• Adobe Illustrator

  refining a logo, Creating a texture and softening edges

  Posted by Olivia Ridgley on June 3, 2015 at 6:08 pm

  I am helping a friend make a logo and have run into some trouble. He wants an “adobe-esque” texture put on top of the logo, I tried every thing I know but I’m out of ideas. I can’t seem to find a way to properly trim the brush stroke that I rasterized to the shape of the current logo or soften the edges of the logo in a uniform way. Please help if you can, Im getting more than a little annoyed.

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  Vincent Rosati replied 11 years ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Vincent Rosati

  June 4, 2015 at 3:50 pm

  You probably need to create an alpha channel mask in Photoshop.

  The basic process to mask this type of texture is:

  1 – Copy your flattened non-transparent image into a new project file or just duplicate the layer, so you can create a monochrome version of your image.
  2 – Select the duplicated layer and Image/Adjust/Channel Mixer/Monochrome.
  3 – Then, Image/Adjust/Invert.
  4 – Select All and Copy the inverted layer.
  5 – Open the Channels palette and click the Create New Channel button. Make sure this new alpha layer is selected, and paste your image into it.
  6 – Deselect the alpha layer, then Cmd+Click on the alpha layer or click the Load Channel as Selection button to make an alpha selection.
  7 – Now, go back to your original solid layer, highlight it in the Layers palette and click the Add Layer Mask button.

  However, this texture is very light, so you’d have to do a bunch of image adjustments (somewhere from steps 3 to 5) to achieve appropriate contrast in the monochrome image.
  It’s not easy to make a mask of this sort.

  Vince

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