Illy effect advice
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- jysta
"sigh"
After days of sweating together some logo concepts the client decides they want this kind of graphic on their logo:
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_…"yeah the dotted wavey effect"
Great, how in the hell do you create that effect in Illy??? Can anyone offer any insight it looks bloody difficult :-/
- epete220
ok here is what you do.
- Tungsten0
Just buy the vector file from istock and go to the pub.
sorry, not to helpful.
- epete220
start out with a whole bunch of straight lines and repeat them south.
then place that in photoshop and use the transform tool to bend the lines in the angles you want, then export as paths back to illustrator.
- marychain0
make a dotted line brush?
or a pattern brush
it seems not so difficult....Let me play around
- kalkal0
a few curvy paths with blended with the blend tool
- akrok0
but dont you think its faded in photoshop. at the ends.
- ninjasavant0
well, if that's a vector illustration in istockphoto you pay the $13 for it and put the client's name over it.
- monospaced0
1) Create a polka-dot pattern
2) Draw a rectangle around it
3) Select them all
4) Object > Envelope Distort > Make with top Object
5) Drag the corners of the rectangle around to create the effectwww.benwexlar.com/download/Pictu…... 9.png
- monospaced0
- you have to modify the sizes of the dots, of course, on the initial pattern, but with tweaking this method worksmonospaced
- kalkal0
http://cacoe.co.uk/qoob/illy/cur…
a bit shit but you could just play around with the brushes
- jysta0
Wow, thanks guys I appreciate the support, feeling very tired its now 3am in the uk :-(
monospaced: that looks like it may be just the ticket/
- Pupsipu0
make two lines, double click on blend, choose specific steps, 20 prolly, blend the lines, then use the morph tool to fuck em around. You can arrange circles on the lines somehow. Try blending lines and two circles together. Or when you blend two circles there will be a blend line, you can morph tool that blend line. Then you can go Object > Blend > Expand and turn all that shit into vector, then morph tool that or whatever.
- robotron3k0
create basic curved line then rotate 6° then "command + d" over and over again...
- surfito0
get a plugin called filterit for illustrator
http://www.cvalley.com/products/…
the demo works for two weeks- my way works bestmonospaced
- FilterIt is much more efficient. I love it. If you buy it get Xtream Path to, well worth it.5timuli
- *too damnit5timuli
- never knew this was available, great link!jysta
- surfito0
not really, you dont need it for that, sorry.
- SoulFly0
You don't "have" to always create a logo entirely in illustrator.
Use photoshop, to create a similar background like the image you showed, and bring it to illustrator to finish the type treatment. Just start with a 11"x17" (tabloid) size and then make low res versions later one.
I would even buy the graphic they liked, its probably what $150 or cheaper, that's definitely covered in your logo price, since you been working on this for days.- or use my method and have an illustrator file finished in an hour or somonospaced
- How very 1990 of you SoulFly. Well done ;)5timuli
- damn now I'm really confused :-?jysta