how to achieve this effect?
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- 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
- 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
- Hurley0
Uhhh they used the dissolve filter
- 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
- version30
torn edges in photoshop
- grayhood0
thank you everyone, very helpful.
i appreciate it!