This method aims to save you time and sanity, while anticipating your client’s needs and questions. Here’s how we do it at Hoodzpah (we’re a branding studio so this is a regular dance for us). The flexibility of the Illustrator file is that you can apply different dimensions (iPad, iPhone, Mac, other devices, etc.) all in 1 document with the new "Artboards" panel.After all the inspiration hunting, sketching, rounds of revisions, client battles/victories and last little tweaks, you’re ready to export logos for your client and brag about it in your portfolio already. Or you adjust the dimensions for a wallpaper. Once you made a pattern with the effect tool, you can apply this as a tiled background for a website. Adjust the sliders to your liking and click Ok to apply the changes. Open the Appearance Panel (Windows > Appearance) and click the "Grain" effect to adjust the settings. Change the color for the "Horizontal dark" rectangle. Next, select the "Vertical dark" rectangle and change the foreground color to a dark brown, I used the R: 103, G: 95, B: 83. Once duplicated, name them "Vertical dark" and "Horizontal dark". To add some more noise and grain effect, select both the "Horizontal" and "Vertical white" layer and drag them to the "New Layer" icon to duplicate them. Do this again for the "Horizontal" layer but select "Horizontal" for the Grain Type. On the left, type 36 for Intensity and 0 for Contrast and Vertical for Grain Type and click OK. The "Grain" window will pop-up and you will see a preview of the effect you are about to apply. Select the rectangle in the "Vertical" layer and choose Effect > Texture > Grain. Do the same for the other white rectangle. In the menu bar, select Window > Transparency and choose "Overlay" from the blending modes and type 24% for opacity. Select the first white rectangle by clicking on it.
Select this rectangle and paste it on the "Horizontal" layer. Give this layer a white foreground color with no stroke. Select the rectangle by clicking on it and paste this layer (Ctrl + F) on the "Vertical white" layer. Next add 2 layers on top of the "Light blue" layer and name them "Vertical white" and "Horizontal white". Double click the only layer in the Layers Palette and give it the name "Light blue" Make sure the rectangle is filled with the blue and give it no stroke. Click the "new swatch" in the palette and select a light blue color (R:155, G:198, B:211). Open the Swatches palette (Window > Swatches). Next select the Rectangular Tool (M) and click in the canvas, the Rectangle pop-up will appear, type 1024 for width and 1024 for height and click OK.
Select "Web" from the select list "New document file", give the document a height of 1024 pixels and a width of 1024 pixels (portrait and landscape orientation) all the other settings are ok so click OK. Open Illustrator (i use CS5 but this should work for CS4 as well) and make a new document.
The light blue version is the one that I describe here step by step: Light blue version I made 2 versions for the background wallpaper. You could use it as backgrounds (tile) or as wallpapers. I show you the result here and the steps that took me to come to the result. First I did an attempt in Photoshop but then i switched doing it in Illustrator to see how i could accomplish a similar texture effect but more scalable. Till now, I used to search for textured backgrounds and scan them in.īecause this is very time-consuming, I experimented a bit with Photoshop and Illustrator to look for some similar results.
I like the textured backgrounds and wondered how i would make these.
Since I've got an iPad and using it daily, i've looked deeper into the available wallpapers and the overall design of the software and other applications like Reeder (for iPhone and iPad).