how to achieve this effect?
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- Nairn0
A short, hand-rendered gradient or two overlaid, each set with a dissolve layer mode, perhaps then rendered and blurred then level-tightened a little?
- wtf?monospaced
- in photoshop?rodzilla
- Aye. I wouldn't even consider doing this stage in Illy.Nairn
- why you wouldn't do it all in Illy is completely beyond memonospaced
- Given that you've not offered any solution of your own, I couldn't care less what's beyond you.Nairn
- yes I have, look belowmonospaced
- "(is there still a spray paint brush?) ". Doesn't seem very useful to me.Nairn
- duhsign0
i would start with a basic course in adobe illustrator....
- yeah, it's called a gradientmonospaced
- How about you help out instead of pretending to be more competent than you are, 'duhsign'?Nairn
- because a basic course in illustrator would teach one how to achieve this effect, that's whymonospaced
- Shut up, you useless pleb.Nairn
- I'm not useless, I could create that effect in Illustrator in no time, with basic tools.monospaced
- And yet you choose not to state how - instead offering ridiculous, self-serving aggrandisement. Well done.Nairn
- monospaced0
Use the spray paint brush for the smoke (is there still a spray paint brush?)
- Nairn0
Fuck! Grayhood? There's a blast from the past. Hey there, old-timer.
- CALLES0
just copy that same picture in photoshop... change the colors put your name on it and done
- raf0
What's the first one's font?
- JackRyan0
I think Nairn is correct.
- letterhead0
I've wondered this as well. The dissolve brush works well but it would be nice to know how to make the speckles not so uniform.
- johnnyklebitz0
seems easy to do in photoshop. just set the layer to "noise" in the transparency options.
but in illustrator? maybe create a dot symbol and use the symbol spraypaint tool.
- Corvo20
export the image lowering colour-depth, then import it back to the artwork?
- Nairn0
That's where the guassian blur, then level-tightening comes in, letterhead.
I've just tried it out (only one dissolve layer required) and it does sorta work - however, tightening the levels on so many blurred dots is quite hard, as the tendency is for the overall gradient to sublimate into a smooth form.
It's a bit fiddly too - if you follow my way, you'd be better off doing the gradient finish at the end, via channel selections.
I'm sure there's probably some film/grain filter you could deploy instead.
- morilla0
what about the machine wash filters applied to the area?
- Nairn0
Assuming you do this via my clunky, manual solution ...
I'd consider doing it at a different, lower resolution to that of final output - that way you can trick out different dot sizes from the dissolve effect. Because you're going to level-tighten it any way, it doesn't matter if you scale up or down beforehand - just as long as the last thing you do is take out all the blur in the levels.
- johnnyklebitz0
this doesn't help but it has an interesting halftone plugin thingy:
- Ooooh, irrelevant, yes, you irritate me, yes - but that plugin looks brilliant thanks!Nairn
- duhsign0
I would...create the vector art, drag it into photoshop, manually paint the texture around the edge of the vector shape with paintbrush set to dissolve(this way you can make it irregular) then drop out the vector layer, convert your "texture" layer to a bmp and save it as a tiff. Place it in your illustrator file and color it to match...and ur done... for the second one there is some layering possibly of the texture with the opacity adjusted some?
- my bad, the second one is the same just looks blurry...duhsign
- monospaced0
I opened up Photoshop, selected a blurry brush and turned on Noise in the brush palette. Painting with this achieved the correct effect very simply.
Nairn, I didn't mean to offend you with my comments above, and I apologize to grayhood for not offering a better solution than selecting the brush. But, in the end it works.
- monospaced0
- There's an Illustrator file here to see how it's placed and colored (Bitmap TIFF)monospaced
- thank you !grayhood
- you're welcomemonospaced