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    alicetheblue - if you look at the graphic's faults, you'll see the 'technique' used.

    I started off with the larger, enclosing circle and the text in the font that I wanted. I made the text opaque, then locked the two layers.

    I made two or three smaller circle sizes, each slightly opaque and each with a consistent stroke width (so, at this stage, uncheck 'scale stroke' or whatever it's called in the transform menu). I used the consistent stroke width as an approximate guide for 'equal' positioning - after the piece is finished, I remove all outlines, so there are mere gaps.

    I then filled one of the text characters with the circles, making more circles, further adjusting the sizes to fill the gaps. If I were doing it again, I'd do 'regions' around each character whole, instead of individual characters, then the background. That way I'd probably not end up with the wee circles around each characters' edge.

    The process of filling areas merely comprises alt-click shifting each circle, moving it into position, then shifting the size a little to fit, using the stroke width to prevent things getting too close. You can go trhough it afterwards, filling blank areas with smaller circles.

    So - fill the text areas with one colour of circles, the non text area with another colour of circles. Once its finished, employ a vary hue/vary opacity script and fiddle to finish.

    I'm probably making this sound complicated - it's not!

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    • was that the old post? from the color blind thread?e-pill
    • you should of changed the name to welovenoise instead of alice teh bluee-pill
    • i know how to make this effect. just wanted to know if there was a method of achieving it faster.WeLoveNoise
    • USE THE MAGIC WAND TOOL!!!
      e-pill
    • it is magic after all...e-pill
    • alicetheblue asked how it was done by hand in a note a few posts up, which is what I was responding to - hence her nameNairn
    • name.Nairn
    • thank you nairn!
      I am doing this as we type :)      alicetheblue
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