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  How to achieve this effect in Illustrator

  Posted by Laurits Rytter hansen on October 1, 2014 at 8:14 pm

  Hi
  wierd question. I just saw this effect and I think it looks awesome so my question is, do any of you guys know what this effect is called and maybe how to achieve this effect in a simple way, (the grunge kind of effect), or maybe a tutorial on this.

  

  Thanks

  – Laurits

  Laurits Rytter hansen replied 11 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Vincent Rosati

  October 2, 2014 at 10:58 pm

  I’m not sure exactly what you mean.
  For the play button – I might print the clean design and do a pen & ink tracing, on a window or lightboard, in a grunge or distressed style. Then scan at a high resolution and redraw or Live Trace.
  Or, maybe you could just find a grunge style vector icon library.
  The only other grunge that I might see in this example is the purple background gradient. It would probably be best to produce this as a high resolution TIF in Photoshop, as a pure vector would have a ton of vector shapes.
  You could potentially create a Scatter Brush in AI, out of an appropriate brush pattern, but again, if you need a vector it would result in a great many vector objects.
  Another approach might be to start in Photoshop, then do a 3-color Live Trace in AI.
  Nothing simple.

  Vince

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  Laurits Rytter hansen

  October 5, 2014 at 10:26 pm

  Hi
  I was thinking about the grunge texture 🙂 but thank you I will try that.

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