Hello and welcome to the Vektorgarten YouTube
channel! I'm going to take a look at the new Text to Vector graphic function in Adobe Illustrator
version 2024 which has arrived today. I'm going to record a couple of videos and in this
video I'm just going to show you how it works and how to use it. Let's dive right in.
You can already see on the right side in the Properties panel there is a section about generating
vector graphics. But it's also available in its own panel. And since the Properties panel also has
a couple of other functionality, let's open the dedicated panel. Let's go to Window >
Text to vector graphics (Beta). There it is and you see there are several options, so let's just
dive right in. We have the choice of type. We want to create. So there's Subject, Scene, Icon and
Pattern. And these are the things we can create. And let's start with a scene. And you see, the
things changed a little and the first thing that's notable is: if you want to create this in
a specific size and a specific proportion, then take the rectangle tool and drag a rectangle
in the size you want to create. So let's make it like this and then this needs to be selected
of course. And then you can start off with sample prompts that are down here. Or if they are hidden
by some options you have already created, then you can go there by clicking on that light bulb icon.
So we can just start with the sample prompts. And maybe use this one here for the scene that we
want to create. And you see, then you get some alerts and there are about 10 alerts that
give you tips on how to use this function. It creates and you see there's already some
sketchy version and then it refines them. And there we have the result and can of course
click through these three options and see which one suits best. And then of course if you
don't like it, you can click on Generate again and get different versions of that prompt. You
can also click on the settings. So there we have a style picker. If you have existing art, then
you can click on it using the style picker and Illustrator tries to match that. We're going to
use that later. And then - which is probably more important - you can click on the settings. And
there we've got a slider to adjust the detail. We have a lot of detail already for this
scenery. So this is the highest setting for the detail that we can get here. What's also turned
on is here "Match the active artboard style". There wasn't any active artboard style, so that's
kind of it doesn't matter for this try. So let's just deselect this, so that we don't see the
paths. And this would be the first scene, that we have created. We can also start with our
own. I'm going to select this and delete it. And maybe make one like this. We can maybe make a
mountain scene and have it in summer and a lake. And then we have the Matterhorn, which is a famous
Swiss mountain, which has a very distinctive shape. And we put it in the background. So like
this. And let's generate our own prompt here. And let's see what Firefly generates for us. And you
see it generates and let's see what it comes up with. And there we get it. So we've got
nice colors in here. Actually this one is nice. And actually if you look it up in the
Wikipedia, the shape of that mountain is quite accurate. So this is quite nice. And that lake
actually exists. So this kind of matches the scene quite well. So with this one we can
also continue and then let's continue here. Maybe let's put a rectangle here, because
now we want to put some more details into that scene. And we can now continue and put
a subject in there. And let's put into there and now it's important to match the
active artboard style. And let's put some people hiking and having a rest. And you see I
have put the rectangle in here, which defines the size of the people I want to have. And you do
not need to tell Illustrator to replace something or delete something. Just put into it what you
want to have. So let's generate and let's see what it comes up with. And have some nice people
in this scene. And again it generates them. And puts them in there and you see here, this is
more like an icon. This is maybe not what we want to have. But these people, they match, they
are sitting inside the lake which is not so nice. But we can move them to here and there we would
have people fitting into the scene. But again we can generate some more people and see if they
match better into that scene. So like this and you see they are quite large, because this time
I haven't drawn a rectangle first. So they are larger, but that doesn't matter, it's vector,
it's scalable. And we can later match that into the scene. So let's get to the next one.
I have here a scene that I have drawn. And we can match that as well. And I'm going to draw
a rectangle in there as well. And in this scene, so again match the active artboard style.
And let's have a train line for tourists in here. Let's go with that and again Illustrator is
generating. And let's hope it fits this scene as well. And you see, you can match existing
artwork. And that is something, where you are usually asked if you have the copyright
to use this artwork style. And then let's take a look at it. And you see these are the trains
that illustrator generated for this. And I have already created some that we can take a look
at. And you see these are trains that Illustrator generated for this. And they match the overall
colors of this artwork. Let's take a look at icons. And let's just see this here. And I have
some icons that are grouped in this version and that are single icons here. Let's select
the icon. And for the icons I want to have again icons for a train. And this time I want to pick
up the style. So I can use the style picker and click on here. And you see this is the group,
I want Illustrator to use all of them. Let's now generate this, but not before we
check out this. And you see the detail is set to less, because of course with icons we want
to have fewer details. We want them reduced. So maybe we can check out reduced style and maybe
we get better results like that. So let's generate this and let's see what Illustrator creates
here. And let's see whether that matches. Let's check them out and you see up there we
have the icons. But I'm not quite certain if these really match. So let's check out if we
can get better results, when we select some. And again I'm going to draw a square to get a
certain size and let's again pick up the style. But this time I'm going to pick one of these
icons and then generate them. And for icons of course it would be important to also match
the line thickness. And that's why it's really important to create that rectangle. So you
get the certain size. And you see the icon itself gets a little smaller. So when doing this
you have to figure out, how much of extra space Illustrator needs. And draw the rectangle in that
size. So check these out, they are not quite what we want. So maybe we can make some more detail
and generate that again. And see what we can get here like so. And these are colored. So let's
again pick this up and see if we can get better ones. Let's see if Illustrator makes black
and white ones, when we really click that first. But we still get colored ones. So that's
something where you need more exploration when using that. And then we have the patterns. And
to do that so let's draw some clothing that we want to have filled with a pattern. And
let's select the pattern here and check out what Illustrator has to offer. So let's try out
one of these and see what it comes up with. And these patterns that Illustrator creates, actually
work as patterns. So we're going to see in a minute this is the prompt: bright lines and
dots. And this time the "Match active artboard style" is unchecked. Illustrator has done that
automatically. And there we have the patterns. Let's check out this one. And you see
when I click on that, it has been added to the swatches. And then you can also go to Edit
pattern and get into pattern editing mode. And you get the Pattern options panel to edit this
pattern and get into the details. So this is how Text to vector graphics in Illustrator 2024 works.
And how you can use it for creating your artwork.
