Slice or Cut Text in Half with Knife Tool in Gravit Designer Tutorial 2020

in this lesson we are going to use the

knife tool from gravity signer and slice

or cut some text which you can use for

logos thumbnails etc the knife tool is

really cool because it lets you easily

cut and slice your objects so that you

can add different effects to them such

as multiple colors across or splitting

effects

I love Gravett designer because it's

powerful yet so much easier to use than

most graphic apps let's do it

and your wallet Nick give him your

wallet what for he's got a knife no

that's a knife okay I've just launched

Gravett designer Pro it's about forty to

fifty dollars per year and that comes

out to about I don't know three dollars

fifty cents a month and it makes life a

lot easier when you're dealing with a

lot of graphic designing my laptop's

resolution is 1920 by 1200 so I go here

select nineteen twenty by twelve eighty

and click here okay so let's type some

text

let's click the T here double click that

and I'll just call this slice in all

caps and it's selected let's change the

font here you go alpha slab one change

the font size to 400 okay now we can use

the knife tool this is the knife tool

right here click that and I can start

anywhere here let's go across with a

slight angle like that and it's sliced

and click over here to the Select tool

the pointer select and you can now

select these separately the top half and

the bottom half click away first and now

you can select the top half or you can

select the bottom half now let's give

the top half a certain color let's make

that how about this color a little

reddish or a little darker than that

okay that color and now the bottom let's

click here make that some kind of blue

over here a darker blue okay so there

you go now you have a text that's sliced

in half or knifed in half

in half and you can give it different

colors you can slice it multiple times

not just once to give it more sections

so that's it's quite easy right what you

can also do is click the bottom and you

can drag it away from the top make it

look like it's slipping off you can even

change the angle grab that white button

and just drag it over a little bit

rotate it and you can match up the left

side bit so it looks like it's just

sliced here and this is falling apart

first so many things you can do with

this okay let me try a different look I

saw something that looked pretty cool

and let me try to copy that so I'm going

to hit control Z to backup to undo I'll

just back up until here and then I will

turn the background to a purple okay

there the bottom half same color and now

let me give it a slight gradient overlay

effect on the bottom half

make sure the bottom half is selected

and click more down here under effects

more overlay and you can see this

gradient here from black to light and in

the overlay click the color so that

brings up this bar and now you can

control the gradient and see here it

starts dark that's because it's starting

over here and the color is black it goes

over to the right side which is white

over here from dark black to light so

that's what this is if you change the

colors the gradients will be different

colors so let's bring this left side

over to the middle and the right side

over down somewhere

here I'm trying to create this shadow

effect from the top part to the bottom

so that looks good looks like this top

half has cast a shadow on the bottom

because this bottom section was sliced

and it now has a different depth to it

sort of behind the top half and and

there you go

we have this gradient effect overlay

effect giving a 3d effect from the top

to bottom that looks like it's in

different layers or different depths and

you can even drag the bottom off a

little bit and these arrows down and

right or you can just drag it with your

mouse now we have a different looking 3d

slice knife cut option on our text you

can use this on logos or make your

thumbnails really pop it's just a great

tool and it's easy to work with the

knife tool from Gravett designer pro by

the way there are a couple of things I'd

like you to know about okay let me slice

it again from this angle from down here

to up here okay did you see that now the

hollow area of the D turned black and

this top part of the e turned black as

well it just seems to happen randomly

and it's hard to explain anyway there's

an easy fix for this so if this happens

to you this is what you do let's go to

the Select tool click away click the

bottom part now I have this bottom area

selected so what we do is right click

anywhere in the bottom section and split

path okay click away and look at the

hollow section now I can click it and

select it and now I just have to match

the color of the hollow area with the

background so it's white so let me

select white okay so that's good but the

top part of that hollow part is still

black so now I have to go do the same

thing with the above section so let me

click away click a top section right

click and split path now I can select

these areas there's two of them right

here and right here and let's click the

deep section and turn it white and the e

turn that white and now you have a

perfectly sliced text and now you can

select the bottom part and drag it away

and it slices separates perfectly okay

so that's how to fix that situation and

other thing I want to bring up is that

this knife tool in Gravett only works

with vector images vector graphics

meaning graphics that are made up of

paths because you're adding more paths

to it to create these different effects

but the other type of images which are

like photos or pictures it doesn't work

because that's not vector graphics that

is raster graphics and raster's are not

made of paths it's made of pixels and

this technology does not work with

pixels or rosters you can't slice up

raster images but that's ok because you

can do it with other tools and that's

the knife tool from graphic designer Pro

and that concludes this video