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Random Splatter Background
Greetings All,
Someone posted a Design piece in the Gallery located here . Could someone please suggest to me how the artist may have achieved the random splatter effect in the background of that work? I've tried a few things but to no avail.
I would very much appreciate your suggestions. As much as I enjoy the Design product, I've had some projects that have kept me away from "playing" with it. I've somewhat lost my touch.
Peace,
Phroneo
Answers
- Hi Phroneo,
There is a stroke in the Ink section called Thin Stipple (I think that's the name) that would work for your project. Fist, create a rectangle and apply a linear gradient. Then choose the brush I mentioned, choose a white color and, using the Paintbrush just paint lines with te Thin Stipple stroke. You'll probably want to use different line widths to achieve the effect you want.
I'd be interested to know how this works for you.
Annie- Marked As Answer byPhroneo Friday, November 06, 2009 11:02 PM
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Hi Phroneo,
I'm not 100% on how they got that specific effect
But if try out different fx on say a rectangle
say the likes of the "Surface effects"
Craquelure or Emboss or Plaster are good ones to try out these should give you close to that look
After that I suppose its a matter of playing with the colours/smoothness/dept/brightness etc... until it gets to what you want
Hope this helps
Paul- phroneo
you could try this
draw a a colored rectangle I used #D5B693
add effect waterpaper fiber lenght 31
brightness 60
contrast 69
add effect watercolor brush detail 9
shadow 1
texture 3
add effect stamp light dark balance 1
smoothness 26
foreground color white (255,255,255)
background color what you like
you can try afterwards add other effects like sponge in between or at the end emboss but the stamp color is at least in design 1 a bit difficult to work - Nicely done Germaine <thumbsup>
- here I did some further work they are just tests done in design 1 I added some design files I don t know if they will work in design 2 or 3 (better always scan after download)
expression tests - Hello Germaine,
Well, I must be doing something wrong. I made a rectangle with a light tan background and white border of 1px. (The border could be left to zero for this application.) After that, I went step-by-step in Design 2 as you indicated. I ended up with a tan background and white border. The only fx that had any affect was the fx->Arts & Crafts->Stamp. With that effect, I started out with the default black background and foreground that I changed to my tan background and white foreground. Still, I ended up with a tan rectangle. I've worked with this now for 1/2 hour and don't have time to play any more.
A long time ago I had gone through the fx properties one by one and then with some in combination. There were several of the fx categories that did not work. The ones you called out were amoung those that did not work for me. Apparently they worked for Paul judging by his response. It must be something I'm doing wrong but I don't understand what. Maybe someone else can shed some light on this for me.
Peace,
Phroneo - Hi Phroneo,
There is a stroke in the Ink section called Thin Stipple (I think that's the name) that would work for your project. Fist, create a rectangle and apply a linear gradient. Then choose the brush I mentioned, choose a white color and, using the Paintbrush just paint lines with te Thin Stipple stroke. You'll probably want to use different line widths to achieve the effect you want.
I'd be interested to know how this works for you.
Annie- Marked As Answer byPhroneo Friday, November 06, 2009 11:02 PM
- Hello Annie,
Your suggestion works like a charm. I didn't work with it long enough to refine the image for my application, but what I did is showing me lots of potential. What's really nice about your method is that I can change stroke colors whenever I want. That was the fun part of this exercise for me. Thank you for taking the time to figure it out.
Germaine, thank you for your efforts, as well. I don't know what it was I was doing wrong, but try as I might, I just couldn't get the results you achieved. Sometimes the fx elements you suggested turned my canvas black. So I was getting frustrated by not being able to duplicate your success.
OK, back to grunge. (Grunge really doesn't fit me or my personality. However, trying to work up an edgy web site is great fun. I might even drop Mozart for the middle Shostakovitch string quartets!)
Peace,
Phroneo - Wonderful! Glad it worked for you. Don't forget that you can make your own strokes if the Thin Stipple isn't quite what you want.
Annie - Phroneo
good you found the solution it is always good to know all the different methods
I know the effects can be difficult it often depends on the color you use and on the settings in the effect panel
if using effects it is best to save the work before starting with the effects
greetings
