Creating Envelopes in Adobe Illustrator

By Sheila Pen, Shutterstock Submitter

If there is one thing I really love about Adobe Illustrator, it has to be reshaping objects with an “envelope.” Real envelopes are pretty boring things -- you can only use them for mailing letters. But in this tutorial, you'll discover just how powerful and versatile Adobe Illustrator’s “Envelope Distort” is for reshaping almost anything. Yes, anything -- it's amazing! You'll be stuffing envelopes all day long, because the first thing to remember is whatever you put inside an envelope, you will be able to distort. This includes raster graphics, objects drawn with the pencil and brush tools, paths, gradient meshes and even unexpanded text, linear gradients and objects that have had 3D effects applied to them. It is really a powerful tool, so let's dive in and get started by creating the envelope.

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