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Generating custom textures with Texturizer

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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