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Vector vs. raster effects

Vector vs. raster effects - Illustrator Tutorial

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Vector vs. raster effects

In this exercise, we're going to take a bunch of layers, combine them into a single overarching layer, and then apply a drop shadow to that layer. And this is all in advance to my demonstration of how we're going to make a massive conversion to this piece of artwork using the scribble filter. Now, I've made a series of modifications to this artwork and I've saved it off as Abraham Skeletron.ai. And there is the fair number of additional dynamic effects going on here. If you want to get a sense of how anything works, just go ahead and select it. For example, I'm going to zoom in on this dollar sign down here in the lower left corner and I'll click on it to make it active, like so. And then I'll switch over to the Appearance panel and that's where you can examine how someone else's dynamic effects have been applied. Now, you will see way at the bottom here is a drop shadow and that's responsible for that thick edge right there on the lower right side. And then we've got a base stroke…

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