Creating Painted Effects with illustrator 7.0Written by Carla Ballatan
Newer versions of software program Illustrator gave us useful features to dig in. Still, no matter how happy we are about new features, time after time, in process of making our designs more creative and innovative, we turn on old tricks of program. Creating painted effects using Illustrator is an old trick. Now and again, you’ll find this trick useful.So, we give you some tips and directions on creating your very own painted image with Illustrator. If some of you have newer or older versions than Illustrator version 7.0, you might find that some paths in directions here have been slightly altered. So here we go… First, type out a letter of your choice, let’s say a letter E, and create some polygon shapes to fit behind it. Try out small squares for letter E and make sure shapes would fit behind letter. To send out four squares at back of letter E, select squares with your “black arrow” selection tool and click OBJECT-ARRANGE-SEND TO BACK and voila! You have now four boxes behind your letter E. Then, select letter E and create outlines for it by clicking TYPE-CREATE OUTLINES. To change shapes into compound paths, Select CTRL-A and then OBJECT-PATHFINDER-DIVIDE. Don’t be afraid of making mistakes. The CTRL Z command will take you back to every step you took. Now, it’s time to select parts of your shape, change its colors and pull individual shapes apart from one another. You can do all of this by using direct-selection tool. After pulling shapes apart, rotate some slightly by selecting your rotate tool. After doing that, add some effects that would make shape’s paths slightly roughened. Choose FILTER-DISTORT-ROUGHEN to create this effect.
| | HEALING BRUSH AND PATCH ON THE SPOTLIGHTWritten by BLUR LOTERIÑA
Want a better way to edit your image? Photoshop offers you better tools you can use to remove flaws on your image.Images are not that perfect, but graphics world does not have a room for imperfections. So, computer graphics programs have tried and are still trying to create special tools that will help users in editing their work. Image imperfections refer to flaws, such as blemishes, scratches and other unwanted spots. These are things that you would not want your image to have. You would probably resort to editing tools. One of most widely used tools to fix such problem is Clone tool. Clone tool takes pixel of sample area onto part or flaw that you are correcting. Sample area, by way, refers to that part that you want to replace flaw with. For example, you want to correct your own photograph because it has dark spots on right cheek. You can use other cheek as a sample area. It’s like copying left cheek and pasting it on right cheek to cover spots. Clone tool, however, has a drawback. Clone area is easy to spot because, sometimes, color of sample area and area around flaw does not match. This can also happen even if they have same texture. There is a tool that deals with this kind of problem, Photoshop’s Healing Brush. This tool is a lot better because it does not only drop pixel of sample area to flaw; it also uses texture of sample area and applies its tonal characteristic around flaw. The tool identifies flaw, area near flaw and sample area. To access this tool, you can either select icon that looks like a bandage from Toolbar palette or press J on keyboard. In getting sample, hold down Alt and click on area. To paint over flaw, simply click and drag sample.
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