Step 3įrom the Appearance panel, open the pop-up menu and choose Add New Fill. Change the first color stop in the gradient to a greenish blue color, change the second color stop to a darker greenish blue color, and change the Angle to -90. Take off the stroke and fill the rectangle with a linear gradient. Step 1Ĭreate a new document and create a rectangle with the Rectangle tool (M). You can change this resolution by going Effect > Document Raster Effect Settings. For these effects, I keep the Document Raster Effects Settings at 300 ppi. If you are familiar with some of the texture effects and filters in Photoshop, you will feel right at home with this technique. So why not give it a try? 🙂 ) Raster Effects Unless you expand the effects, you can adjust your artwork without worrying about creating pixelated artwork. Another key advantage to creating this in Illustrator is the scalability of vectors even with raster effects applied. But I’ve found creating these type of effects in Illustrator is a lot easier and quicker. (Psst…I know some of you are saying that using raster effects in Illustrator is cheating because its not vector art and instead, you should just use Photoshop. If you are looking for more seamless textures, I’d recommend checking out . Additionally, we’ll use the Appearance panel to quickly create a unique graphic style–this should make it easy to apply the effects to other text and vector objects. One of the great things about using the techniques in this tutorial is you can easily create a seamless texture or background without having to add a mask out nor make sure it will fit your artwork properly. If you have been working with illustrator for a while, you probably know that you can easily drop in a texture as an image, set it to multiply, and you’re good to go. Estimated Completion Time: 15-20 minutes each.Topics Covered: Appearance Panel, Effects, Pattern Fills, Graphic Styles.Program : Adobe Illustrator CC (You should be able to create this tutorial in CS4+ but some of the tutorial images might look different.).Tutorial Details: Seamless Textures and Seamless Backgrounds
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So in today’s tutorial, I’ll walk you through the steps on how to create a variety of seamless textures and backgrounds all in Adobe Illustrator. But we’ve seen large improvements with the Appearance panel in more recent versions of Illustrator, so now I create these textures and backgrounds solely in Illustrator–it’s actually super easy! Previously, I created seamless textures for typography and seamless backgrounds for my web and illustration projects with Photoshop. I think you’ll all agree that Illustrator is just plain awesome, and with the continual improvements we see with each new version, it keeps getting better and better.
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