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ZombieFrieZ
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January 9, 2018
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Tour de France Bevel Emboss: Help!

  • January 9, 2018
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Hello y'all! I'm in the process of doing a design on illustrator, and wanted to recreate the texture-fill I noticed on a Tour de France Elevation chart. It looks like a some sort of effect with bevel and emboss or the texturizer, but I cant seem to find any options to re-create the mountainous like 3d texture-fill seen in the image. I've tried a lot of the effects options to no avail. I'd like to create a shape and then fill it with this rocky texture, please show me how you would go about recreating it, if possible. Thank you!

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Correct answer Monika Gause

You could draw some light shapes and some dark shapes and then apply a blur.

You could also place a raster image of this texture and then put it into that graph shape and mask it.

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ZombieFrieZAuthor
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January 18, 2018

Thanks for the help on this everyone! I'm almost finished with the design (doing it part time), I'll post it on here in case anyone is curious.

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Julian Beach
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January 9, 2018

Judging by the detail, I wonder whether this is based on a chart of the elevations on the day's ride, plotted every 100m? This is then extruded to give a 3D effect, and a satellite image (or a Google Maps Terrain image) applied to the front face to give the texture. Looking at the other images from the route, it looks like the same image is applied to all of the charts. Here is a quick one I did from copying and pasting a chart from Excel.

    Monika Gause
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    Monika GauseCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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    January 9, 2018

    You could draw some light shapes and some dark shapes and then apply a blur.

    You could also place a raster image of this texture and then put it into that graph shape and mask it.

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