how to achieve this effect?
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- fooler20
I would attend Evergreen State move to LA to become a writer then go on to start a comic named Life in Hell. Then after 20 years of having a prime time animated FOX tv show I'd start a new one named Futurama.
- grayhood0
thank you everyone, very helpful.
i appreciate it!
- version30
torn edges in photoshop
- Hurley0
Uhhh they used the dissolve filter
- monospaced0
- There's an Illustrator file here to see how it's placed and colored (Bitmap TIFF)monospaced
- thank you !grayhood
- you're welcomemonospaced
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- morilla0
what about the machine wash filters applied to the area?
- 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.
- Corvo20
export the image lowering colour-depth, then import it back to the artwork?
- 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.
- 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.
- JackRyan0
I think Nairn is correct.
- raf0
What's the first one's font?
- CALLES0
just copy that same picture in photoshop... change the colors put your name on it and done