Creating Painted Effects with illustrator 7.0

Written by Carla Ballatan


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Not satisfied, yet? Use your TWIRL tool and twirlrepparttar shapes around. Ooops…no twirl tool on your old Illustrator version? Try using FILTER, then. Twirlrepparttar 107296 shapes around as much to your satisfaction, but make sure it’s still recognizable and readable especially if you’re using text. Want to seerepparttar 107297 shapes withoutrepparttar 107298 selected paths? Hit CTRL H and be gone withrepparttar 107299 blue select marks, thoughrepparttar 107300 paths are still selected. To makerepparttar 107301 blue select marks reappear, hit CTRL H again!

Finally, use OBJECT-PATHFINDER-SOFT- with a value of 100%, to blendrepparttar 107302 colors and give yourepparttar 107303 painterly effect. It’s best to select an appropriate color format, aside fromrepparttar 107304 default CMYK. You may see a rasterized image by selecting OBJECT-RASTERIZE.

A word of caution, though, go back one step by hitting CTRL Z since once you savedrepparttar 107305 image rasterized and closed, you won’t be able to edit it anymore. You can also copy/paste your creation into a new document insiderepparttar 107306 Photoshop and if you need to print from Illustrator for spot colors, select Split Along Path option inrepparttar 107307 Document Set Up, first. Keep on painting!

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HEALING BRUSH AND PATCH ON THE SPOTLIGHT

Written by BLUR LOTERIÑA


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Patch tool is just likerepparttar Healing Brush. It usesrepparttar 107295 same technique, but is simpler. It is designed to remove large flaws. If you want to use this,repparttar 107296 first thing you have to do is to select a flaw area. Then, click and drag that area over torepparttar 107297 sample area. When you let go,repparttar 107298 texture ofrepparttar 107299 flaw area will be replaced byrepparttar 107300 texture ofrepparttar 107301 sample area.

The Patch tool has two sets of options,repparttar 107302 Patch tool Option andrepparttar 107303 pattern option. The patch tool option includes source that determinesrepparttar 107304 behavior ofrepparttar 107305 tool, andrepparttar 107306 destination, which reversesrepparttar 107307 behavior ofrepparttar 107308 tool. The second option enables you to use a pattern to fill an area. It works onrepparttar 107309 tone and hue.

Photoshop’s Healing Brush and Patch tools allow you to make images close to perfect.

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