Explore the meticulous process of adding style to an artboard, specifically for Banner 3, continuing from where it was left off with the addition of a triangle. Delve into the intricate details of creating a seamless, professional design using various tools and techniques.
Key Insights
- The design process involves adding two rectangles from the top left hand side down to the bottom right hand side. This continuation of the border on top is done by having it go along the top of the triangle.
- Various tools such as the "transform" option and the "direct selection tool" are used to manipulate shapes and angles, ensuring the style elements are perfectly aligned and aesthetically pleasing.
- Attention to detail is paramount in creating professional designs. Even minor adjustments, such as the positioning of the triangle's points flush against the edge of the artboard, contribute greatly to the overall look of the design.
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Let's continue this border on top by having it continue along the top of the triangle. To do this, we want two additional rectangles to go from the top left-hand side down to the bottom right-hand side. So let's work on creating this.
To do this, we'll scroll in and next we want to copy these two bars and then tilt them so that they're angled coming in on the top left. Let's start now with our bottom bar, in this case, my PTC dark bar, and I'm going to click and drag it into a new layer. I'll retitle it angled bottom bar and hit ENTER.
And next, we're going to want to begin angling this bar. To do this, with angled bottom bar selected, let's hit CTRL T to transform it, and now let's drag it up a little bit so that we can add it to the top of our triangle and let's now begin rotating it. When we see the two arrows in the corner, we know we can rotate, and let's hold shift.
Since this triangle has the same width as it does half of its height, we'll know that it's at 45 degrees. We'll drag up and I'm simply going to release it when it's flush with the triangle. Let's zoom in and scroll to the left.
And as we can see here, we have our points of the bottom bar right on this edge of the guides and it goes up into the top left. However, if we look here, we can see that on mine, I have a little bit of a gap. This is because when I created the triangle, I didn't perfectly place the points at the guides.
So for now, let's leave our angled bar right here. We'll hit ENTER and now let's adjust each of the points of our triangle. To do this, we'll move over and let's zoom in close to the top.
As we can see right here, this top point of the triangle is not exactly flush with our guide, so we can change this with the direct selection tool. We'll choose the direct selection tool on the left-hand side, and the direct selection tool is the selection tool that's filled in with white rather than the path selection tool which is filled with black. And in this case, we're simply going to be selecting the point of our triangle.
To do this, I'll select the triangle and I'm going to be clicking for this top point here, and I'll double-click the point to make sure that only it's selected and I'll simply click and drag it over against the edge of our artboard and our guide. We zoom out, we'll see that the triangle is now flush with the bar. Let's make sure the other points of our triangle are in the correct line.
We'll zoom in and scroll to the right here, and we can see that my point is right in the middle of our guides. If we need to change it, all we need to do is select the point and drag it to the guides. Finally, let's scroll down and to the left and sometimes it's faster to use the bar to scroll.
And if we look right here again, our point is just off the edge of our artboard. While it is willing to snap to this bottom guide, we want it to be right at the edge. To make sure that this snaps here, we can add a guide to the edge of our artboard at zero, and now if we click on this bottom point, it will snap right to the edge.
We'll then release and zoom out, and we've now perfected our triangle. Next, let's add our top bar across the top of the triangle. To do this, let's zoom in, scroll up, and we're going to now be replicating this top bar and angling it right on the other side.
To do this, we'll select the top bar, we'll drag it down into the new layer icon, and let's rename it angled top bar and hit ENTER. Remember, we're now going to take the angled top bar and move it up above to the other bar, so we'll hit V on our keyboard to use the move tool. We'll drag our bar up to the top and next, we want to transform it using CTRL T. We're then going to rotate our bar to 45 degrees and simply move it so it's right on top of the other black bar.
Let's zoom in, and in this case, it will snap right on top of the bar here so let's zoom in, scroll to the right, and we're simply going to hinge it over until it's flush with the other bar. Let's zoom out. For our last step, we're going to want to take this bottom bar and move it behind the black bar, so I'll hit ENTER to finish the transformation.
I'll then select the top bar, and we're going to move it down beneath the other bars in our layers panel. As we can see, we now have a nice flush dark line as well as a bar that's angled with the triangle here as well. Let's zoom out, hit V on the keyboard to select our move tool, and click outside the artboard to view our work.
I think this looks good. It creates a nice bottom frame for our image and we have a triangle on the left. This looks like a great style.
Let's hit CTRL S on our keyboard to save our work, and in the next video we're going to continue stylizing our artboard. See you there!