I’ve turned off the other elements of the design for better legibility, but you don’t have to. Let’s start with the purple circular pattern element. You simply have to double click on the layer thumbnails of the smart object in order to be brought back to Ai, and to be able to edit the vector element. This is where retaining the smart object quality of the elements pasted in Ps comes handy. We’ll be applying the effect on all of the elements of the design, minus the wings. Basically, the effect distorts your paths and adds more or less subtle variations to them. I learned about the effect through that 2011 Method and Craft article by Simon Walker. The next step will involve the use of Illustrator’s roughen filter ( Effect > Distort and transform > Roughen).
For instance, I’ve decided to size my design so it reaches the smaller rectangles inside of my guides.Īnd here’s a view of my layer stack so far. If you want your design or some of its elements to be bigger or smaller within the finished print, now is the time to adjust the sizes.
Here’s a view of how the design elements are placed compared to my initial guides. Note: you may have to center or nudge elements manually.Īligning the stars back in place (the top star is at the intersection of the top red circles). Also, don’t forget to paste the elements as smart objects, so they retain their vector characteristics. Use the main image as a reference point to position your elements, and make sure that they’re always sized at 100%. It’ll be a bit long, but worth it in the end. We’re going to copy and paste each element one by one. Since I want to do something refined and individualized, I won’t go that route. The only issue with doing that is that it won’t allow us to individually texture the elements. I could simply select everything, and copy and paste it in Ps. Step 2: importing the designĪs you can see, there are quite a few elements that compose it (feathers, purple circular element, red circles, white circle, blue geometrical element, silhouette, and off white stars). My background layer is named bg – #231f20, which gives me both its functionality and its color. Oh, and if you’ve read some of my other tutorials before, you’ll probably remember that I’m a stickler for proper layer naming and other Ps etiquette stuff. My horizontal guides are at the one, two, eight, nine, 10, 16, and 17 inch marks. My vertical guides are at the one, two, 11, 12, 13, 22, and 23 inch marks. I might have gone a tad overboard with mine. Once you have that new document setup, fill its background with dark gray ( #231f20), and setup guides for the center and margins. So, let’s go ahead and create a new 24 inches wide by 18 inches tall Ps document 300 dpi. Jeff’s illustration is quite neat, and would look quite awesome on a print. Note that if you haven’t purchased the Awakened t-shirt pack, or have no idea of what I’m talking about, you should go read and watch more info: over here. Here’s a 100% crop, to get a better sense of what these textures are able to do: Here’s a preview of what we’ll be doing:īasically, we’ll use these to age Jeff’s design, along with a few other tricks here and there. I thought you’d never ask! In order to demonstrate the possibilities of the textures, I’ve put a quick little tutorial/demo together, using Jeff’s Awakened t-shirt design pack as the base. Some technical data: you get six textures, that are around 4760×6400 600 dpi. Once scanned in, cleaned up, and inverted, these make up for perfect noise textures. I got these black rectangles, speckled with white spots and stripes. Because it was almost ready to throw away, it wouldn’t print a perfectly black sheet. The process was simple: I created a black document in Ai, and printed it as many times as I could before the toner gave up. The result is a pack of six fantastic noise textures. They were made using an old photocopier that had a toner on its last leg. What’s so special about this texture pack? First of all, these are hand-made textures.
I’m delighted to announce that it’s finally on sale at the Arsenal! I’m here to introduce you today to a texture pack I’ve created, called the photocopy noise texture pack. Hello there! Simon from Studio Ace of Spade here.
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