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Most of the given Tutorials are taken from various sources on the Internet and I compiled some of them for you. Hope you understand. More are in the line.

I like to blog, I like to share my ideas, thinking and my works with friends. Here In this blog I will post my design works which i have tried in several design contest in online and offline.

Few Years ago, I just started to learn Illustrator as hobby. And to continue i learned myself illustrator and its some basics. Obviously I got a big volume of support from internet and my friends to learn this design techniques.

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Most of the Tutorials are collected from net as I got those while I was searching Tutorials for me and what I still search in the net. So respective tutorials are copyright protected as per their writer.

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Thursday, July 15, 2010

How to make texture without leaving Illustrator


Step 1: Draw a rectangle. Fill it with any color, and a stroke of None.

Step 2: Go to Effect>Texture>Grain. A humongus texture gallery will appear, and you can play with any of the textures and settings. Here, I used vertical grain:

effectgallery.jpg

Step 3: Select your freshly-textured rectangle and go to Object>Expand Appearance. You can rasterize the object instead, but I get better results expanding.

thegrain.jpg 

Step 4: Go to Object>Live Trace>Tracing options … Choose Black & White. Play around with the Threshold settings, Path Fitting and Corner Angle to get the right amount of texture. I’ve checked “Ignore White” so that I’ll end up with only the black, but you could also use the white for a similar, but lighter texture.

tracegrain.jpg 

Step 5: Click Expand to expand the trace. Now you can place it over another object, or use the Pathfinder tools to cut it out of a shape. Here, I’ve changed the texture object to white, then placed it over the t-shirt with Overlay blending mode (t-shirt by rodrigofoca at iStockphoto.

grainshirt.jpg 

EXTRA: You can also use this method to create texture brushes. Here, I start with a narrow rectangle, and drag the expanded trace into the Brushes panel. The possibilities are truly endless, and you never have to leave the comfy confines of your favorite vector drawing program!

texturebrush.jpg
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