Brushed Metal Effect in Adobe Illustrator

Pretty cool…Have you all thought about providing a text transcript of your videos down below. Makes it easier for those of us who need to repeat steps over and over cuz we just can’t get it right.

I agree. Very cool tutorial. Having transcripts also makes it easier for people who are deaf or hard of hearing appreciate these lovely tips!

Hi,

I am trying over and over again to make the steel effect but for some reason I cannot get the photoshop effect to work in illustrator. Am I doing something wrong? Is this just for CSI 3?

Thank you.

Great Tutorial! It saved me from missing a deadline.

Thanks

PS. I couldn’t hear anything. The transcript comment is good idea.

Is anyone else having the problem where it goes into an advertisement just before showing the effects being used and it never brings you back to the tutorial afterwards?

I could not hear anything either?
Checked all my audio settings and they were all working, so don’t know what happened?

Really liked this tutorial, thanx!! However I can’t get new colors applied to the fill’s graphic style like he’s doing in the Text example. When I click the swatch it swaps the g.s. (gradient) for the new color. Tried holding down the Alt a/o Ctrl key but still not getting the desired affect.

Hows about a printed version of this tutorial, and a Quicktime version for someone to save, like you use to. My 2-cents

I tried this and all went well until I tried to save it. It would not save because of a file error. I closed illustrator and restarted the computer and repeated my earlier steps successfully but now I can’t get the photoshop filter to work- it’s ghosted. I’m in RGB mode too. Very confused why it almost worked (except for saving it) and now won’t go at all.

You saved me on my final for my illustrator class. Much more interesting than this F’n school man, thanks.

I love you!

I’ve been using AI for years and have always adjusted effects for various shapes and things. Never thought to use an effect as a graphic style.

Yup, smart cookie.

Hi.
This is a nice looking effect, except the fact that it gets pixelated around the borders. I had to choose a pretty thick line to cover that.
The tutorial on the other hand is just great.

Pretty cool, very easy to do Thanks a lot

Does anyone know if this can be done in CS2? When I select Effect>Texture>…. it then won’t let me select >Grain….Any ideas??

This absolutely AWESOMMMMMM
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For some reason when I go to apply the Photoshop effect of the grain it will not let me. What do I need to do for Illustrator to allow me to select a Photoshop filter?

I’ll keep it short. Superb & Thanks.

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this just helped me out big time… thanks so much

Thank a lot… this makes life so simple when using Illustrator

holy cow that was awesome! thank you so much! you did an amazing job at explaining and i LOVE that you added the text part.

thanks dude! that was easy!

For the couple of people who had trouble selecting the effect: I couldn’t select many of the effects and filters (they were ‘grayed’ out) until I changed the document color mode, under the FILE tab, to RGB.

http://en.allexperts.com/q/Adobe-Illustrator-1027/Filters-Adobe-Ilustrator-8-2.htm

Thank you very much for a nice tutorial.

Great Stuff!

What if my artwork is too big? It gave me an error saying “The combination of artwork size and resolution exceeds the maximum that can be rasterized.” I want the same thing you have there but I don’t want to have a size/aliasing issue with a rasterized vector effect. How do I get around this without also creating the “repeated pattern” effect either?

Anyone know why the edges would pixelate and the overall look isn’t as smooth? I started out in one file and had to open a new one to correct my CMYK/RGB mode mistake. …but the effect looks very pixelated and the edges are quite rough. Not sure what I did wrong! Any help would be appreciated! Great tutorial!! User error I think…

Very awesome tutorial! Thanks greatly!