Texture Overlay Illustrator

Download these textures.

Texture overlay illustrator. Select the brush tool or hit b on the keyboard. Download or search for a texture on the internet. Select the desired texture layer then hit the add layer mask button at the bottom of the layers window. Quickly add depth or age to your designs with our hand picked collection of the very best free retro and vintage textures for photoshop and illustrator.

Asphalt and concrete with darker color at 20 use clipping masks. Textures and blend modes used. There are many free textures available by simply searching illustrator texture commonly used textures include wood grain mosaic patchwork stained glass and craquelure texture which is similar to a patina on plaster. Tons of cool textures including wood and ink grunge textures vhs overlays halftones retro bokeh victorian patterns glitch textures grit and more.

In last week s vintage logo tutorial we saw how useful vector textures can be to create that aged and weathered appearance while maintaining a scaleable vector format. The work with blending modes and opacity can be done with any textures in illustrator which we will talk about in this tutorial. To control the intensity of texture change the opacity in the transparency panel. To lighten the texture use the screen blending mode.

Choose a texture image that is light in color and save it on your computer. Of course you can create your own original textures based on seamless patterns. In this tutorial i will show you how to add texture to a vector object using the transparency mask in illustrator. If you want to only use certain parts of a texture overlay use clipping or layer masks to hide or reveal it.