How To Create Chrome Text Effect in Adobe Illustrator

How to Create a Chrome Text Effect in Adobe Illustrator

There are many tutorial about text effect out there but mostly use Photoshop. Yup because photoshop is commonly apps to create this kind of text effect, compared to adobe illustrator that is not commonly apps to create this effect just because its not the popular one.

But it's not impossible that text effects can be done there. In this video I will show you how to do it in Adobe Illustrator.

Chrome Text Effect #01 in Adobe Illustrator

About the video This video is divided into 4 steps: 

STEP 1 

Create background Diffuse Glow Effect 

STEP 2 

modify text with Offset Path 

STEP 3 

Gradient Map 

STEP 4 

Gradient Map + Transparency-Color dodge