Comments on: Brushed Metal Effect in Adobe Illustrator

By: senzog

senzog — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:30:45 +0000

Very awesome tutorial! Thanks greatly!

By: Blair

Blair — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:57:02 +0000

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…

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:24:55 +0000

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?

By: Emmanuel

Emmanuel — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:53:52 +0000

Great Stuff!

By: Sajid

Sajid — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:36:28 +0000

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.

By: ghghghgh

ghghghgh — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:53:43 +0000

thanks dude! that was easy!

By: kt

kt — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:17:00 +0000

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.

By: Prahsan

Prahsan — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:12:27 +0000

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

By: The Ghost

The Ghost — Wed, 13 May 2009 00:38:05 +0000

this just helped me out big time… thanks so much

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Ready, Set…GO! « Edgy Art — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:53:25 +0000

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By: Duane

Duane — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:47:14 +0000

I’ll keep it short. Superb & Thanks.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:39:32 +0000

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?