- Here's how we can apply a spatter effect to our type
through the use of an opacity mask in Illustrator.
But we are also going to be calling on the help of Photoshop
for this because we first need to create a spatter texture
and this we'll be doing with a brush in Photoshop.
So in Photoshop, I'll choose my brush tool
and I'll come and choose a brush,
the brush that I'm using
"Kyle's Ink Box Spatter One",
although many of these other ones would do just as well,
is from "Kyle Webster's Megapack",
which if you don't have you can download it's free,
if you go to the Creative Cloud app
and come to marketplace
type in "Mega pack"
and then you can follow the link to the website
from where you can download these very, very useful brushes.
So now on an empty canvas, adjust your brush size
as necessary - left square bracket, smaller,
right square bracket, bigger - and just add in some spatter.
I've already done that,
and here is my first result.
I saved this as a PSD file.
I placed it in Illustrator
and now I want to vectorize it,
vectorizing it using the image trace command.
So I'll select the image, choose image trace.
Let's take a look at the image trace panel.
I want to make sure that I'm ignoring white
and for my purposes
I think that's the only thing I need to change.
I will now expand the result so that we have vector paths.
I'll drag my spatter
on top of my type,
I will select both,
and then, on the transparency panel,
I'll come and click on "make mask".
The first thing I'll need to do is de-select clip,
so we now see where the spatter was formerly black,
it is knocking a hole through, or is masking the type.
I need to now work on the opacity mask.
So I'll click on the thumbnail,
you know that you're there because you'll see a blue border
around the thumbnail, or it will tell you here
on the tab that you're on the opacity mask.
So here I can scale
my spatter
and I can duplicate it opt + alt drag away from it,
make any changes that I want to
and just apply as much of this as I feel is necessary.