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July 6, 2018
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what effect is this

  • July 6, 2018
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trying to figure see what the effect is and how it can be done on illustrator, I'm a self taught student - so bare with me. videos will help !!

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    KShinabery212
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    July 7, 2018

    There are several ways to accomplish this. 

    First I see splatter brushes where used to give to create the paint or coffee stain marks.  Easy.  You can find a million for free.

    To fit things into a shape that is also easy.  You can create any shape in Illustrator and then place an image into.

    But honestly.... I think this was probably done in Photoshop.  First the flag was a painting of a flag that was distorted or simply painted that way.  It is also easy to cut an image from a shape in layers that have not been flattened.  Then like I said... using the splatter brushes that look like spray paint or coffee stains give it that grunge effect.  This all can be done in Illustrator too.  But I would bet money that this was done in Photoshop.

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    Inspiring
    July 9, 2018

    Yes. I agree. photoshop though it is possible in Illustrator

    chanaart
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    July 6, 2018

    Could be any crazy effect probably in PS not in Illustrator. You can achieve something like this effect using Opacity Mask. But I will go with effects in PS.

    Chana

    John Mensinger
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    July 6, 2018

    Try Photoshop.

    Agreed. Effects of that type are raster-edit territory, and there's really no good reason to pursue it in Illustrator.

    Participant
    July 6, 2018

    can you provide a link? I'm not too familiar with photoshop, better with illustrator.

    Monika Gause
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    July 6, 2018

    You might want to search the web for Photoshop tutorials on sketch or pencil effects. We would do the same.

    Before you just follow steps 1,2 and 3 you might also want to learn some basics of image editing. Adobe Photoshop Learn & Support

    Monika Gause
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    July 6, 2018

    It has probably not been done in Illustrator at all.

    I guess you have a clean image of a flag and want to make it look like that? Try Photoshop.

    Inspiring
    July 6, 2018

    It looks like a raster opacity mask. An opacity mask in Illustrator can hold both vector and raster.

    Select the mask (on top) and the image (below). You select on the artboard or target in the layers.

    Click on "Make Mask" from the Transparency panel

    The right side shows the opacity mask once set in the Layers panel and the Transparency panel.

    Hope this helps.

    JonathanArias
    Legend
    July 6, 2018