Dusty Type

14 Responses

1. Pro Ryan Putnam

   Just finished a tutorial for Vectips called Custom Dusty Type Treatment explaining a couple techniques I use a bunch.

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   4 months ago

2. Pro Simon H.

   Thanks so much for the grainy shadowing technique.

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   4 months ago

3. Ruben de Bruijn

   Nice tutorial, thank you (:

   4 months ago

4. Pro Josh Austin

   Killer.

   4 months ago

5. Pro Erin Potter

   ryan, thanks for posting the tutorial.

   4 months ago

6. Pro Chris Beaumont

   great tutorial, really like the way you suggest people try their own thing rather than copy exactly. too many tutorials are just meant to be followed exactly. cheers for making this

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   4 months ago

7. Pro Ryan Putnam

   @Chris Good to hear you appreciate the verbiage at the end!

   I've written a lot of tutorials and have been a little disenchanted lately with readers only worried about the accuracy of the outcome rather then learning tips and techniques to apply to their own work. Maybe this doesn't apply to others, but most of my knowledge and techniques come from experimenting with previous tools and tips rather then replicating something exactly. I was a little more general in this tutorial rather then spelling everything out exactly.

   Most of the questions I get about the tutorials are from beginner users. My intention with Vectips and writing tutorials has always been to share what I've learned and what I'm excited about, but sometimes I wonder if I am doing beginning users a disservice by creating content where the focus is on the completion of steps rather then focusing on broader ideas and techniques. Does it matter? I'm not really sure.

   What do you guys think?

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   4 months ago

8. Matej Loncko

   @Ryan @Chris I agree with Chris in here. When i'm doing screencast for illustrator (in slovak) for beginners, i deliberately skip some details to encourage "exploration", although it's probably necessary to explain how the effect works "where is min./max." for example.

   It's probably hard to except for ppl that without some extra effort/willingness to play it's really almost impossible to learn / discover something new, if you don't want to just "copy" others work.

   It probably comes to 2 things:
   Do I want to learn something new what i could use, or
   do i what to be able to replicate something faster.

   Many ppl would probably say: "but my budget from client is so tight", well than "play" in your free time to push yourself.

   Many thnx for all your work @Ryan,

   just my 2 cents :)

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   4 months ago

9. Pro Made By Thomas

   thanks for sharing and great result

   4 months ago

10. Pro Ryan Putnam

    @Matej Thanks for the insight!

    4 months ago

11. Brad Blackman

    That's really fun!

    4 months ago

12. Daniel Jecha

    Thanks for the great walk through Ryan - much appreciated!

    4 months ago

13. Yahnyinlondon

    I just read the vectips post today - Great stuff :)

    4 months ago

14. Pro Jax Berndt

    I've never even thought of doing textures in AI, interesting! Nice tutorial.

    2 months ago