From the course: Illustrator: Rethinking the Essentials
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Generating custom textures with Texturizer - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator: Rethinking the Essentials
Generating custom textures with Texturizer
There are all kinds of textures that you can add to enhance the appearance of any illustration. Now we've already explored using the Mezzotint filter, but I want to show you yet another filter inside of Illustrator that let's you not only simulate certain types of materials--such as burlap, or even sandstone or canvas for example--but even any kind of texture that you can dream up. To begin with though, we will actually apply something like canvas for example. Maybe we want to make it look like this was some kind of a painting that was actually painted on a canvas, so we want to have a little bit of a texture here applied to this artwork. Well, I could select my artwork and apply that texture to the artwork itself, but if we think about it, I really want my entire document to look like it's actually painted on a real canvas. So that would mean that everything in my file should have that type of appearance. Now if I were to apply that effect only to this object, or even to the group…
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Adding basic texture with Mezzotint7m 50s
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Generating custom textures with Texturizer12m 22s
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Adding a stroke to an image with Outline Object5m 54s
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Aligning text precisely with Outline Object6m 31s
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Adding callout numbers with Convert to Shape4m 36s
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Enhancing performance with Rasterize2m 30s
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Avoiding pitfalls when using effects6m 48s
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It's more than just a drop shadow?48s
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