A filter or effect to give "roughed up" look on apparel???

[M_Jensen@adobeforums.com]

I am a designer for an apparel screenprinting company and recently many of the clients have wanted their logos or prints to have a "roughed up", weathered", or "old" look. Does anybody know if there is a way to get this look from Illustrator 9?

Thanks!

[nilk_narf@adobeforums.com]

Rasterize it. :D

[M_Jensen@adobeforums.com]

OK, I tried to rasterize this particular image, but it just makes it bitmapped. Do you have any suggestions for settings to use in rasterizing to give that random rough look?

[nilk_narf@adobeforums.com]

I'm sorry. I was just kidding. It's just that rasterizing always roughens up my illustrations. You will get some excellent advice from some real pros shortly. :)

[M_Jensen@adobeforums.com]

oh man, I feel like a total idiot. . . . .I am just SOOO glad you were kidding. If you could have only seen me trying to rasterize at different dpi's. DUH!

[nilk_narf@adobeforums.com]

:( I feel guilty. I'm sorry.

[M_Jensen@adobeforums.com]

At least somebody replied!!!

[nilk_narf@adobeforums.com]

:)

[Gary_Newman@adobeforums.com]

Select your objects and go to Effect - Distort & Transform - Roughen. Play around wih the controls there a bit, especially at the low end (1% or so).

[Jason_Howard@adobeforums.com]

Something I have done to get this effect is to scan something with texture (like crumpled paper, or whatever). Scan it as line art, it should hopefully look like a bunch of random specks and crinkles, then vectorize the scan in Streamline or Silhouette. In Illustrator change the color of the now vector bits to white and put it on a layer above whatever you want to look weathered. It may take some playing to get the result you want, but once you have your weathered layer looking how you want it, you can reuse it for other similar projects.

-Jason

[James_Talmage@adobeforums.com]

I don't recall if it's in AI9 or not, but...

In AICS, Effect>BrushStrokes>Spatter gives a basic distressed appearance. On vector stuff, it's a live effect with adjustable sliders. But it also works on raster images as a fixed effect and gives a more finely-textured edge depending upon the resolution of the raster.

Take one of the vector logos you want to appear distressed, OptionDrag two clones of it. Rasterize one of the clones at 150 ppi(medium); the other at 300ppi (high). Select all three. Apply Spatter to them all with the same settings to see the...uh...effect that the raster resolution has on the effect.

JET

[Doug_Katz@adobeforums.com]

Huh? It works on vectors?

[James_Talmage@adobeforums.com]

"Huh? It works on vectors?"

Sure. It's a raster effect, so if you expand the appearance, it will
rasterize to the setting you have in Effects>Document Raster Effects
Settings, but when applied to vectors, it's a live effect which you can edit
after applying it.

JET

[Wade_Zimmerman@adobeforums.com]

I'm not so sure James? I tried it on Vectors and nothing!

[Gary_Newman@adobeforums.com]

Has to be RGB. Works really nicely! But of course, then it's not vectors.

[M_Jensen@adobeforums.com]

OK, Thank you SOOO much for your responses, but the problem I am having when I try these things is that it only affects the outside edges of the image, I need something that will "Rough up" the entire image. For example, if I have a solid oval with negative space text, the middle parts of the oval need to have the spattered appearance also. Does that make sense?

Thanks!

[Gary_Newman@adobeforums.com]

Really, to do that you have to work with pixels, and Phototshop is the palce for that, and then it isn't vector. But try this - once your document is in RGB mode, and your objects are RGB, go to the Effects menu to Artistic - Sponge, and play with the settings there.

[Chuck_Wolff@adobeforums.com]

In Freehand with the pen tool I have drawn circles and shapes of different sizes. Using shape adjust and gradients I made wrinkles and folds up and down for a windbreaker jacket illustration. I am sure with Ill. you have the tools. The drawing is not as tedious as it reads, duplicate the shapes and folds reversing the gradients etc. I know of ways to use paper textures for this, but on RGB Raster pics. My image had to scale for different size prints.