How To Add Texture To Drawings In Illustator

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Add depth to text, shapes, and other objects by filling them with unique textures

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Adobe illustrator is a popular graphics editing program. Available on both Windows and Mac operating systems, it allows users to create 3D logos, layer images and create spider web or print documents. While information technology is like to Adobe'south Photoshop, it is known for its ability to create typography and text logos. You can add borders, color and patterns to objects to give them more distinctive looks. Texture designs are available on the Internet and with the use of a few tools, you can add together an interesting texture to your document. This article will tell y'all how to add together a texture in Illustrator.

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Download or search for a texture on the Internet. In that location are many free textures available by merely searching "illustrator texture." Commonly used textures include wood grain, mosaic, patchwork, stained glass and craquelure texture, which is similar to a patina on plaster. Choose a texture image that is lite in color and salve it on your computer.
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Open your Adobe Illustrator application.

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Open an existing certificate or create a new print or web document in the dialogue box that pops up.
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Select the object to which you want to add a texture.
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Group objects together if you desire to modify the texture of more than 1 thing. Select the objects that you want to be grouped together. Click on the "Object" carte on your horizontal toolbar, then click "Group."
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Click the "Window" carte in the top horizontal toolbar. Select "Transparency" from the drib-down menu. A palette should open up to the correct of your document. Y'all should too see a driblet downward menu for blending and a drop down carte for opacity.
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Select the fly down bill of fare to the right of the opacity box. Choose "Show Thumbnails."
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Double click on the gray space next to the foursquare thumbnail of the object that appears. This volition create an opacity mask. Your image may disappear from view since your opacity begins as a blackness box, to betoken that it is not opaque.
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Select the blackness box. Select the "File" drop downwardly bill of fare on your top horizontal toolbar.
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Scroll downwardly and select "Place." A browser box volition open. Select the texture file that you lot downloaded from the Internet earlier. The prototype will appear in your black thumbnail box.
- A big, opaque texture prototype will appear on acme of your image. Yous will not see the paradigm, merely rather a blood-red box with guidelines that allow you to move the texture box across the page. Your master image's texture will change as yous move the texture paradigm around.
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Experiment with moving the texture image around until your image or logo has a texture y'all like.
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Click back on the thumbnail of your image when you are done. You volition render to the file images and yous will be able to make changes to other layers.
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Save your Adobe Illustrator file to consummate the texture changes. You tin repeat this process with different objects and textures.

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