Showing posts with label illustrator. Show all posts
Showing posts with label illustrator. Show all posts
Thursday, October 6, 2016
Creating Custom Brush in Illustrator
Creating Custom Brush in Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator can be compared to a programming tool in that sense, it provides a lots of ways to customize your graphics works. It provides so many designing options which you hardly get in other graphics tools. In this lesson, you will learn how to create amazing brushes within few minutes!
Today Im gonna talk about how to create custom brushes - Scatter Brush, Art Brush & Pattern Brush. After creating these brushes, you can use them as borders for different shapes such as triangle or oval etc.
Note: This tutorial applies to all versions of Adobe Photoshop. However Ive prepared this tutorial using Illustrator CS6.
Okay lets start -
Run Adobe Illustrator from your PC. Now look at the tools panel and find the Paintbrush Tool (See the image on the left). I will create two little objects with this tool which later will be used to create awesome brushes.
Go to the File Menu > New > Create a new document of any size.
Hit on the Paintbrush Tool and draw an object (I sketched something like a leaf) as shown in the image below.
- Now select it through selection tool
- Press Alt key and drag it to create a copy of it.
- Now select the second leaf again and rotate it, place it over the first leaf so that they look like attached.
- Again select the first leaf > Double click on Fill Color from the bottom of tools panel > Choose Red.
- Similarly, select the second leaf and choose green color for it.
- It should look like as below
Now the first but the difficult part has been completed. Now youre ready to have fun in the next step.
Creating Brushes
You will be able to create brushes from the above leaves. First, make sure the brush window is open on your document. Or go to the Window menu and choose Brushes.
- Select both leaves through selection tool
- Go to the Brushes window and click on New Brush Icon (Look at the image below)
- Choose Scatter Brush > Rename it if necessary > Change the values of different fields if necessary > Hit OK
- Again choose New Brush (Leaves must be selected) > Choose Art Brush > You can change the size and direction > Hit OK
- Click on New Brush again > Choose Pattern Brush > Hit OK
- Now youve three custom brushes. Lets apply them :)
Applying the Brushes to Shapes
Before creating shapes, make sure your fill color is white. So that you can clearly understand the effects of different brushes.
Now choose Ellipse Tool (Oval) from the shape. Press Shift key and draw a circle. Now go to the brush window and Apply your newly create Art Brush. The circle will look like as below!
Create another circle. And this time you should test the pattern brush.
How is it? :)
In this way, you can also apply this trick to different shapes such as triangle, star, rectangle etc.
Here Ive just illustrated a simple example of customizing the brush. In this system, you can create numerous brush designs. And can you imagine how much designing options are available in whole illustrator? Simply Ive no idea. There could be millions!!!
It takes my whole evening to prepare this tutorial. Please inform me whether you like it or not. :)
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Monday, September 12, 2016
Working with Illustrator Clipping Mask
Working with Illustrator Clipping Mask
With Clipping Mask you can use an image to fill up an object or text. To be more specific, your text or object will take the color of the image from which you wanna create the mask. Clipping mask is a great tool to surprise your friends. Lets try it now . . .
- Applies to - All running versions of Adobe Illustrator.
- Note: Ive used Adobe Illustrator CS6 to prepare this tutorial.
Look at the image below -
- First stage, there is only a fountain.
- Second stage, fountain with the text.
- Final stage, text with the mask of fountain.
Now I hope youve realized the charisma of Clipping Mask! Its a very simple tool. Very easy to apply. Yet its quite impressive for those who are not familiar with this tool!
Creating Clipping Mask . . .
- Open up Adobe Illustrator from your PC.
- Now create a new document and place an image there. Or you can directly open your desired image.
- Type over that image. Or create an object over the image.
- Place your image or object in a proper position.
- Using direct selection tool, select both the image and the text or object youve placed over it.
- Now click right mouse button > choose Make Clipping Mask. See the magic!
Look at the above image. Here Ive placed a star over the fountain. Then Ive used Clipping Mask. Finally, the star got the color of the fountain. Area outside of the start has been disappeared.
Look at the final example - I think its more impressive!
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