How To Create a Retro Style Race Poster in Photoshop I recently put together a little vintage style poster to let my friends know about a karting event I’m organising for my stag do. I know lots of my readers are also big fans of the retro style and I had loads of fun creating the design, so I thought I’d share the process as a tutorial to give an insight into the techniques used. We’ll use Photoshop to put together the poster layout with various textures and brushes, but also switch back and forth to Illustrator to create the typographic elements. Here’s the little poster design I put together for my karting event. I initially had no plans of making it public, but I’m pretty proud of how it turned out and I know some of my readers will be interested in how to create the retro style. Before getting started, it’s worth gathering some inspiration from Google images for various retro and vintage race posters to pick out common styles. We’ll begin at the top and work down, starting with the red banner. Download this file
StippleGen - Evil Mad Scientist Wiki StippleGen is a free, open source, and cross-platform application from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories that can create stipple drawings and “TSP art,” from image files. Introduction[edit] One of the perennial problems that we have come across in a variety of contexts, including CNC artwork and producing artwork for the Egg-Bot, is the difficulty of creating good-quality toolpaths– i.e., vector artwork representing halftones –when starting from image files. One of the finest solutions that we’ve ever come across is Adrian Secord's algorithm, which uses an iterative relaxation process to optimize a weighted Voronoi diagram, mathematically producing a set of points (stipples) that can closely approach the appearance of a traditional stipple drawing. Another important technique is TSP art, where the image is represented by a single continuous path. StippleGen is easy-to-use software that can generate TSP and stipple drawings from input images. Download[edit] Quick Start[edit] White Cutoff[edit]
Free Vector Texture Pack for Adobe Illustrator In last week’s vintage logo tutorial we saw how useful vector textures can be to create that aged and weathered appearance, while maintaining a scaleable vector format. So this week I’ve gone ahead and created a pack of new texture files to give you extra choice when grunging up your vector work. Download these textures along with my vector bumper pack for free! This free vector pack contains 6 scaleable vector texture graphics. The detail and style varies between each graphic, giving you a choice from subtle grain to full on grunge. Each texture graphic is a compound path ready for use with the Pathfinder tool. Copy, paste and scale a texture to cover the whole logo/illustration, then send the texture to the bottom of the stack. Use the Intersect option from the Pathfinder palette to crop the texture to the outline of the logo/illustration. Delete out the unedited texture and replace it with the cropped texture from your clipboard using the Paste in Front comment (CMD+F).
Potrace Free raster to vector conversion software Potrace[needs IPA] is a cross-platform, open-source software which converts bitmapped images into vector graphics. It is written and maintained by Peter Selinger. Properties[edit] Various graphical frontends are available for the command-line application Potrace. Notably, it has been integrated with Inkscape, giving Inkscape its Trace Bitmap action.[2] FontForge can use Potrace to import a bitmap image into a font. Potrace's input and output is black and white (colored images are greyscaled before processing). The program is dual-licensed as "Potrace" under the GPL and as "Potrace Professional" in a proprietary license by Selinger's company, Icosasoft Software, Inc.[3] Examples[edit] See also[edit] Comparison of raster to vector conversion software References[edit] Further reading[edit] External links[edit]
How To Create a Classic Tattoo Style Vector Illustration Follow this step by step Adobe Illustrator tutorial to create a vector illustration inspired by the classic tattoo art of Sailor Jerry. Our dagger and heart design will use clean black linework and perfectly formed shapes combined with vector textures to add an element of shading and appreciate the style of traditional tattoo art. A dagger through the heart is a classic tattoo symbol with both religious meanings and associations with betrayal or hurt through love. Before getting started, have some fun browsing images of vintage or classic sailor tattoos and sketch out a design concept with pencil and paper to gain a feel for the kinds of shapes we’ll need to construct digitially. The first element we’ll create is the heart. Click and and drag a curve on the artboard while holding Shift, then turn on Smart Guides (CMD+U) and continue a second path from the open end point. Continue a third path to form the lower portion of the heart outline. Download the source file
StippleGen - Evil Mad Scientist Wiki StippleGen is a free, open source, and cross-platform application from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories that can create stipple drawings and “TSP art,” from image files. Introduction[edit] One of the perennial problems that we have come across in a variety of contexts, including CNC artwork and producing artwork for the Egg-Bot, is the difficulty of creating good-quality toolpaths– i.e., vector artwork representing halftones –when starting from image files. Another important technique is TSP art, where the image is represented by a single continuous path. StippleGen is easy-to-use software that can generate TSP and stipple drawings from input images. You can read an extended introduction to StippleGen at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories. Download[edit] StippleGen is free and open source software, written in the Processing development environment. The download includes ready-to-run platform-specific versions of StippleGen for Mac, Windows, and Linux, as well as the source code. Exit[edit]
50 astuces pour Illustrator ! | Digital Artist Creating filled regions - Evil Mad Scientist Wiki In Inkscape, it's easy to color in any path region (say, a circle) with the paint-bucket tool (or solid fill in the Fill and Stroke pane). However, it isn't actually that easy for the Eggbot to draw a filled region. The reason is simple: Egg-Bot is a vector printer that draws paths, not a raster printer that draws dots. If you ask it to draw a circle, the pen tip actually moves in a circular path on the surface of the object that you're drawing on. This is like an old pen plotter; it's very different from an inkjet or laser printer, where the entire surface is scanned back and forth. So, what happens if you ask your Eggbot to draw a filled regions? Starting with the filled shapes on the left, the Eggbot will actually just plot their outlines, shown on the right. So, what can you do it you actually want to fill a region with the pen? This tutorial assumes that you are familiar with Inkscape and basic object manipulation, including basic path operations like Union and Difference. In short:
Illustrator & Vector Tutorials - LearnAI.com HalftonePAL by ehufsted HalftonePAL: Halftoning with Points And Lines. This tool helps you turn pictures into halftoned patterns of lines, dots, and circles. These can be saved to TXT or SVG files to send to your pen plotter, or just saved as simple images. Features Load your own images, and apply lots of styles!Change the detail level: lots of tiny lines or a few bold strokes.Choose how to arrange the circles: Circle packing, quadtree, random dither, 1D and 2D error diffusion on square or hex grids.Choose what pattern to make from the circles: Dots, circles, tilted lines, scan back-and-forth, connect the points with a Hilbert curve, make a greedy path between points, a greedy loop, a minimum spanning tree, a Voronoi diagram, a Delaunay triangulation, or connect the 3 nearest points.Optimize the pattern to reduce its length, or reduce pen travel timeSave the pattern as JPG, SVG, and TXT files.Switch between black and white ink.Hide the largest circles, giving cleaner backgrounds.
Circle Pattern Generator - Lucky Resistor The circle pattern generator is a tool to generate a uniform distribution of circles in a given frame. The goal is to give an optical pleasing result. The generated result can be exported in SVG format and from there further processed by other applications. User Interface Download Download the latest version 1.2.0 for macOS and Windows. Versions and Change Log Requirements macOS 10.13 or newerWindows 10 or newerThe calculation of larger patterns requires high amounts of RAM. Source Code, License, Copyright This application is using the Qt library, available under the LGPL v3 license. Copyright 2020 by Lucky Resistor. I can not publish the source code of this application, because it contains proprietary source code and algorithms I developed. Like this: Like Loading...