Hey guys!!!!! It's worth mentioning (as I spent about 20 minutes messing with it trying to figure out what was wrong...) : If you do NOT want a strange white outline surrounding your gaussian blur, when you are first creating the document, make sure it is in RGB mode and not CMYK. good luck! as soon as he pulled his son up I knew this was gonna be a good video!!! Couldn't stop smiling :)
I found a solution to the offset issue some of us are having (at least as of writing this). After tinkering with it for awhile, I discovered that the lowest you can set the offset is to -1 px. After that you might as well be cutting and pasting the text. If you want to get the offset to shrink more you need to use a an integer between 0 and -1 px. I used -0.7 px and it got to to about the same size as shown in Dansky's video if not a bit smaller. Hope this helps.
Also, it does work with other fonts, but it works better with those that are thinker. Example: I just did it with the chiller font and it worked but the offset has to be around -0.1 (maybe down to -0.3 px) if you want to offset the the entire text.
@@onlineprinting- ask him to draw a potato and you will figure out lol. By the way Nice video Dansky. I have learned illustrator basics 2 months a go by watching your amazing video really appreciate it.
you missed a few steps. in the beginning you should have told us when creating a new illustrator document you have to choose Pixels, Web only, and RGB. I kept wondering why my colors weren't coming out vibrant. I was getting frustrated. so yeah other than that great tutorial!
normally i dont give reviews but maam youre amazing like i tried 2 videos on 2020 and one on 2022 but it wont work but i saw yr video today and it worked as being both content creators i respect your hard work and keep it up
Just figured out something to give it a little bit more flare after following these steps. If you add a black outline to that initial blur effect it gives a really nice break effect from the glow of the neon light to the glow on the backdrop.
Heads up! If you're putting a negative number in for the offset and nothing seems to happen, make that negitive MUCH smaller. When I put in -5 it seemed as if nothing happened. The problem was that -5 was WAY to small. Solution: put something like -0.5 instead of -5.
I don't know when Global Swatches came around, but I have been using illustrator for 16 years and I never knew about that. Man, that is really going to be a huge thing for me! Thanks!!!
When I offset path to a negative number, It does not work. No thinner version of the text appears. However, using a positive number works, it just means my Neon Text is fatter than I'd like.
Did he say that? I thought I heard him ay that we could use whatever font we wanted. Anyway, I've figured it out. My document settings were way too small and my color was set to CMYK instead of RGB.
font is irrelevant, you are offsetting a path so if the text has been made into outlines as he advises earlier in the tutorial then all you are doing is offsetting a shape
Hi, thanks for this tuto, very clear. Two years after you recorded that video, I do not know what your son looks like now but in the video, he looks exactly like you in a younger sort of way, amazing ;-) We already know what he will look like when he is a grown up!
Really helpful sir .. personally i really liked your tutorials ..I am the beginner of graphics design and your tutorial helps me to learn new things everyday
my negative offset isnt working. no matter the size i set it, there isnt a difference. but if i do a positive offset, it appears. any idea of whats going on?
Hey, awesome tutorial videos man! i was wondering if you could make a tutorial video on how to remain high quality in your images after resizing in Photoshop, i had this problem when making a banner using my own images when i resized them down and when zooming i could see huge pixels, ive seen no videos on how to avoid that, would be amazing!
Hey Dansky good vid, I'm pretty new to illustrator, quick question - every time I try to offset the path -5px it does nothing, it will create +5px but not - ... Any idea what might be going on or I being a noob?
Hi Dansky! Thanks for a great tutorial, I loved it. I'm just wondering, what's the difference between Create Outline and Expand in Illustrator? I've seen that designers use both for making text an editable object, but is there another difference? Thanks in advance!/ Ana
Whenever I apply the Gaussian Blur, It turned my bright pink into a really light and muted pink. Go to: File > Document Color Mode > RGB to fix the issue Thanks for the video!
at first try, i can make it but the second time i'd tried it, whenever i did the offset, there's no second line (just a line in the middle), then i tried to just ungroup it, it turned out the offset lines disappears and it just ungroups the original words please help a noob like me T-T
Hey there! Try reducing your offset to "0.2" or "-0.2" because if the numbers are too big, particular on the minus side of things, the offset will disappear inside the letters :)
I like how much information you pack into your videos. It always irks me when during tutorials, the person doesn't explain the why's. Looks like I'm subbin! :)
hello cute baby, and what a straight to point tutorial, i was super confused how to make neon effects but now i understand why each step was made! thanks dansky~
So nice to hear a calm, well explained video with no horrible back ground music or stupid unnecessary graphics
Hey guys!!!!! It's worth mentioning (as I spent about 20 minutes messing with it trying to figure out what was wrong...) : If you do NOT want a strange white outline surrounding your gaussian blur, when you are first creating the document, make sure it is in RGB mode and not CMYK. good luck!
as soon as he pulled his son up I knew this was gonna be a good video!!! Couldn't stop smiling :)
Ty, that was my issue
no probs
Maaaaan, love you
Thanks a lot! I had a hard time as well. Good that decided to read comments. ha
TYSM
Hi Dansky, I started with Adobe AI 2 years ago and you were my first great teacher in UA-cam. Thank you again thank you so much
Ahmad Q That’s great to hear Ahmad! You’re very welcome 😊
honestly the BEST UA-cam tutorial videos on how to use illustrator! thanks so much!!
Thanks so much :)
I found a solution to the offset issue some of us are having (at least as of writing this). After tinkering with it for awhile, I discovered that the lowest you can set the offset is to -1 px. After that you might as well be cutting and pasting the text. If you want to get the offset to shrink more you need to use a an integer between 0 and -1 px. I used -0.7 px and it got to to about the same size as shown in Dansky's video if not a bit smaller.
Hope this helps.
Also, it does work with other fonts, but it works better with those that are thinker. Example: I just did it with the chiller font and it worked but the offset has to be around -0.1 (maybe down to -0.3 px) if you want to offset the the entire text.
Thank you so much!! I was struggling really hard thinking I kept doing something wrong!
You are amazing! Thanks so much!!!
thanks i had the same problem
thanks!!! i had the same problem.
your english was so soothing I almost slept
Aha thanks Beka :)
lol
his voice you mean
his english i guess is british
am i right
@@onlineprinting- ask him to draw a potato and you will figure out lol.
By the way Nice video Dansky. I have learned illustrator basics 2 months a go by watching your amazing video really appreciate it.
Yes, i'm also feeling sleepy :)
Oh man, thanks! I'm brazilian but your way to teach seems universal. Also, the baby is so adorable, omg!
seriously after watching many tutorials of yours . Today i subscribed for this tiny adorable guy. Too cute
Aha thanks Tanvir 😉
you missed a few steps. in the beginning you should have told us when creating a new illustrator document you have to choose Pixels, Web only, and RGB. I kept wondering why my colors weren't coming out vibrant. I was getting frustrated. so yeah other than that great tutorial!
Yes you're absolutely right - glad you got it sorted :)
Thank you!! I wanted to create a poster for print and had the same problem
oh, thx i miss that ponits ;; lol
Thank you for this :)
thank you H A L E E M A T R A V E L S. helpful things that you tell us
normally i dont give reviews but maam youre amazing like i tried 2 videos on 2020 and one on 2022 but it wont work but i saw yr video today and it worked as being both content creators i respect your hard work and keep it up
Hey thanks so much!
Just figured out something to give it a little bit more flare after following these steps. If you add a black outline to that initial blur effect it gives a really nice break effect from the glow of the neon light to the glow on the backdrop.
Fantastic video! Great step by step lesson that i can easily follow along with. Thank you, your son is super cute.
Thank you so much!
Heads up! If you're putting a negative number in for the offset and nothing seems to happen, make that negitive MUCH smaller. When I put in -5 it seemed as if nothing happened. The problem was that -5 was WAY to small. Solution: put something like -0.5 instead of -5.
Thank you
Thank you for this! I had to set one to -0.1 to get my offset outline.
i put -0.00000000000000000000000000000000000001 but nothing happened
Help
now its working
Stay blessed all of you (whole family). Cute baby and good teaching.
You are the best tutorial lecturer on youtube..,,,,,,
+B&E Ministries Thank you so much, that really means a lot :)
I don't know when Global Swatches came around, but I have been using illustrator for 16 years and I never knew about that. Man, that is really going to be a huge thing for me! Thanks!!!
This is great! I never knew about the universal swatch trick either. Thank you!!
You're welcome Amber :)
man I missed this kind of tutorials lol. Great work here, thanks!!!
You've got new subscriber (Y)
Love your tutorials, specially short in duration :)
Thanks bro!
+Ali Mukhtar Hey thanks Ali - glad you like them :)
Hell of a tutorial. Works just fine! Tks Dansky.
Cheers glad you liked it :D
baby is so cute~and the effect is so cool~love it
Aww thank you :)
i've been using illustrator for so long and never thought to use the color guide! great vid!
Excellent - glad to hear the tut was helpful :)
I instantly went like awwwwh after seeing your son xd
So clear! I love your tutorials Dansky!! Kisses from Uruguay. (Your son is so cuteeee)
Thank you Romina 😊
I gave a thumbs up just for Leo before watching the whole video lol
same haha
Amazing video Dansky, very helpful !! Much love from COLOMBIA.
Great tutorial, and Leo is so cute!
Hey thanks Dan - you're welcome :)
AMAZING ADVICE. IT LOOKS SO COOL
Waww very nice tutorials, simple and greats!
Cheers Meli you're welcome :D
I've never seen it so easy! Thank you so uch, Neon is one of my favorites and i used to spend WAY too much time trying to do it.
When I offset path to a negative number, It does not work. No thinner version of the text appears. However, using a positive number works, it just means my Neon Text is fatter than I'd like.
I am having the same problem!
same here! i tried the negative offset with a simple square and it worked fine. does anyone know what the solution is?
I think it is a problem with font.
It cannot be done with any font, as the video suggests.
Did he say that? I thought I heard him ay that we could use whatever font we wanted. Anyway, I've figured it out. My document settings were way too small and my color was set to CMYK instead of RGB.
font is irrelevant, you are offsetting a path so if the text has been made into outlines as he advises earlier in the tutorial then all you are doing is offsetting a shape
God bless you both, wish you and your son the very best!
hi my paths didnt show offset path :(
Thank you for the lesson. You have a friendly and kindly way of teaching.
You’re welcome Gary, glad it was helpful 😊
Great tutorial!!! thank u soooo much for sharing :)
You're welcome Magdalena! :D
Beautiful
good work and thank you so much, Greetings from Egypt
Cutee babyy!!!!!
Thanks Adrian - he's a little monkey!
WOW! I had no idea I Definitely thank you so much
You're very welcome Leora :)
Best ever! So many hours i tried to do it on my own... but it is so simple here! THANKS!
Awesome thanks Anton! :)
Your kid is so cute ! Tapping on my screen to play with him...
Hi, thanks for this tuto, very clear.
Two years after you recorded that video, I do not know what your son looks like now but in the video, he looks exactly like you in a younger sort of way, amazing ;-) We already know what he will look like when he is a grown up!
like for the baybe! :) And video!
Really helpful sir .. personally i really liked your tutorials ..I am the beginner of graphics design and your tutorial helps me to learn new things everyday
Awesome saifullah! Great to know the videos are helpful :)
my negative offset isnt working. no matter the size i set it, there isnt a difference. but if i do a positive offset, it appears. any idea of whats going on?
never mind, just had to restart illustrator
@@puhl117 Thanks, your comment saved my life.
@@yohangelmorales615 lol
Wish you and your family a happy new year!
I saw your son and i liked the video immediately. :D
Aww thanks :)
finally someone that teaches instead of just doing the logo!
Hey, awesome tutorial videos man! i was wondering if you could make a tutorial video on how to remain high quality in your images after resizing in Photoshop, i had this problem when making a banner using my own images when i resized them down and when zooming i could see huge pixels, ive seen no videos on how to avoid that, would be amazing!
Just now learning illustrator. Thanks a lot brother this vid really helped me out.
Glad to hear that!
came for tutorial , stayed for leo..😊
I'm creating a website for myself as a class assignment and I wanted a cool neon banner and this tutorial saved me
Cool glad it was useful Chelsie! It'd be awesome to see the website design, if you'd like to tweet it @ForeverDansky :)
Hey Dansky good vid, I'm pretty new to illustrator, quick question - every time I try to offset the path -5px it does nothing, it will create +5px but not - ... Any idea what might be going on or I being a noob?
you maybe have a different version.
your welcome
This tuto is just what i needed, and your kid tops it :) Great work
Hi Dansky! Thanks for a great tutorial, I loved it. I'm just wondering, what's the difference between Create Outline and Expand in Illustrator? I've seen that designers use both for making text an editable object, but is there another difference? Thanks in advance!/ Ana
Welcome back, Dansky :)
I hope you and your wife & baby Leo had a good Christmas.
+DMT Hey DMT - we had an amazing Christmas thanks, and can't wait for 2016!! :)
Whenever I apply the Gaussian Blur, It turned my bright pink into a really light and muted pink.
Go to: File > Document Color Mode > RGB
to fix the issue
Thanks for the video!
Spot on Rachel :) The CMYK spectrum for print just can't match some of the more 'punchier' colours that are used to create neon effects.
Fantastic as always...and HI to Leo...
Wooow No hablo inglés y aún así le entendí ❤❤❤
Gracias July :)
This was so helpful man ! Grateful to ya.
You're most welcome :)
Nice man... But I doesn't work for me so I'm sitting here pissed off as fuck. Can you help me?
+DXTRO Hi, which bit are you having trouble with?
+Dansky it doesn't work for me too :( i use adobe illustrator cs6
+Dansky the path-> offset is giving me trouble actually
+Dansky it snot giving me the skinnier copy, just the same copy . .
+Conrad Burgos II I have the same problem
Thanks! Im from France and I love what you make !
Love the intro ginger baby gets a like. jk chill
Aha thanks ;)
This is awesome! It has totally saved my bacon (and is definitely the simplest yet most effective tutorial I've seen on neon effects!)
at first try, i can make it
but the second time i'd tried it,
whenever i did the offset, there's no second line (just a line in the middle),
then i tried to just ungroup it,
it turned out the offset lines disappears and it just ungroups the original words
please help a noob like me T-T
Hey there! Try reducing your offset to "0.2" or "-0.2" because if the numbers are too big, particular on the minus side of things, the offset will disappear inside the letters :)
hey Dan! great to see you back and lovely to see Leo :) hope you have a great new year and look forward to many more of your videos in 2016!
your son is very cute
Hehe ty :)
Thank you Dansky , Very clear tutorial
Your baby very cute sir 🤤🤤🤤
simple and easy to understand tutorial, much appreciated man.!
WOW LEARNING NEW TRICKS WITH THE GLOBAL SWATCH PALLET AND GOT TO GET MY NEON GAME ON POINT !! THX !!
I think this is the best one for neon light tutorial.
I like how much information you pack into your videos. It always irks me when during tutorials, the person doesn't explain the why's. Looks like I'm subbin! :)
I really really like your tutorial videos. Thumbs up (and there is one cute little boy you got there). Thank you from Malaysia!
Awesome thank you :)
I really like the explanation in the end about the use of global swatches. Thank you!
Such a great video - I had an issue with the offset, but I set it to 0.7 px and it worked well. Thanks so much!
Awesome!
Yeah! Just started learning illustrator and this was so helpful!!!
Great tutorial. I've got a nice result. Thanks a lot!
You deserve more subscribers! Thank you for these wonderful tutorials!
thnx bruh at first it was difficult for me but now its awesome
Thanks so much. You are both splendid tutors. Bless you.x
Aww thanks Tina :)
Great video! Short and sweet with very few steps! Thanks!
I'm going to spend a lot of time in this channel! Thank you!
That's super! Plenty of Adobe tutorials in the playlists to keep you busy, and hope you enjoy the videos ;)
hello cute baby, and what a straight to point tutorial, i was super confused how to make neon effects but now i understand why each step was made! thanks dansky~
Thank you Dansky! You Saved my night. Very clear tutorial, love how you present.
I have watched many videos and none like this video. Excellent tutorial!!
Thanks Manuel :)
This is sick, that looks sooo cool! Also very good job on explaining everthing properly and keeping it simple.
Hi Dansky Thanks for the Video. You are Champ
very helpful, love this tutorial
Glad it was helpful!
Always great videos ! Thank you
Cheer David :)
Amazing tutorial! Subscribed!!!
This was so calming to watch and easy to follow. THANK YOU
very good presentation.. helpful, precise
Fantastic tutorial.
Thanks so much Raviteja :)
Nice, now I know about global colors. Thanks!
Very clear and helpful!
Thanks Dai :)
Your videos are so wonderfully helpful. Thank you so much for doing what you do!
short, simple, easy. thanks for your tip!
Worked for me.... loved the tutorial
loved the video mate
Thank you so much for this, very helpful!