This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Using Text To Vector Graphic (Beta)
Using Text To Vector Graphic, you can generate all kinds of vector content based on a simple everyday language text prompt. As of this writing, this feature is still in beta, so it will change over time. Keep that in mind as you go through this section. Also, we will touch on features that you can explore more on your own. We will use this feature to create a sunshine icon for our flyer.
Choose View > Fit Artboard In Window to fit the flyer in the Document window.
To generate artwork with Text To Vector Graphic, you can either select a placeholder shape—like a rectangle—and replace it or generate artwork that is added to your design. You’ll add a rectangle to the flyer so it is used as a placeholder and sized roughly as we need it to be.
Select the Rectangle tool (
) from the shape tools in the toolbar.Draw a rectangle at the top of the design.
Click the Generate Vectors (Beta) button in the Contextual Task Bar beneath the artwork.
Type in a prompt to make a sunshine icon. I typed yellow sun with rays.
Most of the time you want to be more descriptive with your prompts to get the desired artwork. But this prompt worked well for me.
Click the View All Settings option (
) in the Contextual Task Bar.
In the Generate Vectors (Beta) dialog box that opens, you have a lot of options you can set to refine the artwork generated.
The thumbnails on the right side of the dialog box are example prompts you can click to start from. Hover over a thumbnail and you can see the prompt used.
There are currently three types of artwork you can generate using this method. You can see them in the Content Type section of the dialog box:
Scene: Creates an entire vector scene with many elements.
Subject: Creates artwork without a background. Choose this if you want to add something to an existing scene or design.
Icon: Creates vector artwork that is low in detail without a background.
Select Icon and make sure the Detail slider is farther to the left so the sunshine has less detail.
There are a number of Style options in the dialog box that you can use to control the appearance of the generated artwork. I urge you to explore those. Here is a high-level overview of what each is:
Style Reference: You can sample artwork in your document to match the style of it.
Effects: This is a fun way to control the “look” of your artwork.
Color and Tone: Specify the number of colors and/or what colors to use in the generated artwork.
Click the Style Reference button. In the upper-right of the dialog box, turn off Auto.
That way, it will follow the suggested prompt word “yellow.” Otherwise, it will make the generated art aqua or some other color widely used in the artwork on the artboard, by default.
Click Generate at the bottom of the dialog box.
The first time you generate, a dialog box may appear asking you to agree with the user guidelines—do so, if you see the dialog box. Then, after a short time, the rectangle will be replaced with generated artwork. The generated artwork is vector—which means it is completely editable!
The sunshine artwork that you see will definitely be something different when you generate your own artwork.
In the Properties panel, click one of the other variation thumbnails to replace the selected sunshine artwork in the flyer.
Don’t like what you see? Click the Generate button again to generate more artwork based on the same text prompt. You can also try changing your prompt text and/or the options and clicking Generate again!
I wound up lowering the detail for the Content Type further and generating a few more times to get the result you see.
There are other options to explore related to the Text to Vector Graphic feature, but I just wanted to give you a taste of what is to come. As time goes on, this feature will only get better!
Choose File > Save.
If you want to try the new Gen Shape Fill (Beta), watch the following video. Otherwise, choose File > Close to close the open files.
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Gen Shape Fill (Beta) 
Discover a whole new way to “fill in” a shape with amazing generated artwork using Gen Shape Fill (Beta). To learn more, check out the video Gen Shape Fill (Beta), which you’ll find in the Web Edition. For more information, see the “Web Edition” section of “Getting Started” at the beginning of the book.
