国外教程-ai制作木纹效果.doc

Notes This tutorial was created with Illustrator CS3. Keyboard shortcuts are displayed in orange. ? is displayed for the Command key (mac), with the Ctrl key being the Windows equivalent (not displayed). Rectangles Create a 5 inch by 5 inch rectangle with the Rectangle Tool (m). An easy way to draw an exact rectangle is to click on the artboard with the Rectangle Tool (m) to bring up the Rectangle dialog to enter dimensions. Fill the rectangle with a light brown and take off the stroke. Next Copy (?c) the rectangle and Paste In Front (?f). With the copied rectangle selected, change the dimensions for the width to 2.5 inches and the height to .25 inches in the Transform Panel and fill the rectangle with a 40% black. Texture Select the smaller rectangle and go Effect Sketch Graphic Pen. When the Graphic Pen Effect dialog comes up, change the following settings. Stroke Length = 15 Light/Dark Balance = 2 Stroke Direction = Vertical Trace and Expand With the texture selected go Object Expand Appearance. With the texture still selected, the Control Panel defaults to the Live Trace options. Click the arrow beside the Live Trace Button and select Tracing Options. Or you can go Object Live Trace Tracing Options. You don’t have to change all the options, just the ones below. Mode: Black and White Path Fitting: 1px Minimum Area: 1px Corner Angle: 1 Ignore White: Check this box I like to save a preset in the Tracing Options. It makes it easy to recall these setting. If you have read previous tutorials, you will see I use these setting all the time for tracing. Next, press the Expand button on your tool bar. Transform and Color With the texture selected, change the width to 5 inches and the height to 5 inches from the Transform Panel. Next, change the color of the texture to a darker brown than the first rectangle. Warp Tool Double click on the Warp Tool (shift r) in the Tools Panel to bring up the Warp Tools Options dialog. They are probably on the default setting