Showing posts with label icon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label icon. Show all posts
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Iconoclasistas
These artists from Argentina use icons as the basis of their visual work about the distribution of social services to people in the city.
Go to this LINK AT their website to discover many more information rich ICONs
Go to this LINK AT their website to discover many more information rich ICONs
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Painting with a vector Icon- Photoshop
you can take a little vector icon and paint with it.
if you start with a jpeg, you need to trace and expand it and get rid of any extra anchor points.
or you can make a little icon with illustrator, (or copy from web)
I took the chicago Loop icon Joe sent me, and first- traced (using color 16),
then "expanded" to let me get at individual anchor points.
then I selected and eliminated (using "A" Direct select tool) the white spaces in between the train routes.
YOu can see where i missed white.
Next> from windows menu drop down, Open up "SYMBOLS"
marquee around icon to select and Drag it into that symbols box. It will be added to whatever is there.
Next> using the spray paint looking thing in the tool box. (shortcut is "SHIFT +S")
Use the top tool- spray.
FIRST select your symbol from the symbol menu, then click on the artboard. Now you can "paint" with the icon, making a pattern.
2. To constrain this pattern in a shape, you will make a clipping mask. it is very easy. see the attached.
select the top layer: "shape to make clipping mask with"- it is a red oblong
Using the shift key-- SELECT BOTH the oblong, and the loop pattern beneath it.
Now hold down the "control" key- to get a drop down menu.
Release at "Make Clipping mask"
You will see the chicago loop pattern below will be constrained to the shape of the oblong.
Try this a few times, by copying some petals.
YOu can also draw a shape with the pen to constrain a symbol pattern.
(Joe, this is the solution if you want to fill your map shapes more with pattern.)
also Tony S., this might be fun for you; your bars could be patterns...made this way... check out other options below the spray paint)....
if you start with a jpeg, you need to trace and expand it and get rid of any extra anchor points.
or you can make a little icon with illustrator, (or copy from web)
I took the chicago Loop icon Joe sent me, and first- traced (using color 16),
then "expanded" to let me get at individual anchor points.
then I selected and eliminated (using "A" Direct select tool) the white spaces in between the train routes.
YOu can see where i missed white.
Next> from windows menu drop down, Open up "SYMBOLS"
marquee around icon to select and Drag it into that symbols box. It will be added to whatever is there.
Next> using the spray paint looking thing in the tool box. (shortcut is "SHIFT +S")
Use the top tool- spray.
FIRST select your symbol from the symbol menu, then click on the artboard. Now you can "paint" with the icon, making a pattern.
2. To constrain this pattern in a shape, you will make a clipping mask. it is very easy. see the attached.
select the top layer: "shape to make clipping mask with"- it is a red oblong
Using the shift key-- SELECT BOTH the oblong, and the loop pattern beneath it.
Now hold down the "control" key- to get a drop down menu.
Release at "Make Clipping mask"
You will see the chicago loop pattern below will be constrained to the shape of the oblong.
Try this a few times, by copying some petals.
YOu can also draw a shape with the pen to constrain a symbol pattern.
(Joe, this is the solution if you want to fill your map shapes more with pattern.)
also Tony S., this might be fun for you; your bars could be patterns...made this way... check out other options below the spray paint)....
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