select the whole group here, except for the background.
• 04:34 And it looks like I still have this shape here, the copy of the background, so
• 04:39 I'm going to delete that.
• 04:41 And, now I can select it all again and just press Command+G to group it together.
• 04:46 And we've now got our textured version of the logo.
• 04:50 So we have our clean version here, which we can now just rename to CLEAN LOGO.
• 04:55 And we have our texture logo along with our background layers.
• 04:59 So we've now kinda merged all of that together.
• 05:03 And the reason that I'm not actually merging the texture with this is because
• 05:07 it's nice to have the option if we want to To come back in here and
• 05:11 maybe release the clipping mask and move this texture around if we wanted it.
• 05:16 So I can select that, I can ungroup it and then I
• 05:19 can move the texture around some more before applying the clipping mask again.
• 05:25 Okay, so that what you guys still have a little bit of flexibility,
• 05:28 you don't have to totally commit to that.
• 05:30 Or you are ready to apply the layer mask again.
• 05:32 Just make sure that you're selecting the solid shape that has no fill in stroke.
• 05:37 Hold down Shift to select the texture and press Command+Ctrl+7 or
• 05:41 come up to Objects, Clipping Mask and Make, okay?
• 05:47 But before we wrap this up, I just wanna take one more look at this and
• 05:51 maybe see how it looks again having a different colour.
• 05:54 Because I'm thinking I might, I know I'm kind of going back and
• 05:57 forth on this a lot because I wanna see some different looks here.
• 06:01 But I'm actually thinking that maybe now, releasing the clipping mask and
• 06:05 using the background texture might be the way to go because
• 06:08 it actually adds some texture and breaks up all of this orange in here.
• 06:12 So, let's try that out and just zoom out a little bit to take a look.
• 06:16 I think it actually looks pretty cool.
• 06:18 It adds a bit of texture on the bull, which I think is kind of nice because
• 06:22 before, only seeing it in the shadow areas,
• 06:25 seemed a little too subtle like it might get lost, actually.
• 06:28 So, that's one of the nice things why I'm glad I didn't merge this together.
• 06:32 Instead just using the entire logo as a clipping mask.
• 06:35 So, I'm going to commit to this change for now and let me go ahead and
• 06:39 lock that layer.
• 06:41 Be sure to save your work guys as you're working, and
• 06:43 we can now begin thinking about how we want to present our logos

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